Comparison Of Discrimination And Life For Us
Compare the ways in which poets explore notions of childhood in the two poems:
In both of the poems ‘Life for Us’ and ‘Illumination’ notion explore the notion of childhood.
‘Life for Us’ is a poem by a female poet Choman Hardi who was born in Iraq now living in the United Kingdom. The title shows that the poem is personal and unique as it is how life is for her and other women living in Iraq. The first stanza starts ‘in Qala-Chwalan’, this immediately shows that it is not set in England. The first stanza uses imagery to describe a holiday court yard with a big swimming pool and men splashing around freely in the water. But we are soon taken to the much darker side of the poem on how being a woman can shape you as a human in a male dominated …show more content…
There is no expression of motion on how the writer is feeling, only a repetition of divers diving in and out of the water while drinking ‘cold beer’ and having beans and salad. Enjambment is used between the first and second stanza too carry on the poem into more depth ‘And we’ opening the second stanza. This stanza shows that ‘we’ actually signifies women they are fully dressed on a hot summer’s day and they are only allowed to ‘dangle’ their feet in the water. The men were ‘undressed’ and making ‘enormous splashes’ as they dived in to the pool repetitively. Double standards can be seen in the poem as it shows women are treated unfairly and not allowed to undress like men in public in Iraq. Speech is written in the third stanza as a ‘male cousins’ argues that being a boy is ‘better than being a girl’ this is the shortest stanza in the poem and it conveys a simple yet deep message. Speech is also used in Harrison’s poem to show the disgust of the father in the beginning of the second and third stanzas; ‘Bugger the machines’ and ‘another tanner’s worth then no more’. Both poems use speech as it is a powerful way of showing views on adding a different view from another character. Illumination uses an AB rhyming scheme and this makes it have a flow throughout the poem. Life for Us does not rhyme. Both poems use word choice the author's choice of language in both reflect the mood and characters state of
In both of the poems ‘Life for Us’ and ‘Illumination’ notion explore the notion of childhood.
‘Life for Us’ is a poem by a female poet Choman Hardi who was born in Iraq now living in the United Kingdom. The title shows that the poem is personal and unique as it is how life is for her and other women living in Iraq. The first stanza starts ‘in Qala-Chwalan’, this immediately shows that it is not set in England. The first stanza uses imagery to describe a holiday court yard with a big swimming pool and men splashing around freely in the water. But we are soon taken to the much darker side of the poem on how being a woman can shape you as a human in a male dominated …show more content…
There is no expression of motion on how the writer is feeling, only a repetition of divers diving in and out of the water while drinking ‘cold beer’ and having beans and salad. Enjambment is used between the first and second stanza too carry on the poem into more depth ‘And we’ opening the second stanza. This stanza shows that ‘we’ actually signifies women they are fully dressed on a hot summer’s day and they are only allowed to ‘dangle’ their feet in the water. The men were ‘undressed’ and making ‘enormous splashes’ as they dived in to the pool repetitively. Double standards can be seen in the poem as it shows women are treated unfairly and not allowed to undress like men in public in Iraq. Speech is written in the third stanza as a ‘male cousins’ argues that being a boy is ‘better than being a girl’ this is the shortest stanza in the poem and it conveys a simple yet deep message. Speech is also used in Harrison’s poem to show the disgust of the father in the beginning of the second and third stanzas; ‘Bugger the machines’ and ‘another tanner’s worth then no more’. Both poems use speech as it is a powerful way of showing views on adding a different view from another character. Illumination uses an AB rhyming scheme and this makes it have a flow throughout the poem. Life for Us does not rhyme. Both poems use word choice the author's choice of language in both reflect the mood and characters state of