For example in “Destroying Avalon” Avalon had to face the death of her best friend Marshall who took his own life because of being bullied for so many years and not letting anyone to support him through his tough times. “Marshall is dead” was repeated in the book to emphasize the feeling of grief Avalon faced. In “The Colour Purple” death and loss is shown when both Celie’s children are taken away from her at birth and is given the impression that they where killed. Bullying occurs the day you are born by society determining colours, interest and behaviours that suit the type of gender you are. However bullying doesn’t really show it’s self until we go to school, this style of bullying can be verbal, physical or electronic.
Elizabeth Jennings’s ‘One Flesh’ presents the relationship through a daughter looking back at her parents’ behaviour towards each other. Ian McMillan’s ‘04/01/07’ presents the reaction to his mother’s death. In this essay, I will analyse and compare how the poets present their attitudes to relationship by looking at the structure, imagery and the use of senses in the poems. Looking at the structure of the poems, Jennings and McMillan use different techniques to present their attitudes to relationships. McMillan uses the form of a sonnet, where the iambic pentameter rhythm imitates the regularity of the heartbeat, which shows the love towards his mother and the physical intensity of his reaction to her death.
and then "promised to never what?". It is an intriguing way of structuring the poem. "He'd beg her Returned & promised to never Beat her again" The story between the abusive husband and runaway wife in the poem is seen through the eyes and heard through the voice of their child. By writing the poem through the point of view of the child, you, as the reader, feel yourself caught in between the broken relationship in the same way the child is. This brings a different, yet genius, dimension to the poem.
Edgar Allen Poe demonstrates in his written works of “Lenore”, “Annabel Lee”, and “To Helen” an element that seemingly attempts to give the reader exceptional emotional sadness. Poe does this by telling the poem in a point of view where a man tells the story of the death or remembrance of a young love or woman. He also puts a sense of gloom in each of his poems. This allows for the reader to create a mental image if the setting, without him having to directly point it out. As well, the gloominess of his poetry could also be due to his longing effect of sadness that he attempts to express.
The narrator is clearly miserable with her life and considers suicide to be the only solution. Killing herself would relieve the pain she feels on a daily basis. “Daddy” is another poem that demonstrates Plath’s common death by suicide theme. In the poem, she writes that “At twenty I tried to die / And get back, back, back to you. / I thought even the bones would do (Plath 58-60)”.
Taking Hector’s life didn’t give Achilles satisfaction hence he ties his corpse to the chariot and desecrates his body for eleven days. Later on his realises that his barbaric actions were caused by the “grief” his was experiencing “before his hear was clogged with a smoky poison”. Somax, “ordinary carter” who has lost his wife and all his children, left only with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter, grieves in silence but he does experience few anger issues but it is only expressed on a few occasions only. He had “punched” his eldest son out of anger because he had questioned him. After that he had felt like “punching” Beauty “the beautiful mule” who had knocked his second son into the stream but “that wouldn’t have bought him back”.
The town blamed this behavior on her father, "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away" (p. 93). She has already missed out on so much of life by the time her father dies, she feels the desire to become a mother and a wife. At the age of thirty Emily's this drive overpowers her “hereditary obligation to the town” (p.
Maybe the references comparing him to a Nazi, and referring themselves to a Jew is the closest comparison the speaker has to describe the relationship that has formed between the speaker and the dad. Once you have taken into account a feminist perspective however, a later interpretation of this poem could be that she is describing society at this current time by creating similarities to the relationship she had with her own father. Her literal father, I assume, was one who had a very much traditional, unfair view on women. Within this poem, Plath is trying
These aspects are all very important in song lyrics for an artist to deliver a meaning from a song. This essay will discuss the reader’s responses to this song and show understanding of the poetic techniques and some of their more complex, in-depth meanings that this song communicates. When I first listened and read the lyrics to this song, I was surprised to see two different possible interpretations. I thought that this song was meant to be a double entendre! But as I read on further through the lyrics, I realised that this may just be my different interpretations.
Poets use repetition in a very powerful and different ways to create a rhythm, or emphasize their feelings and ideas. That is how they draw a person’s attention to a certain idea. The literary device anaphora is “the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs” (Dictionary). In poetry, this method and other forms of repetition can be extremely useful in delivering the full meaning of a poem. Different cultures have all engaged and written great poetry using the idea of repetition, but each culture uses it to show a different meaning or purpose in the speech.