Lastly, the tone revolves around a self-critical and enthusiastic one. The father makes the son analyze his life based on insights he gives him. Thus, its tone enables audiences to reflect on their life and adopt the author’s recommendations for a meaningful life. The straightforward poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes is a story of a mother who assures her son that he is bound to face uncountable adversities in life, and must outwit them to keep going. Hughes
In her poem “Mothers”, Nikki Giovanni talks about the relationship she have with her mother and the struggles her mother went through. The poet’s implied claim is the importance of mothers and how much they affect our lives today by the good and bad values they teach us. Nikki thought of her mother as a beautiful woman, but she put so much faith and trust in men. Part of her mother’s struggle was waiting for Nikki’s father to come home “she was very deliberately waiting perhaps for my father to come home from his night job “. This struggle Giovanni’s mother taught to her so being educated about that, Giovanni teaches the ethics of being a Good man to her son; so he will grow and become a good man and see the struggle being a bad one can cause women.
The techniques that Sassoon has used in the poems are: imagery, simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering, but it always leads us to think more deeply about life for the following reasons: Firstly, it creates emotion; secondly, it shows us the brutality of war; and finally, hardships faced by soldiers and also by showing about death. Through this it becomes evident that a good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering because it creates emotion. Emotion refers to a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.
(i) I find the way the poet describe how her daughter has owned her instead of her owning her daughter powerful. Normally, we have the idea that when a mother gives birth to a child, the child belongs to the mother and of course, the father. However, in this poem the poet feels the exact opposite. The sentence ‘I think I’m going to have it’ tells me that the poet thought she was going to finally have this baby of hers, this baby that truly belongs to her because she is going to deliver to it. Another sentence ‘certainly I never had you as you still have me, Caroline.’ proved that the poet was conveying the message that her daughter never belonged to her instead, she belonged to her daughter.
In “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which is an abstract diction and has deeper meaning lying inside it, the poet gives us a beautiful image by explaining different views in the poem .However; we can see the beauty of his art by understanding the deeper philosophical meaning beneath the poem. The poet used personification, metaphors, symbolism, synecdoche and refrain to compare the cycle of nature with cycle of life. The main message of this poem tells us that with all the different effects that we cause to nature, eventually nature will dissolve us, our experiences and ideas and continue on its path. The Persona in this poem is the poet himself who gives us different images from a town and it’s sea shore .In the first line of the first stanza “The tide rises, the tide falls “(l.1), the poet is talking about a repeating cycle in nature. By paying close attention, we see that at the end of all three stanzas in this poem, Longfellow used refrain by repeating the same line.
Give an outline of the attitudes to over-parenting expressed in texts 1,2 and 3. Text 1. In the article Do 'Helicopter Moms ' Do More Harm Than Good is Robyn Lewis the over-parenting mom for her two sons, Ethan and Brendan. She helps them organize everything; their private papers, but also their student emails. Lewis is working hard to keep everything in her sons lives in order.
| But Cordelia, Lear’s youngest and favourite daughter, remains silent, saying that she has no words to describe how much she loves her father. | ‘unhappy that I am, I cannot heave my heart into my mouth; I love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less’ (ACT1SCENE1-86-88)When the loyal Gloucester realizes that Lear’s daughters have turned against their father, he decides to help Lear in spite of the danger. | Regan and her husband, Cornwall, discover him helping Lear, accuse him of treason, blind him, and turn him out to wander the countryside. He ends up being led by his disguised son, Edgar, toward the city of Dover, where Lear has also been brought. | The quote I was given is Act4 scene5 ‘Come on, sir, here’s the place.
After some time of internally struggling to decide whether to tell a major bombshell to Pastor Manders, she confides in the Pastor revealing the unspoken truth of the Alving’s servant Regina. Regina, who happens to be the secret love child of the deceased Captain Alving and their former maidservant Johanna. As a young boy, Oswald Alving was sent to a boarding school by his mother so that he could be shielded away from his father’s true nature. Fearing that young Oswald would become the same way as his alcoholic and adulteress father, Mrs. Alving felt she had no other choice but to protect her son. Towards the end of the play it is soon to be discovered that Oswald is sick with syphilis causing him to grow weaker every day.
Sonnet “To My Mother” describe the poet's feelings of great admiration and love of his mother. are evident throughout the poem. The poem begins with the Octave describes his irresistible mother, a woman of strong moral character and incredible strength as even the problems of life could not conquer her spirits. she will always remain in his heart and when he says that she is, 'most near', 'most dear' and 'most loved- that she is, 'most near', 'most dear' and 'most loved, he confirms the strength of these feelings. The line “Sitting as huge as Asia’’ means his mother encompasses the goodness and gigantic strength of the vast world and she is viewing the whole world from the huge window that points out to an open mind always ready to change her thinking patterns with moving time.
Sandra Cisneros, in the essay “Only Daughter”, discusses her challenging relationship with her father. This essay will examine the obstacles of overcoming expectation. First it will show the struggles faced by Cisneros. Then it will show my own struggle with overcoming the expectations placed upon me by my family. Finally it will describe how these obstacles help us discover our true selves.