Harmonium and Nettles Harmonium and Nettles both highlight the theme of memory. As they both are looking back over past memories that are painful, the poems feature the feelings of being helpless in stopping the hurt that was caused. The writer in Harmonium feels remorse for the things he hadn’t said to his father as Armitage states “then mouth in reply some shallow sorry phrase or word too starved of breath to make itself heard”. The writer in Nettles is protective of the recurring threat to his child that he can’t destroy. “rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless.
In the manhunt, the narrator’s consideration is for the mental suffering which her husband is suffering. Similar to Manhunt; in ‘Nettles’ it is the father’s care for the injuries of his son which he feels was caused by the nettles. Both poets use unusual imagery to present the writers family member as needing protection. In the man hunt instead of the obvious representation of a solider as strong and powerful, Laura’s husband is linked to fine, precious china, the damaged porcelain collar bone. This means he is described as fragile and precious because of his injuries, with his punctured lung described as delicate as “parachute silk”.
In the poem A Father to his Son by Carl Sandburg, a father advises his son, leading him through a set of guidelines and values to assist him untie the knot of inextricable uncertainties, problems, pain, and complexities of life. Based on his experience, he knows that there is no perfect formula for living. As a result, father suggests values that will help his son lead a purposeful, satisfying life. Markedly, out of his different suggestions, being true and honest stand out. Although limited in poetic devices, personification, rhetoric question, and an enthusiastic one are evident.
At the same time, the father notices his son is calling home collect, implying a desire for his son to be independent enough to pay for his own calls. The second stanza indifferently describes an event that should be agitating for the parent – the description of a child's surgery. Mariani uses the symbol “&” instead of the word “and” to create the impression that the father feels that
We can tell that he is hurt psychologically as it says ‘unexploded mine buried deep in his mind’ and physically as it says ‘the rungs of his broken ribs’ these are both effects of his traumatic experience at war. The distribution of each stanza could also show the distance that she now has with the subject because of his lack of understanding of his painful experiences and emotions. As a reader, it sounds like she is writing the poem the way she would be saying it, this emphasises the shortness of each stanza and the small steps she has to take to his recovery, which is also shown in the tone of the poem as she sounds in pain, which makes the reader feel sorry for her. However, in ‘Hour’, the poem is separated into four stanzas, which all have four lines each apart from the last stanza which has two lines. Each stanza has emotive language of the writer’s feelings, we know this as it says things such as ‘we are millionaires, backhanding the night’ this gives the reader the impression that their relationship is stable and strong unlike the fragmented relationship in ‘The Manhunt’.
The fear of loosing his son led Romulus to attempt to better himself, seen through the statement “My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” Although this method of parenting gave short-term dismay demonstrated through Raimond’s childhood outburst “you don’t love me”. It resulted in long-term fulfillment and a healthy relationship worthy of being recognized retrospectively within Gaitas
Harold doesn´t like his father to be a man with “two faces”. One like a soft The tone of "The Fly in the Ointment" can be defined as serious and angry. This is transmitted by the son when he realized the father is a man with "two faces": There was the outer face like innocent man and the inside face was a much smaller one, selfish, scared and hard. The anger that is expressed in their relationship is shown in the way that they speak to each other, barely concealed grudges and annoyances. The mood, however, is sadness, as the reader is left with an impression of a son who is desperately trying to reach out to his father and to show his love, but he is rejected at every turn.
He does not show any outward sign that he is grieving too much over the death of his brother, but traces of his sadness could be seen in the times when he recalls memories of his brother, “the baby cooed and rocked the pram” and “lay in the four foot box as in his cot”. Heaney delivered the poem shrouded in mystery. His introduction in the first stanza does not give the audience a clue about what would happen next. It had a relaxed, happy tone, and gives us the impression that he had all the time in the world to spare. This was shown by the act of “Counting bells knelling classes to a close”, making the first stanza seem to last a long time.
While the digger’s job is physical, the poet’s task is observational. The poet looks, but he also “looks down.” In this way, the speaker suggests a sort of progression from his father to himself, meaning that as a poet rather than a digger, the speaker is superior to his father. In the fourth stanza, through the way that imagery is used to describe the father hard at work, we are able to infer that the poet feels that his father’s work is, in its own way, elegant. Such phrases are “levered firmly” and “bright, deep edge”. These phrases reinforce the feeling from the poet about his father’s pride in his
In this quote, Hamlet ponders whether he should live and suffer the hardships of his life or die in order to end suffering. In this quote, it can be inferred that Hamlet thinks that life is synonymous with suffering. The reader can tell that Hamlet is tired of his life and how everyone can keep living their merry lives without the king, his father. The reader can feel this by the negative words that Hamlet says; such as, “suffer,” “troubles,” “outrageous.” The reader can also get this feeling when reading the suffering he sees with life: “"whips and scorn of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of disprized love…”(III, i, 70-74). Also here he is using words that are related negatively too, “whips,” and “scorn.” It seems like during this soliloquy Hamlet tends to lean more toward suicide.