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    Walker‚ all show a different parent and child relationships but at the same time come down to one aspect‚ love and care. The other three poems‚ ‘Hide and Seek’ by Vernon Scannell‚ ‘Half-past Two’ by U.A. Fanthorpe and ‘My father thought it’ by Simon Armitage‚ bring out a slightly different theme of childhood and focus on the feelings of regret and betrayal. David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885. He was an English novelist‚ poet‚ playwright‚ essayist and literary critic. One of his

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    Poetry Across Time Section A: ‘Relationships’ You must hit each of the following assessment objectives; failure to do so will result in a significantly reduced mark: 1 insightful exploratory response to text (your ideas about aspects of the poems) 2 close analysis of detail to support interpretation (analysis of key quotations) 3 evaluation of writers’ uses of language and/or structure and/or form and effects on readers ( analysis of techniques and effects) 4 convincing/imaginative interpretation

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    Comparative Essay – “How does the writer present fear in Out of the Blue and Belfast Confetti”? In both Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage and Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson‚ the poets both present fear through a number of techniques. Both describe a city and its civilians under attack‚ exposing the impacts of terrorism on its victims. They are similarly written in a free-verse structure‚ which clearly illustrates the exposed and fearful state in which the ‘narrators’ are left in. In Belfast

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    Maid by Thomas Hardy‚ the poem is a conversation between two female friends‚ the poem depicts a young country girl who has become a rich man’s mistress or a prostitute to escape her own poverty and the friend seems to envy her. Lastly‚ ‘Give’ by Simon Armitage‚ the poem is about homelessness and the way society reacts to beggars‚ the poem is in the eyes and voice of a beggar. I will be exploring the ways these emotional voices are presented and used to challenge the stereotypes. Society tend to judge

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    life. ‘Nettles’ is a story about a Scannells son who falls into a pit of stinging nettles. Finally‚ ‘Harmonium’‚ ‘Harmonium’ almost says what it’s about in its title. If you break it down it makes harmony‚ which symbolises the relationship between Armitage and his father. Each of the poets clearly had different backgrounds growing up by the way the write their poems. Grace Nichols (the writer of ‘Praise song for my Mother’) comes from Guyana and had ‘lots of freedom as she was growing up’ (quoted

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    Mule Killers Lydia Peelle’s story ‘Mule Killers’ is a story about unrequited love and its consequences and the change from child to adult. ‘Mule Killers’ is told by a narrator‚ who is telling the story of his father meeting his mother. The father of the narrator tells his story about his unhappy youth to his son meantime they are working in a garden. The father’s story takes place when he was about eighteen years old‚ and the time where tractors replace mules as a agricultural tool. The

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    ready to fight. Americans experienced World War II mainly through the inconveniences that it imposed on their daily lives‚ unless they had loved ones serving in the military (Armitage‚ Buhle‚ Czitrom‚ and Faragher 563-564). In the end‚ pop culture had a large affect on bringing communities together in support for the war (Armitage‚ Buhle‚ Czitrom‚ and Faragher 567). In contrast‚ a majority of Americans would end up criticizing and protesting the Vietnam War‚ many of them college age students. However

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    them. The book The Age of Revolutions in Global Context‚ c. 1760-1840‚ put together and edited by David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam‚ is a book of essays collaborated on by many authors. Armitage and Subrahmanyam claim‚ “it is to the task of reinterpreting them that this volume contributes by viewing the Age of Revolutions as a complex‚ broad‚ interconnected‚ and even global phenomenon.” (Armitage‚ xxxii) There were significant connections made in the comparisons and contrast of the events during

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    Analysis and interpretation of “Mule Killers” by Lydia Peelle Most people would say that love is a concept which will always be a mystery to man‚ because it is so changeable‚ and therefore it will always be able to fool and distort man’s thoughts. Love can both be happy and miserable‚ and this makes it very powerful and therefore able to control the entire behaviour of a person. Throughout a lifetime people will unavoidably experience things that will have a certain impact on the individual’s

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    relationship of a father and son. I think Armitage has written this poem for parents and children as they would be able to relate to the emotions in the poem. The Author uses the Farrand Chappelette which is a type of Harmonium or small organ to help him reflect the love that he has for his father. In the first stanza the poet talks about the Farrand Chappelette which was “gathering dust” telling us that it is getting old and it was due to be taken to the skip if Armitage had not wanted it. In the final line

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