How does Simon Armitage present the clown punk? One way in which Armitage presents the clown is in the first line when he says, “Driving home through the shonky side of town” The important word here is shonky. This is because the word shonky doesn’t make that area of town nice. It gives the impression of a run down area. So this then makes us think of the clown punk of being poor, subsequently giving us a picture of the clown punk being in old clothes, non shaven face and long hair.
Eminem blames the parents for not spending time with their children is turning them in to delinquents as to it being his music turning them into delinquents. He raps about his life and even his fame and in most recent years his recovery process. McCrillis states that “In all fairness to Eminem's critics, there is a meanness and, in some cases, viciousness to a great deal of contemporary music. The meanness is certainly not limited to rap, but rap tends to bear the brunt of this criticism because, as music goes, it appears to be the most imitative of political speech” (McCrillis, 2003). Which he does have a point because rap music does bear the brunt of most criticism in the music industry for all the vulgarity that it has in the lyrics and Eminem is no exception when it comes down to the vulgarity of his music.
Its as though he has no purpose in life anymore and so spends his time wandering. Maybe Armitage is trying to portray the hopelessness of the man without direction as a direct resilt of the 1970s punk movement and its lack to actually change anything within society. All that is left of this for the central character is ‘the sad tatoos of high punk’. Both poets use their central characters to communicate their ideas about society and how once an individual no longer fits in, or has served their purpose they are cast out, mocked ‘hunchbacked in mockery’ or shield away from, you kids in the back seat who wince and scream. In both poems the poets Armitage and Thomas have created their central character predominantly through their use of language.
Despite Crooks initial hostility to Lennie, he is obviously desperate for company and invites him in, telling Lennie how he fears for his own sanity and that “books ain’t no good” for company. As he tells Lennie, Crooks is so desperate for “just talking, being with another guy” that he tolerates a visitor who has no idea about what he is actually talking about and cannot offer any real sympathy or company. Steinbeck is very explicit about the fact that Crooks is separated from the others solely because he is black (even the similarly crippled Candy gets to share the bunkhouse with the men) and shows the social injustice with Crooks innocent childhood memories of life on his father’s
Evaluating an Argument In 2003 the New York Post published an article entitled “Rap Only Ruins” in which journalist John McWhorter argues that rap music is detrimental to society in that it “celebrates” criminal and unethical behavior such as killing, sex and the use of drugs. McWhorter has a very intriguing topic to write on but he does it no justice with his weak argument. And though he addresses the counter argument that rap is just a reflection of society and music is used as a release and communication device, he merely grazes the subject and offers no real discussion on why his stance is better. Several times in the article McWhorter uses the term “celebrate” as it pertains to rappers attitudes toward unethical behavior. “Now top rappers began to write edgy lyrics celebrating street warfare or drugs and promiscuity.” Later he also said “.
Willy Russell uses superiority theory to engage the audience by creating comedy through the misfortune of others. The character of Frank is very cynical as he fails to see the good in anybody for a majority of the play and he believes that other people are motivated purely by self-interest. However, some people may argue that cruelty and cynicism are not at the heart of the comedy in the play and that the play could still be successful without these themes. One theme that could be seen as superior to cruelty and cynicism is culture and class because this theme causes confusion and misunderstanding between the two characters which as a result produces comedy. In the play ‘Educating Rita’ cruelty and cynicism feature a great deal.
Forster uses different techniques and makes it seem sound magical just like the title ‘Horse Whisperer’ as if they were magically connected and the character was disliked much to be driven out by ‘pitchforks’ because in the eye of others he was a ‘demon' and ‘witch’. Similarly the character in ‘Clown Punk’ is also marginalized and dispossesses. It’s a homeless person living in the rural side of the town ‘like a basket of washing that got up’ showing he’s dirty and that he is the ‘town clown’ also shows he is like a joke people laughs at, ignored, repulsed and even scared of him ‘you kids in the backseat who wince and scream’ in the contemporary society. The ‘indelible ink’ and the ‘shrunken scalp still daubed with sad tattoos of high punk’ implies that the man was a dedicated punk and a rebel in his youth, and ‘then picture of windscreen wipers, and let it rain’ in the final sentence suggest a washing away of the past, unlike in ‘Horse Whisperer’ the character is treasuring his past and his memories as a groom, ‘still I miss them’ he says ‘the searing breath’ and ‘glistering
He was known however to add twists to the endings of his short stories and poems to produce a chill of ironic horror in the reader, which is notable in "The Son's Veto" as Randolph rides atop his mother's hearse on the way to her final resting place as the route leads past a mourning yet snubbed and rejected--by Randolph, not by Sophy--Sam, the grocer. Having said this, it is possible to identify ridicule of class prejudice in the character and role of Sophy's son, Randolph. He is raised to be like the Vicar, his father, and, like him, to disdain Sophy's country upbringing and lower class ways and dialect. Though Sophy was tutored by the Vicar to have more sophisticated city-like ways, the country girl still lay at the heart of Sophy's dialectic speech and understanding about life, at the heart of her world view, if you will. When Sophy tells Randolph that she intends to accept Sam, the grocer, as her husband, Randolph flies into a fit of horrified emotion because Sam isn't a gentleman as society defines it, which was by wealth and family background and not by manners anto define it today.
Mid-Term Break The poem is about the death of Heaney's infant brother (Christopher) and how people (including himself) reacted to this. The poem's title suggests a holiday but this “break” does not happen for pleasant reasons. For most of the poem Heaney writes of people's unnatural reactions, but at the end he is able to grieve honestly. The boredom of waiting appears in the counting of bells but “knelling” suggests a funeral bell, rather than a bell for lessons. The modern reader may be struck by the neighbours' driving the young Seamus home - his parents may not have a car (quite usual then - Heaney was born in 1939, and is here at boarding school, so this is the 1950s) or, more likely, were too busy at home, and relied on their neighbours to help.
Throughout the whole poem, the readers are able to know his disapproval, dislike and displeasure over the place that he lives in, by creating a moody and sullen tone which enhances the eerily seriousness of the atmosphere. The content, aim and the theme help to reinforce the writer’s intentions and message of the poem. Through the four quatrains, iambic tetrameter poem, it shows a society that is portrayed as being devastated and grim. Using the basic rhyme scheme of abab, it shows how the people and the places are infected and affected. The rhyme is able to give a flow to the events, making it on-going showing how the society keeps on worsening day by day.