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The Explosion by Philip Larkin and Six Young Men by Ted Hughes Compare and contrast the evolution of the poets’ feelings in these poems, looking carefully at the language and poetic effects which communicate most effectively. The poems “The Explosion” by Philip Larkin and “Six Young Men” by Ted Hughes are both about death. Philip…
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The Reader
In her poem Dart, Alice Oswald creates, among other poetic techniques, contrast. She employs this in the whole poem but also within it and its different parts. She uses the notion of contrast through three main couples of themes: life and death, nature and human nature, and the pragmatic and the poetic. The first main…
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Alice Oswald’s Dart and Ted Hughes’ Go Fishing are two poems about nature and water, but about experience as well. Their relation is then based on these concepts which can both be seen as an endless source of life, of energy. But these poems do also mention roots and identity, time passing, discovery, evolution, learning,…
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I’m going to do a comparison between John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Field, and Siegfried Sassoon’s ‘Aftermath’. Both poems were written in the First World War era and both reflect certain themes from the war. I’ll talk about the authors first. John McCrae was born in Guelph, Ontario on November 30th, 1872. He is a…
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Sylvia Plath
Subtitled “A poem for three voices”, Sylvia Plath’s poem “Three Women”, consists of three interweaved, interior monologues, contextualized by the setting, “A Maternity Ward and round about”. Three voices are present in the poem, belonging to the women of the title who are patients going through labor. Each of these women describes different feelings and…
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But most compelling is her review of the vicious cycle of low-wage workers whose children are more likely to also fall into poverty and low-wage jobs. This is a problem still evident today in the country. Lee Rainwater and Timothy Smeeding also allude to this fact in their writing titled, Is There Hope for…
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What determines the path a person chooses in life? In the poem “Digging”, Seamus Heaney expresses regret that he will not follow in his father, and grandfather’s footsteps in becoming a laborer, but instead would rather further his skills in writing. Heaney transmits this message through a variety of literary techniques. The central literary feature…
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How has your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive Oral? Through the interactive oral, my understanding of Neruda’s work has improved, particularly the recurring theme of surrealism. By employing surrealistic images, Neruda is able to elevate something that may seem insignificant to a dramatic, grand gesture. This is…
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“When I have fears that I may cease to be” is an Elizabethan sonnet written by John Keats. The poem, written in the first person, charts the desires and despairs of the speaker. The speaker, realising his imminent death, regrets his inability to achieve fame and his incapability of living life to the fullest. The…
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In the Sonnet XLVI, author Pablo Neruda describes the love he has for his wife and his happiness due to his choice of picking her over any other woman. He uses literary devices such as imagery, repetition, metaphors to convey the magnitude of his love. In Sonnet XLVI the narrator starts by talking about the…
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