This can be seen in the poem ‘Music’ where in particular, Owen’s use of pathetic fallacy reveals to us the narrators true feelings. Therefore we are able to see that one’s emotional state of mind is projected onto his perception of his surroundings rendering music, which is an entirely subjective and state-dependent phenomenon. Accordingly, we can see this through the metaphor, “Drunk their mellow sorrows to the slake”, that alcohol is like music as it is also very state-dependent. The assonance of long and soft sounds in “mellow sorrows” may be suggesting that these soothe his pain, however could also prolong his pain as well. Owen conveys the idea that by using music and alcohol to relieve your pain is an outdated method, which we can see through the archaic diction “slake”.
Children that are ignorant to the world and the violence that is in it will never be able to be functioning members of society. In his poem Collins tries to help us understand what would happen if we removed all violence from our children’s lives. He does
This technique also gives an interesting perspective of how many middle easterners view the western world. Although this poem describes the experiences of a specific group of people—Middle Eastern immigrants—the message applies to everyone who has experienced regret and unfulfilled expectations. Every couple of lines the author begins with a simple, non-specific statement such as “we think”, that, when looked at as a whole tell an entirely different story. The deeper meaning in this poem lies in the repetition between the lines. The lines “We think…we wish…we forget…then, we arrive…we turn away…we look [for a connection to what is now lost]…we miss” show how mislead ideas can cause people to yearn for what they think will bring satisfaction.
Nicholas Bostic Ms. Frankie Goss English 102 September 19, 2010 Applying a Critic’s Opinion In the Poem “The World Is Too Much with Us” by William Wordsworth we are presented with the idea that the world is too tied up in the materialism of the Industrial Revolution and are failing to admire the beauty of nature. It is the opinion of the critic MH Abrams that Wordsworth’s poetry comes in two different forms one is positive “light… simple [and]… Forthright” and depicts ideas of “Life, love and joy” (Abrams). While the other style is “darkness” and depicts things that are “complex [And] problematic” and leaves you with a feeling of “despair of life” (Abrams). It is my belief that this poem fits the category of the latter. It is dark and presents us with a problem; we are left with a feeling of despair for the world.
After reading war poems we are able to get a true idea of how horrific war was and learn of its negative consequences. The main idea in war poems becomes apparent when reading Wilfred Owen’s poem, Dolce et Decorum Est. In the last stanza, the lines: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dolce et Decorum Est, Pro Patria Mori” demonstrates the main idea. ‘Dolce et Decorum est’ is a Latin saying, which means ‘it is sweet and right’. The poet is saying that people should not talk about war as enthusiastically as it gives the impression that war is glorious.
It deals with the decline of civilisation and the impossibility of recovering meaning in life. He designates through his poems and the language he uses the idea of doom. Eliot uses imagery from Dante’s Inferno to illustrate the futility of society and its decent into a living hell. The first part, “The Burial of the Dead”, presents the voice of a countess looking back on her pre-World War I youth as a lovelier, freer, more romantic time. Her voice is followed by a solemn description of present dryness when “the dead tree gives no shelter”.
These individuals are uneasy and uncomfortable in the acting as if they belong in a world that they distain and one that looks down on and despises them for not belonging. “This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me” [poem 66] This quote is of individuals who as a result of them failing to conform to the social pressures of contemporary have gained the status of outsiders, not belonging to the greater populace and ignored by it. Dickinson also has conveyed the message of those individuals that are introverts or for other reasons that labels them as outsiders that are tortured and killed from the inside when they are force to belong that of which they so clearly have no part of. Dickinson conveys her message with dark, death focused imagery that reflects the attitude of society towards her, individuals like her and the harm of forceful belonging. This quote identifies that message of harmful force of belonging, that of which is out of place “The plenty hurt me ‘twas so new.
This idea is taken away in the second line when Pope says that trivial things are the cause this horrible event. The diction in the first two lines goes from being broad and powerful to being small and petty. While Pope uses objects and events to directly compare important and trivial things throughout the poem, he also takes advantage of the diction to indirectly show this comparison to the reader. While the first two lines of the poem provides a small summary of the mock epic itself, it also gives you an insight into how Pope’s carefully crafted diction is the underlying foundation of this mock epic. The first canto the main character Belinda is introduced.
New pparagraph: The first quatrain in the second stanza follows an ABBA rhyming scheme. The first line of the stanza begs for some truth and the fourth explains the lies of the world, adding strength to the statement. The remainder of the poem follows a CDDCC rhyming pattern. The second part of this stanza has a different rhyme scheme from the first which is coherent with the shift in adjectives and added darkness of the words. The poem shifts from beauty in the first stanza, to words of positivity and hope for humanity in the first part of the second stanza, and finally to the complete loss of this hope and the revelation of the depressing truth about our society and humanity in general.
Literary Movement 3 Confessional Poetry In the 1950s to 1960s came a scandalise movement known as Confessional Poetry or personal poetry. In its day this type of poetry was considered terrible, in highlighting themes such as suicide, sexuality, mental illness, feminism and lot more controversial topics. Although talking about yourself, your experiences and emotions personally was nothing new in poetry, since we see first person used in poetry in many of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the problem society had with Personal Poetry was its nature of being inappropriate, especially in such a conservative period of time. Even today reading Confessional Poetry can be quite uncomfortable, because of the techniques that the poets use. The poems are written in first person, using a lot of imagery.