The theme is also a father’s desire to protect his son. He shows anger and harshness towards the nettles seen through the harsh t and d letters and also his use of enjambment; however he shows tenderness and love towards his son through using soft s sounds. He tries to protect he child but soon realises he can’t. He had an intense passion towards protecting his child, he seeks revenge but he is regretful that he can’t protect his child from everything. His last line emphasises this regret but also acceptance that his son has to go through life feeling sharp wounds.He wants to protect his son, it shows the connection and bound between father and son and the closeness of their relationship.
Compare and contrast the poets and desires to protect the child and how they are presented in “Born Yesterday” and “Nettles” In my essay I will explore the ways how Vernon Scannell and Philip Larkin desire to protect child. Both poems are about adult wanting to protect a child. “Nettles” is about a father protecting his son from the actual “damage”, pain. “Born Yesterday” is desire to protect child from difficulties of the life. Poem “Nettles” is about father who is quite young and Inexperienced.
It can be inferred from the last two lines in the stanza that the personas mother was displeased and concerned only with her pots and pans. The personas tone is protective in stanza three when he speaks of the battered hand that held his wrist, probably to hold out his hand to receive lashes or to drag him. The persona also speaks of how when his father missed, the belt buckle would scrape his right ear. This is another example of the persona still clinging to the memory of a father by placing a positive spin on a negative situation, in this case the situation is being beaten with a belt and having the belt buckle scrape his ears. However, the persona makes it appear as though his ear brushed against the belt buckle when his father missed a step during the waltz.
The strained father son relationship that Baba and Amir have is the catalyst for Amir’s crime against his half-brother Hassan. Amir’s strained relationship with Baba and his need for Baba’s acceptance has blinded Amir so that he is unable to see that his actions towards Hassan in the alley were unacceptable. The responder is given as insight into Amir’s thoughts through the use of first person narration, before, during and after the rape. This allows the reader to observe how the strained relationship between Baba and Amir has affected the motivation of Amir to commit his sin. Throughout the early chapter of the book we learn that Amir has “always felt that Baba hatted [him] a little.” He has always longed for his father’s approval, acceptance and admiration, as he feels responsible for the death of his mother.
His reasons were, ‘someone saying he’d look a god in kilts’ and to ‘please his Meg’. The reader is given the impression that his mind is still dazed from his experiences hence the disorderly thoughts. The war had caused him damage both mentally and physically and this raises poignancy. For instead of just disabling him, it has mentally affected him, hindering him from dreaming those dreams when he had ‘no fears of Fear’ and was ‘drafted out with drums and cheers.’ Moreover there is a more personal feel in his reminiscences as he takes the audience into his past and now to his present, he is
They believe man can be doomed to die or granted prosperity in life. The Anglo-Saxon poems, “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament” exemplify this creed of the limit of one’s free will. The speakers question how wryd affects their lives. The speakers in all three poems use the human condition to comment on the role wryd plays in life. By doing so, the speakers show that fate and destiny remains stronger than free will.
The poem is a narrative account, focused on the father's perspective of an accident involving his son. Language Martial (to do with war) imagery and language dominate this poem, which may appear strange at first given the domestic subject matter. By bringing the two ideas together, Scannell is offering his opinion on each. The nettles are personified as an opposing force. They are a "regiment of spite", and are described using the metaphor"spears".
1. The Road is a novel of transforming power and formal risk. Abandoning gruff but profound male camaraderie, McCarthy instead sounds the limits of imaginable love and despair between a diligent father and his timid young son. The morbid journey of a father and his son tends to dominate the action of the narrative but what is it that makes the story more than just a series of disturbing confrontations? What was your response to the journey the father and son endured?
Tyler Evans Margo Williams English 113 September 22, 2011 Haunting Memories in Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” Theodore Roethke’s Poem “My Papa’s Waltz” is often viewed as a loving relationship between a father and son but when viewed in context it is actually describing the atrocious memories of the relationship the son recalls with his father. Bobby Fong of College Literature states in an article, “Despite its seeming lightness, "My Papa's Waltz" is a poem of terror, all the more terrible because the boy is frightened and hurt by the father, even in play.” (78) The poem begins with an image of a helpless child and a careless, drunken father playing crudely through a house. In the first stanza Roethke states, “The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death such waltzing was not easy. “ (1-4). When alcohol is thought of in a situation such in relation to a father and son, there is immediately a negative vibe.
In the poem “Dulce et Decorum est” the poet writes about soldiers in the battle field and all the grueling things about war. I feel the meaning of this poem is to give an idea and insight to the reader of how war is very gruesome and just down right awful with no sugar coating. In both of these poems the writers use irony and similes to help get the reader to understand the point they are making. The first comparison about the two poems is the use of irony. In “Rite of passage” the line “short men, men in first grade” the writer is calling the young boys men.