In Wild Oats It explains that a person, over the course of time, comes to realise that his greatest desires of love, are unattainable, and second best things will have to suffice. The central purpose of this poem is to show that love is one of these great desires and despite flashes of promise it contains scarcely anything that is more than fragmentary. Larkin reveals this through tone and diction. Both poets seem to focus a lot on the physical side of love where lust and desire are involved however Abse makes it sound more sensual and even spiritual when he speaks of Eros in his poem. Larkin portrays this sense of objectification in his poem with regards to woman as he describes a woman as a ‘bosomy English rose’ and then follows on to call her ‘beautiful’ throughout the poem portraying the sexual lust involved with love.
Firstly, Donne's poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of images. The poem offers elaborate parallels between apparently dissimilar things, “Then as th’ earth’s inward narrow crooked lanes, Do purge sea water’s fretful salt away,” (Donne, Lines 6-7) Donne's poem expresses a wide variety of emotions and attitudes, as if Donne himself were trying to define his experience of love through his poetry. Although, “The Triple Fool” gives a limited view of Donne’s attitude towards love, Donne treats the poem as a part of experience, giving insight into the complex range of experiences concerning love and grief, “I thought, if I could draw my pains through rhyme's vexation, I should them allay.” (Donne, Lines 8-9) Overall, the imagery in “The Triple Fool,” contributes to Donne’s sorrowful diction of love and grief. Moreover, Donne explains that poetry is for love and grief, and not for pleasing things, but songs make love and grief even worse. The first verse of the poem states that he is two times a fool, a fool for loving, and a fool for admitting it, “I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.” (Donne, Lines 1-3) Donne follows to say that he would still not be wise, even if “she” (Donne, Line 5) returned his love.
Compare the methods that poets use to create an interesting character in “Singh Song!” and another poem from character and voice (“Checking out Me History”). Both poems are dramatic monologues and have a conversational tone. The poems are written in free verse and this has connotations to the way that the characters have confusion over their identity. The irregular stanza lengths show the various cultural differences between the poems. In the poem “Singh Song!”, the poet uses repetition to show the persona of Singh as being very personal and intimate when he spends the little time that he has with his “newly bride”.
Lovely bride!” bring the story into the present tense and the use of short sentences make the words more powerful. Also the phrase “She hurried at his words…” gives the reader a sense of time- by using a mixture of dialogue and the author saying that someone has spoken gives the poem more depth, showing that some points are more relevant than others. Keats did this as to point the reader at the points which create the story. The phrase “’Hark! ‘tis an elfin-storm from faery land…” has a bit of ambiguity about it.
“Compare the ways in which Larkin and Abse write about time and it’s passing.” In your response, you must include detailed critical discussion of Love Songs In Age and one other poem by Larkin. Many poems in Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ are connected through one common factor: Larkin’s rather dismal attitude towards time and the passing of it. In many of his poems Larkin presents time as a menial entity resulting in an inevitable mortality. However, on further examination Larkin reflects back on time in a nostalgic manner. In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry.
Homo Suburbiensis has some sort of a rhyming pattern throughout accompanied by a metronome type rhythm resembling content and “controlled” thoughts. However, the ellipses which are employed later in the poem act as a transitional tool to show the growing anxiety of the man’s thoughts as the rhyming scheme deteriorates and he falls into reality. Though the readers are not presented with his actual thoughts, the structure of the poem suggests what the natures of man’s thoughts are. In addition, the form of the poem also evokes similar ideas regarding thoughts as a hope to solve one’s uncertainties. The form of the text is somewhat confusing but it’s safe to say that the poem is a free verse reflecting a free un-structured thought process.
The poem points to the paradox of naming: while naming is creative and powerful, it is also limiting. Once named, an object snaps into focus. But the name interferes as well: it comes between us and the object. We can think of the object now only through the name that has been attached to it. The opening line of the poem, “By naming them he made them,” connects “naming” with making (Page line 1).
Compare ways in which Larkin and Abse write about loneliness and isolation, in your response you must include a detailed discussion of at least 2 of Larkin’s poem Throughout both anthologies of Phillip Larkin and Danny Abse the themes of loneliness and isolation are ever present; it adds other feelings such as sadness to the poem to make the reader think deeper about the meaning of the poem. These themes are present in Mr Bleaney, Talking in bed by Phillip Larkin and present in the poem Leaving Cardiff by Danny Abse, the writers have different ways in which they display the feelings, which by doing so give off other feelings which accompany loneliness. In the poem ‘Mr Bleaney’ Larkin uses another character to inform the reader of how lonely and isolated Mr. Bleaney was. “This was Mr Bleaney’s room†so we are told were they are, by reading what is said about Mr.Bleaney we start to gain a picture of what type of person he was, we gain a picture that they are in a B and B and for Mr.Bleaney to stay there for years and accumulate no belongings shows that he had nowhere else to go and was fairly lonely. However Abse in ‘Leaving Cardiff ‘has his character talk in first person “ I wait in the evening airâ€.
Both sources 1 and 3 immediately engage with their reader’s attention by using varied sentence lengths. Source 1, ‘Britain’s big problem with water’, has varied sentence lengths to put across various views. Long sentences such as ‘The North and West normally get plenty of rain ... receive less than parts of the Mediterranean’ are needed so they can state the factual content of the article. Short sentences are also used in the article, but are built to emphasise previous points such as ‘But it’s true’. By using varied sentences the writer, ‘Geoffry Lean’ effectively intrigues the reader to read the entire article and not bore the reader with a crammed factual article.
English Poetry Essay Choose a poem which appealed to you because it was striking – show which techniques the poet has used to capture your interest and engage your feelings “To His Coy Mistress” is a piece of metaphysical poetry written by Andrew Marvell. This poem, like most metaphysical poetry, makes use of original images and has a very profound meaning behind it. “To His Coy Mistress” is particularly striking because of the deeper themes that it deals with, such as mortality and the idea of “carpe diem”, as well as the unique imagery used throughout and the interesting structure and progression of the poem. The use of the image “vegetable love” is very effective in capturing the reader’s interest. “Vegetable” is not usually the