Literary Analysis Of Not Waving But Drowning By Stevie Smith
Exercise 3:
She wants the party to be a success, she thinks the weather is ideal, the roses are everywhere in the garden, she thinks that she could arrange this party better than anybody else and she talks to Kitty on the telephone, Kitty wants to come for lunch but she warns her that it would only be a scratch meal from the left overs.
When she sees the flowers she thinks there has been a mistake, but at then her mother joins them and tells Laura that she was the one who ordered them she says that for once in her life she will have enough canna lilies and the party is a good excuse for it, she is a greedy woman who wants to show off.
I don’t think they need so many flowers because the party will take place in the garden, there are already …show more content…
The society in which he lives is ignorant because they thought that the dead man was a happy person this is shown by ‘poor chap, he always loved larking’ but instead he was depressed, which is expressed by ‘I was much too far out all my life’ and ‘it was too cold always. The society is also selfish because they are people seeing the dead man drowning, but instead they chose to see him as if he were waving at them, which is illustrated by ‘not waving but drowning’ and as drowning in this poem is a metaphor for depression, it means that the people that he was depressed but did not do anything to help the dead man instead they just pretended he was happy which is illustrated by ‘I was much further out than you thought […] I was much too far out all my life and not waving but …show more content…
This is shown especially with the repetition of these lines ‘do not go gentle into that good night’ and ‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light’. He is desperately telling his father to not succumb to death gently, he tells him to fight against it, to rage against it. 6) Ted Hughes ‘The Thought-Fox’ uses strongly contrasting colour imagery. The poet uses feelings, senses and sounds to describe the environment the poem takes place which is illustrated by ‘I imagine this midnight moment’s forest’ or again by ‘I see no star’. We can feel the atmosphere vividly while reading the poem and it is also very mysterious when we read the lines ‘something else is alive’ and ‘something more near’ we sense that something could be dangerous and we feel it
She wants the party to be a success, she thinks the weather is ideal, the roses are everywhere in the garden, she thinks that she could arrange this party better than anybody else and she talks to Kitty on the telephone, Kitty wants to come for lunch but she warns her that it would only be a scratch meal from the left overs.
When she sees the flowers she thinks there has been a mistake, but at then her mother joins them and tells Laura that she was the one who ordered them she says that for once in her life she will have enough canna lilies and the party is a good excuse for it, she is a greedy woman who wants to show off.
I don’t think they need so many flowers because the party will take place in the garden, there are already …show more content…
The society in which he lives is ignorant because they thought that the dead man was a happy person this is shown by ‘poor chap, he always loved larking’ but instead he was depressed, which is expressed by ‘I was much too far out all my life’ and ‘it was too cold always. The society is also selfish because they are people seeing the dead man drowning, but instead they chose to see him as if he were waving at them, which is illustrated by ‘not waving but drowning’ and as drowning in this poem is a metaphor for depression, it means that the people that he was depressed but did not do anything to help the dead man instead they just pretended he was happy which is illustrated by ‘I was much further out than you thought […] I was much too far out all my life and not waving but …show more content…
This is shown especially with the repetition of these lines ‘do not go gentle into that good night’ and ‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light’. He is desperately telling his father to not succumb to death gently, he tells him to fight against it, to rage against it. 6) Ted Hughes ‘The Thought-Fox’ uses strongly contrasting colour imagery. The poet uses feelings, senses and sounds to describe the environment the poem takes place which is illustrated by ‘I imagine this midnight moment’s forest’ or again by ‘I see no star’. We can feel the atmosphere vividly while reading the poem and it is also very mysterious when we read the lines ‘something else is alive’ and ‘something more near’ we sense that something could be dangerous and we feel it