Nothings changed-Choose two poems which make a connection between the
past and the present, and explain what this connection means to each
writer.
When he goes back to the district it's all overgrown. He steps through
the rubbish and weeds. It says the weeds are 'amiable' which means
friendly, as if the weeds don't know what he knows. He knows in his
bones this is where he used to live. It's as if the feeling starts in
his feet and works its way up through him, and he gets hotter and more
intense, until he suddenly sees this 'brash' new building. 'Squats'
makes you think of a toad, or something heavy and solid, and also
squatting is when you live somewhere illegal, like the inn shouldn't
ever have been there. When he peers in through the glass it's all cool
and elegant inside, not the sort of place they would let in anyone. He
says 'we know where we belong', meaning outside looking in. So
although it no longer says 'Whites Only' on a board, like it used to,
only rich white people would feel they had the right to be there.
Charollte o neils song-Choose two poems which communicate a sense of
injustice, and show how the poets have succeeded in doing this.
The rhythm of the poem is very vigorous and assertive. You can imagine
it sung in a rebellious way - she's had enough. The stress falls on
the important words in each line, especially the verbs, which
emphasises all the physical actions that are being described. Words
like 'scrape' and 'scrub' echo each other, and when you say the 'scr'
you can hear the effort involved. There's also a strong contrast
between 'I' and 'you' right through the poem, which emphasises how
different their lives are. In the second half of the poem (after the
'But') she shifts into the future tense as she imagines her new life.
The poem finishes on a very definite note, with the final rhyme, like
she's slammed the door behind her - her old life's all done and
dusted.
Half caste-Choose two poems where the style and language of the poem
seem particularly suited to what the poet has to say, and explain in
each case why you think this.
The argument of the poem comes out in the way it is written. You could
almost say that the poem is written in a mixed language - it's a kind
of English, but it's also in Caribbean. The poet writes 'wid' and
instead of 'with' to show that the speaker has a Caribbean accent.
Lota is not directly addressed in the poem, an earlier draft of the poem reveals a connection to her longtime lover. Bishop uses the mundane act of washing a loved one’s hair as the basis for a brilliant meditation on the nature and progression of time. In “The Shampoo” Elizabeth Bishop uses imagery of nature, metaphor of time, and deliberate diction to compare the gradual movements in nature over time with the process of aging. Bishop draws a contrast between the process of aging and the timeless
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According to Merriam-Webster online dictionary, the Oedipus Complex is a child’s positive libidinal feelings toward the parent of the opposite sex and hostile or jealous feelings toward the parent of the same sex that develop usually between the ages of three and six and that may be a source of adult personality disorder when unresolved (Merriam-Webster). In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel demonstrates the classic symptoms of the Oedipus complex. Paul and his father’s relationship is destroyed early
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A High School Student's Opinion of Poetry Students’ opinions of poetry are very important to consider when planning how to cover poetry in the classroom. In this article, Jon C. Mladic and Douglas R. Pietrzak surveyed a high school creative writing class in Normal, IL (grades 10-12) about their opinions of poetry. They created an extensive survey concerning the students’ opinions and experiences with poetry as well their preferences for instruction. They also interview the teacher of the creative
discussed in the first two chapters of this thesis, from nearly a century and a half, various theories have been scripted to resolve the issue of gender dichotomy. But one may say that, they have been only partially successful and that too only in some specific socio-cultural strata’s, race, ethnicity and communities. To study the variety of attitudes and voices in poetry written by women concerning the psychological aspect of motherhood, the poems will have to be categorised into two thematic sections:
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