Compare how feelings are presented in two of the poems Harmonium and Brothers Everyone experiences feelings; they cannot be ignored as we have no control over them. In ‘Harmonium’‚ Simon Armitage explores the feelings of the relationship between himself and his father‚ using the extended metaphor he presents the instrument ‘harmonium’ to test his feelings that exists between the father and son. The name itself ‘harmonium’ immediately highlights the connection or ‘harmony’ between them. Armitage
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In this essay I will be exploring how the poets expressed their views in a strong and effective way. I shall be writing about three poems. • Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon • On the life of man by Walter Raleigh • Those bastards in their mansions by Simon Armitage Base Details Siegfried Sassoon In this essay I will be describing the contrasts and explore the attitude of the poet in a strong and effective way. This poem is written by Siegfried
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Childhood‚ punctuation is very important in portraying the tone of the speaker‚ for example before the Volta the line is shorter than others and also has a full stop to create a dramatic pause. My Parents‚ however‚ is written in three stanzas with no rhyme. There is also little punctuation throughout the poem and therefore creates a faster poem. Childhood and My Parents differ significantly in their tone. The speaker of Childhood‚ which could be assumed as an adult looking back at their childhood
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lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vale and hills‚ When all at once I saw a crowd‚ A host of golden daffodils: Beside the lake‚ beneath the trees‚ Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Rhyming Scheme The ’Daffodils’ has a rhyming scheme throughout the poem. The rhyming scheme of the above stanza is ABAB ( A - cloud and crowd; B - hills and daffodils) and ending with a rhyming couplet CC (C - trees and breeze). The above stanza makes use of ’Enjambment’ which converts the poem into
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poem‚ Charge of the Light Brigade‚ has quite a complex rhyming scheme which can make the poem difficult to understand at first. I think that he may have designed it this way to instil a feeling of victory and valour at the end of the poem. I would argue that this‚ along with other literary techniques‚ shows that Tennyson was successful in glorifying the Charge of the Light Brigade in his poem. As I mentioned before‚ the rhyming scheme is an integral part of the poem. The rhyming varies for each stanza
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older. This poem shows that growing old and changing is inevitable. It also has a rhyming scheme of a-b-b-a where it is not noticed right away while reading. This conveys and image of delicate leaves in the wind along with the last words of the poem; afresh‚ afresh‚ afresh which portrays a sound of trees getting in contact with the wind. Each stanza contains the same amount of lines and the same rhyming scheme which displays the cycle of trees and cycle of life. The first stanza is very relaxing
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young son. In the first stanza a young boy holds tightly to his father. The second stanza describes a playful roughhousing between father and son. The fourth stanza shows again the boy’s unwillingness to let go of his father. Roethke’s AB rhyming scheme and waltz-like meter set a light and joyful cadence. The music of the waltz comes through in the reading and with it a carefree and innocent tone for the telling of the short amount of time between a hard-working father arriving home and the time
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at my feet’’buttresses the imagery of nagativity because in most Africa(Nigerian) bangles are associated with charms.there is a bilical allusion in lines 3-4.The stanza is written in a simple language with complex meaning.This stanza has no rhyming scheme since it treats a very serious subject matter.In conclusion the first stanza introduces us to the second stanza. In the secnd stanza Abiku asked a Rhetorical question that suggest death.He says ’’must i weep for goats and coweries For palm oil and
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Where I come from Elizabeth Brewster People are made of places. They carry with them hints of jungles or mountains‚ a tropic grace or the cool eyes of sea-gazers. Atmosphere of cities how different drops from them‚ like the smell of smog or the almost-not-smell of tulips in the spring‚ nature tidily plotted in little squares with a fountain in the centre; museum smell‚ art also tidily plotted with a guidebook; or the smell of work‚ glue factories maybe‚ chromium-plated offices; smell
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sea.’ Time may be cruelly dominant‚ but the speaker’s view of himself is worse: ‘the tide goes over but the weeds remain’. Yet the engagement with Time and its indifference to us. In both senses‚ we are‚ ‘Out of Time’: that is‚ at once part of its scheme‚ but then abandoned by it; and also (as in music) out of kilter with its rhythms and purposes. Contrastingly‚ in the second section‚ Time is now seen at a disadvantage (which‚ again‚ is given immediacy by personification). Time‚ always flowing‚ cannot
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