Harmonium and Nettles Harmonium and Nettles both highlight the theme of memory. As they both are looking back over past memories that are painful, the poems feature the feelings of being helpless in stopping the hurt that was caused. The writer in Harmonium feels remorse for the things he hadn’t said to his father as Armitage states “then mouth in reply some shallow sorry phrase or word too starved of breath to make itself heard”. The writer in Nettles is protective of the recurring threat to his child that he can’t destroy. “rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless.
Collins uses his poem “The History Teacher” to show us a world where we lie to our children to protect their childlike nature. In this poem a history teacher lies to his students about historical events and trivializes these events so as not to expose the children to anything that may be bad or could corrupt there innocence. By teaching the children a fairy-tale version of history rather than the reality of it, the children fail to learn about the consequences of their actions. In doing this the teacher is promoting his students ignorance and not allowing them to learn from past mistakes; mistakes that changed the face of our history and how we view the world forever. Collins is giving us a firsthand look at how our morals can affect us, but not always in a good way.
As you know Anh still cares about his father even though he wont admit it witch makes me look back on my life. And make me think about my family and my father as they are not together and if that were I what would I be doing. The passage really brings a tear to my eye and is one of my favorites because you really get to see a different side of Anh. 2. Explain any two conventions used in this passage and analyze the effects of these conventions: Point of view: The great part of having a bias story is you only have one point of view means you get to go directly into the person’s head.
In the third grade Alexie describe his art career beginning and ending with the same portrait, mainly because he named it “Stick Indian Taking a Piss in My Backyard.” The humor is obvious here. The reason Alexie includes it might not be so. After he shows it his teacher she takes it away. This makes Alexie wonder about the freedom of expression that he wasn’t allowed, not only in art but his whole life, and also the censorship he faced. Adding the humor above was meant for the enjoyment of the readers, continuity of the troubles he faced and also as a better memory than the one he had of himself being denied his freedom of expression.
When telling a story about the cool thing that happened at school or how one beat that guy up, straight forwardness and honesty are often, if not always, disarrayed. When reiterating a story back to someone, the storyteller tends to rely on their inner experience rather than tell what actually happened. In “How to Tell A True War Story,” the narrators friend/fellow soldier, Rat Kiley, deals with this situation after his friend, Curt Lemon, dies. Kiley decides to write a condoling letter to Lemon’s sister trying to make sure she knows he is there for her. In the letter, Kiley, starts telling her how great friends Lemon and he was with one another.
Others tell stories to teach others about something. For example, a student decided to not do homework and failed a class. Some tell stories to get a moral point to the audience. For example, the Pardoner moral was “Greed is the root of all evil”. The Pardoner always preaches about greed and that was his moral point for the audience .This will teach the
Below the many secrets and or lies are explained and revealed, as are the reasons the characters were fated to know the secrets kept amongst them. The secrets and lies told in the novel all revolved around the name Earnest and his life. Jack Worthing told a simple lie concealing his true identity, which he didn’t even know to begin with. Both Algernon and Jack pretended to have a horrible brother, who nonchalantly walked about society. Jack and Algernon had made their brothers up to give themselves an escape route to be someone completely different.
In the story, “Like the Sun” Sekhar lies to his headmaster because he doesn’t want to get in trouble. “No. I want it
Stanza I If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise. 1. Who is referred to in the Stanza? State the background of the writing of the poem ‘If”. The poem can be read as an advice from a father to his son, thus the person addressed in the poem is the poet Kipling’s son or can be seen as an suitably affectionate address from an older mentor to a young boy. However, if we look into the background in which the poem is written it is addressed to Kipling’s young readers.
“Good poets make readers think about their own lives not only by What they say but how they say it” A personal reflection. The value of poetry to me is its power to move my emotion with ideas. Poets depict their experiences using words, creating feelings in me about situations I think about but may never experience. Poems act like art; somehow they bypass the conscious and go straight to the heart. The two poems I wish to discuss are, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, which is about the senseless waste of young lives on the battlefields of World War One, and “Dulce et Decorum Est” which is about how fighting wars for your country isn’t sweet and patriotic, but war is actually a waste of lives.