Interpretation of poems Dulce et decorum est are the first words of a Latin saying taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words‚ it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country. The opening of the poem suggests Owen pities the state to
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ICCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE POETRY COURSEWORK In the poems you have studied a recurring theme is that of ‘loss’. This can take many forms: death; identity; hope or loss of innocence Discuss the poets’ treatment of any aspect of the theme of loss in at least 6 of the poems you have studied. A minimum of 3 poems should be taken from the anthology. Poems for discussion: In detail - Prayer Before Birth (Louis MacNeice) - Do not go gentle into that good night (Dylan Thomas) -
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Horses by Edwin Muir Homework to complete before class analysis of poem. Directions: select either question one or two to complete for homework. 1. Rhythm: read the poem aloud at least 3 times. As you read it the 3rd time‚ jot down the rhyme scheme. As you read it a forth time‚ record your voice. Listen to your recorded voice and write down your observations. What do you notice? 2. Activity: consider for a moment that the poem is written to reflect a fairy tale or bad dream. In the box below
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3. Poem Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem ‘Dejection: An Ode (Part VI)’ was published in 1803‚ and can be found on the internet at http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/634/. Dejection: An Ode Part VI is written by the composer passing a judgement of his life’s course. The poem is set in rhyme schemes alternating between couplets (CC) and bracketed rhythms (ABAB). He recounts the periods of his life in which hope was able to conquer over many misfortunes that he had encountered. However‚ the
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A Kitchen Poem Now the land shawls itself in gloom. The mountain puts enchantment on. I sit in this plain-spoken room‚ and soon the cares of day are gone: crows‚ starlings‚ eelworm‚ codlin moth‚ all nature’s murderous hosts are sweeping from thought upon night’s tide like froth. Now tired with light my son is sleeping. Too great with child to sit at ease beside the window stands my wife dreaming herself away from these four walls to scintillating life‚ where brats and all thier
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choose to write about his poem “Love Song” because it really caught my interest and made me really think about what he was trying to tell within the poem. “Love Song” byJ. Alfred Prufrock is about a poet trying to show his love to possibly a close friend that he may have been secretly in love with. My interpretation of the poet’ thoughts and feeling are that I believe Prufrock would go to the ends of the earth for this girl. He states in the last two lines of the stanza “And if you were my wife
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independent of your own reading and study of the poems. (NATE & W.B.S) NOTES ON PRESCRIBED POEMS FOR CSEC LITERATURE Preamble: Please be mindful of the fact that poetry makes up a third of this syllabus and that for the Paper II (the essay-writing paper) students are required to demonstrate their understanding of how the poets’ techniques are used to convey and shape meaning (including the tone and mood) in the respective poems. For every poem on the list you should be able to describe the
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Lit – Poems What Thing Is Love? (George Peele) George Peele was an English dramatist‚ born in 1556. He led a reckless life and died of small pox. The poem ‘What thing is love’ was written in 1580’s and is in some ways against love. According to him love is more of a sting then hurt but yet a pretty thing. He says that one should not love as women can hurt you with love – Love’s dwelling is in ladies’ eyes‚ From whence do glance love’s piercing darts (Cupid’s arrows i.e. Roman God of love)‚ That
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analysing poems ’Netttles ’ and ’born yesterday ’‚ both are similar in how they show a parents love and responsibility for a child. While ’Nettles ’ highlights the anxieties that a parent has for their child‚ the latter deals with the hopes a parent can wish upon their child. Both use various language techniques and structure to convey how parents can have different ways of expressing their relationship and love for a child. Born yesterday depicts this love for a newborn baby‚ but this poem is written
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In “Convergence of the Twain‚” Thomas Hardy describes the greatness of the Titanic and the vanity that embodied its doom‚ radiating an admiring‚ yet regretful tone towards the events of April 14‚ 1912. During the first stanza‚ Hardy talks about the Titanic’s “solitude in the sea.” “Deep from human vanity‚” implying that the reason the Titanic is so deep‚ sunk under water is due to the vanity that created her‚ and ultimately sank her. The headline of the Titanic was “unsinkable‚” typifying
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