Compare And Contrast The Widower In The Country And An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow

In the final stanza, he makes the reader sad as he assumes the inevitable will happen and she will die. He expresses this through metaphors such as a “black figure in her white cave”, which is a reference to the bright white hospital rooms and although he is the black figure he thinks she just sees a shadow which could be the grim reaper or even death himself, coming to end her journey. No one wants to deal with the sorrow of losing a loved one for good, as

The visual’s background is formed by a dark and starry night sky; stretching across the image and transitioning into a sunny day sky. This is a representation of the passage of time, life, death, and the power of memories. The nighttime depicts ageing and adulthood, whereas the daytime represents youth and life. In the poem, the narrator describes the sky, ‘Ambiguous night, ambiguous sky,’ which is symbolic for the transience between adulthood and childhood. An ambiguous sky is a sky which is unclear or undecided. The faded transition from the night sky to the day sky reflects this notion and the uncertainty of memories; displaying how the poem

This theme clearly presents itself to readers through the diction of the characters and the mental decline the narrator endures throughout the plot of the story. The narrator of this text is a sufferer of postpartum depression, an illness that can develop in women who have miscarried or given birth, this type of depression stems from a feeling of loneliness or emptiness, do to no longer carrying a

Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.

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

In lines three and four, the author begins to point out the visual evidences of society's spiritual malaise. Blake uses the word "mark" several times to show the reader the problems he sees have outward signs--"marks of weakness, marks of woe." In stanza two, Blake leaves the visible evidence for the audible evidence, and we begin to hear the groans of a fallen world. Man and infant cry--one in experience, one in innocence--yet, both in a fallen world, both raising a pained voice. From line three on, the poem is filled with mournful, weary, destructive sounds--the pounding out of the "mind-forg'd manacles"; the sad "'weep! 'weep!" of the chimney-sweeper (Blake 33); the dying soldier's sigh; the harlot's explosive, withering curse. All of these sounds contribute to the picture of society reeling in the deadly stages of metastasizing cancer.

In the second stanza, I see that the speaker wonders about what his horse is “thinking” which shows his interests are also in the outside world too, like his horse. He also takes certain pleasure seeing the scene from what he imagines to be his horse’s perspective. I think his horse is practical in nature, he thinks, while the speaker sits there dreaming, watching the snow fill up the woods. He just stands there dreaming, and thinking about his horse's feelings is the one thing that brings him back to reality. Death comes again in the typical image of night, as we’re told this is the “darkest evening of the year.” Also, it can either be taken literally as the most lightless night, or it can be taken as the night of the darkest emotions. I think that it is a combination of the two, a dark moonless winter night in which the speaker experiences some form of depression or loneliness.

Several poems in the anthology explore the intensity of human emotion. Explore this theme, referring to these three poems in detail and by referencing at least three other poems from your wider reading.’

Murray starts the poem saying, "This tiny ruin in my eye, small/Flaw in the fabric, little speck/of blood in the egg," (1-3) and looking the whole picture of the poem, in this claim looks like the protagonist of the story is annoyed by a relationship that is not working and needs to be repared. At the beggining of the poem, the protagonist appear to be annoyed because something seems to be not working, for example when he says that his situation is like "the floater that doesn’t/float" (5-6). Then, the turn of the poem appears when Murray claims "I embrace you, piece of absence" (11), one can see the cause of his annoyance is a relationship in what he feels lonely. Finally, when the author says "all dark some day unless God/rescues

The imagery in this poem reinforces the mood and appeals to the senses of sight and sound. Night, the setting which takes place in the poem is dark, depressing, and lonely. For example, when the speaker looks out the city

The atmospheric conditions may represent the hardships that the couple had to go through in their relationship, and may also be used contrast the unpredictability of the outside world compared to the steady relationship that the couple have. ‘A Youth Mowing’ is also a poem about relationships, this time it is between a younger couple. The river ‘Isar’ is a symbol of freedom, it represents the way that the men’s lives are. However, this sense of liberty is broken by the ‘swish of the scythe-strokes’ as the girl takes ‘four sharp breaths.’ Sibilance is used to show that there is a sinister undertone to the freedom that the boy has which will be broken by the news that his girlfriend is bringing. She feels guilty for ‘what’s in store,’ as now the boy will have to be committed to spending the rest of his life with her, and paying the price for the fun that they had.

Similarly, in both poems these pictures are conveyed through the use of imagery. In “Beach Burial”, Slessor’s word choice, such as ‘stake of tide wood’ and ‘driven stake’, form an image of the ‘unknown seamen’s’ graves – labelled with a cross as general symbol of sacrifice and death. However, the words ‘driven stake’ evoke an image of very violent and cold blooded murder. The effect of this imagery shows the realities of war and the agony that remains after. Furthermore, unlike the imagery in “Beach Burial”, in “Country Towns” the imagery is sensory. The description of the season by referring to insects and plants that are common in the rural area is creating a vivid images of country towns. Also, the illustration of old buildings with yellow woods and the use of old terminology – ‘public house’ for a hotel – are picturing another era that evokes a nostalgic tone. The images of these two poems form completely different emotions but yet depict conflict and

Poetry has radically evolved within the last century and a half. Due to writers such as Amy Lowell, poetry has changed from the structured and controlled writings of Emily Brontë’s R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida to Lowell’s free verse, imagery inducing works. The keyword to the shift in writing is the term ‘image’ which demands a variety of senses and uses an emotional complex to convey the mood of the poem to the reader. By analyzing Lowell’s works such as Opal and Decade, it can be concluded that strategic placement of ‘images’ ensures a deeper and more precise understanding can be gained from using imagery within poems. Also, her contribution to poetic expression has helped heighten the reader’s connection to the written subject by creating each

. . should burn and rave at the close of day”(2). This means that old men should fight when they are dying and their age should not prevent them from resisting death. Another example of personification in the poem is “Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay”(8). This line personifies the men’s frail deeds by saying that they could have danced. This means that the potential actions of the men could have flourished and contributed greatly to their lives. The metaphor “. . . words had forked no lightning. . .”(5) is about how the men had done nothing significant with their lives. They had not achieved anything great or caused a major change. The simile “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay” is about how even grave and serious men will fight against death for as long as they can. Another notable example of figurative language within the poem is “. . . blinding sight”(13). This oxymoron details how the men can see very well and it is very obvious to them that they will die soon, but they know that they can control how they will leave this world. There is an abundance of imagery within this poem, a few examples of which are “. . . danced in a green bay”(8), and “. . . caught and sang the sun in flight”(10) . These examples of imagery are both appealing to the sense of sight by using descriptive words such as “Green” and “danced” in the first example and words such as “caught” and “flight” among others. The second example also appeals to the sense of sound by

The poem is written in the form of a love poem using the traditional love elegy format also known as ‘carpe diem’ and is divided into three stanzas or poetic paragraphs. It’s spoken by a nameless man, who doesn’t reveal any physical or biographical details about himself, to a nameless woman, who is also anonymous. The beauty of the language and the overwhelming focus on the woman’s beauty, the respect shown therein, makes the poem quite progressive and intriguing.