Near The School For Handicapped Children Essay In the poem‚ ‘near the school for handicapped children’ by Thomas Shapcott a man and his daughter are passing by a local school for handicapped children and come across a handicapped boy from a distance. In stanza one‚ the poet (Thomas Shapcott) describes the boy physically. In stanza two and three‚ he is still describing the boy‚ but also telling us how he feels about seeing him and how he compares himself to the boy while watching him. In the final
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Death of a Naturalist All year the flax-dam festered in the heart Of the townland; green and heavy headed Flax had rotted there‚ weighted down by huge sods. Daily it sweltered in the punishing sun. Bubbles gargled delicately‚ bluebottles Wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell. There were dragon-flies‚ spotted butterflies‚ But best of all was the warm thick slobber Of frogspawn that grew like clotted water In the shade of the banks. Here‚ every spring I would fill jampotfuls
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Timothy Winters What effect does this poem have on you‚ the reader? The effect this poem has on me is it makes me realise how lucky and grateful I am because I can afford things and have a lovely life style. However Timothy Winters has the opposite‚ he is very poor and can’t really afford anything. The poem is based on a little boy called Timothy Winters who is very poor and can’t afford much. The statement for the poem is that Timothy Winters is a poor little boy who cannot afford much and
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How does the author create the mood of the poem? Show how the words of the poem have helped create this mood. The poet creates a gloomy and depressing mood‚ which is evident through the language used throughout the poem‚ and the vivid imagery that the poet creates in our minds. These aspects help to express the theme of the poem‚ which is the cruelty of war and human suffering. Firstly‚ the poet uses language to bring out the overall glum mood of the poem. In the first stanza‚ cumulative listing
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This poem is really easy to identify with. The first 4 stanzas are clearly relating the reader to the poem. Everyone at some point has to learn these general‚ seemingly useless facts. “A state flower” “The capital of Paraguay” so arbitrary‚ but so true in that this brings back memories of 3rd or 5th grade for almost all of us‚ it is bound to strike a chord with the reader. This is also coupled with a slightly nostalgic loss of these facts in the first stanza‚ as slowly the individual sections of
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Ted HIghes The Jaguar by Ted Hughes How does Hughes effectively convey the power of the jaguar? Ted Hughes’ poem ‘The Jaguar’ describes the animals in a zoo and their lifestyles. It also compares them to the jaguar‚ which is an animal that lives very differently to the others because of the way it views its life. Yet how does the poem depict the jaguar as a powerful and free animal? The first stanza of Hughes’ poem the jaguar is: ‘The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun. ‘The
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Continuum by Allen Curnow Saturday January 07th 2012‚ 1:39 pm Filed under: Continuum Biography of Allen Curnow: a New Zealand poet and journalist was born in Timaru grew up in a religious family generally wrote satirical poetry reflecting his childhood into his poems emotional connectivity greatest poet in his country received six New Zealand book awards received an award just for the continuum poem Continuum: anything that goes through a gradual transition from one condition to
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Helen In the poem‚ Helen by HD‚ the poet’s attitude toward Helen has a rejecting and negative tone. The title embodies hate by simply addressing Helen with just her name.The poem starts with‚ "All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face"‚ representing Helen as a statue‚ still memorialized for her beauty. "All Greece"‚ representing an entire population. The poet acknowledges her beauty in an unfortunate way. The second stanza states‚ "All Greece reviles the wan face when she smiles"
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WIND- Ted Hughes In this poem‚ Hughes draws a sharp contrast between the sheer intensity and uncontrollable strength if the wind in a storm as opposed to the vulnerability and fragility of man. The poet starts by describing a tremendous gale striking a desolated moorland house and its inhabitants. “The house has been far out at sea all night.” By using this metaphor he compares the house to a boat at sea. The house faces wave upon wave of inexhaustible pounding from the wind‚ as a boat would be
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Donne uses religious theology about judgement day and what happens after death to pen a poem whereby he is presenting an image of him and his lover in their graves. In the poem he describes how items of their body will become relics and they will be deemed holy because of the transcendent elevated nature of their love. The poem centres on the themes of death / religion / theology / love / life after death / judgement. These themes are prevalent in his other love poems‚ The Ecstasy (platonic theory
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