When we came down to our fast ship and the sand of the seashore, we sat down, sorrowful, and weeping big tears’” (book 10, 566-570). The association of sadness with death is a death ritual in itself. However, when one thinks of a death ritual one usually pictures a burial or an honoring of the deceased, which, in this case, did not immediately take place after Elpenor’s death as Odysseus and his men initially left his body at the Circe’s Palace. In mythology, an act such as leaving a fellow companion’s
In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry. In ‘Love Songs In Age’, Larkin illustrates the view that time and it’s passing merely leads to many disappointments. The enjambment he uses amongst all three stanzas, “and stood/relearning” in the first and second and “more/the glare” between the second and third; this implies the suggestion that love cannot stop the passing of time and the instances that happen within it, for example the death of the woman’s husband. During the first stanza, Larkin uses imagery to create a memoir of the music sheets that the woman has found, “one marked in circles”, “and coloured”, suggesting that the joy of life, love and happiness isn’t appreciated until age shows what one has missed during their youth. We can then imply from this suggestion that Larkin feels time is only appreciated during the older years of one’s life.
In war, once a soldier is dead it does not matter which side he or she has fought for. This is represented in Kenneth Slessor’s poem ‘Beach Burial’ where Slessor establishes a sombre tone through using images in the poem, which form an anonymity of the soldiers. By doing this Slessor shows that he is sympathetic. Beach Burial is a harrowing elegy about loss of life through war. The rhythm of the poem is constructed in such a way as to confront the reader, and the language used throughout the poem changes from being very soft and comforting, to blunt and shocking.
Stephanie Eshleman Mrs. Scherer English 102 3T The Infamous Deaths of Glory “She went down in all her glory,” is a common phrase heard when talking about the Titanic, and no, not the movie. The poem “Titanic” by David R. Slavitt tells the tale of this infamously famous ship as if it were some sort of fairy tale ending. Slavitt tries to soothe the harsh reality of the sinking by stating that “the cries on all sides must be a comfort” (13). To say that it is a comfort to die along with others is true, as many people want someone by their death beds, even third class steerage. However, in the anesthetic cold water the first class and some steerage were dying together (12).
Both Dawe and Slessor use powerful imagery to illustrate their anti-war sentiments. The two poems address the gravity of war and the awful sacrifices of men too young to die and the use of imagery in each adds another dimension and plays a crucial part in emphasizing the message of pieces. Imagery is used in both poems to create a sense of unification in death, both between the families of the dead boys as in homecoming when Dawe used imagery such as ‘the spider grief swings’ through the ‘wide web of suburbs’ as the news of death reaches each house and unifies the whole country in mourning. But a different type of unification in beach burial as Slessor unifies the dead soldiers from both sides of the war, ‘the sand joins them together’ in their graves, they are all labelled as ‘unknown soldiers’ and Slessor describes them all as ‘gone in search of the same landfall’. Another type of imagery that appears in both poems in the description of the war itself and the imagery used reinforces the brutality of it, so is the aim of both poems.
The transition from the clear blue skies at the cemetery to a dull, moody setting in the middle of an ocean along with the diegetic sound of ocean waves foreshadows the hardship the soldiers may have to face. The use of auditory visceral techniques to portray the sound of the soldiers vomiting as well as the weak body condition of the soldiers as evident from their prominent cheekbones and fragile hands portray the horror experience of war. The hopelessness of the US troops was depicted as the men were shot as they sit in the boat which portrays a strong, powerful image of the enemy. The notion of anonymous enemy further depicts the idea of the hopelessness and ambiguity of war. The diegetic sound of the bullets hitting against the soldier’s chest, helmets and the metal of the boat provokes an emotional response from the audience.
His major influence is the death of those close to him, mostly family. Death is a significant influence because all the pain and suffering he feels and had to live with is what created his astonishing art work. The poems show all the feelings he had undergone at that point in his life but it also gave him the ideas of what to write thus causing magnificent poems/short stories. One poem that Edgar had written was, “The City in the Sea.” He wrote this poem about how he perceives death and all the effects that death causes when it comes around. Since he had so many deaths in his life he wrote this poem to express how he sees death taking over locations that were once spectacular and are now in grieve and the absence of the liveliness.
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Victor is “disturbed by the wildest dreams” and sights Elizabeth. “as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue if death”. This builds the atmosphere and develops the contrast between life and death. It also gives a sense of imagery. This shows that from the moment he had tried to bestow life into the dead, he accomplished the total opposite; he causes the living to die.
Poe describes being buried alive as a complete distress. The imagery Poe uses is the unendurable oppression of the lungs, the suffocating fumes from the damp earth, the clinging of death garments, the rigid embrace of the narrow house, the blackness of the absolute night, the silence like a see that overwhelms, and the unseen presence of the Conqueror Worm. 2. According to the narrator, one is saved from premature interment and has been previously subject to catalepsy, and by the non-appearance of decay. 3.