Gooseberry Season by Simon Armitage This essay is about the poem which is called “Gooseberry Season” and it’s by Simon Armitage. I will be looking at the character of father in the poem and look at the different techniques that are used to describe the behaviour of the father. At the start of the poem the character of the father seems to be kind‚ generous and caring as he lets a stranger stays in the house when the stranger comes and asks for water. This shows his generosity and niceness. Later
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Comparing the attitudes towards terrorism in ‘Out of the Blue’ (Simon Armitage) and ‘The Right Word’ (Imtiaz Dharker) The use of dramatic monologue allows Armitage to explore the thoughts and feelings of a victim of conflict. This extract comes from a much longer poem called ‘Out of the Blue’‚ commissioned by Channel 5 for the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the Twin Towers in 2001. The powerful TV images of the planes flying into the buildings‚ the subsequent fires and the collapse of the
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ruthless and somewhat emotionless attack is shown by the narrator’s statement that he‚ ’didn’t even swerve’ during the attack; which could show the narrator’s sense of proudness in his actions. Armitage uses enjambment to link the third stanza to the fourth‚ as the narrator describes how he pushed the hitcher out of the car whilst in third gear and watched him ’bouncing off the kerb’. The statement ’We were the same age‚ give or take a week’ tells us that the narrator obviously
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story by Simon Armitage‚ Flypaper‚ from New Writing 9‚ Vintage 2000. Though the story is mainly focusing on the actions of the unknown artist and what the result in‚ I would say that the main character is council Perry. Perry sets out the catch this vandal‚ who
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Armitage writes her article by comparing love through many perspectives and metaphorical frames. Immediately‚ Armitage adopts a romantic‚ fairy-tale persona to highlight to the audience that love was once an unproblematic experience of life. The title of the piece with symbolic verb “broken” infers connotations that science has destroyed idyllic love. Furthermore‚ the low-modality of “could help save marriages” reveals the totality of Armitage’s feelings towards this chemical make-up of love‚ emphasising
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and rattled in the yard” and the seventh line “And the saw snarled and rattled‚ snarled and rattled” both emit a sense of darkness‚ as if having a “personality” of its own. b. When the sister came out and told the brother that supper was ready and the saw looked as if it “leaped” out of the boys hand‚ it seemed as if the saw was a friend of the boy that did not want to be abandoned‚ so it pulled away from the boy in anger‚ causing injury to the boy. The saw and the boy were in essence “friends”
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creating a calm and relaxed environment. However this is then destroyed by the young boy and the accident. While the boy is outside working his sister calls him for “supper”. “At the word‚ the saw‚ as if to prove saws knew what supper meant‚ leaped out at the boys hand‚ or seemed to leap” again the writer is personifying the saw so that it seems almost like an animal at the zoo waiting for feeding time‚ or so that it doesn’t murder anymore trees. Caesura is also
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The Blues is a musical form and genre‚ which originated in South America within the African-American communities. It originated near the end of the 19th century‚ and was rooted from spirituals‚ work songs‚ field hollers (which are very similar to work songs‚ but some do not have lyrics)‚ shouts and rhymes. The blues form in jazz‚ rhythm and blues and rock and roll; and each is characterised by a specific chord progression‚ the most common being the twelve bar blues. The blues notes‚ are played or
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Out out is a narrative poem that outlines‚ in a certain way‚ the dangers of letting a child do a man’s work. The boy‚ whom we find to be young‚ has an unfortunate accident with a buzz saw resulting in the boy’s death. The poet uses language structure and characterisation to convey the tragic circumstances in which the boy is killed and how society reacted upon it. the title is an allusion to the story of macbeth by shakesphere where the quote continues to say "out‚ out‚ brief candle". this shows
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more good than bad things mentioned‚ the bad is cleverly positioned at the end of the line and this seems to make it overshadow and even cancel out all of the positive actions mentioned. In the context of a eulogy the three positive lines could be what is being said with the last line representing the thoughts of those present at the funeral. Simon Armitage does not conclude on the life of this man‚ but finishes the poem with: ’Here’s how they rated him when they lookef back; Sometimes he did this
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