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    The Poets Present The Range Of Feelings Associated With Family Relationships? Parents have their own way of showing their feelings towards their children‚ whether it’s by their actions or words‚ they all have a meaning behind them. Larkin and Scannell both show their affection towards their child in different ways‚ but both want to achieve the same goal for their child‚ happiness. In the poem Born Yesterday by Philip Larkin‚ there are a lot of techniques used to present the feelings of the poet

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    The Early Purges by Seamus Heaney. What the poem is about: ’The Early Purges’ by Seamus Heaney focuses on the traumas of childhood‚ and how impressionable we are when we are young. The poem is sad: it is about a child who sees kittens drowning‚ along with many other animals being killed in various methods on a farm. At the time the child is terrified‚ but by the end of the poem the fully-grown child is doing all the deeds he was so scared of when he was young. The poem is about how we lose

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    Sonnet 116 and Manhunt The two poems that I am going to compare about the exploring the ideas of love are ‘Sonnet 116’ and ‘The Manhunt’. ‘Sonnet 116’ and ‘The Manhunt’ are both about the power of romantic love in committed relationships like husband and wife. Sonnet 116 is a declaration of love that describes true romantic love as a constant force of nature that does not change as people go through life changes‚ a passion that “looks upon tempests and is never shaken”. Like in The Manhunt the

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    presented in the poems Half Past Two and Hide and Seek. The theme childhood is presented in both the poems but it’s presented differently‚ it’s presented more like a fantasy story in Half Past Two while in Hide and Seek it’s presented more realistically. Vernon Scanell tells in details about one game of Hide and Seek when he was a kid so perhaps he addresses himself as the little kid while U.A.Fanthorpe was a teacher so she perhaps would’ve written about something she had witnessed. Half-past Two by U.A

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    these myths. Vernon Scannell‚ Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfrid Owen suffered throughout the war and wrote the poems The Great War‚ Suicide in the Trenches and Dulce et Decorum Est to inform the people at home about the cruel realities of war with their attention to sensory detail and vivid imagery so that the audience may be as close to experiencing the war for themselves. The myth that war was in fact great and that men should be happy to serve for the greater good was obliterated by Vernon Scannell’s

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    Sonnet 43 was written in secret in Petrarchan style by Elizabeth Barrut Browning. It was written in first person with dominant figure of speech anaphora. Expressing the intense love she feels for her husband-to-be‚ Whereas Sonnet 116 is about love in the most ideal form. It admires people who have got together freely and base their relationship on trust and understanding. Both of the poems are written in iambic pentameter form and the key theme is passionate‚ romantic love and marriage. Sonnet 43

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    Poets often use their work to explore the strong emotions that surround relationships and the writers of ‘Sister Maude’‚ ‘Praise Song for My Mother’ and ‘Nettles’ did this exceptionally well. In my opinion‚ I consider these poems to be the most inventive as they have used a variety of different techniques in the use of genre and form‚ that are unique and engaging. ‘Sister Maude’‚ was the first literary heritage poem that I read‚ it is a dramatic monologue in the form of a ballad‚ which is a very

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    “Poetry focusing on villainy and wrongdoing or even on foolish characters with dark minds‚ often produces engaging material for the reader or the listener”. Consider in what ways foolishness and villainy appears in your six selected poems and in what ways‚ if any‚ it may be of interest. I do agree with the title that poetry‚ villainy and wrong doing do produce more engaging pieces for the reader because everybody likes to see the villain’s attempts at success but as we see in Percy Shelley’s

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    The war allegedly had a profound (powerful) effect on him and subsequently appeared as a theme in much of his writing (either overtly (obviously) or as an undertone (subtly)). In Tunisia‚ Scannell deserted after seeing the consequences of a massacre and was then sent to a military. After he was released‚ he was wounded while taking part in the D Day landings in Normandy. Links with other ‘Relationship’ poems: 1 Fathers/parental relationships

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    Write a critical appreciation of the poem INCENDIARY by Vernon Scannell. You should comment on theme‚ diction‚ tone and structure. An incendiary is a bomb which sets things on fire‚ which gets across the idea that the boy was like a dangerous weapon‚ ready to explode at any time. This poem is about a boy who sets a farm on fire in hope that he receives the attention he has been longing for. In the first line‚ the poet describes the boy to have a face “like pallid cheese”. This simile is depicts

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