Before their family tragedy occurs, none of them could ever think about changing mentality or lifestyle, therefore all characters are psychologically unready to survive their loss. Moreover, this event makes some of the characters starting to think differently. Nandana is one of the main characters who can also be considered a hero. She initially lives an illusion when she refuses to accept that her parents died. As she refuses to talk to anybody, the child created her own imaginary world being unwilling to look at the reality: “Why couldn't he understand that if he kept quiet, if all of them kept quiet, her parents would hear her and come to take her home?” (47).
‘Little – less – nothing! – and that ended it’ everything has changed in just a moment. We are presented with multiple ideas of change, its suddenness, unexpectedness and importance, all of which are clearly depicted and conveyed throughout this text. These important ideas of change are demonstrated through the use of various techniques consisting of short sentences, repetition, direct speech and narrative, which all contribute in grasping the reader’s attention and challenging both their perspective and opinion. ‘Leap of Faith’, Baynton’s poem, is a short story which revolves around a young girl, by the name of Faith and her father who experience various stages of abrupt yet unconscious changes which dramatically affect the way in which they view and cherish the most important things in life.
Orual never feels that she is loved by anyone, that is, until Psyche enters her life after Psyche’s mother dies giving birth to her. Orual takes it upon herself to become Psyche's guardian and to raise her. Orual loves Psyche more than anything, but her love is selfish and very possessive. Orual is tormented by the thought of having to ever give Psyche from her possession and she does everything in her power to prevent it. After first being separated from Psyche then becoming bitter from not seeing the same things as Psyche once reunited, I realized the tragedy was that not only did Orual never found the “love of the Gods,” she also never learned to love her life and accept herself as the person she was.
The poem, Words, by Sylvia Plath illustrates the constant struggle which this author went through when writing her poetry – the fight of finding precise words and self-reflection on her previous poems shows the reader that every time Plath writes and succeeds, she wins in the battle of overcoming death. Therefore the main themes are: life and death, the art of writing and words – the dangerous and difficulty of them. She shows this by writing entirely in metaphor, in 4 stanzas which signifies the different processes of writing. Recurring images/symbols within her metaphors are wood-chopping, horses, water and time. Throughout the poem, there are different line lengths, no rhyme, and enjambment used to show the fight and chaos in Plath’s writing.
This leaves the reader feeling conflicting emotions for the character, probably similar to how Medusa herself feels in the poem. Form and Structure The poem is written in free verse and as it progresses, the importance of the living things Medusa turns to stone increases, going from a bee to a dragon and then to her husband himself. The poem is divided into stanzas of mainly equal length, apart from the final line: ‘Look at me now’. This gives the poem a dramatic ending, leaving the reader unsure whether to feel threatened by or feel sorry for Medusa. Language • The poem is packed full of rhyme (including half rhymes, internal rhymes and in stanzas 3, 4, 5 and 6 some end rhyme).
These four poems explore many things about love, war and the similarities and differences between them. Though written in different times, all four poems explore essentially the same things; whether it is communicated through love or war. ‘Friendship After Love’, written in the nineteenth century by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, depicts the progression of a relationship from the stages of love and passion to the heartbreak at the loss of love and finally to the steady state of friendship. She speaks of her love, which began so passionately, but became nothing more than friendship, relating her experience of that lost love through this poem. The progression of love is inevitable and must be accepted.
Exploring Human Hurt and Loss in Carol Ann Duffy's Poems Carol Ann Duffy has written a wide range of popular books and poems. War Photographer, Valentine, Stealing, Mrs Tilscher’s Class, and Before You Were Mine, each appear to portray a particular aspect of her life, be it past or present. There is no doubt that pain and loss are part of these aspects, as she includes these emotions in all of her pieces. Each poem is easy to understand, however extremely powerful in its meaning. Carol Ann Duffy mentioned concerning her own work “I like to use simple words but in a complicated way”.
Regardless of the passage of time, few children of divorce are unable to provide some recollection of pain. Relationships are often strained, physiology and psychology is affected, and the future can seem bleak. When we understand the gravity with which a child is impacted by divorce, the hope is that couples will devote energy toward any and all opportunities to salvage the marriage. The psychological effects on children of divorce can be devastating and many divorcing couples are completely oblivious to how their private “War of the Roses” has lasting effects on their children. It is said: “Children are always the losers in divorce.”
The techniques that Sassoon has used in the poems are: imagery, simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering, but it always leads us to think more deeply about life for the following reasons: Firstly, it creates emotion; secondly, it shows us the brutality of war; and finally, hardships faced by soldiers and also by showing about death. Through this it becomes evident that a good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering because it creates emotion. Emotion refers to a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.
Themes are the essence of most, if not all, forms of literature. One of the most used themes in literature is time. Time is an often used theme because not only can it stand alone it can also be used to bring forth other important themes. Out of all the forms of literature poetry uses times most forcibly to bring out other themes perhaps because of its short nature. Three poems which are mainly based on time but also use time to bring forth other themes are Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”, Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and T.S Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.