Out of the supplementary of works Poe had written, I personally had found his poem “The Raven” uniquely interesting because it closely expresses the devastation that Poe went through throughout his life. In the poem, the narrator who we never are told a name, is obviously troubled. The narrator, sitting alone, is greeted by a raven that he sees not just as a measly bird, but more than that. He feels that he has just come in contact with a higher power, another entity trying to contact him. The narrator, who was suffering from the loss of Lenore, seemed to manifest this bird into a spiritual being.
We can tell that he is hurt psychologically as it says ‘unexploded mine buried deep in his mind’ and physically as it says ‘the rungs of his broken ribs’ these are both effects of his traumatic experience at war. The distribution of each stanza could also show the distance that she now has with the subject because of his lack of understanding of his painful experiences and emotions. As a reader, it sounds like she is writing the poem the way she would be saying it, this emphasises the shortness of each stanza and the small steps she has to take to his recovery, which is also shown in the tone of the poem as she sounds in pain, which makes the reader feel sorry for her. However, in ‘Hour’, the poem is separated into four stanzas, which all have four lines each apart from the last stanza which has two lines. Each stanza has emotive language of the writer’s feelings, we know this as it says things such as ‘we are millionaires, backhanding the night’ this gives the reader the impression that their relationship is stable and strong unlike the fragmented relationship in ‘The Manhunt’.
One of Poe's most indelible works is the poem Annabel Lee, which was written shortly before his death. In its entirety, this poem encompasses several aspects that set it apart from some of his other works. Language and Imagery The language and imagery used in Annabel Lee gives the poem a kind of strength, and emotion, that could not be accomplished though prose alone. Other elements, common to poetry, contribute to this poem's uniqueness and contrariety from prose. Annabel Lee is a work that expresses great loss and sadness.
‘Five Bells’ continues to engage readers through its poetic treatment of mortality and mourning. Does this resonate with your own interpretation? Kenneth Slessor was the poet of time, of “the cold fact of time”, as he said in describing the genesis of his wondrous poem “Five Bells”. This poem is strongly engaging through its poetic treatment of mourning, as it is notably encompasses obvious elegy elements, directed towards his dear artistic friend Joe Lynch, but as Slessor mentioned, and from what can be observed, the poem is as much about the compression of memory in time, in relation to symbolic and literal mortality. The poem offers not answers, but questions towards the meaning of existence, and is toned with a sense of failure, loss and desolation, as it seems that neither Lynch's art, nor the art of the poem, can defy death.
Write about two themes common to two of the poems written by Les Murray. Les Murray gives the reader a deep understanding of isolation and sadness. For Murray, the result of the poems “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow” and “Performance” are themes of isolation. Murray has created a vibrant energy whilst exploring these themes of the human condition through the energy and inventiveness of language. “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow” is a poem about an unknown man that is seen crying in Martin Place.
Furthermore, Buck directly refers to us throughout the poem by using words such as ‘our’ and ‘we’, expressing his view that we all have a role, and that we are all responsible for our lost heritage. He aims his message directly at the readers. The first stanza illustrates how ignorant man is. We see our lives in monochrome, when in reality, we just fail to notice how colourful and vibrant our lives really are. We are ignorant to the ‘kaleidoscopes of colour’, the ‘saffron’ and ‘madder’ that make up our lives.
By having the bird flee rather than take the crumb, Dickinson mocks the ignorance of man’s views of nature, as nature itself flees the tainted touch of mankind. The bird leaves and returns to a graceful, dignified atmosphere which is its home. In the last stanzas the bird transforms into a magnificent sight of grace, the tone follows the flow from humdrum dullness to a state of almost eerie awe. The narrator is looking up and away. The poem is by Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, is said to be one of America’s greatest poets, is also well known for her unusual life of self imposed social seclusion.
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.
To a person living in a world completely devoid of religion, hope, and ultimately happiness, the only feelings left to him or her are despair, depression, and loneliness. In his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men”, T.S. Eliot uses literary devices such as allusion, setting, and symbol to produce this both awe-inducing and tragic image of these hopelessly lost souls so desperate for their visions—illusions, really—of dreams and a meaning behind their existence. This theme of hopelessness is conveyed through the above literary elements working in unison to display the completely dismal and hopeless world, which is the setting of the poem. The first poetic element Eliot introduces to create his image of hopelessness is allusion.
Throughout the whole poem, the readers are able to know his disapproval, dislike and displeasure over the place that he lives in, by creating a moody and sullen tone which enhances the eerily seriousness of the atmosphere. The content, aim and the theme help to reinforce the writer’s intentions and message of the poem. Through the four quatrains, iambic tetrameter poem, it shows a society that is portrayed as being devastated and grim. Using the basic rhyme scheme of abab, it shows how the people and the places are infected and affected. The rhyme is able to give a flow to the events, making it on-going showing how the society keeps on worsening day by day.