This is also portrayed in ‘Born yesterday’ when it says “tightly-folded bud” this indicates that although the child may be young and unable to defend for herself her loved ones will try and protect her, however soon they won’t be there to protect her and she will be left to defend for herself. The poem ‘Nettles’ is written in a narrative form, with a fist person speaker. This stresses the fact that the poem has been drawn from personal experiences. The use of the word ‘My’ throughout the poem shows a sense of belonging and protectiveness towards the narrator’s son. The poem is set out in an a,b,a,b rhyming pattern with a 10 beat rhythmic pattern.
This is also portrayed in ‘Born yesterday’ when it says “tightly-folded bud” this indicates that although the child may be young and unable to defend for herself her loved ones will try and protect her, however soon they won’t be there to protect her and she will be left to defend for herself. The poem ‘Nettles’ is written in a narrative form, with a fist person speaker. This stresses the fact that the poem has been drawn from personal experiences. The use of the word ‘My’ throughout the poem shows a sense of belonging and protectiveness towards the narrator’s
Let me count the ways.” (Line 1 Sonnet 43) The use of first person, authenticates that both poems are written for a personal response, this however cannot be seen in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ apart from when the characters speak. The use of alliteration in ‘Sonnet 43’, confirms that the poem was written for Browning’s lover. The repetition of “I love thee...” Shows it’s a personal poem for her true love. However, ‘Valentine’ could be interpreted as an open poem to allow the readers to understand the experiences Duffy has faced. The use of “...we are, for as long as we are.” (Line 16 and 17) Shows that Duffy is inviting her readers into the poem to help reflect upon how she feels.
Throughout many of her poems Duffy writes of loss of innocence from numerous perspectives. She does so particularly in ‘In Mrs Tilschers Class’ and ‘Lizzie, Six’. ‘in Mrs Tilcher’s Class” showing the initial joys of childhood which are lost with the gaining of knowledge, and ‘Lizzie, Six’, a shocking portrayal of child abuse and loss of innocence. The theme of innocence presented in these two poems can be illuminated by Pugh’s poem ‘Sweet 18’, which is a dramatic monologue from an older woman, dreaming of a youthful boy with ‘the unknowing’ ease of his age. To begin with, Duffy writes about childhood as ultimately a loss of innocence as children ‘come of age’.
The title ‘Nettles’ creates the thought of the severe stinging pain that the nettles produce that the reader will have experienced. The nettles within the poem can be taken both literally and metaphorically to represent the pain that the son will experience throughout life. In contrast, within the second poem, Larkin grants the cherished child a simple life full of ‘happiness’ and ‘not the usual stuff’. ‘Born Yesterday’ describes the normal wishes bestowed on new-borns that are overrated and that being average shouldn’t be overlooked. The title itself alludes to the idiom ‘I wasn’t born yesterday’ which compares the speaker’s intelligence beside the naïve child that literally was born few days ago.
Tim Winton also demonstrates an antithesis between the present and the future, where people in a relationship are morally obliged to give up their future plans for the short-term pleasure of companionship. This is illustrated when he switches from the present to the future tense; “I’m laughing. I’m kicking the dash…I’ll never be able to tell him about the hopes I had for myself…” Therefore, Tim Winton employs the stream of consciousness and antithesis to depict the sacrifices of friendship and its moral repercussions. Winton uses foreshadowing and symbolism to show the fragility of friendship and its eventual demise. The burning kite that the narrator views above serves as a precursor to the termination of his relationship with Biggie.
Plagiarism is something where a person is copying whatever he or she is reading without thinking. By doing this they’re portraying themselves as someone else. It also suggests that do not have thoughts of their own. In order to make a society stable, people are required to get rid of their individuality. In the World State, people are encouraged to take soma whenever they start to get sad.
However in this poem she cannot find a happier memory and recalls a dream instead, “I dreamed once long ago, that we walked among day-bright flowers.” Her use of positive imagery such as the “day-bright flowers” lightens the mood and achieves the same effect of the memories in The Violets, as she stops thinking of death and causes the reader to forget the unhappy nature of the initial memory and be emotionally moved by the warmth of the following memory where she is “secure in my father’s arms.” In her poems The Violets, Father and Child and At Mornington Gwen Harwood demonstrates through her use of memories, her loss of innocence, the love for her parents and how quickly time moves. Her memories also serve to engage the reader and make us feel her sense of happiness, sorrow and
‘I understand’ is another way to kill communication especially when this statement is made during a conversation surrounding a sensitive topic like death, illness, etc… The last noted trap is ‘Yes, but’ and this is more argumentative than anything. Others know that these words usually mean no and people tend to tune out everything that has been said up until the
Passive communication by definition is not expressing honest feelings thought or beliefs. (, 2014). They often communicate in an apologetic and self-effacing way, allowing others to disregard them and often eventually shoulder the responsibility or end up handling other’s issues. In this scenario this is exactly what Pamela did. She concluded Brigit might not have done the tests accurately because of the previous reading.