‘Praise Song for My Mother’ written by Grace Nichols and ‘Morning Song’ Sylvia Plath both convey the emotional connection between mother and child‚ in the form of how a mother loves for and impacts her child. In ‘Praise Song for My Mother’‚ Nichols conveys the mother to be “Deep and bold and fathoming” as well as showing she is the “rise and warm and streaming” displaying the mother was a strong and bright figure in the Child’s life‚ through comforting and natural imagery. However‚ Plath’s persona
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Nettles and Praise song for my mother both explore the themes of child parent relationships and the duties the parents have in protecting and caring for their child. Nettles is written from the fathers perspective and is about one event which occurred where his son fell in a nettle bed and the father helps him recover. In contrast to this praise song is written to the mother from her daughter although both are adults whereas nettles emphasizes the child’s young age and vulnerability from the very
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it was like in the most heated parts of their argument. Praise Song for My Mother is a poem about the love between mother and daughter‚ using multiple metaphors to distinguish the relationship. Both poems use metaphors to describe the speaker’s feelings towards the other person in the relationship‚ for example in Quickdraw “And this is love‚ high noon‚ calamity‚ hard liquor in the old Last Chance saloon.” Then in Praise Song for My Mother “You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming.” Although
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Promise – a creative response to ‘Praise Song for My Mother’ Teaching notes The aim of this task is to encourage students to write creatively using some of the ideas from ‘Praise Song for My Mother’ before reading the poem as a way of helping sensitising students to its ideas and language. The task could be developed by asking students to give feedback to one another on their work‚ and the most able or creative could be asked to redraft‚ then analyse and explain aspects of their work.
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3 poems from AQA GCSE Anthology‚ Moon on the Tides. In this piece of writing I will be comparing and contrasting 3 poems. Which are ‘Praise Song for my mother’‚ ‘Harmonium’ and ‘Nettles. The title of each poem describes exactly what it is and what is about. ‘Praise Song for my Mother’ is not actually a poem‚ it is a praise son. Which in Guyana (where Grace Nichols was born) it is something written after a person close to them has dies. It is written to commemorate and rejoice about a persons
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Jesus Lover Of My Soul C D Em C Worship You my Lord until the very end C D Em C Worship You my Lord until the very end G D Dsus D Jesus‚ lover of my soul Em C
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Compare a daughter’s tribute to her mother in ‘Praise song for my mother’ with the poem ‘Nettles’. ‘Praise song for my mother’ is about a daughter showing how much she loves her mother by writing her a praise song. There are very strong emotions in this poem and the mother meant a lot to the daughter “You were moon’s eye to me”. ‘Nettles’ is about a young boy who falls into a bed of nettles‚ the boy then goes to his father “seeking for comfort”‚ the father identifies the wounds and the son gets
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Songs 1. Down at your feet o Lord‚ Down at your feet oh Lord‚ is the most high place‚ in your presence Lord‚ I seek your face....X2‚ there is no higher calling‚ no greater honour than to bow and be before your throne‚ l am amazed at your glory‚ embraced by your mercies oh Lord‚ l live to worship you. 2. Father in Heaven: Father in heaven. How we love you. We live your name in all the earth‚ may your kingdom be established in our praises‚ as your people we declare your mighty works‚ blessed
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Compare how poets portray relationships in ‘Praise Song For My Mother’ and ‘Ghazal’ Both ‘praise song for my mother’ and ‘ghazal’ use language devices to portray relationships. They use imagery‚ metaphors and structure to do so. They bother portray in different ways. ‘praise song for my mother’ portrays relationships as happy and fun whereas ‘ghazal’ portrays them as unpredictable and ever changing. In ‘ghazal’‚ Khalvati writes a different comparison to love in each stanza. ‘If yours is
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father and his past‚ which all tend to be negative comments. Grace Nichols poem Praise Song for My Mother also focuses on her past but describes her mother in a much more positive way. In Praise Song for My Mother‚ Grace Nichols describes her mother as being like “water to me” this tells us that she was essential to her and wouldn’t be able to live without her. Nichols also describes her as being “deep and bold” this suggests that her mother would go to all depths for her and that she was extremely
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