I believe that Relationships are the connections between people which can be expressed in many different ways or situations. In the poem ‘manhunt’ by Simon Armitage he explores the relationship between a wife and her husband, whom is an injured solider who has returned from war. In nettles, the relationship is between a farther and his son who has fallen into a "bed of nettles." Both poets show the consideration felt by the reader of the poem for the other person in the relationship. In the manhunt, the narrator’s consideration is for the mental suffering which her husband is suffering.
However, ‘The Manhunt’ focuses more on explaining the damage caused to the veteran. This is different compared to ‘Quickdraw’. In ‘The Manhunt’ the semantic field is war and the poets have connected ideas of pain and a war atmosphere through the use of their words and emotive language. The images that this creates for the reader is that the woman is at home with the injured man and she is examining his injuries from the war, this was the only time he had actually allowed her to look at his scars and for the reader this could be a very emotional moment however for the man, he isn’t using his emotions it is almost as if he is lost and the woman is trying to find him whilst examining his injuries. As opposed to ‘Quickdraw’, the semantic field is Wild West and the poet has connected ideas of what a phone and a gun compare to and just how dangerous they could be and how dangerous they were for the woman in the poem, Duffy has conveyed this through her emotive metaphorical language.
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’.
Davaris Brown Professor Johnson English 1102 18 April 2012 Explication of “My Last Duchess” This narrative poem is about a Duke who is looking at a picture of his dead Duchess. He talks about the portrait on the wall of her, which he admires. The Duke thinks about how the Duchess compares everything to him. The death of the Duchess shows another side of the Duke which started to show while he’s talking and is unrevealed at the end. The Duke thinks he is bigger than God and also a jealous and possessive man.
This can be seen in his two poems ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Parable of the Old man and the Young’. Through these poems, Owen is motivated by a powerful examination of people during a highly negative state. Focusing on the exhaustion of soldiers and their movement throughout the battlefield is one of Owens key techniques throughout his poetry. When it comes to Owens poetry, the impact war has on the soldiers is clear, this is evident in his poem, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’. Soldiers who go off to war are meant to be healthy and strong, however, this poem portrays the soldiers as old and unhealthy people.
Instead of appreciating his family members’ relationship and being intimate with them, he treats them like dirt. This conveys to the audience how their love is inside a family, where love should be at its strongest, is distant and insincere as they hold each other away. He not only “bunburys” his family, but also bunburys as Jack’s deviant brother Ernest to get to his young and pretty ward, Cecily, and win her heart. By gaining her affection through a name instead of his actual identity as a character shows how superficial love is in this era; one loves another for his/her title, not for his/her substance as an individual. The people in this time period married another person for unimportant reasons, such as social class, instead of his or her inner
Through the development of ideas, Wilfred Owen expresses his attitude, feelings and emotions towards the subject of war. Owen uses his past experiences to show the pain and trouble the soldiers had to go through while fighting during World War One and what the result of this was on them as well as how they could overcome these problems. Owen is displayed to be very emotional towards the mistreatment of the soldiers as he shows it is shown in two of his poems, them being “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Mental Cases”. Owen uses many techniques in his poems to show what the soldiers had to go through while fighting for their country and what it was like for them to experience the realities of war. The soldiers that were fighting at war were dehumanised in many ways.
Firstly, Sassoon effectively uses irony to illustrate the contrast between the soldier’s real and glorified death, as well as the impression of a close-knit military unit, as opposed to the truth that no one had the compassion to care for a fallen soldier. The first, most obvious irony is in the title itself: The Hero. From the title we expect to read a poem dedicated to the fall of a great soldier, courageous and chivalrous, who sacrificed himself to fight for his country. This impression is further affirmed in the first stanza. There, we are introduced to the mother as she receives
This is how Duffy, conveys the issue of how cruel and gruesome war is in stanza one. In stanza two Duffy writes about his job and how he, the persona struggles to accept it. ”he has a job to do.” Duffy uses the word job to show a sense of duty and obligation, therefore it makes it seem that this is something that he has to do and accept. ”Beneath his hands which did not tremble then though seem to now” this shows us how the persona feels and how he is devastated but at the scene of the war, he cannot afford to shake and take a bad photo. ”home again to ordinary pain” This line shows us that the persona has seen what real suffering is like.
His poems are variations on the themes of the regrets and frustrations of young men, especially soldiers. (Encyclopedia C-D Rom). Most of Housman's poems were written in the 1890's when he was under great psychological stress, which made the tone of his poems characteristically mournful and the mood dispirited (Magill 1411). "In the world of Housman's poetry, youth fades to dust, lovers are unfaithful, and death is the tranquil end of everything (Magill 1412)." Throughout his life, Housman faced many hardships.