’Love Songs in Age’ and ’Reference Back’ are both poems by Philip Larkin that deal with the painfulness of memories and our subjection to time. In each‚ Larkin talks of the ways music can provoke memories‚ be it the sheet music ’Love Songs in Age’‚ or the records in ’Reference Back’. The tone of the poems is very similar‚ with a negative opinion expressed in the final stanza of each poem‚ with ’Reference Back’ dealing with the distortion of memories over time‚ and the theme of ’Love Songs in Age’
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Love Songs in Age and Wild Oats‚ Philip Larkin uses various literary techniques‚ such as imagery‚ structure and symbolism to convey certain aspects of love and the passing of time. These aspects are illuminated by Dannie Abse in Down the M4. Love Songs in Age pictures a woman‚ perhaps Larkin’s mother‚ who has kept the musical scores of songs she used to play‚ perhaps on the piano‚ and rediscovers them after many years‚ when she is a widow. In the poem‚ Larkin uses lexical choice to explore how the
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The Strange Thing Called Love Despite the complexity of the sonnets that William Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney create‚ one is left with a feeling of total admiration for the rich language in each poem that forces its reader to pay very close attention to detail. The sonnets differ in the focus of metaphors for love and how this passion affects the poets; however‚ both of the poems intrigue their audience through their integration of ornate imagery in their portrayal of beauty and love. There
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Both Larkin and Abse write about death in a way which suggests to the reader that it’s an overriding concern in their life. Although this is more explicitly expressed through Larkin’s poems‚ the fact it is a dominant theme in Abse’s ’Welsh Retrospective’ is evidence in itself that such fear existed in his mind. Both poets go on to explore the effect of death draining life of its worth. Larkin seems to relate to death more universally‚ as perhaps the only common feature he shared with the people
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Good afternoon year twelve‚ I am here today to offer you an understanding of the concept of belonging and the fact that it is not as simplistic as you may think. In relation to the statement‚ my opinion is that through gaining insights into one’s world‚ one becomes more disconnected to that world‚ though they may still appear to belong. The texts that have caused me to come to this conclusion are a collection of poems by Emily Dickinson‚ a unique nineteenth century American poet who had very
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Assessment art Georges-Pierre Seurat was a post-impressionist I will analyse his painting “ Sunday Afternoon” I will also analyse Claude Lorraines work “Seaport with the Embarkation of St. Ursula” he’s style is classical. Firstly I will analyse “Sunday afternoon”. The colours in the painting are simple and bright‚ the artist does not blend colours instead he dots pure colours and lets the eyes blend them. This takes a long time to do and a lot of patience‚ but it eliminates the grey colour you
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life of peasants (The Peasant Dance) and of urban dwellers in the 19th century (Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte). Thesis: Since the beginning of the 19th century Europe began to experience rapid changes in culture and society. Many of the effects from the Industrial Revolution paved the way for new industries to be created. Between the creation of The Peasants Dance to when the Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte was painted you can clearly see the differences in
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In the film "Rabbit Proof Fence"‚ the character A.O. Neville is portrayed as a mostly unsympathetic character. The director‚ Phillip Noyce used the technique of camera angles to develop Neville’s character as very authoritative and controlling of the other characters in the movie. The soundtrack‚ particularly the sound effects‚ are also used to develop Neville’s character. He is shown to be very isolated from the suffering of Aborigines and only concerned for rules and regulations. The lighting and
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Story Content/plot Major themes Quote + technique that links with theme Most like Larkin poem Miss Brill “Miss Brill‚" Katherine Mansfield’s short story about a woman’s Sunday outing to a park. The story opens with Miss Brill delighting in her decision to wear her fur. Miss Brill sees the world as a play: as though her surroundings are a set and her fellow park-goers actors. A young couple arrive and share Miss Brill’s bench. Miss Brill believes they are nicely dressed and pictures them
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see the one which has been opened for us.” I feel that this epitomises what Larkin was portraying in the poem ’Dockery and Son’; a feeling of regret and a wondering of what the ’other door’ might hold. It could be seen that the older door of happiness is Larkin’s youth: a time of freedom‚ when they could be ’unbreakfasted’ and live without responsibilities; unlike the duties that Larkin portrays parents as having in Afternoons: "...an estateful of washing..." The fact that he is looking at this old
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