The Fly and The Fox In the poems, “The Fly” by William Blake and “The Fox” by Kenneth Patchen, both authors deal with the incredibly complicated theme of death despite having different atmospheres created by the authors. In “The Fly”, William Blake explores the idea of life and death through symbolism. With the lines “Am I not a fly like thee?” He questions and compares the importance between the life of a fly and the life of a human being. What makes humankind so superior? William Blake was a religious man, so there are religious aspects to “The Fly” as well.
As the poem continues, the soldier talks to the rat, as he says that the rat will we safe from the disturbance that is going on between the two fronts. In the “Counter-Attack”, Siegfried Sassoon clearly delivers the reality of war and the grief and fear of the experience that the soldiers are expected to face to the audience of this poem. The poet established a personal connection with his readers through the structure and development of each section as he was trying to make the poem feel as realistic as possible. The poem is full of emotive language & strong description, which helps create a gloomy atmosphere. When he says “Bleeding to death” it adds to the outcome of torture and gives the reader a bad image towards the war and it also causes the reader to respond to the poem if an emotional way.
This is a useful simile because it is something that people reading the poetry could relate to. Another theme of this poem is death. There are many occasions in which Owen talks about death. "Guttering, choking, drowning" is an example because it portrays an image of a helpless and painful way of dying. One more example of death is "white eyes writhing in his face, his hanging face."
In the short story by Kate Chopin shows foreshadowing in the first sentence making it really easy to identify. It says how they must take great care with how they break the news to Mrs. Mallard because of her heart trouble in the past. I knew something bad was going to happen after I read that and from then on I took each sentence and broke it down while relating to how most stories and books describe the pre-death build up moments. Such as how she was looking out the window as she got the feeling of something coming to her that made her feel fearful. As she tried to fight it and push it back; however, she was powerless and was forced to abandon
And this helps to make the reader to consider about the roll of honor for the people. And with the literature devices use from the poem we can understand how the poet has shown her sorrow towards the victims in the wars. In Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen has described a gas attack during World War One with his strong emotions. He is strongly denying the concept of serving your country is glorious. The language used in the section about the gas attack represents both the pain of the victims from the gas attack and the effect on those who have seen the scene.
I didn’t start to realize this poem was fate until I re-read the ending of the poem over and over. Moore achieves this final meaning of the poem through the use of metaphor and imagery. Imagery is seen throughout the whole poem. One example of imagery is on line 7 and 8. The poem states, “The mixture whirling your legs, wings, stinger, churning you into such delicious death.” These lines really bring a darker image into the poem.
‘A plague a’ both your houses!’ Shakespeare has used the word plague because plague is a disease that kills people one by one and he used the word to define grudge as something that kills everyone one by one. Shakespeare used this technique; imagery to make act 3 scene 1 exciting and dramatic for the audience because this part of the scene in the whole play, when Mercutio dies which is very significant because Mercutio was Romeo best friend and until now Romeo was calm so after the event we don’t know how Romeo is going react towards Tybalt which increases the tension to the climax because this part of the scene the character Romeo is going to change from calm to violent.
That shows that he had some time to himself and for his thoughts. All the photos he had clicked of the war, were set out in ordered rows, making him feel nostalgic and remember all the places he had been to and how they all had been torn apart by war. It shows that he was extremely disturbed. The poet uses a metaphor ‘spools of suffering’ which shows the theme of death. It also is a effectual comparison as it shows that it’s not the spools that are suffering, but it’s the photos arranged on the spools.
In giving death characteristics of being mortal it diminishes the effect of fear that death is associated with. Donne then goes on to personify death, giving the entity human characteristics, in line two, “Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so” and line nine, “Thou’rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men”, these characteristics make death appear defenseless and less fearsome. Throughout the poem metaphors are also present, he frequently compares sleep to death, and “From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow” lines 5-6. The metaphor suggests that since we derive pleasure from sleep, death should be more pleasurable. Also by referring to line five the “pictures” of death, is implied that sleep is just a short resemblance of death, making death seem effortless and comprehensible, removing the fear of the unknown.
“A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering, but it always leads us to think more deeply about life” Discuss this statement with reference to at least two Sassoon’s poems. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering, but it always leads us to think more deeply about life. A War poem is a poem that is written on the subject of war. It is applied especially to those in military service. The nature of war poem is to show how horrible and disgusting war is.