Fanthorpe's Use of Characters in Her Poetry
In this essay I will be talking about the poems 'You will be hearing
from us shortly' and 'Telephone conversation'. All of the poems that
we have read from her collection are about different cultures,
society's, ways of life, and just basically people in general. Her
poems are all very similar in her way of thinking and how she sees
things in one typical point of view. She seems very set in her ways
and very stereotypical when she talks about people in society; She is
very critical and seems, despite her broad minded take on things, very
fascist in the ways that she views different issues. Despite being a
minor poet, Fanthorpe seems to have a major yearning for power, and so
uses it in quite a few of her poems to enhance some of the points she
has made. This search for power may have come from an experience that
she has been through in her earlier lifetime, or it may just be the
way she likes to write. Most of her poems have roles which take on a
huge power, of which is mainly used to belittle others.
Both of the poems that I am writing about are about being interviewed
for either a job or a flat. In both poems, Fanthorpe uses very formal,
strict language with a very blunt and patronising tone; I think this
is to illustrate the feeling of terror in the interviewee, because as
Fanthorpe shows us, interviews can be very unpleasant and very
dis-regarding if you are not up to a certain standard that they expect
you to be.
The poem 'Telephone conversation' is obviously a very typical
Fanthorpe piece because it has the usual Fanthorpe 'features'; The
patronising tone, the stereotypical view, yet this one focuses on
racism. It is about an African man who wishes to rent a flat from what
seems to be a white, very racist landlady. We are not told which race
she is, but we know that it is a woman in mid-life, and I have major
Who she is as a poet, feminist or not, her experiences where what she wrote about and how she connected with the world and how she got away from her life as the, “middle aged witch,” or house wife. With the Double “I”, the tone and repeation, and who she was as a person, house wife, and poet. The very end of each stanza in “Her Kind”, “I have been her kind,”(7) isn’t just there. This is where she can connect with both her madness as the witch, adultress, and a housewife, with the “kind” she real was, a woman who writes.
She was a writer who suffered from Lupus. Her father died of the same illness when she was thirteen. Her Catholic beliefs reflected in her work, as well as the implementation of violence and darkness ironically used in her short stories. The titles in the stories give the readers an idea that the stories are the opposite of what the titles really state. She uses metaphors and similes to describe the characters and the settings of the stories. Each story relates to the darkness of the characters: people with racial prejudice, ignorance, and evil. Each story ends in a tragedy. The use of irony allows her to transport a meaning to each story that is not easy for readers to understand.
to the powerful imagery she weaves throughout the first half of the poem. In addition, Olds
The quote is about hope and the authors feelings on it. When she writes about hope, she uses several unique words to bring out the poems setting. One technique used by her is
...own life and the research of others’ are two of her prime techniques in writing her world-famous poetry.
only this, but Dickinson illustrates poetic skill in the unity of the poem. She makes her
As we can gather from the examples, Gwen Harwood uses language to create dynamic backgrounds and images to subtly delineate the changes experienced by the persona in the poems. Sometimes the characters themselves are not aware of these changes but the readers are able to appreciate them with the aid of skill Harwood posses in using language to such great measures.
Thomas Higginson said that “the main quality of her poems is that of extraordinary grasp and insight, uttered with an uneven vigor, which was all her own'; (78).
I believe this poem shows her love for God and her love for religion. In the first six lines I believe she gives God the credit for her leaving Africa and going to America. In the fifth line,
the poems. It is one of the things that are picked up by the poet that
insight into his life and personality that he is not aware of giving. While the poet uses his
...e use of figurative language and many literary techniques, Dickinson makes clear her theme, adding on to the intensity of the poem.
to see herself as unimportant and useless. The poem states, “Often in a summer… downstream
and so this could be the reason for the content of her poems. I think
In conclusion the two things that Emily Dickinson uses is personification and extended metaphor. She uses these things in order to make the reader think of the poems deeper