Mid-Term Break - Seamus Heaney On my first Sonne - Ben Jonson Which poem expresses the experience of grief best? On my first Sonne is a very direct way of expressing the grief that occurs when a child in the family dies. It is about the feelings that Ben Jonson goes through, and the poem describes his emotions and thoughts in detail. On the other hand, Mid-Term Break uses indirect ways to portray grief, by describing events that happen after the death. "Farewell, thou child". On my first Sonne openly addresses the deceased boy in the poem. The poem is to him, and about him. Ben Jonson uses faith to help him through the bereavement. Biblical phrases ("child of my right hand", "my sinne was" and "all his vowes") are scattered through the text. Jonson's thoughts are deeply Christian ("tho'wert lent to me" and "the state he should envie"). "O, could I loose all father, now." Here he candidly expresses his feelings by crying out to God. He speaks bluntly about the grief he is experiencing, and tries to reason with it as well by using Christianity concepts, "For why / Will man lament the state he should envie?". He curses himself for putting too much love and faith into the boy, almost believing in him too much ("my sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy"). I think that On my first Sonne is a poem towards God and the deceased, but it is written for the comfort of Ben Jonson himself, to reassure him about his son's death. The poem is very emotional, and very involved. On my first Sonne uses a regular rhythm, with occasionally rhymes. This creates a profound effect, and this in emphasised in certain places, for example "and I thee pay / Exacted by fate, on the just day." The regularity of the rhy... ... middle of paper ... ... time to think about his brother's death, and then approaches his brother alone. The phrase "wearing a poppy bruise" has overtones of death (poppies are associated with Remembrance day), but also the fact that he is "wearing" a bruise rather than having a bruise indicates that he is not normally in that state, and the poet does not see him as such. The rhythm works best in this poem in the final line, "a four foot box, a foot for every year". The slow pace stresses the tragedy of the event, and gives an insight into the mind of the poet, after he has had a chance to think about it. In conclusion, I believe that the poem Mid-Term Break the experience of grief better than On my first Sonne, because I prefer an indirect approach to the emotions surrounding bereavement. The style of writing and context make it more modern, and makes it seem more relevant.
The sympathy of loss is persuaded as a devastating way on how a person is in a state of mind of losing. A person deals with loss as an impact on life and a way of changing their life at the particular moment. In the book My Losing Season by Pat Conroy he deals with the type of loss every time he plays basketball due to the fact, when something is going right for him life finds a way to make him lose in a matter of being in the way of Pat’s concentration to be successful.
Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gente Into That Good Night and Catherine Davis' After a Time
seen as a hero if we look at the poem in the corrupt figures point of
For example, one line, “Soon our pilgrimage will cease; Soon our happy hearts will quiver, with the melody of peace,” which is saying that one day we will die, and you can’t stop that. “Lay we every burden down; Grace our spirits will deliver, and provide a robe and a crown,” also reveals that you should appreciate what we’ve had, and what was given to us. This song is telling you, in every line, that you can’t live forever, but appreciate what you have, while you
as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer. The poem
It is obvious since in his collection “Keep This Forever” there are several poems referring to someone’s death. For instance, in the poem “Clearing the Apartment” the speaker goes through the hassle of cleaning up after someone’s death (we apparently he refers to his father’s death). He uses 2nd person, instead of 1st to describe the procedure in order to make the reader feel more involved and emotionally connected as if they were there. The word “You” is everywhere in the poem he never uses “I”, for example “you have to go through his files” (line 4), “you sweep the floor, its swept” (line 44). He forces the reader to live the experience and passes the blame of throwing the person’s belongings away on to them. He deliberately passes the blame on to the reader because he cannot tolerate the separation from his father’s
I find this poem to be exceptional in its meaning, in fact the verse that comes to mind when thinking of this poem is Psalm 51:17 “the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.” (Holy Bible, New Testament) I believe that the speaker has meaning behind his words he knows that a complete peace and joy come from the awareness of one’s sin, he also believes in the submission of himself to God and the humility of heart.
“Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe. In this short story “Dead Men’s Path,” Chinua Achebe gives the protagonist an exciting chance to fulfill his dream. Michael Obi was officially headmaster of Ndume Central School, which was backward in every sense. He had to turn the school into a progressive one, however the school received a bad report when the supervisor came to inspect.
‘On my First Sonne’ is the elegy or lament which Ben Jonson wrote after the death of his son, Benjamin. Jonson was away from his home in London when he received letters from his wife telling him that his son had died from the plague. His son was seven years old. Ben Jonson is showing the heartache from his son’s early death at the age of seven. The first two lines, ‘My sin was too much hope for thee, lov’d boy’, is showing that Jonson is blaming himself for loving Benjamin. Throughout the poem Ben Jonson uses many religious references for example, ‘child of my right hand’ , ...
For the most part of the poem she states how she believes that it is Gods calling, [Then ta’en away unto eternity] but in other parts of the poem she eludes to the fact that she feels more like her granddaughter was stolen from her [or sigh thy days so soon were terminate]. One of the main beliefs in these times was that when someone died it was their time; God needed them and had a better plan. Both poets found peace in the idea that God had the children now and it was part of the plan, but are also deeply saddened and used poetry as a coping mechanism.
The first half of the poems’ images are of life, coming of age, and death.
I think that these two opening lines of the third verse have a lot of
be your last. It also leads you to think of your life and how much you
and ease the pain of his loss. The poem can also suggest to us that at
This is especially shown in her poems “Hope is the thing with feathers (254)” and “My Life closed twice before its close (96)”. Neither poem relies on Dickinson’s traditionally dominant dash, but are similar in both rhyming scheme and meter, loosely following an ABCB and 8 6 scheme. In “254” hope is implied to be an unwavering bird within the soul. The bird sings to the speaker in the darkest and strangest times of their life asking little in return despite giving its whole self to the speaker. Just like the bird, Jesus is hope, giving his whole self to forgive the sins of man, and asking little in return. The poem is short and simple, but powerful in its message of the unwavering hope of Christianity, showing that Dickinson still believes in Christ despite not conforming to religious norms. Just like “ Hope is the thing with feathers” “My life closed twice before its close” is a short, straight-forward poem about God. The first line talks about three lives, two that have already been lived and one that is on the horizon. The speaker is at the dawn of a new chapter in their life, but is unsure what that new chapter holds or if it will be lived at all. This is seen in lines 2 through 4, “It yet remains to see / If immortality unveil / A third life to me” In the second