Compare how poets use language to present feelings in “The Manhunt” and one other poem (Nettles) In ‘Manhunt’, Simon Armitage uses rhyme to reflect the togetherness of a relationship. He says “After the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days.” As the poem goes on, the reader can start to recognise that the un-rhymed cuplets show how fragmented their relationship has become. In ‘Nettles’ Vernon Scannell uses elements of nature, the nettles, to portray his keen anger towards the pain his son is going through. At the beginning of the poem, Scannell uses soft ‘s’ sounds to emphasise the soothing of his injured son who has fallen in a nettle bed. The child is presented using emotive language.
Prufrock says, “When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall… And how should I presume?” This line is a portrayal of Prufrock’s struggles with life. J. Alfred Prufrock, who is in a depressed state of mind, is talking about how he cannot get up, because he is constantly pinned down. The readers have an opportunity in this particular part of the poem to picture a man being pinned down, trying to get up, but not having the strength to continue. Prufrock also states, “have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed… And in short, I was afraid.” This portion of the poem utilizes easy language to allow put together a picture in the readers’ minds.
MIGRANT HOSTEL A tone of instability and insecurity is set within the first stanza where the accumulation of the nouns “comings and goings”, “arrivals” and “sudden departures” suggests a sense of chaos and highlights the lack of stability within the poet's life. The use of enjambment of “wondering/ who would be coming next” allows the emphasis to fall heavily on “who”, illustrating the transient nature of the hostel environment and putting emphasis on the uncertainty of who is to arrive next. This constant change becomes unsettling and prevents the poet from finding a place of belonging and further hindering his self-identity, leaving him lost and confused. The physical and emotional divisions set up by different nationalities is further
I tell ya," he cried, "I'll tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick" (Steinbeck 72). Crooks does not have anyone to talk to, this shows another side of him. While he talks about men in general feeling lonely, he really is talking about the way he feels. Crooks is mostly affected because he is shut down from activities and the workers in the ranch mistreat him because he is black. While talking to Candy he says, ".
This poem mainly is about a young man who tells lies to his family so they would not be sad about what really was going on and what their son is doing. The other poem “We Real Cool” is about two friends that are doing things together. For example the poem “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks uses repetition but the theme
When getting “whistles” she doesn’t know how to handle the attention. She is unsure about whether she should get excited because someone is paying attention to her or if she should be angry or upset by the rude gestures (11). She then feels the need to be one of the boys but at the same time trying to desirable enough so they would want to be with her. This can be seen when the narrator says, “it’s learning to say fuck with grace but learning to fuck without it” 15-16). The most powerful image of the poem comes when she says; “it’s finally having a man reach out for you then caving in around his fingers” (17-20).
To save himself Crooks tries to explain to Lennie how it feels to be lonely, ‘Maybe you can see now, you got George. You know he’s goin’ to come back.’ This monologue is important Crooks is lonely in many ways: he is crippled so he is isolated from society, he is black and he is intelligent all of which set him apart from anyone else on the ranch. At this point animal language is used again for Lennie. Crooks discusses how life would be for Lennie if he was on his own, ‘They’ll tie you up with a collar, like a dog.’ Words like ‘growled’ also show how Lennie’s temperament changes. Please note that animal language is used the most during tense scenes.
this very discontent feeling would further add to the very isolation the Glaspell is trying to portray. How is anyone to feel connected when they much live with a foul personality? “He was a hard man” (Glaspell 181); “Like a raw wind that gets to the bone” (Glaspell 181). He gave his wife a dispirited sense of being. She probably felt smothered by his bleak nature and with the fact that the farmhouse was too isolated for anyone to want to visit, Mrs. Wright was left alone.
Furthermore, it shows that the lack of communication is coming through the isolation and difficulty of the foreign environment. “I cannot speak. Breathing, in this heavy air, grows more difficult. When the paralysis reaches my chest I shall die: probably tonight.” (Le Guin, 144). The environment that the protagonist is in, impacts his psyche.
Larkin’s focus on a sense of isolation and remoteness is ironically established though the continued travelling through the landscape, this is highlighted through the repetition of “swerving” conflated with the enjambment that ensures his sense of movement. Nick and Meryl similarly feel as though they are disconnected yet still moving, their day to day life is a repetition of the previous day yet they desire to have connection and find it difficult to achieve this, evident when Nick indicates that he cannot commit to a relationship, Meryl cries “ So what if I wanted you to like me! Is that such a crime?” And it is in the tone of depression and anguish that reveals her isolation. The persona in ‘Here’ criticizes the nature of urbanisation, revealed through the cumulation of “Cheap suits, red kitchen-ware, sharp shoes, iced lollies, electric mixer, toasters washers, driers –” then clearly shows that he is disconnected from the town, there is no sense of community in such a large town where “ a cut price crowd, urban yet simple” reside. The isolation is further explored where derogatory tone shows the sense of alienation, away from the main town that he gets the person begins to see “ its mortgaged, half built edges Fast shadowed wheat fields, running high as hedges, Isolate villages, where removed lives Loneliness Clarifies ” Larkin’s use of pun on “ where removed lives Loneliness clarifies” taps into the postmodern context, there is ambiguity in this and can be interpreted in different however in context it shows that as the villages are isolated from the other towns, so are the people who live in the village, once again there being no sense