Owen conveys the idea that by using music and alcohol to relieve your pain is an outdated method, which we can see through the archaic diction “slake”. Although this is true, by informing us that the narrator’s “heart has beaten”, the past tense shows us that music can no longer have this effect on him which links to Owen’s use of archaic words. At the same time, in the poem ‘On My Songs’, Owen depicts the narrator relieving his pain by reading the language of other poets. Immediately the capitalization of “ unseen Poets” conveys that he is showing respect towards the people who were influential enough to reach new generations even though they were never seen.
Harmonium and Nettles Harmonium and Nettles both highlight the theme of memory. As they both are looking back over past memories that are painful, the poems feature the feelings of being helpless in stopping the hurt that was caused. The writer in Harmonium feels remorse for the things he hadn’t said to his father as Armitage states “then mouth in reply some shallow sorry phrase or word too starved of breath to make itself heard”. The writer in Nettles is protective of the recurring threat to his child that he can’t destroy. “rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless.
Stephanie Lasasso AP Literature and Composition Dr. Godbold Block 1A January 22, 2012 To an Inconstant One Sir Robert Ayton’s poem To an Inconstant One is a narrative poem that talks about a man who and an unfaithful lover. The poem begins by stating the fact that it was not his fault, but hers that they are no longer together because she was very hasty about making decisions about love. The rhetorical question “What reason I should be the same?” makes the reader connect with the author and forces them to ask themselves the same question that he once had to ask himself: if you changed and lost your love for me, then why can’t I do the same? This goes towards establishing a connection with the reader and making them more interested in reading the poem.
This causes the audience to feel uneasy about the narrator and his reasons behind doing what he does to Porphyria. The language that her lover uses is used in a way that almost dehumanises her. “In one yellow string” this example shows just how much he dehumanises her and just how little he thinks of her towards the end of the poem. Not only this but Browning uses mono-syllabic words which slows the pace, this gives the reader chance to understand just what’s happened. The use of monosyllabic words also shows just how calm the narrator is about the situation he has placed himself in after killing Porphyria, much like how the structure does.
Harrison’s Father (as explained by the poem) gave Tony a pair of dividers which was considered a rite of passage and a symbol of familial pride, which is shown in the simile 'like a medal case'. Yet, Harrison broke the convention (Fathers and sons presumably all followed this tradition) and the 'chain'- an order he felt he could not conform to, through development of his literature. In the line, "The gap his gift acknowledged then’s as wide as /eternity" enjambment creates a gap in sentence emphasizing the gap between his family. This gap is also seen as an exception in their society, as the other Parent/ Son relationships of the poem are presented as healthy and encouraging- their Mothers ‘wished’ the best for them. Harrison also presents the relationship between sons and their parents as unspecific to the individuals concerned, i.e.
He, therefore, allows the reader to become further engaged with the text. In this essay I will hope to examine how structure, language and form assist in either making Apologia pro Poemate Meo more or less effective as a poem compared to that of Birdsong. In Apologia pro Poemate Meo, by Wilfred Owen, Owen is apologising to the soldiers who he did not realise he needed till the end. Yet, at the same time he is thanking them for their bravery. Alternatively he tries to portray to readers the feeling of lost emotions, which the soldiers sense at the war front with other soldiers (or ‘brothers’).
The author explains when he was angry he told his anger not, which resulted in it to be feed negativity. In that make up of the first paragraph, the authors anger and wrath are the key characters of his poem. “And I watered it in fears; Night and morning with my tears. And I sunned it with smiles; And with soft deceitful wiles.” In these lines, Blake tells how tended to and nurtured his anger, how he made it grow. Although, he is examining a process, he isn’t suggesting a moral.
Compare and Contrast Essay By: Maisha Moon “War” By: Luigi Pirandello “Gentlemen, Your Verdict” By: Michael Bruce “War” By: Luigi Pirandello is all about an old man trying to explain to people how just because our men are going off to war it doesn’t mean that we should grieve them, he says we should celebrate that they are doing something for their Country’s and for themselves. “Gentlemen your verdict” By: Michael Bruce is a story about a man who is faced with a difficult decision. It seems that the two short stories couldn’t be any different; however they do have some similarities. The two stories in my mind could connect to each other, and both stories have a kind of “epiphany” moment where the protagonist has to come to terms with something difficult. Although I could only come up with a few similarities the list of differences are way larger.
For ATP, in the first couplet, the speaker is angry at his friend; in the second, at his foe. This difference immediately makes the simple poem less simple. As we continue on reading the couplets are beautifully rhyme, meter and show the importance of the purpose which is tolerance and forgiveness. In TMVTL rhyme is not respect and it too sentimental. The central idea is there but not coherent.
Poetry is made to express the feelings, thoughts, and emotions of the poet. The reader can interpret the poem however they see fit. The poem is open to many interpretations the readers seem fit. In the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” written by Theodore Roethke, individuals who recall the memory of an abusive relationship with their parent often feel resentment towards them as adults. Careful analysis of each individual stanza backs up the theory of child abuse by a violent and drunken father.