Compare how poets use language to present feelings in “The Manhunt” and one other poem (Nettles) In ‘Manhunt’, Simon Armitage uses rhyme to reflect the togetherness of a relationship. He says “After the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days.” As the poem goes on, the reader can start to recognise that the un-rhymed cuplets show how fragmented their relationship has become. In ‘Nettles’ Vernon Scannell uses elements of nature, the nettles, to portray his keen anger towards the pain his son is going through. At the beginning of the poem, Scannell uses soft ‘s’ sounds to emphasise the soothing of his injured son who has fallen in a nettle bed. The child is presented using emotive language.
The third stanza starts with the man being thrown into a wagon and driven away. He then talks in deeper detail about the gas and how vile it is. The stanza ends with how young men and children alike should not be told “the old lie” Dulce et Decorum est.” The rhyming scheme Wilfred Uses is AB ab and is effective because it uses the layout of the poem to help exaggerate the sadness and depravity of the men. It starts calm with men trudging back to base and this is effective because it builds tension which in the second stanza is released to create a fully-fledged war story with death and explosions surrounding him and the men. The third stanza starts with the loading of dying or injured men into wagons to be carried away to hospitals or mass graves if they
Both of the poems are very similar to each other and to ‘Romeo & Juliet’. All three share a theme of sadness expressed through them, and they are also about deaths of close ones. For example in ‘On my first sonne’ the author is talking about the death of his son, ‘Midterm break’ talks about the death of a younger brother, whereas Romeo and Juliet is about two young people dying in love with each other and how their family regrets later on. In ‘On My First Sonne’ this poem has a father-son relationship in which the father talks about losing his son. He thinks God has taken his son, which is explained in the second line “My sin was too much hope of thee, lov’d boy.” This tells me that this poem has a religious view and can show that the poem was written in the 16th century which was a different era where many of the citizens were very religious people.
How is the story told in The Patriot? The Patriot is a poem about a man who has been a true partisan to his country. Yet, the public misunderstand what he has done and punish him for it. It represents the fragile state of public morale and opinion. Browning tells the story in six stanzas: each with five lines.
The struggle they face at Devon in the summer of 1942 force them to grow up and lose the innocence of their youth. Gene states “I couldn’t help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal.” (Knowles 25) Each turn of the page takes you deeper into Gene’s world from when he bent the branch while Finny was jumping off the tree into the river, to the fall of Finny down the marble steps. Each of these tragic events limits the athletic ability of Finny. The story draws you in like a kid to a candy bar and you feel Gene’s agony as he realizes his jealousy of Finny is unfounded. The author shows Gene’s growth throughout the novel as he tells Finny that he is the one who shook the branch and pushed him out of the tree and caused his leg to break.
Patrick Lewis’ heroism throughout the novel derives from his curiosity and desire for knowledge. Patrick’s heroism links him to the theme of power and authority as well as central conflicts throughout the novel. Firstly, Patrick’s heroism is exposed when his curiosity leads him to the Riverdale Library where he discovers Nicholas Temelcoff had worked on the Bloor Street Viaduct and was known as a daredevil. Patrick confronts Nicholas with a picture of him and some other workers: Patrick pulls out the photograph and places it in front of Temelcoff…Nicholas Temelcoff never looks back. He will drive the bakery van over the bridge with his wife and children and only casually mention his work there…Patrick’s gift, that arrow into the past, shows him the wealth in himself, how he has been sewn into history.
Larkin presents the themes of loss and decline in his poem MCMXIV; he highlights the tragic loss of soldiers during the World War One through poetic devices and langue devices. In paragraph one Larkin uses similes to reinforce the innocence and naivety of the young soldiers regarding the forthcoming horrors of war with the quote “As if they were stretched outside”, “An August Bank Holiday lark”. The use of the metaphor “crowns” establishes a heroic, biblical portrayal of the young men enlisting for war. The use of adjectives and lack of enjambment in stanza two, create a funeral tone creating the tone for the war contrasting the light, upbeat tone of the opening stanza, symbolic of the soldiers terrible journey ahead. This is highlighted with "shut", "bleached" and "dark-clothed".
I ran it fairly” (P.77) and later got raped. Despite the consequences that Hassan was going to go through he believed that risking his life to satisfy Amir was worth giving up for than disappointing him. Near the ending of the book, Amir tries to redeem the broken bond between him and Sohrab. Amir used the kite in order to gain redemption, he flew the kite and used it in a battle against a local kid and won with the help of Sohrab. Right after Amir offered to run catch the kite for Sohrab and repeated the same quote that Hassan had said once, “For you, a thousand times over” (P.391).
This is in relation to Christ’s crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. Miss Quentin stealing Jason’s money is like the crucifixion of the Compson family because they need the money to survive and her running off to elope with the man with the red tie is like the resurrection. Benjy is characterized as a Christ figure due to his many traits that relate to Him. For example, Benjy was born on Holy Saturday, again, referring to Easter Weekend. Benjy is also currently thirty three in The Sound and the Fury, the same age as Christ at his crucifixion.
Going on to the title, it can be seen as a strong contradiction by coupling together the phrases ‘anthem’ and ‘doomed youth’. Anthems are joyous songs of celebration which is contradictory with the phrase, ‘doomed youth’, which provides a woeful impression because it foretells the futility of young men having hope in war. From the very first line, the usage of similes comparing soldiers to cattle shows how the lives of these young men are as unimportant as cattle being lead to a slaughterhouse. This in turn, gives the poem a very powerful and negative connotation from the beginning. Within the first stanza, the comparisons of the events of war and traditional burial rituals indicate that those who die in battle are not given the honor of having a proper funeral.