POETRY COMPARISON Lucy Pittman A poem is an expression of emotion or ideas through literary work‚ often with a distinctive style and rhythm. Kenneth Slessor’s ‘Beach Burial’ and Bruce Dawe’s ‘Elegy for Drowned Children’ both present ideas on how individuals lament for the passed‚ through the major theme of death. Beach Burial follows the recurring events of the battle of El Alamein in WW2‚ whilst The Elegy for Drowned Children questions the fate of those unfortunate souls who have drowned. Although
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to hold and horrify. This alliteration emphasises his fear of death‚ which as result consumes most of his time. Correspondingly‚ Larkin writes another poem‚ Toads. Larkin uses a rhetorical question asking why should I let the toad work‚ squat on my life? Can’t I use my pitchfork and drive the brute off? This rhetorical question he asks is him complaining about the exhaustion of work. The first five stanzas in the poem show Larkin’s grey moods as it’s how Larkin feels about working. He hates that
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semi-autobiographical recount‚ Owen criticises the suffering and psychological scarring of soldiers in ‘Mental Cases’. He depicts the aftermath and trauma experienced by soldiers through anecdotal experience. He begins the poem with a bombardment of rhetorical questions‚ ‘Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight?’ to create an interrogative tone which demand an explanation regarding why the soldiers have been so tortured with misery. He further portrays their dehumanised state through religious diction
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contribute to the poem’s meaning. Pack’s use of imagery and rhetorical questions gives the poem something to rely on to carry its story. The use of literary techniques exclusively defines the poem and through that‚ the reader can understand the underlying message behind the sonnet. Throughout the entire poem‚ the speaker continuously asks questions debating what makes life worth living. The speaker’s confused mental state is expressed through rhetorical questions. The narrator asks‚ “Oh cold reprieve‚ where’s
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The civil rights movement was one of the most pivotal periods in United States history‚ and Martin Luther King was one of the most influential. In Martin Luther King’s speech‚ "Segregation and the Future"‚ to convey the theme of freedom he uses rhetorical devices such as repetition and metaphors. In his speech‚ the use of repetition was used to better convey his points and to let the audience know what he wants with clarity. An example of this repetition is when he repeats the word‚ "leaders". His
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Seafarer" written by an unknown author and "You Found Me" written by The Fray. The two works portray a common theme that finding God helps change the emotion of lonliness and disappointment by using the similar elements of rhetorical questions‚ repitition‚ motifs‚ and mood shifts. Rhetorical questions‚ used in both peices‚ help to develop a feeling of disappointment. "The Seafarer" questions "Who could understand / in ignorant ease‚ what we others suffer / As the paths of exile stretch endlessly on?" (Unknown
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The story opens with a clear image of the unnamed narrator’s fragile mind set‚ proving his mental disease. The narrator admits to being: “dreadfully nervous” though addressing the reader boldly in his defence through the usage of rhetorical questions: “but why will you think I am mind?” Subsequently‚ Poe’s elements of tension plunges the readers into the middle of the narrator’s unstable mindset. The narrator’s fragile mind set is proven through the usage of hyphens in the opening sentence in order
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into his Polish heritage inhibits his capacity to assimilate and contributes to an emotional and psychological rift between father and son. ’Did your father ever attempt to learn English?’‚ this separation is reinforced through the use of direct‚ rhetorical question that is seemingly a personal attack‚ combined with the metaphor ‘dancing-bear grunts’ describing the man who opened the personal onslaught on feliks‚ indicative of a lack of empathy‚ as well as‚ hostility between Feliks and his immediate
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“Colossus” by Sylvia Plath‚ the late poet exemplifies the hole in her life due to her father’s early death with the elements of allusion‚ imagery‚ and the use of multiple analogies. These three rhetorical devices shape the overall emphasis of the poem. By creating a unique blend of these three rhetorical devices‚ Plath shows her readers just how dearly she needed a fatherly figure in her life. The most obvious example in Plath’s poem is the element of allusion. Through allusion is how the poet
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not having a strong support to her evidence‚ losing that confidence by asking rhetorical questions‚ and not taking advantage of her resources. A reason why her argument was not that effective was because instead of making her argument strong she weakened it by asking rhetorical questions. Those questions in which she did not have the answers to it. Or let alone her answers to it weren’t well supported. Once the rhetorical question have been asked the reader should not have to stop and try to think
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