Isaac Rosenberg and Siegfried Sassoon used poetic techniques such as imagery, metaphors, similes and personification throughout their poems “Break of Day in the Trenches” and “Counter-Attack”. Compare the ways that the two poems are similar. Isaac Rosenberg is the poet of the poem “In Break of Day in the Trenches”. His poem reflects his outlooks & feelings towards the participation of war. Throughout the poem Rosenberg reveals his perspective on the uselessness of war using symbolic images of a rat “A queer sardonic rat” to a creature that benefits and a poppy as a flower that can grow form dead corpses.
Of Mice and Men CA Explore the ways the writer presents the relationship between George and Lennie in Steinbeck’s novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ Of Mice and Men is an engaging novella written by John Steinbeck and set in the 1930’s against the backdrop of the Great Depression. In this story of tragedy and propounding friendship, John Steinbeck addresses the themes of seclusion, melancholy and poverty through the protagonists, George and Lennie; two itinerant workers travelling together, using one another’s company as a source of beatitude. Steinbeck presents the relationship between George and Lennie in numerous ways but how? Characterisation One of the devices that Steinbeck uses to present the relationship of George and Lennie in a skillful way is the characterisation. For example, the first engagement that the reader has with a character in the novella is through George, “Lennie… he said sharply…for God’ sakes don’t drink so much” The word “sharply” suggests that he was addressing Lennie in an aggressive manner.
Also, her lack of intelligence has left her with no job and an inability to get a job. In the story, there are many reasons contributing to Jean’s feeling of emptiness and difficulty in her life. To begin, her husband, Ross feels as though he has married beneath himself, and he does not love her anymore. Their marriage was most likely caused by Jean getting pregnant with their son, which made Ross feel like he had to marry her out of force. In the story, Ross specifically tells their son, Kevin that he should try not to marry beneath himself because he will end up stuck in the same situation as him.
But one day, Victor’s mother gets the call from Phoenix, Arizona that her husband is no longer in the world. When Victor hears this news he gets upset but he does not have enough money to visit there. With the help of Thomas, Victor and Thomas visits to Phoenix. During their trip, Thomas starts to tell stories which irritate Victor. Thus Victor starts to state about how Indian should represent so white people will not treat them as a lower class.
This is important and shows the significance of both of these characters. Throughout the novella Eva is constantly accusing other characters or things as being Ratcatchers. The Ratcatcher is symbolised as the Pied Piper of Hamelin when he takes the children of Hamelin into the mountains and to be never seen again, this symbiosis Eva being dragged to England without he mom and dad to a land where she knows everyone. The Ratcatcher plays a big role in the novella; he is the main antagonist of the novella but as an important symbol in the novella context. At the beginning of the novella, Helga is reading Eva’s favourite book about The Ratcatcher, but throughout is often referred to as ‘Der Rattenfanger’.
I assume that she wants a divorce from her husband but because of the role that society has placed on her, but she is unable to get one because she is very dependent on him. It sounds to me that she is jealous of her male friend who is looking for another wife. It was him and his situation that she was thinking of that brought her to the conclusion that she herself wants a wife. Her situation leads me to believe that during this time in history women were not meant to show signs of aggression, jealousy, or anger because it was a mans world. In Brady’s eyes a wife is a basically a slave at home who cannot have a life of her own.
In other words, she describes how immigrants view the United States in such high expectations hoping for a brighter and better future. Instead she feels like an outsider or a misfit because if she dies right there now no one would know or mourn for her. She there with no family and the These resident aliens such as herself, faced reality the hard way and all the obligations that came along the way while she struggles to balance her family and her own personal life. She feels like a stranger at first; however, soon she adapts and finds a job, a lover, a child, and a telephone friend. She does all this just to keep her busy and tired.
This is why the relationship is seen as very rare because of the dependency and how they were uncommonly united by their shared dream of a better life on a farm, where they can “live off the fatta the lan” as Lennie puts it. George articulates this vision by repeatedly telling the ‘story’ of the future farm to his companion; Lennie who believes unquestioningly in their dream and his faith enables George to imagine the possibility of this dream becoming reality. However, George’s belief in it depends upon Lennie, for as soon as Lennie dies, George’s hopes for a brighter future
Essay: Robert Browning - My Last Duchess Write an essay in which you show how Browning uses the style and structure of the dramatic monologue to convey both the meaning and the intention of the poem. Comment on his use of specific poetic techniques to enhance understanding and intention of the poem: Robert Browning writes his poem, The Last Duchess, in the form of a Dramatic Monologue. The style and structure of this poem adds significant importance and relevance to the message and intention of the poem. Browning's intentional use of specific poetic techniques such as tone of voice, diction, flowery language, rhetorical questions, enjambment and rhyme are vividly explained in this essay. Robert Browning attains a reputation for “oddness”, as the novelist Henry James termed it, for his difficult and obscure written poems.
She wants Tom to attend college and make something of himself, but he lacks ambition. Amanda refuses to see Laura as a cripple with eccentric behavior; instead, she dreams of marrying her daughter to a gentleman caller who will take care of her forever. Both of Amanda's children also escape from reality. Tom hates his boring and depressing existence and escapes by going to the movies and dreaming of his own real life adventures. He thinks about sailing to South Sea islands and going on safaris; he even admits that "I seem dreamy."