'The Story of Tom Brennan' follows the lives of the Brennan family after the events of a fatal car accident, which shows how Tom the protagonist struggles to cope with his past. Similarly the song 'Father and Son' is a representation of an escape, as a man seeking to flee a life he finds suffocating, and the film 'Dead Poets Society' also explores two protagonists faced by challenges of moving into the world and dealing with issues of fear, growing up and following their dreams. All these texts reflect the experiences, ideas, knowledge and beliefs that are evident in society,and reflected throughout these texts. J.C Burke emphases many themes through out 'The Story of Tom Brennan' such as fear, relationships and growing up. These thematic concerns are echoed in the related texts therefore linking the texts and reflecting how texts may represent society.
Like so, poet ‘Peter Skrzynecki’ in “Immigrant Chronicle” visibly demonstrates his struggle to feel united with his own parents, it also demonstrates his struggle to feel united with the world that is different to his parent’s or ancestor’s. Like so, another text “Sweeney Todd” 2007 directed by Tim Burton focuses on the negative impact of forced imprisonment and reflects this negative impact as a result of Sweeney’s inability to generate a sense of “us” after he was freed from imprisonment. The poem “Felix Skrzynecki” initiates the readers with a personal pronoun by the poet “My” “My gentle father” instantly establishing their filial
In the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, Carver sends a deep message to the reader. The narrator in the story has emotional problems. The narrator’s eyes are closed as a result of his ignorance, jealously and prejudice. As a way to escape from reality and his own problems, the narrator uses alcohol and other things. Robert, an old friend from his wife teaches the narrator a great lesson about life and how “learning never ends.” Robert opens the eyes of the narrator.
The narrator explains in the first line that he “may cease to be” and rushes to include he is afraid to die “before [his] pen has glean’d [his] teeming brain”. It almost seems as though Keats was unable to fit his ideas neatly into spaced lines, with punctuation marks because he is afraid to lose valuable time while he is still living. In Longfellow’s poem, however, pauses, punctuation and composition of multiple sentences produce a relaxed tone and overall feel of the poem. The poem is filled with caesuras that decrease the entire speed of the poem. “Half of my life is gone,” the comma allows for a pause and a deep breath to continue on to say “and I have let the years slip from me”.
Both of the poems ‘Born Yesterday’ and Nettles’ deal with an unidealistic view focused on the inability to protect our loved ones from inevitable pain. Both Vernon Scanell and Phillip Larkin convey the theme of the lack of power to deliver happiness using the relationship between a man and a beloved child. In the poem ‘Nettles’, the relationship explored is between a father and son using the adult’s perspective whereas ‘Born Yesterday’ uses a bond between a man and his friend’s new born daughter. The first poem recalls an incident where Scanell’s young son was stung by nettles, displaying the poet’s desire to protect his son from the dangers of the world. The title ‘Nettles’ creates the thought of the severe stinging pain that the nettles produce that the reader will have experienced.
Poetry Study ‘Dawe Is A Moralist In Poetry. Challenging His Readers To Re-Assess Their Lives And Life Itself.’ Discuss. Dawe challenges his readers to reassess their personal values in their lives and of life itself. Homecoming is a commentary, its views on the waste of young lives in war and the disregard for the human remains once they have served their purpose. Katrina discusses the lack of control that we have in life and that death is simply another part of life that we must accept.
From the start he gives you a since of being human, of being imperfect. Eggers shares his life with us, he informs the reader of his hardships after the death of his parents with a sarcastic view point of the multiple struggles in his life. Eggers Writes his autobiography by forming it with literary devices, a changing tone, a theme of overall acceptance and a purpose that relates to and broadens his audience. As he expresses to us his life, he uses tone to emphasize the good and the bad of what he has been through. Eggers often has a exaggerated
Kaitlin Villaverde Mrs. Bradford English 11 30 September 2014 Poetry Explication Mending Wall This poem is about a soaring wall which parts one thing from another leaving the on of the neighbors inside wondering about the possibilities of freedom if the wall was to be absent yet, and the benefits there of. “And on that day we meet to walk the line”(13).The wall is ironic because, even though it separates the speaker from his neighbor, it also brings them together every year. “And set the wall between us once again” (14). This quote reflects the feeling of how are protagonists is sighing in frustration from having this division between him and his neighbor. As stated,there is an ironic twist at hand.
Practice Essay Steven Herrick's novel 'by the river', is a coming of age story composed of poems about a young protagonist, Harry, alongside his younger brother Keith and their loving father, Mr Hodby. The novel looks at the emotions of Harry, grief, loss and isolation towards the town and him wanting to escape and see the world outside. On the other hand the setting of the novel and how the youthfulness of the characters, suggest some idealisation of their experiences. Despite his youth, Harry does not paint an idealised picture of the unnamed town in which he lives. The main protagonist, Harry is a young adolescent who lives in the country side.
“The Peace of Wild Things” is a poem written by American poet Wendell Berry. I feel Wendell Berry uses a unique approach of words to express the feelings and emotions in “The Peace of Wild Things”. I believe the speaker is a father who is stressing over life’s challenges to support and provide for his family. The poem expresses what the father is feeling as he awakes in the middle of the night and what he does to release his stress. Works