Harwood’s poetry are valued texts because they explore challenging ideas of nostalgia and mortality. Discuss this statement in light of your understanding of the poetry of Gwen Harwood. Gwen Harwood’s mournful laments Mother Who Gave Me Life and Father and Child explore the challenging ideas of nostalgia and mortality to provide valued texts. Harwood’s elegy Mother Who Gave Me Life nostalgically explores the confronting concepts of the unavoidability of death and past bleak memories. Harwood
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1.What metaphors does Holmes use to describe the ship in stanzas one and two of "Old Ironsides"? In the first stanza Holmes refers to "The meteor of the ocean air" likening the ship’s flag to a meteor. In the second stanza‚ "the harpies of the shore‚" refers to the monstrous and voracious bird-like beasts of Greek mythology. 2.In 1830‚ the 44-gun American warship Constitution‚ the inspiration for "Old Ironsides‚" was scheduled to be scrapped - that is‚ stripped of everything valuable or reasonable
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Commentary on Field of Autumn Advancing like a silent threat‚ the onset of winter is presented throughout the poem as a season with sinister intent. The “acid breath of noon” approaches in a “Slow” manner‚ as if sneaking up on autumn. The personification of the “acid breath” not only suggests to the reader the fog is murderous‚ but one could be lead to imagine that the fog is poison gas. This is because “Field of Autumn” was published in 1947‚ two years after the Second World War; clearly the memory
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Poetry Analysis of ’Pied Beauty’ and ’Composed Upon Wesminster Bridge’ Pied Beauty by Gerald Manley Hopkins and the Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth‚ both show the beauty of life and the world around us. The only difference is that the petrarchan Sonnet written by Wordsworth is thanking God for the beauty of nature’s landscapes and talking about the beautiful morning in London during the industrial revolution. The reduced version of a petrarchan Sonnet by Hopkins
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S.P.I.C.E poetry Tell me ‚ is the rose naked ? Summarize- Tell me‚ Is the Rose Naked? Summary: Stanza 1: The first stanza is about the thought of rose’s petals‚ which are known for their beauty. Like a beautiful red dress is like the outside of a rose‚ and on the inside is the real rose. Stanza 2: The author is wondering and questioning why the tree roots are hidden below the soil‚ and why we cannot see the most important part of the tree‚ the part that holds it to the ground and gives
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Comparison of “The Manhunt” and “Quickdraw" Structure: - I personally feel that the structure of the two poems "The Manhunt" and "Quickdraw" vary a lot with each other in many different ways. Firstly‚ "The Manhunt" has been arranged in very short‚ precise‚ two- lined‚ separate stanzas. I think Simon Armitage did this to emphasize the SMALL steps in this painstaking process of returning a man to the real world after all the suffering and traumatizing scenes he has witnessed in war. There is also
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 1 Theme: Unexpectedness of love Falling in love with Robert and his returning of her love came as a great surprise to Elizabeth‚ considering past her circumstances. Analysis: Reworks the traditional sonnet sequence by transforming gender roles. She utilises the female voice instead of the traditional male voice. She assumes the role of epic hero. She adopts the petrachan sonnet style. The octet’s strict rhyming pattern reflects how she feels her life
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How do Larkin and Abse present the idea of disappointment and loss? Both Larkin and Abse write poems about disappointment and loss but both having a different idea to how it is presented In ‘Home is so sad‚’ by Philip Larkin‚ the idea of disappointment and loss is presented through a home. The form and structure gives off spontaneous thoughts and written in two quintains and each stanza containing 5 lines. Each line contains ten syllables with a basic iambic metre and containing internal full
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On A Portrait Of A Deaf Man. Structure and language Form This poem is an elegy. Structure This poem is eight stanzas written in ballad metre. Lines one and three also have more beats in them than lines two and four. (If you want to get a bit more technical‚ one and three are tetrameters‚ two and four trimeters! Tetrameters have four stresses‚ trimeters have three stresses). Sound As a reminder of ballad metre‚ think of the Christmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem. Using ballad metre means
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“ Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” - Rita Dove. Poems are like fingerprints. All poems are completely unique and different‚ but yet they are all the same. All poems consist of something their writers are passionate about‚ much like how fingerprints are completely unique‚ but the entire human race has one. Most poems could also have double meanings. For instance‚ the poem “ Fire - Caught ” by Langston Hughes could have multiple meanings‚ like someone giving into temptation
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