Hughes’s poetry constitutes a moral project. It demands that we see our world and ourselves differently. Discuss. Together‚ ‘Crow’s Account of the Battle’ and ‘Wodwo’ by Ted Hughes detail aspects of human nature that Hughes is calling the readers to reflect upon from external viewpoints. Hughes is asking a generation exposed to the horrors of war‚ the destruction caused by the atomic bombs and the Nazi holocaust to consider such pointless destruction and how so much of it is caused by our alienation
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Line1 "Globe shrunk tight" could be talking about a microcosm which could mean the themes of the poem are reflective to the wider world. Line 2 "Round" could link with the title and theme cycles of death and rebirth because snowdrops are iconic of the spring time and death is very prominent within the poem. "Dulled wintering heart" is descriptive of the mouse and how it is dying and in the winter of its life. This also links with the seasons and death themes as it’s the death of the year and the
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“We came in spastic‚ like tameless horses‚ we left in plastic‚ as numbered corpses‚” “Goodnight Saigon”‚ by Billy Joel. Multitudinous wars left numerous soldiers with PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. One war that was most common for leaving people with PTSD is the Vietnam War. Terry’s father from‚ ” Stop the Sun” suffered through PTSD after the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War many soldiers died fighting for this nation making the ones who did survive suffer from PTSD and survivor’s Guilt
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COMMENATRY/ ANALYSIS ON THE POEM “THE PIKE” BY TED HUGHES: The poem begins with a description of a baby pike‚ and we are given the impression that right from the very moment of birth this creature is in possession of some pretty chilling characteristics. “…Killers from the egg…” In the first three stanzas‚ the persona sets the scene and describes the voracious‚ ruthless nature of this fish. In these stanzas‚ the fish and its environment occupy the center of attention. “Pike‚ three inches long
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Love and Death (Analysis of “When You are Old” and “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by W.B.Yeats) Ⅰ. Love In William Butler Yeats poem "When You Are Old‚" an anonymous narrator requests of a former lover to remember her youth and his love for her‚ creating a surreal sense of mystery that only reveals some shadows of his own past love life. Yeats’ diction changes as the poem progresses from stanza to stanza. In the first stanza‚ I believe the narrator is a man‚ who wrote this poem for his
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C.B.S.E – Mathematics +1 English Literature – The Laburnum Top Maximum Marks – 30 Maximum Time - 1 hour 15 minutes * Two Marks Type: Q 1 ‘She launches away‚ towards the infinite’. Explain the given line. Q 2 Why is the image of the engine evoked by the poet? Q 3 What happened when the goldfinch came to the laburnum tree? Q 4 How is the tree transformed during the bird’s visit? Write the line that shows this transformation. Q 5 To what is the movement of the goldfinch compared? What
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the different ways in which Ted Hughes portrays nature in his poems as well as themes and ideas‚ you should consider the poems techniques? Ted Hughes is an English poet who was inspired by nature at his homeland in Yorkshire and wrote countless poems on this topic. I have studied several poems (Thistles‚ The thought fox‚ the jaguar‚ the horses‚ Hawk roosting‚ Pike‚ and Ghost Crabs). Within these poems I am going to compare the ways and techniques in which Ted Hughes portrays nature using poetic
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One has PTSD and faces problems every day. The other is in a wheelchair and deals with his disabilities daily. One who has PTSD from the vietnam war. One who lives with being paralized. The father from the short story “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen and Christopher Reeve from the the auto biographical narrative “Still me” that both face and overcome obstacles that develop the theme or central ideas. The father from “Stop the sun” faced and overcame PTSD by talking to his son. “‘This thing that you
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the subject I will be analysing the similarities and differences in the poems ‘Pike’ by Ted Hughes and ‘Cockroach’ by Kevin Halligan. I will focus on what techniques both poets used to achieve the view of nature‚ setting‚ structure‚ subject‚ theme‚ message‚ tone and emotions of both poems. Pike and Cockroach both share a post Darwinian view of nature. The pikes “jaws hooked clamp of fangs”‚ here Hughes is using stressed syllables to imitate to sound of a pikes teeth clamping together. The subject
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Ted Hughes is a renowned‚ restrained poet for his ability to be intricate‚ and his concealment of emotion in insignificant forms of life. In the poem‚ Thistles‚ Hughes personalizes Thistles; such trivial plant‚ to successfully evoke the lives of human beings‚ while emphasizing nature’s dominance over men. The poem also deals with the idea of history being repeated in a cycle‚ the dead being "resurrected". Such complex ideas are effectively conveyed through language techniques‚ diction and versification
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