My son
In Donald Hall poem, “My son, my executioner” the author elaborates different facets of life as parents. He speculates, how he’s life used to be before he had a child. The freedom he had the fearless life style with no worries about tomorrow. After the birth of his child everything changed. The care and the fear of a father had entered his mind and soul. Hall portrayed in his poem a fatherly love character that would give his own life for his young child. The author displayed in his poem a story that can be represented in real life. Once a child is born, the whole life of the parent’s transforms. There is a relation between the poem and reality. In the next lines, I will discussed my explanatory thoughts of this poem and i will deliberate some of the meanings, the tone and figure of language in which the author precisely. Also how the author uses his sets of words to express his contemplations.
In this poem the author’s tone has a contrast of a humorous figure, at the same time a sad and dark feeling. In this...
The speaker’s rocky encounter with her ex-lover is captured through personification, diction, and tone. Overall, the poem recaps the inner conflicts that the speak endures while speaking to her ex-lover. She ponders through stages of the past and present. Memories of how they were together and the present and how she feels about him. Never once did she broadcast her emotions towards him, demonstrating the strong facade on the outside, but the crumbling structure on the inside.
Lee was able to depict such an arduous relationship between a father and son… a relationship that Lee says shall one day fail, but for now, it is pure and full of emotion. The love the father has for the child, for wanting to keep him by his side is one of true compassion. The complexity between the child being so delighted and displaying such admiration, of wanting his father to read him another bedtime story; to one of which, is screaming at his father for wanting to keep him as a child. This sort of relationship was able to be composed by the use of imagery between the father ageing and the scratching of his ear; to the use of the poems structure layout and point of view all played massive roles in the understanding and perception of this literary art work. Thus, the relationship between the father and son is one of compassion and affection; which, cannot be told using simple minded tactics such as logic and
To help Year Twelve students that are studying poetry appreciate it's value, this pamphlet's aim is to discuss a classic poem and a modern song lyric to show that even poetry written many years ago can still be relevant to people and lyrics today. By reading this may you gain a greater knowledge and understanding of poetry in general, and not just the two discussed further on.
Each literary work portrays something different, leaving a unique impression on all who read that piece of writing. Some poems or stories make one feel happy, while others are more solemn. This has very much to do with what the author is talking about in his or her writing, leaving a bit of their heart and soul in the work. F. Scott Fitzgerald, when writing The Great Gatsby, wrote about the real world, yet he didn’t paint a rosy picture for the reader. The same can be said about T.S. Eliot, whose poem “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock,” presents his interpretation of hell. Both pieces of writing have many similarities, but the most similar of them all is the tone of each one.
The poem is gentle and nostalgic. It seeks not only to recreate the scene for the reader, but
The major themes of the poem reflect the poet's own inner life and his struggle with the loss of his father. Through this complicated and intricate poem the inner feelings of the poet are made manifest through the speaker's tone towards the father. The exchange between father and son represents a magical moment in the speaker's childhood: dancing the waltz with his father. In the second stanza, the poet comments “My mother's countenance / could not unfrown itself (Roethke 7-8).” Here the poet seems to regret the fact that he hoarded his father's time after a long day at work, when his father could have been s...
Indeed, the satirical tone of this poem suggests that the speaker is somewhat critical of his father. The whiskey smell, the roughness, the inconsiderate and reckless actions are under scrutiny. The mother's frowning countenance suggests she too is rather unhappy with the scene. However, the winning tone of the poem is the light and comical one.
The poem is written in the father’s point of view; this gives insight of the father’s character and
I will discuss the similarities by which these poems explore themes of death and violence through the language, structure and imagery used. In some of the poems I will explore the characters’ motivation for targeting their anger and need to kill towards individuals they know personally whereas others take out their frustration on innocent strangers. On the other hand, the remaining poems I will consider view death in a completely different way by exploring the raw emotions that come with losing a loved one.
Overall, the poem is a successful attempt on using literary elements such as ironic and sarcastic rhetoric and powerful and suggestive imagery. From its title to its stanzas and specific lines, the poem is truly anchored on its central thesis and main themes. Its effective use of consistent tone and elements of the figurative language such as oxymoron and metaphor added value to its splendor as a piece of
...smile”; however, after listening to the introduction about every pen from the girl, the boy’s voice “filling with fear”. This marked contrast indicates the speaker’s impatience, and the audience can feel the development of the story clearly. If the attitudes of the speaker remained the same throughout the poem, it will create a lack of movement so that the audience cannot relate to the speaker.
The structure of this poem is not the traditional form of poetry, in that he begins with a first person statement then after an indentation, he elaborates on it almost lik...
It was starting. I could tell because everyone started cheering and shouting. I could sort of see the far away arms of the noble who was presenting the execution on the platform tossed in the air, milking the crowd for more applause. Almost everyone was cheering at the top of their lungs. Everyone except for me. I was repulsed by that filthy nobleman; by the whole execution. I couldn't see the man about to be executed, but in a way, i was glad not to. I had no intention of looking into the face of a man in pure terror. The noble put down one of his arms, and kept the other one up, outstretching it forward and facing his palm to the crowd, and everyone went silent. The executioner awkwardly limped forward to hand the nobleman a scroll. The noble nodded, and the executioner stepped back into his place. The nobleman unwound the scroll and began reading. That was when I received the unfortunate knowledge of the name that belonged to the man about to be executed.
One of Philip’s greatest tactics in this piece, to convey her intense grief and desolation, is her use of promising phrases about her son’s future, and her sheer joy about what it holds for him. In doing this she is able to build an emotional connection between herself and the reader, “Seaven years Childless Marriage past/ A Son, A Son is born at last…”(5,6), “As a long life promised,” (9), and “Full of good Spirits, Meen, and Aier,” (8). The emotional feelings that are withdrawn from these phrases all resonate with the reader, and allow us to become much more sensitive to not only her and what she is going through, but also her son and his lack of life. The repetition of “Son” is very effective in showing how elated she was, and actually makes the depressing realization that follows even darker and more troublesome.
In conclusion, the poetic achievement of “On My First Son” has been realised by accounting for the tropological and figurative elements of the poem, along with the emotional sentiments and conciseness of speech. Jonson’s works accentuates the grief and guilt felt by a father, in losing his only son. By writing in a concise meter that exemplifies the elegiac form, Jonson ends his poem on a consoling note, stating that he will not love anything more than his son. However, Jonson’s final rhyming couplet can also be interpreted, with the meaning that he will never love anything again, as it will only hurt him in the end. Ultimately, it is this powerful and vivid portrayal of the unconceivable loss of a child, which accounts for the poetic achievement of “On My First Son”.