Elizabeth Jennings’s ‘One Flesh’ presents the relationship through a daughter looking back at her parents’ behaviour towards each other. Ian McMillan’s ‘04/01/07’ presents the reaction to his mother’s death. In this essay, I will analyse and compare how the poets present their attitudes to relationship by looking at the structure, imagery and the use of senses in the poems. Looking at the structure of the poems, Jennings and McMillan use different techniques to present their attitudes to relationships. McMillan uses the form of a sonnet, where the iambic pentameter rhythm imitates the regularity of the heartbeat, which shows the love towards his mother and the physical intensity of his reaction to her death.
Paul ponders, “[f]our days left now. I must go and see Kemmerich’s mother [now]” (180). Baumer faces adversity by pulling himself together and informing Kemmerich’s mother on the news of her son’s death, resulting in the downfall of his esteem because of the injustice in his premature death. As Baumer’s esteem is weakened, the soldiers from Owen’s poem have high esteems due to the adversities they face. The soldiers from Wilfred Owen’s poem have solid esteem due to the fact that they are facing the hardships and challenges of assuming the role of combatants.
It takes time and patience, illustrated by the repetition of the phrase ‘Only then...’ in stanzas 2, 3 and 7. Armitage uses metaphors to describe the injuries the soldier has suffered, such as ‘frozen river’, ‘blown hinge of his lower jaw’ and ‘damaged, porcelain collar bone.’ Similarly, ‘Nettles’ also focuses early on the pain endured by the three year old son: ‘With sobs and tears The boy came seeking comfort.’ Again, the poet describes the nature of the boy’s injury with ‘blisters beaded on his tender skin.’ This can be compared to the soldier’s many injuries, such as ‘the fractured rudder of shoulder blade.’ In both cases the reader can sense the distress caused to the protagonists by seeing a loved one in distress. In ‘The Manhunt’, Armitage focuses very much on the wife’s attempts to tend and come close to her husband. In ‘Nettles’, however, the protagonist is more pro-active and seeks to destroy the cause of the pain. He sharpens his billhook and the nettles are ‘slashed with fury.’ The nettles are described through an extended metaphor of military images such as
Bliss and Sorrow Begins and Ends Love Throughout texts and other literary devices, many various authors have used conflicts as an element to introduce love into their stories. In Robert Frost’s “Home Burial,” Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh,” and Katherine Ann Porter’s, “Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” such conflicts are introduced and used to project love differently. The three authors show how the loss of a loved one can be either tragic or pleasant. The setting of the poem, “Home Burial,” is gravely important to the dispute between husband and wife. In the beginning of the story, Frost places the wife standing at the top of the stairs and grieving while her husband is at the bottom of the stairs emotionally inferior and indifferent towards the death of their only son.
As I read Not Close Enough For Comfort by David P. Bardeen, I immediately began to reflect on my relationship with my sister. David explains to me that his once strong sibling bond withered away with ageing. David focuses more on revealing a secret in his story, to his brother which was challenging to do since they weren’t close any longer. I’m more focused on the big picture that I pulled out of his story. I’ve been blessed with a younger sister and we are not close enough for comfort.
In Victorian times when Rossetti was writing, this would certainly have been considered shameful. The narrator answers the questions in the first quatrain, naming her sister Maude as the person who told her parents what was happening. Andrew Foster begins his poem in first person perspective indicating that the narrator is narrating a tale to the audience however the poem is actually aimed at the narrators' younger brother and is written in free verse making the poem sound like a story being told in spoken English. The narrator starts off with the tone which the metaphor `Saddled with you' set suggesting the negative feelings the speaker has for his brother, as if he is an inconvenience, restricting the freedom of the speaker. With the third stanza makes it clear that the older boys are still children, despite how they would like to be seen by the world: they 'chased Olympic Gold'
Song Analysis Essay Outline Name : Nor Khalish Syazwani Bt Kamro Isham Song : Fix You Introduction Topic Sentence : “Fix You” is a song by Coldplay that written by Chris Martin to his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow after her father died. She came home from the hospital covered and drenched in tears then, he started crying and asked her of what can he do by that time. She looked up at him and told him to just hold her because he is the only thing that can fix her right by that very moment. Thesis Statement : This song explains a relationship that's struggling and how, despite the many mistakes we make in life that hurt the ones we love, the people you love fix you. Everyone needs fixing in some ways, nobody's slate is ever clean.
Mrs. Mallard conflict started with her having health issues and finding out her husband had died. Then she doesn’t know how to feel about her husband’s death. During the story it seems that Mrs. Mallard was only at the will of her husband because her husband (society) expected her to be. When I read “Clever Manka” it left me with a sense of will to fight for what you wish for. I say this because when her husband told her to pick any one thing in the house to take with her.
The concept of the heart, physically and spiritually, plays a major role and significance in the story. Mrs. Mallard at the beginning and at the end of the story, is protected by her friends and family because of her weak heart. As stated at the beginning, “Knowing Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break her as gentle as possible with the news of her husband’s death.” So the only reason for the delivery of this delicate news with great care is none other than because she has a weak heart. Also at the end of the story, “Richard’s quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife,” was all in an attempt to protect her from her weak heart. As can be inferred, her heart is a major hindrance in their lives, and is constantly needing attention.
Sylvia Plath’s ‘Morning Song’ is one of the constituent poems of her final anthology ‘Ariel’ written before she committed suicide. The collection was composed in a seemingly manic surge coinciding with a period of anguish and rage concerning her traumatic impending divorce with her British husband and poet Ted Hughes. He left for another woman, leaving Sylvia with their two children. In her rather short poem ‘Morning Song’ Plath employs many poignant images to convey a disconcerted ambience of disillusionment concerning her maternal experience. The poem may be referred to as a confessional poem in the sense that it emphasises visceral and intimate emotions and personal details of Sylvia Plath’s life in a seemingly unflattering manner.