Both ’The Manhunt’ and ’Quickdraw’ are based on battle and war. ’The Manhunt’represents a soldiers battle of letting someone in and his memories of war where as ’Quickdraw’ is describing a battle between a couple ’The Manhunt’ has a more sinister mood and tone whereas Carol Ann Duffy’s ’Quickdraw’gives a comical view on a struggling relationship. Armatages purpose for writing ’The Manhunt’ was to allow the reader to see the affect of war not just physically but also mentally‚ we also see that it
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Harmonium ‘and was due to be bundled off to a skip. Or was mine for a song‚ if I wanted it.’ * Ambiguity: this is either an expression used to denote a bargain... or the harmonium is quite literally used for singing. ‘Sunlight‚ through stained glass‚ which day to day could beautify saints and raise the dead’ * __ Stained glass windows are pictures of saints * __ The Roman Catholic process of declaring a deceased person’s life as one which was lived in a holy fashion thus preparing
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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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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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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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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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poem. As her name suggest‚ her life was filled with "wroth". Being a sonnet‚ the poem has a tightly structured thematic organisation. It consists of three quatrains and one rhyming couplet with a succesion of deca-syllabic lines.It has a rhyming scheme where the first line rhymewith the third one and the second line with the fourth one that is an "abab" pattern. Most words carry the weight of negative connotation which is conveyed in simple language. Where words are used metaphoically‚ thet are
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Blake was an English poet who was born in 1757 and died in 1827. Blake was part of the Romantic Age. Although Blake was largely unrecognized as a poet during his lifetime‚ his work was bizarre for those times. His poetry was reverent to the Bible‚ but hostile to the Church of England. The fact that ................... are evident in his poetry‚ especially these two poems. Nature The Echoing Green (innocence) This poem depicts a conventional village in which a whole day’s cycle is portrayed.
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Stealing Stealing by Carol Ann Duffy was written in the 1980’s after Duffy had seen her neighbours snowman stolen from their front garden. Getting inspired by this‚ she had written this poem reflecting on the problems that occured in that moment‚ hence it was the time in Britain where unemployment was high due to Margaret Thatcher’s (the Prime Minister during the 1980’s) government policies. The poem starts with a rhetorical question‚ "The most unusual thing I ever stole?" This question seems
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