However, both feature separate techniques to provoke reactions from their audiences. While Owen uses an ironic title and dark tone to shock his readers, Jim Bauer, uses nonsensical syllables and a hostile second-person perspective to achieve this same reaction. Perhaps one of the most important factors in comprehending both poem and song is the meaning of the line, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”. From a collection of Latin poems by Horace, written almost 2000 years ago, the phrase is translated as: it is sweet and becoming to die for your country. This was the philosophy of many during the time of the First World War.
Cervantes was satirizing the excessive exotic tales of knights and chivalry popular at the time. As for the book’s narrative structure, it is loosely analogous to the American “Shaggy Dog” story, which may be defined as a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness (wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn). In other words, it goes on until it stops. In the case of Forrest Gump, at least in the film version, Gumps says when splashed with mud, “Shit happens,” which very much applies to Groom’s book: shit happens until it stops. Gump belongs to a classification of literature, discussed by Martin Halliwell in his book, The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film (Wiehardt).
On a more analytical note, the imagery in this poem was amazing, with phrases like: “liver-spotted page,” “a raucous bed of saliva,” and “ruddy-skinned pears,” to name a few. It was just so incredibly descriptive that it really added a little extra something and made me feel like I can see and feel and hear all of the things that he was describing. Also, in this poem we see the use of the common poetic theme of “carpe diem.” When translated, this phrase means, “Seize the day” (or, when translated more literally, “pluck the day,” but that probably won’t aid me in proving my point.) He is begging the woman to live life to its full potential, to not waste time with menial, unimportant, and unrewarding
Unit 4 : Developing Reading and Writing Skills. TAQ1 Why is imagery so important in Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’? Line 2- “Knock – kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge.” Alliteration,rhyming, sibilance and Onomatopoeia which uses sound. Sound makes us feel like we are in the scene. Line 3 –“Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs” Alliteration and rhyming is used here , the “t” sound is repeated.
There are comical uses of rhyme: people corporation drawn up in opposition to each other- a “body” versus a “noddy”, “flocking” to see something “shocking” The form of the ballad creates a sense of this as an old story, told over the years, and one with a point or moral behind it. This is reinforced by the medieval setting, which, along with the third person narrative, distances characterisers from a distance. The major is a caricature, for comic purposes, by which Browning makes clear to us the view we should have of him. From “ermine” to “vermin”, Browning uses the rhyme to suggest those with the ermine are the real vermin? The people are given a single voice; this is unrealistic but creates potential social, civic issues.
Later on in the poem, when Tim the ostler enters the scene, the mood changes dramatically to questioning and menacing. At first he gets described as an ugly misfit. The poet says, “His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay.” after that, it becomes quite confusing because you are not sure what part he plays in the poem. This makes the mood curious and questioning, this helps to build the tension. When the highwayman and Bess begin talking and when they kiss the mood becomes very romantic.
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.
The author applies various types of sound imagery, which seems fitting, as the main topic of the passage is the pain that the sound of the bells causes. In the first paragraph, there is an abundance of alliteration, which the writer uses to emphasize different points. For example, the phrase “The bells were still sounding their frenzied call“ uses the alliteration of “s“ to emphasize the continuity of the noise. The alliteration of “s“ is used again later on in the paragraph in the last sentence with a different effect; “Stunned and shaken,“ uses the sound to accent a sort of double blow to the main character. This effect is further strengthened by the preceding line where the alliteration of “r“ in “rocked and reeled with the reeling of bells“ and the alliteration of “d“ in “drenched and drunken“ create a sense of drowsiness, which is shattered by the sharpness of the next line.
Here, Touchstone's character changes yet a bit more; Rosalind is saying that he is a born fool or idiot, but this is wholly out of keeping with what we know of Rosalind's character. Obviously, this is most likely a pun on the words "natural" and "nature," words that occur frequently in the scene. The comic banter of the two girls here is used as a contrast to the somber opening scene, and it is also used to establish the comic device of the pun, a word play that Elizabethan audiences never tired of. The extended pun on "natural" and "nature" in this scene where Touchstone's "wisdom" is questioned culminates in Celia's remark, "the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits" (I.ii.58-59). Touchstone, more appropriately, is described by Jaques as being "a motley fool" (II.vii.13).
“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.