Or perhaps it was that he felt like exaggerating his war time in his poetry. Perhaps he wasn’t quite the hero or got as dirty as he had hoped and so he channeled that fantasy in his work. There are many symbols throughout the theme of this collection, but let’s focus mostly on his choice of grotesque reenactments of his time at war and after. Bits and pieces of his work detailing the very parts of the body that have been ripped from its origin. No doubt Dickey was grieving and perhaps grueling over the unsightly scenes he partook in, and he expresses them fully in this book.
Paris is often thought of as the city of love and romance. However James Fenton opens his poem with the sentence “Don't talk to me of love.” By starting with a morose tone and a negative imperative it not only shows the narrator is getting over a broken relationship, but it also shows the reader that the narrator finds it a difficult subject to talk about. Fenton then goes on to say “I've had an earful / And I get tearful.” Rather than both words of the rhyming pair coming at the end of lines, “tearful” is in the middle of the second line. The rhymes actually seem to give a lighter atmosphere to the first stanza, even though Fenton is feeling down. He describes himself as “one of your talking wounded,” which of course is a play on the phrase “walking wounded” used to describe people who have only slight injuries.
One of Eliot’s poems which I focused on was The Love song of Alfred J Prufrock, which presents the narrator- Prufrock, and his struggle to find love, in the format of a dramatic monologue. Within the poem, Eliot uses the words ‘grown slightly bald’ to construct the anxious, yet egotistic mind-set of the character, and how he seems to fixate on his flaws, and uses them as an excuse for his non-existent relationship. The word ’bald’ also reflects how he doesn’t feel that he is an entire man any more, and as he ages, he is losing the aesthetic features which would draw women towards him. Similarly ‘for I have known them all already’ presents his neglect towards the females around him, with ‘already’ implying that he no longer sees any interest in them ‘, with ‘all’ reflecting the fragmentation of the female body as he tries to excuse himself. Within When You are Old, Yeats presents the narrator reflecting upon the mysteries of their life, and how relationships have affected them in the past- both positively and negatively.
Firstly, Dulce Et Decorum Est. Such a painfully expressed poem, showing much visual imagery. Tell us more about your poem. Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est. is an ironic piece of my writing that emphasised the dehumanisation, loss of individuality and horrendous circumstances my friends and myself had experienced.
In the poem by Lord Byron, it can be assumed the speaker is the author because it is written in first person. The readers do not know directly who it is addressed to but can assume it is from a lover who scorned him. In the first stanza, second line, the speaker says “to sever for years” talking about his heart break. The word sever means to separate from the whole. This word helps the reader to identify the speaker’s emotional standpoint of the separation.
The first line uses the plosive word ‘pitch’ repeatedly in order to emphasise the ‘pangs’ that the character feels; the repetition also dramatizes the depth of his despair. This depth is clarified as the he writes: ‘schooled at forepangs’ as is he is remembering the earlier pains of his youth which only makes his grief worst and shows this is not recent. The same feature of Dickinson’s poem is the use of repetition, as in the first stanza the character speaks of the ‘mourners’ inside her head and how she can hear them ‘treading, treading’ in her brain. This example of her madness highlights the intrusion into her mind and the treading almost mimics a constant ticking clock in her head, this represents the idea that time does stop as she constantly hears it. It could also be related to a beating heart and this creates a disturbing idea that eventually the heart will stop beating and this signifies the end.
1. Discuss and illustrate the poets perception of war in two of the poems you have studied. (you are expected to choose one of Owen’s poems only. Do not use both Owen’s poems. Throughout both poems, Dulce et Decorum Est and An Irish Airmen Foresees His Death, both poets Wilfred Owen and W.B Yeats both have different perceptions of war at that time.
“Tonight I Can Write” was published in 1924 written by Pablo Neruda. It’s a poem about memories of a lost love and the pain they can cause. Basically, it is about a certain love that is already lost and nowhere to be found. Through the depth of the emotion, the writer could not do anything other than to write the saddest lines to pour it all out. Throughout the poem the speaker recalls the details of a relationship that is now broken and he expresses his great love for a woman with whom he had a passionate romance.
Comparing Two Poems The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb and Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney The poems “The Old Familiar Faces” by Charles Lamb and “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus Heaney have both similarities and difference. Both are sad poems about tragedies and want to inspire pity in the reader. Also both of them had a very similar structure. However, the diction is completely different as well as the imagery. Both poems explore sensations of grief, sadness, mortality and having to cope with the disappearance of loved ones.
Second: Morality confers a compensatory value of life. And most importantly third: Age is a paralytic stasis of body and health. Then she analyzes the connection between Stevens´s poetic structures and content of his poems. Stevens´s late works seem to be nearly obsessed with experience of time and death. His most impressive and distinctive stylistic analogies to one of his favorite topics are repetitive forms which recall strongly the stasis of the end described in Vendler´s premises to Steven´s work.