For this piece of coursework, I am going to compare two Poems produced
by Simon Armitage.
For this piece of coursework, I am going to compare two Poems produced
by Simon Armitage. His website has quoted that he is one of the most
exciting younger poets that combines accessible humor and realist
style with critical significance and has been short listed for the
Whitbread Prize, TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. When he jumped
genres, the critics moan about his first novel Little Green Man (2001)
for its lack of poeticism; he said he "just wanted to tell a story",
but the Guardian saw this tale of adult men trapped in childhood games
as a "piece of low-key, frill-free lad-lit".
"About his person" is a poem about a dead man who has been discovered.
The title of the poem gives a sense that someone has written him, such
as a Police officer's report. The form of layout is in 10 two-lined
stanzas called rhyming couplets. The poem starts off in an ordinary
way. It says "Five pounds fifty in change, exactly. A library card on
its date of expiry". He had a postcard stamped but it wasn't sent to
the person he was sending it to. The word "slashed" was used and this
showed violence. It also showed that he was writing something quickly
when the poem states "A pocket sized diary slashed with a pencil" From
March 24th to 1st of April, something happened during that period of
time and we don't know what it is. This makes us wonder in suspicion,
what it was about. In his hand there is a piece of paper with his own
handwriting on it: "A final demand, in his own hand" and this suggests
that it could be his bill order which is unpaid. It is not told what
is exactly meant but I presume so.
On the 6th stanza it says there was a rolled up note of explanation
sprayed like a carnation. This gives us a hint that he committed to
suicide. The words "explanation" and "carnation" both rhyme like a
simile. It gives emotion to the poem from feeling sad about "his"
death. He also had possession of a photograph that was in the shape of
a heart. This has given a hint why he has committed suicide maybe
because he lost a loved one. For example his wife, who would be
important to him. "No gold or silver, but crowning one finger" states
that he had a wedding ring and this links up to the previous stanza
that he was married.
one page 11) this indicates that he is a selfish man and cares for his
When he arrives at his home he notices a small rag doll on his doorstep. Confused, but intrigued he picks up the doll and carried it inside. He proceeded up his stairs to his computer work with the doll still in hand and placed it up against a lamp. After he sits down he studies the doll more carefully and notices a small folded note with a pin holding its place next to the small hand. The note is written in Viennese, not knowing the language since he was eight, he puts it down and examines the doll and sees two stitched crosses where the eyes should be, one for the nose, one over the heart, and five for the mouth. He leaves the room and when he enters the doll isn't where he left it and there is a message on his computer that had not been there before. It reads " the deadline is dawn ". Scared by the note he tries to find the doll. When he picks it up off the floor, he props the doll next to the lamp where it had been before.
his story from his childhood. He tells us that when he was ten, he had
In Jack Finney’s “Content of the Dead Man’s Pockets”, the setting takes place before the invention of computers and typewriters are still in use. Tom Benecke is a man who lives on the 11th story of an apartment on Lexington Avenue. One evening, while his wife goes out to attend a movie, Tom’s paper flies out the window. He then goes out on the ledge to retrieve the paper he is working on. Tom goes through a terrible experience trying to get his grasp on the paper. After he gets his paper, he struggles getting back in his apartment as his window closes. Tom Benecke changes from prioritizing his work to prioritizing his wife because of a near-death experience.
In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by the name of Langston Hughes. A well-known writer that still gets credit today for pomes like “ Theme for English B” and “Let American be American Again.”
Imagine you were the rose trying to grow in concrete; would you have made it out or die trying or maybe you just gave up. So think about it, what would you have really done? The poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” is about a rose that grew in concrete a metaphor that shows that you have to get past your problems to succeed. And the poem “Mother to Son” is about a mother explaining how hard life is a metaphor. Both poems share the theme of You have to rise above the obstacles, but the way the authors developed the theme was similar and different.
middle of paper ... ... immensity of its horror finally makes him drop the pretense of knowing detachment he has held for so long. As he drunkenly sobs, “What’s funny? What’s so goddamned funny? I don’t get it” (Ch. 2, 23) his lurking humanity becomes evident.
is stuck on what to write. There is a physical tie of respect in his
All the poems you have read are preoccupied with violence and/or death. Compare the ways in which the poets explore this preoccupation. What motivations or emotions do the poets suggest lie behind the preoccupation?
create a novel out of an actual event. He had thousands of notes on the subject,
In his preface of the Kokinshū poet Ki no Tsurayaki wrote that poetry conveyed the “true heart” of people. And because poetry declares the true heart of people, poetry in the minds of the poets of the past believed that it also moved the hearts of the gods. It can be seen that in the ancient past that poetry had a great importance to the people of the time or at least to the poets of the past. In this paper I will describe two of some of the most important works in Japanese poetry the anthologies of the Man’yōshū and the Kokinshū. Both equally important as said by some scholars of Japanese literature, and both works contributing greatly to the culture of those who live in the land of the rising sun.
In the final poem, the poet writes an account of the life and death of
Emily Dickinson’s poems, “I” and “VIII”, are both three verses long and convey the irony and anguish of the world in different ways. By paraphrasing each of Dickinson’s poems, “I” and “VIII”, similarities and differences between the two become apparent. Putting the poem into familiar language makes it easier to comprehend.
Authors, William Wordsworth and William Blake convey different messages and themes in their poems, “The World is Too Much with Us” and “The Tyger” consecutively by using the different mechanics one needs to create poetry. Both poems are closely related since they portray different aspects of society but the message remains different. Wordsworth’s poem describes a conflict between nature and humanity, while Blake’s poem issues God’s creations of completely different creatures. In “The World is Too Much with Us,” we figure the theme to be exactly what the title suggests: Humans are so self-absorbed with other things such as materialism that there’s no time left for anything else. In “The Tyger” the theme revolves around the question of what the Creator (God) of this creature seems to be like and the nature of good vs. evil. Both poems arise with some problem or question which makes the reader attentive and think logically about the society.