The Planners Boey Kim Cheng Andrew Annear and Edward Scrimgeour Biographical details • Boey Kim Cheng was born in Singapore in 1965. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees in English Literature from the National University of Singapore. • Worked for some time in America as a probation officer • Disillusioned with the state of literary and cultural politics in Singapore‚ Boey left for Sydney with his wife in 1996. • in Australia‚ Boey completed his Ph.D. studies
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The poem ‘the planners’ is written by boey kim cheng. He was born in Singapore and is now teaching creative writing in an Australian university. This poem is about how Singapore was planned and built because of the insatiable desire toward perfection of the people. In this poem the poet uses various literary tools like alliterative phrase‚ oxymoron‚ irony and many others. There are also various kinds of tones in this poem. The main tones are lament and accusatory. In the line “They plan‚ They build
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THE PLANNERS The poet of the poem “The Planners”‚ Boey Kim Cheng‚ uses many techniques‚ including but not limited to an extended metaphor and personification‚ to effectively communicate his views on the planners. In the beginning of the poem‚ the poet states what the planners do. “They plan. They build. All spaces are gridded‚” shows that the planners are very organized. The word “permutations” shows that each space is tightly packed to its full potential by the planners. “The buildings are in
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Report to Wordsworth- Boey Kim Cheng In this poem the 20th century poet Cheng refers to the 19th century poet Wordsworth who referred to the 17th century poet Milton. So he is thereby indirectly referring to Milton and there is a Consistency of style. He is urging him to be here at this time because Where Wordsworth wrote about the beauty of the world and was concerned about the destruction we have caused it in the poem “The world is too much with us” he is trying to tell him about the further
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Done By: http://www.livetvee4u.blogspot.com/ Below is some additional information on the two poems written by Margaret Atwood and Kim Boey Cheng respectively‚ found on the internet: “The City Planners” by Margaret Atwood and “The Planners” by Boey Kim Cheng Many poets lament humanity’s soulless march toward technology and industrialization. Both “TCP” and “TP” reflect this sentiment. The poems are similar in ideas and tone‚ although Atwood’s is considerably more skilled and Cheng’s themes
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In ‘The City Planners’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘The Planners’ by Boey Kim Cheng‚ both poet uses the structure of the poem and language techniques to form the difference between the place itself and its identity. The uniformity between these two poems is the feelings of the poet expresses for this place. In ‘The City planners’ Atwood describes the place as “dry August sunlight”‚ this portrays an imagery of no lighting‚ dark and negative and also suggests to the readers that she do not like where
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The Planners By Boey Kim Cheng The poem ‘The Planners’ by Boey Kim Cheng‚ is remarkably very similar to the previous poem‚ ‘The City Planners’ in terms of the general theme and idea of the poem; perfection‚ uniformity‚ control over nature‚ and “Planners” who control and create everything. However it should be noted that there is a slight difference in theme of the two poems‚ the ‘Planners’ in this poem refer not to the actual city planners‚ but planners of a ‘higher power’‚ the planners of the
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The Planners : By Boey Kim Cheng They plan. They build. All spaces are gridded‚ filled with permutations of possibilities. The buildings are in alignment with the roads which meet at desired points linked by bridges all hang in the grace of mathematics. They build and will not stop. Even the sea draws back and the skies surrender. They erase the flaws‚ the blemishes of the past‚ knock off useless blocks with dental dexterity. All gaps are plugged with gleaming gold. The country
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the Ways in Which the City Planners & the Planners Powerfully Convey the Negative Impact of the City Planning Upon the Environment? In‚ both‚ City Planners and Planners‚ the concept of the redesigning of personality‚ past‚ and environment as a whole‚ is very much a theme – ‘so history is new again’ – and‚ indeed‚ thought of in a negative light. Through this idea‚ both Kim Cheng and Atwood explore whether nature will‚ conclusively‚ be a stronger force than the planners and‚ essentially‚ an artificial
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The city planners * Magaret Atwood - Canadian poet * Purpose: question the planners about the fake perfection * Criticism of the system * Emotion tone: emotionless‚ calm (beginning)‚ materialistic‚ depressing‚ fear‚ sorrow‚ monotonous‚ disillusion‚ sarcastic‚ mocking‚ anger * Theme: man vs nature * images about human hand in nature. – even nature is controlled by humans * society is blinded by this perfect order. * Nature will assert its dominance over man again
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