the first reading of the poem‚ I could only grasp how ambiguous the poem could get. This narrative poem written in free verse speaks about a persona who wears a mask to portray certain as a task to the three men in her life. The narration of the female persona talks to Billiken which is actually a charm doll that represents the “no worry ideal”. The persona asks Billiken to order three masks: the first one is for her brother‚ the second one to the father and the last one to her lover which will be
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First World War‚ stating his anti-war view through a poem on the life of a young soldier “sewn short at elbow”‚ crippled by war. In his poem‚ the difference between past and present allows Owen to reveal the regret and disappointment felt by the persona whereas‚ although Alvi portrays India as a magical‚ beautiful place where she experiences freedom‚ the ending reveals she will never be completely included. As such both poems illustrate longing but Alvi is longing for her identity whereas Owen is
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parted stiff and dry" The persona agrees to allow seperation to come between him and his subject- seperation in the form of ‘the world’‚ which suggests that worldly occurences‚ such as time and society’s view on homosexuality‚ has parted the two. Furthermore‚ later on the poem‚ with the allusions to death and related death imagery‚ the persona suggests that time‚ and the death which only time can bring‚ will signal the final act of seperation between the persona and his subject. Death Imagery
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Faint cries… from the valley below? Awakened from a beautiful dream? Is the persona a rich or a simple person? Is there such thing as ‘weeping orchid’? How did it turn out that the ‘weeping orchid’ is the sound of the rain crying? Could it be that the persona is only dreaming or a reality that he truly experienced? How does the setting relate to or affect the purpose or meaning of the poem? Summary: The persona might be realizing and imagining things because of the rain. He might be a well-known
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defined by one place‚ leaving the persona institutionalised. Regarding setting‚ another of Larkin’s poems ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ also supports the theme of settings being very impressionable. However‚ like ‘Leaving Cardiff’‚ this particular poem hints at settings also contributing to a disappointing‚ anticlimactic and overrated journey. In ‘Mr Bleaney’ Larkin presents setting as an extremely reclusive place which has an everlasting and overpowering effect on the persona‚ making him very agoraphobic
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done something wrong. The poets Gabriel Okara and Dennis brutus both express this feeling of guilt in their personas backgrounds. Therefore‚ okara’s “Once Upon a Time” and brutus’s “It is the Constant Image of Your Face” are poems portrayed with guilt‚ but they show it in different situations. The body of both poems have a specific situation happening. in the poem “Once Upon a Time” the persona wishes to be young again an forget all the lessons he has taught himself. He admits of having to put on a
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‘Mending Wall’‚ Frost’s persona is unwilling to accept the perception of his neighbour about the wall which makes it difficult for him to develop intellectually or gain any understanding. The persona believes that the neighbour is trapped by tradition by the simile ‘like an old stone savage’. This indicates that the persona is unable to realize the neighbor’s aphorism that ‘good fences make good neighbors’. The neighbour is the external factor who attempts to help the persona realize that the mending
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her reclusive life‚ and as a result‚ presents readers with an uncommon perspective of death from a prolific persona. The poem has rhyming quatrains bringing a celebratory mood to the concept of death. It accentuates the temperate‚ collected nature of death which is then changed in the 4th stanza when the mood changes to a more supernatural‚ ghostly feel. In the last stanza‚ when the persona has moved into death‚ the imagery becomes abstract‚ revealing the veiled and mysterious nature of death. In
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unexpected with new experiences and shows the personas grow in wisdom and knowledge. Judith Wright’s poem‚ ‘Legend’ is an example of a journey that involves new experiences and personal growth. This poem is about a boy who starts off his journey with his rifle‚ a black dog and his hat and aims to get the rainbow. Throughout the poem we realize that all his possession have abandoned and turned against him. Near the end of the poem we can see how the persona has accomplished his mission and aim without
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owner and his dog‚ Doty is able to portray the human problem of living in the past and future through the integration of literary elements such as persona and imagery. The persona of the poem demonstrates the theme as it remains upbeat‚ enjoying the moment regardless of the human who contemplates both the past and future. It is apparent that the persona influences the underlying message of the poem because it is joyful and erratic behavior throughout the poem. In the first line of the poem‚ it says
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