“The Lake” by Roger McGough In the poem “The Lake”‚ Roger McGough describes a lake destroyed by pollution. Write how the poet uses metaphors and imagery to show this. What does the poet tell us at the end of the poem? In the poem “The Lake”‚ Roger McGough shows us a picture of a lake which has been destroyed by rubbish the people who live around the lake have thrown into it over the years. He uses imagery and metaphors to show the results of pollution. McGough shows us images of darkness
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“The Identification ” by Roger McGough Is a poem in which there is a Character for whom I feel sympathy. I will explain why I feel sympathetic towards that person‚ and what particular words and phrases the poet uses which mad me feel this way. The poem is about a boy named Stephen‚ who was tragically killed in an explosion. His father is called to the police station to check if that’s his son. His father’s hopes are shattered as nearly all the evidence proves that it is Stephen lying in front
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The Lesson – Roger McGough (1937-) General assignments Paraphrase It’s about chaos in the classroom‚ and how to solve this. The teacher is using violence to control the students (swords and all) and The Head is supporting that. The writer tries to make this story funny‚ but still wants it to have a deeper meaning and make you think. Meaning The meaning is that you shouldn’t use violence in the classroom (it isn’t a solution)‚ but you should be able to control a class. Intentions The
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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 which exaggerates
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Roger McGough was a well-known British poet who has written a lot of poems about inequality‚ life and unfairness between social classes. I have chosen to discuss and compare the following poem “The Commission”‚ “Nooligan” and “Streemin” of Roger McGough. The three poems I have chosen are mainly written in the area of inequality of this world and the unfairness of social class. In “The Commission” Roger McGough has written the contrast of the different social class and the difference between the
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in the poems ‘Dulce et Decorum est’‚ by Wilfred Owen and ‘Icarus Allsorts’‚ by Roger McGough. Dulce et Decorum est was written by Wilfred Owen and Icarus Allsorts was written by Roger McGough. Dulce was written during WW1. Wilfred Owen wrote this poem while he was in a military hospital. In the poem Owen reveals the chilling truth about what WW1 was really like. Icarus was written in the tension of the Cold War. In the poem Roger McGough turns a very serious (fake) event into a joke. Dulce was written
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Fly too High‚ Fly too Low‚ so Drowning He Will Go In the Greek story of Daedalus and Icarus‚ Daedalus constructs wings for him and his son Icarus to escape from prison. Icarus is warned not to fly too low to the water‚ or too high to the sun‚ yet he disobeys his father and plunges to his death. Greeks used this story to simply advise their children to listen to their parents‚ but other implications from the story have varied in many artistic depictions and written works. Interestingly‚ the foremost
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Icarus: From Hero to Zero In the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus‚ Icarus foolishly flies too close to the sun‚ which melts his waxed wings‚ causing him to tumble down to earth. In his poem “Icarus‚” Edward Field drastically alters this tale by allowing Icarus to survive this catastrophic fall. Field adapts this myth to a contemporary setting‚ thereby reducing Icarus to a mere human‚ through his selection of detail‚ melancholy tone‚ and paradoxical circumstances. In the first stanza of the
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In the poem “Icarus” by Edward Field‚ a mythological character is placed in a contemporary setting of the modern world. Field uses figurative language‚ irony and perspectives in the poem to give the myth a modernized view. A shift occurs and what was once right created an immense impact in Icarus’s life. The poem mirrors the myth by the prison escape‚ and the plummet to the death of Icarus‚ but states what has happened after his alleged “death”. A witness to Icarus’s break out of prison “ran off
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important ones were the stories of Ancient Greece‚ such as Icarus. Whether they were written in 2010 or 1610‚ stories such as this still have relevance to our modern life. The struggles that men had in ancient times are still the struggles that we all face in our lives today. Human nature never changes and throughout time we will all be faced with the same problems and turmoil that have plagued man since the beginning of time. In the myth of Icarus‚ we meet Daedalus‚ a skilled Athenian craftsman who
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