the Recurring Themes of Alienation and Communication Gap in the Songs of Simon and Garfunkel (THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE STATESMAN FESTIVAL MAGAZINE 2006) “You’re a stranger now unto me / Lost in The Dangling Conversation /And the superficial sighs‚ / The borders of our lives.” Somehow‚ these lines seem to the best representative of what this paper will try to capture-the thread of alienation in the works of Simon and Garfunkel. One wonders if it all starts with Paul Simon’s Jewish origins
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In both “Harmonium” and “In Paris with you”‚ a difficult relationship is portrayed though Armitage and Fenton write of two different kinds of relationships‚ the reader has no problem detecting the difficult relationship. One of the very first things we see in “In Paris with You” is the speakers inability to say the words ‘I’m in love you’‚ frequently he says “I’m in Paris with you” as a replacement‚ using the city that is associated with love and romance instead. Perhaps Fenton is trying to portray
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Compare how feelings between children and parents are presented in Praise Song for My Mother Grace Nichols and Harmonium Simon Armitage In both Praise Song for My Mother by Nichols and Harmonium by Armitage strong feelings between parents and children are explored. Nichols has written a personal love poem to her mother which expresses a deep respect and admiration for her. In Armitages poem however‚ the tone is very different as the poet reflects upon the lack of communication between him and his
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Wiesel’s Night and Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower. Both accounts of the Holocaust diverge in the main concepts in each work; Wiesel and Wiesenthal focus on different aspects of their survivals. Aside from the themes‚ various aspects‚ including perception‚ structure‚ organization‚ and flow of arguments in each work‚ also contrast from one another. Although both Night and The Sunflower are recollections of the persistence of life during the Holocaust‚ Elie Wiesel and Simon Wiesenthal focus on different
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Compare your Responses to ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage with you Responses to one poem Carol Ann Duffy and tow from the pre-1914 Poetry Bank Poets use features of form‚ structure and language to force the reader to respond in different ways to different poems. Different methods of language are used by poets to produce different feelings about a speaker or generate descriptions of certain people. ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage is a poem focusing on the partnership of Batman and Robin. It is a monologue from
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Global 2 Honors Summer Assignment The Sunflower Over the summer we read the book “The Sunflower”‚ a story written by Simon Wiesenthal. The story consists of a man named Simon having to make a choice of to forgive someone that has brought him great pain. Simon is faced with Nazi asking for forgiveness for all the people he has killed over the years. Simon makes a choice but later regrets it. The book “The Sunflower” starts with Simon Wiesenthal being put into a concentration camp during
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We do agree that a man has no right try to forgive injuries of other victims. However‚ in The Symposium of The Sunflower‚ Christopher says that‚ “But insofar as this act of not merely a personal act of one SS man against one Jewish child but an incident in a general campaign of genocide‚ the author was as much a victim…” (Christopher 179). In his words‚ if the Large-Scale
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in mind and becoming stronger person. The Nazis’ needed a scapegoat‚ someone to blame for their loss‚ in which was the Jews (which is purely incorrect). Most young Germans back then were influenced or foolish not to open their eyes. In Wiesenthal‚ The Sunflower‚ he speaks about a Karl‚ a former Nazi and his story and how he saw a family die. While he is on his deathbed he asks for forgiveness and the only reason he was on his deathbed was because he thought of the family that died in front of him
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how women are presented in 4 of the poems you have studied. To do this compare “Mother...” by Simon Armitage and 3 other poems‚ one by Duffy and two from the pre 1914 bank. All 4 poems ( Mother‚ Anne Hathaway‚ Sonnet 130 and song of the old mother) are all linked to each other all by using different techniques of language to present women and to create some story in there poem. Mother (written by Simon Armitage)‚ the woman (the mother) in the poem is presented in a form of imagery. Armitage writes
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Simon Lee the Old Huntsman is a poem which occurs in Lyrical Ballads and was written in 1798‚ belonging‚ thus‚ temporally to the Romantic period (1780-1830). Romantic writing is commonly identified with some key elements‚ which concern imagination‚ nature‚ symbolism and myth (although there have been writers of this period who were not as ‘mainstream’). William Wordsworth has been characterised as a canonical author of Romantic Poetry in that his work is highly attached to the notion of Nature and
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