The physical, social and historical context of a poet’s life forms the basis of their ideas. This is evident in John Foulcher’s poems ‘Martin and the Hand Grenade’, ‘Loch Ard Gorge’ and ‘Harry Wood’. Foulcher effectively includes the concepts of people and society, nature and death in his poems, developing these ideas from the context in which he lives. The people who surround John Foulcher have influenced his poems. Foulcher is a poet, but also a teacher.
The theme of life and death is reinforced using depictions that usually are associated with death and flashing glimpses of life. Through this contrast of life and death, Theodore Roethke constructs a scenario that readers can visualize and smell with ease, creating a poem that lingers in readers’ thoughts long after it is
Michael Dransfield was also affected by the change and this has been reflected in poems “Minstrel” and “Prosperity” where he is comparing the natural world with the very mechanical one that humans tend to build for themselves. Michael Dransfield has been described as “one of the most widely read poets of his generation”. He has a very modernistic way of portraying significant ideas, which is seen through his use of language techniques such as sibilance, use of first person, assonance and alliteration. He exploits these techniques beautifully to emboss and emphasize the core concept of his poems. The word minstrel means a medieval singer or musician, especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry.
From here, we can figure out that the Garden of love is a metaphor for a woman, or Blake’s character’s love. In the first stanza, Blake’s character demonstrates familiarity of the Garden when he says, “Where I used to play on the green.” The words “used to” and “play” explains that he probably knew the Garden in his younger years because many grown up men do not usually “play” anymore. The author wants readers to know this because this poem resembles how love hopes to be rediscovered. Blake’s character wants to believe that his love still holds a place for him, but in reality, everything that once was, has now vanished. Many problems prevent Blake’s character from reconnecting with his lover of the past.
------------------------------------------------- Differences and Similarities Between Coleridge and Wordsworth Concerning People's Relationship to Nature Although Wordsworth and Coleridge are both romantic poets, they describe nature in different ways. Coleridge underlines the tragic, supernatural and sublime aspect of nature, while Wordsworth uses anecdotes of everyday life and underlines the serene aspect of nature. In order to imply a connection between nature and the human mind, Wordsworth uses the technique of identification and comparison whereas Coleridge does the opposite in "The Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan". Both admire nature's healing strength and hope that their children will grow up in a natural environment instead of growing up in cities. For Wordsworth nature seems to sympathise with the love and suffering of the persona.
Harwood identifies memory as a key component of human experiences through the use of ‘The Violets’ as an extended metaphor to trigger the composer’s personal recollections. Traditionally associated with death and mourning, the imagery of the “frail melancholy flowers” are alliterated and personified to emulate Harwood’s connection to the past and the loss of childhood joyfulness. This is enhanced by the juxtaposition of “ashes and loam”, the flowers are paradoxically growing among fertile and barren soil, relating to the past thriving through memories and the present time. The structural indentation indicating time shifts throughout Harwood’s flashbacks create a realm of nostalgia and is reinforced by the change in verbal tense “I kneel to pick” and “be comforted”, it accentuates our understanding of the evocativeness of the recalling of memories. The parents
Robert Frost Essay Robert Frost was an American poet. His work frequently talked about rural life in England during the early twentieth century. Frost’s poetry is highly recognized and has won many prizes.His last two poems I have read were entitled “The Pasture” and “The Cow in Apple-Time”. Frost uses words and images to invite the reader to explore nature. Frost’s point of view towards nature is very respectful and he appreciates it greatly.
He refers to the tortillas as “language, history, cultural views, and themes of our literature” (Anaya 69). This symbol of tortillas is very effective in his arguments against censorship. He describes how eliminating the “tortillas” takes away from the ethnic value of the writing leaving many authors hardship by conforming to write accepted texts. He then goes on to say how being forced to conform to the accepted principals does not allow people to understand the diversity that is here in their own multicultural country. Before Anaya tells the reader how censorship has affected him, he goes into detail on how it has affected other writers.
I sometimes have a weakness in the fact that I may be too honest with my answer and do not think before answering. I realize that when you are communicating with people, they really do not want the truth because it hurts and is offensive. I find that it is much easier for me to communicate, when I have knowledge of the conversation being discussed. I am very weak when it comes to starting a conversation and leading the discussion. I will avoid a conversation as much as possible when I have to present the information to be discussed.
This expresses the conflict as lying between the people who respect knowledge, and those who find it acceptable to ‘be rude’ to books vividly. Bhatt herself feels that ‘every tree’ is itself ‘sacred’, and as such, the books, made from those trees, are also sacred, and therefore, in turn, so is knowledge. By expressing knowledge’s importance in this way, the idea of conflict is put across quite obviously, compounded with the repetition of the abstract noun, ‘sin’. By repeating this phrase, Bhatt