War cannot be waged with grave damage to every aspect of life. In the poem ’Lament’ by Gillian Clarke‚ the poet looks at the disastrous effects on our environment that have been caused by mankind and are destroying the natural world. Shes talks about how nature is affected and she uses language features effectively to convey her ideas. In the first stanza‚ metaphors are used to show how the green turtle has been affected by human activity. The words "pulsing burden" suggests the heaviness of pregnancy
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Analysis of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why” In the 1923 sonnet‚ “What lips my lips have kissed‚” Edna St. Vincent Millay speaks about several loves coming to an end and the emotion its gives her while she reminiscences through her past. Two major themes of this sonnet are change and loss. The theme loss is throughout the entire sonnet. Some parts of this sonnet are traditional while other parts are untraditional. This is a modern Italian sonnet. The
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Seafarer & The wife’s lament Mother Teresa said‚ “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved”. I agree because in “The Wife’s Lament” we learn that the speaker is feeling both unloved and lonely. In “The Seafarer” the speaker demonstrates his love for the sea‚ but in reality he is alone because he does not have anyone around him. We learn that loneliness is a common emotion that speaker feels in “The Wife’s Lament” and “The Seafarer”. These two poems are very similar
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The society of St. Vincent De Paul is an organization that provides housing for the homeless‚ the sick‚ and the mentally ill. The Society was founded by Frederic Ozanam and a group of students from the Sorbonne University in 1833. The students were challenged to prove their faith through action. Their solution was to develop a simple system to help the poor in their homes‚ in the streets‚ in hospitals and mental institutions. They adopted as their patron saint St. Vincent de Paul‚ a 16th century
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Lament Imagery Analysis Kautilya Palaypu Gillian Clarke‚ the writer of Lament‚ uses imagery in his poem in the form of animals and nature to express the consequence of war and greed on the innocent. He uses nature imagery to show that the very thing that was meant to nurture us is being destroyed. Clarke uses imagery to mourn the destruction of the innocent and nature. He also uses imagery to show how appalling the consequences of human nature are to its surroundings. Clarke explains that “for
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Love is Not All "Love is Not All: It is Not Meat Nor Drink‚" a sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay‚ uses contrast and mood change as an effective tool to consider a thought. The work is similar to Italian or Petrarchan sonnet; it is divided into two parts‚ an octet followed by a sestet. However the rhythm scheme does not follow the Italian form. In the first portion of the poem the octet is a continuous statement from the first line to the eighth line. The octet has the abab‚ cdcd‚ rhythm scheme.
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Lament by Gillian Clark is a poetry that summarizes the sadness and loss of the people from the gulf war. Lament means ’sad and despair’. Clark has used a lot of language techniques to convey her thoughts on the gulf war. Some techniques was: she uses anaphora of the word ’for’ which is used a lot at the start of each line‚ the use of personification and the description of the war through an animal’s point of view. Also‚ the last line is the most important line of the whole poetry. The anaphora
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The Anglo-Saxon poem‚ “The Wife’s Lament” is written in a first person narrative‚ which gives it more depth than if it had been simply written in the third. The poem is the lament of a titular wife because she is “tortured by the anguish of exile” (5). She feels forsaken by her lord‚ who she also refers to as her husband‚ who has left her alone to sail the ocean blue. Even though the author is unknown‚ it is my impression that the poem was written by a woman because of the intuitive way in which
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Ross Boyle and Erica Clare St. Vincent de Paul Interviewer: Hello everyone! We welcome all of you watching todays program. I am your host Grace‚ and I have a very special guest with me today‚ St. Vincent de Paul. St. Vincent: Pax! Interviewer: Let me just give a brief introduction about St. Vincent de Paul to our audience before we begin the interview. St. Vincent was born in 1581 in Puoy‚ the Kingdom of France‚ to a family of farm working peasants. He lived during the era when France was
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written by Rhian Gallagher‚ and Lament (lament is known for being a sad song or poem) for the Country Soldiers (written by Les Murray) are both similar and diverse. Both poems carry the Australian landscape as a backdrop. Both poems use words that you can envision in your mind. I like how Gallagher uses contrasting words and repetition. The use of paradox’s in Murray’s poem makes it very remarkable‚ because naming opposites can make the poem feel sort of ironic. Both poems talk about war and how the
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