The men in both poems are isolated on the wintry sea, contemplating their situation, isolation and loss of times. They wonderabout the sea and life, while secluded and exiled. The elegiac poems relate to one another through theme and tone. While these poems may be depressing, they are reflecting the feeling of the Anglo-Saxon time and era. The poems mirror one another through the feeling of terror and depression while being exiled or isolated on a ship in the cold winter.
The author only ends a phrase with an exclamation point, emphasizing the speaker’s excitement for engaging in a sexual encounter with her lover once again. Dickinson’s use of a nautical theme carries throughout the poem, as she compares her love to things such as the sea. The speaker is free from frustration when she finally reaches her love. Dickinson’s religious views and life-style choices were extremely different from those of her family and her friends. She lived in a very conservative time period.
Compare ways in which Larkin and Abse write about loneliness and isolation, in your response you must include a detailed discussion of at least 2 of Larkin’s poem Throughout both anthologies of Phillip Larkin and Danny Abse the themes of loneliness and isolation are ever present; it adds other feelings such as sadness to the poem to make the reader think deeper about the meaning of the poem. These themes are present in Mr Bleaney, Talking in bed by Phillip Larkin and present in the poem Leaving Cardiff by Danny Abse, the writers have different ways in which they display the feelings, which by doing so give off other feelings which accompany loneliness. In the poem ‘Mr Bleaney’ Larkin uses another character to inform the reader of how lonely and isolated Mr. Bleaney was. “This was Mr Bleaney’s room†so we are told were they are, by reading what is said about Mr.Bleaney we start to gain a picture of what type of person he was, we gain a picture that they are in a B and B and for Mr.Bleaney to stay there for years and accumulate no belongings shows that he had nowhere else to go and was fairly lonely. However Abse in ‘Leaving Cardiff ‘has his character talk in first person “ I wait in the evening airâ€.
The quote “She could not settle into a dilapidated farmhouse in a landscape that highlighted her isolation” exemplifies a diminished sense of belonging resulting from a lack of an environment that is suited to her. These ideas are further supported in Doris Lessing’s Through the Tunnel, a story about a boy who has to make makes a choice between two different sections at a beach to acquire a sense of belonging. His choice to belong with a group of boys instead of with his mum at the other part of the beach causes the boy to experience a lack of belonging, as an influence of a connection to place. The quote “he went over a middle region, where rocks lay like discoloured monsters” signifies a ‘crossing of a border’ into a place where he may possibly be unaccepted. The use of personification in the phrase ‘discoloured monster’ further emphasizes a sense of not belonging
As well as isolation in those senses, Arthur Kipps is also very emotionally isolated from his family’s happiness at the start of the novel, and is separated from other men by his traumatic experiences. Later in the novel, he is physically isolated from civilization, as he passes through Gapemouth tunnel to Crythin Gifford. All throughout the novel you could say, as he is away from his family and friends that he is also
Overall a trip to the beach can be a calming getaway from the stress and the everyday pressures of life. The many sounds of the beach can be quite calming. Being at Panama City Beach can make you forget about your home town or city. The beach can make you forget about your troubles you have at home with your love ones. Also the ocean is so beautiful and unforgettable.
I Wore The Ocean In The Shape Of A Girl Authors normally don't pick a title out of no where. The title of book usually has a symbolic meaning behind it, that may be obvious or is very subtle in the novel that only the author may understand. Kelle Groom has a certain way about herself that in many ways she can relate to the title of her novel, I Wore The Ocean In The Shape Of A Girl. The ocean can be described in many opposite ways. Some believe the ocean to always be very calm, with a careless feeling that can sooth the mind, and be a symbol of freedom.
What do you think are the feelings about marriage in this poem and how does the poet present these feelings to the reader? In the poem 'A marriage', Michael Blumenthal expresses a clear view to the reader by presenting marriage as a positive affair which helps people to share burdens as well as progress their lives. At the beginning of the poem, Blumenthal implies that living on your own is a tire and an exhausting ordeal as he describes the arms as "tired". This word is repeated which exaggerates the misery of loneliness and implies that there is no end; this idea of there being no end is also expressed in "either your arms or the ceiling will soon collapse" giving out before the end. From this, it is clear to the reader that Blumenthal believes that being alone is painful and controlling towards you.
Loneliness for some is a dull beginning of a bright future, and for others, it is unfortunate and eternal. In The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, Quoyle is a character who suffers through a boundless amount of loneliness that exists in many forms. He becomes lonely as he is involved in a one-way relationship and also exhibits the feeling of isolation when he is singled out by society. Similarly, the life experiences of a narrator in an anonymous writer’s poem, Bow Down Your Head and Cry, closely resemble the isolation and hardships that Quoyle is forced to suffer through. The narrator experiences loneliness and great difficulties coping with the separation of his loved one and additionally felt isolated as he was alienated from society.
For example, in 'Break, Break, Break', Tennyson can be seen to use imagery from the sea to represent the strong distress he is feeling and his inability to express his emotions surrounding the topic. The 'cold gray stones' described in the first stanza could be seen to represent the grave stones of those that have passed away, bringing an element of nostalgia into the poem, as well as a dark theme that surrounds the topic of death. He then goes on to state in the third stanza of the poem that the ships sail on to a 'haven under the hill'. This suggests that he's looking forward into the future, rather than the past, signifying that his friend that has passed away has gone to a better place of which he describes as a 'haven'. Alternatively, by saying this, the ships could be a symbolism for himself, suggesting that soon he will be in a better place in his own life where he won't feel as much pain and will be able to express his emotions once again.