Apr. 27, 2011 “Brainstorm”—N04, A1HL Howard Nemerov’s “Brainstorm” is an odd poem in which, as so often happens in poetry, the literal and figurative elements engage in a weird dance of meaning. The title itself suggests the figurative level—that the storm described in the lines of poem is actually occurring in the solitary character’s mind. Apart from the poem’s “he,” but omnisciently aware of his experience, thoughts, and feelings, the speaker captures the momentous effects of first the literal and then the metaphorical storm. The vivid and detailed descriptions of the tumultuous weather’s effect on an old house make the plot of the poem particularly clear.
Shrouded Sorrow Robert Frost is known for writing about the beauty and majesty of New England. Although on first read this seems to be just another one of these simple poems, he actually uses breaks, cadence, figurative language, and a flexible persona in his poem “Never Again Would Birds’ Song be the Same” to deal with death and grief in his life. Without multiple stanza common to many poems, Frost had to rely on end-stops and enjambments to create meaning through breaks just as we must rely on them to interpret his meaning. More than half the poem uses enjambment; however, this brings emphasis to the end-stopped lines. Whenever Frost end-stops a line, the next seems to to take on a tone of mild opposition.
Emma and clueless – - Use of an omniscient narrator to allow reader to reassess their impressions of the characters. - Occasional intrusive comments by the use of irony (mr knightley’) - Over loud, face paced, non diegetic, over bright colours - Music establishes mood and highlights the emotional states of characters - Mr knightley provides correct evaluation of the characters’ behaviours and personal worth - Emma’s lack of perception and the pain she caused Harriet was the first stage of self-awareness relinquishing by Harriet of mr elton’s memorabilia and her confession that she loves mr knightley forced emma to realise she loved him - Emma needs to accept her personal faults and demonstrate social responsibility through her actions,
Murray introduces his thesis in the title of the poem “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow”. The antithesis displays to the reader that there is great beauty in the simple and ordinary. This is further supported through the contrasting images and repetition in the lines, “The crowds are edgy with talk and more crowds come hurrying. Many run in the back streets which minutes ago were busy main streets” which create suspense in the reader making them question whether the people of the city are fearful of what is happening. This atmosphere of suspense is broken in the anticlimax
Bruce Dawes Essay Bruce Dawes poems, written in the 1900’s, are very influential pieces, even to this day because the themes and ideas he wrote about have maintained relevancy to a contemporary audience. Dawes poems are largely cynical, he discusses problems that he sees in society. Three concepts which are discussed frequently throughout Dawes’ poetry are the meaninglessness of life, our materialistic lifestyles and the constrictive nature of society. These themes can all be adapted to modern situations and applied to modern people and society. Three of his poems ‘ enter without so much as knocking’, ‘life-cycle’, ‘homecoming’ and ‘’weapons training’ all strongly convey at least one of the above themes in quite similar way.
Mythology is often the spotlight of the focus of many poems, and it is approached differently by each author. Anne Stevenson’s “Eros” and Robert Bridges’ “EPΩ∑” are two such works that depict the role of Eros, the Greek god of love, and stress the hardships he endures. However, they differ strongly in the way the information is elicited, the speaker and their basic writing styles. Common to both works is the tone, leading the reader to have sympathy for the god who suffers disconsolately. As both poems state, this is because his accomplishments are often overlooked even when the results are present.
Friends, Classmates, Fellow literary critics… Today, I am here to stress my knowledge on how the composer’s Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke have effectively conveyed their thoughts and feelings on war using themes, issues and techniques. Siegfried Sassoon chose to convey the theme of the outcomes war has had in those who survived (hence the name survivors) and how the process of war has aged them prematurely and darkened there spirits. The poem ‘survivors’ is a clever and well structured poem, Sassoon incorporates many techniques to emphasise and illuminate his main theme . Siegfried Sassoon uses primarily literal language; he rarely speaks metaphorically or figuratively thus the reason why we don’t see a frequency in metaphors, similes or imagery throughout the poem. He evokes a very bitter outraged mood in the reader, he’s thoughts and feelings produce anger and spite.
HOW DOES WILFRED OWEN CONVEY THE HORRORS OF WAR IN POETRY ? Many of Owen's poems direct anger towards the generals and those at home who have encouraged war.Owen's war poetry is a passionate expression of outrage at the horrors of war and of pity for the young soldiers sacrificed in it. It is dramatic and memorable, whether describing physical horror, such as in 'Dulce et Decorum Est' or mental torment such as in' Disabled'. His poetry evokes more from us than simple disgust and sympathy. Owen sympathizes with the vain young men who have no idea of the horrors of war, who are 'seduced' by others (Jessie Pope) and the recruiting posters.
As a consequence, this world becomes known through “experience”, a state of being marked by the loss of childhood optimism and enthusiasm, by fright and inhibition, and by social and political corruption. William Blake considered that without contraries there is no progression and, indeed, some of his works are built on oppositions, like The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Ideas of Good and Evil or, of course, the volume Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Two of Blake’s famous collections of poetry are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The two collections go together-that is, many of the poems in Songs of Innocence have corresponding poems in Songs of Experience. Many of the poems are religious and a prime example of contrasting two poems is 'The Lamb' from Songs of Innocence and 'The Tyger' from Songs of Experience.
THE USE OF FIGURES OF SPEECH IN FROST’S “NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY” Suryo Tri Saksono Abstract: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” portrays the shortness of life. Its rime scheme (aa bb cc) shows the beauty of the poem. This study reveals the content of the poem based on the use of figures of speech. From the analysis, it is found out that: First, Frost succeeds to use figures of speech proportionally. Second, Frost emphasizes that nothing perfect, beautiful, young, or pure in our lives, can ever last.