In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry. In ‘Love Songs In Age’, Larkin illustrates the view that time and it’s passing merely leads to many disappointments. The enjambment he uses amongst all three stanzas, “and stood/relearning” in the first and second and “more/the glare” between the second and third; this implies the suggestion that love cannot stop the passing of time and the instances that happen within it, for example the death of the woman’s husband. During the first stanza, Larkin uses imagery to create a memoir of the music sheets that the woman has found, “one marked in circles”, “and coloured”, suggesting that the joy of life, love and happiness isn’t appreciated until age shows what one has missed during their youth. We can then imply from this suggestion that Larkin feels time is only appreciated during the older years of one’s life.
The diction the Diction and structure 1 HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON Analyzing a Poem writer uses leaves the perpetrators nameless. Furthermore, Parker structures her subjects according to importance. She writes about a rose first, then a bird, and finally a deserted girl. Each time the idea of feeling toward the subject is more tragic Effect of devices on theme and more meaningful. The diction and structure used in “Solace” connect the theme in that without them, the poem would not have the impact that it sends out to the reader.
In addition, she portrays similar tones such as desperation and mournfulness. In fact, in lines 30 to 24 her tone is at it’s most somber state as she expresses her guilt for being a bad mother to her “child” and believes she has not sent this child away prepared for the world’s cruel criticism. Furthermore, the diction is a device that coincides with the tone of the poem. Her choice of words all share a very strong connotation. As previously mentioned she uses the words ill formed and feeble to describe her unfinished writing’s fragility.
Emily Dickinson explores the concept of not belonging due to a lack of connection experienced with her place in society. Dickinson’s poetry then contrasts this, by exploring her sense of belonging to her poetry and to Nature. In the poem I had been hungry all the years, the persona in the poem initially seeks a belonging with society, however she immediately rejects this belonging due to her sense of discomfort and lack of connection intuited. In the poem I died for beauty but was scarce, Dickinson explores the perception of making the deliberate decision to belong to her art and indirectly to nature. The film Pan’s labyrinth explores the sense of belonging the character Ofelia feels to a fantasy world that she has created, as a consequence of not feeling a connection to the real world.
This poem, “Villanelle” by Marilyn Hacker, could be interpreted in a couple ways such as the distance between couples in a relationship or the distance between societies as a whole. I believe the speaker could be speaking of the general population or perhaps a relationship that has become stale, routine, and no longer appreciates why they are together in the first place. The speaker makes the poem relatable in these ways, whether the reader might feel lost in a relationship or alone in society. In this poem, the author seems to yearn to define the distance a person or a people have between them. “Every day our bodies separate, explode torn and dazed, not understanding what we celebrate.” (1-3) I believe this means how people go on with their day to day, not realizing how they are connected to each other and don’t understand how our unity should give us reason to celebrate.
In the novel “Of Mice and Men” there are many aspects of the theme loneliness that the author John Steinbeck personified. The theme loneliness is shown many times with different characters but the character that stands out is Curley’s wife. Curley’s wife went through many obstacles to achieve her goal, which was to gain freedom of not being lonely, but as she tried too much she came to short and her life ended by trying to achieve the best for
A Lesson in Mastering Loss Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” is about loss. In it she mentions many of the small losses in life that we may experience but she is clearly talking about losing a love. Who she is speaking to in this poem is unclear but there is evidence to show that she and she alone is her own audience for this poem. She expresses denial, anger, blame, regret, humor and in the end she exclaims “Write it!”, which looks to be directed from the speaker to herself, either way it can be construed as acceptance. In the poem she goes through increasingly bigger losses that she quickly dismisses in a sarcastic manner until she reaches the loss of her lover.
Although Oscar and Lucinda are strangers the writer uses language to convey the sense that the relationship between them may be on the verge of changing. Within the passage the events and emotions aren’t described in detail, consequentially the symbolism used of physical objects becomes much more evident. The chair is a strong symbolism for Lucinda’s life and heart, the chair that Oscar first fetches is broken and the following comments from Lucinda “everything is in collapse” further depicts the torrid time she is having. The broken back of the chair advance the thoughts that Lucinda has nothing or no-one to support her, so when Oscar attempts to mend it, it already shows the strength of the connection between the two characters. The mending of the chair is also a partial replication of the mending of her heart, he is showing support for her and now the back of the chair is fixed it “her back was bathed in afternoon sunshine” giving her something and someone that she can ‘lean’ on.
Philip Larkin`s Pessimism in “This be the Verse” and “Fiction and the Reading Public” When I think about poetry, I often get a feeling of depression and loneliness. It is not because I do not like poetry, but it seems that a lot of poems talk about a lost love or a doomed society. I rarely read a poem that contains an optimistic ending or has a positive message. Philip Larkin takes the idea of pessimism to another level. Larkin`s pessimistic view of the world is so deep, that it is almost impossible to find a single positive line in his dreary poems.
From studying the unique poetry of Plath, I found it intense, deeply personal and somewhat disturbing as she wrote about the horrors of depression with ruthless honesty. Her poetry is personal in that she talks about a taboo subject that wasn't acknowledged during her lifetime and in a way it made her poems brilliantly intense.This can be seen most clearly in ‘Child’, ‘Elm’, ‘Poppies in July’ and also ‘Mirror’. ‘Elm’s’ tone is insanely intense, dark and plain miserable and this makes the reader feel immensely disturbed. It is clear from reading Plath’s work that she was in a dark hole, willing to escape. ‘Elm’ finished with the disturbing line “That kill, that kill, that kill”We can see through her callous honesty and the unsettling atmosphere that she is tormented when she says “Till your head is a stone, your pillow a little turf”.