“Afternoons” by Philip Larkin expresses his point of view which I‚ the reader find disturbing. The poem deals with Larkin ’s view on young mothers watching their kids playing in a playground and on this he concludes that marrying young and having children young‚ lead to the mothers losing their identity and destiny. The techniques used by the poet such as theme‚ imagery and tone develop different connotations of who Philip Larkin was and also deepens the readers understanding of the issue. Throughout
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Poets express ideas and feelings about love in different and powerful ways. Love is expressed in the poems Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare and Crikey by Cilla McQueen through ideas of eternal beauty and being overwhelmed by love; and the feelings of excitement and longing for the preservation of the love conveyed. To determine the accuracy of the statement ‘poets express ideas and feeling about love in different ways’ the two poems that are being analysed firstly need to be compared. Shakespeare’s
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Commentary on The Lesson’ by Roger McGough Roger McGough the author of The Lesson’ is a well respected British poet who is still writing poems and is a poetry performer today. His work has become so well recognized that he has received an O.B.E for his contributions to poetry from the Queen. McGough was born in Liverpool and attended school in the nineteen-forties and fifties during a time when corporal punishment was widely present in British education. The Lesson’ by McGough is a poem
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Many poets wrote their poems in either a traditional or feminist lens. Andrew Marvell and A.D. Hope were no different. Andrew Marvell’s “To his Coy Mistress” from the 1600s was wrote in the traditional lens. While A.D. Hope’s “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell” from the modern times took the feminist route in his reply to Andrew Marvell. Marvell uses exaggerated metaphors to persuade his beloved woman. Instead of the normalcy of respectful adulation‚ he offers lustful invitation; rather than anticipating
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poem has no set pattern‚ rhythm or rhyme. This is often used so that the poet can create a visual shape to support the poem’s message. The form used in stanza two and three show the intensity of Mann’s true feelings towards the cynics‚ and by using enjambment the reader is able to grasp the feelings expressed by Mann even more. The content of this poem shows us the passion Mann has against cynics however‚ he expresses these deep feelings in a cynical matter. The form and content of this poem link
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The poem Leda and the Swan was inspired by the Greek myth‚ in which Leda is seduced and raped by Zeus in the guise of a sawn. In his poem‚ Yeats explores the idea of a single action unfolding into violence and destruction. This could be seen as a metaphor for Yeats’s frustration with the decline of Ireland and its culture‚ echoed here by the fall of Troy. Yeats also presents the violence of the rape with an ambiguity that is both unsettling and intriguing‚ leading many critics to question whether
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stanza‚ however‚ the narrator still feels that the figure has not been correctly identified. He is now described as merely “waiting” in the shadows and is seen as “a hostile militant.” This identity obviously labels him as an enemy. Dharker uses enjambment to link the first two lines of the fourth stanza to extend a question about the definition of words. She uses the alliterative metaphor “waving‚ wavering flags”‚ asking if words are no more than that. Wavering conveys the idea of hesitating‚ changing
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Comparison of the “1914 V: The Soldier” and “Soldier’s Farewell” We’ve come so far in terms of civilisation‚ yet war is still a concept that is prominent and even thriving in our world. The poems “1914 V: The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke‚ and “Soldier’s Farewell” by Mike Subritzky both counter the prospect of war but uses different viewpoints. Putting into mind that Brooke came from WW1 while Subritzky wrote the poem during WW2‚ their mindsets might differ. “1914 V: The Soldier” had a very patriotic
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Larkin’s description of the scene suggests through word choice that the mothers’ lives are uninteresting – ‘hollow’ suggests emptiness; ‘assemble’ suggests routine; ‘setting free’ suggests young mothers are trapped in this unexciting existence. Enjambment used to link all ideas. Larkin reflects on the lives of the young mothers and suggest that these are uneventful – husbands are tradesmen ‘Behind them‚ at intervals‚ Stand husbands in skilled trades‚’ Larkin is quite disparaging about
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‘How are war and Nature depicted as the antithesis of each other in the poem ‘Spring Offensive?’ Wilfred Owen was one of the many soldiers who fought for our country during WW1 in 1917. Owen left for the western front early in January 1917. Whilst at war he was diagnosed with shell shock one of the most well known effects of war for soldiers. Wilfred Owen was evacuated to the Craig Lockhart War hospital in June but despite his horrendous injury he returned to fight for his country
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