A Parental Ode To My Son Aged three years and five months
A Parental Ode To My Son Aged Three Years And Five Months My first impression on "A parental ode" was a slightly confused one. It was about a father talking about his experience with his son. As his son is young (a toddler) the father is full of praise, admiration and is completely besotted. As the poem progresses the toddler grows older and with age comes mischief. The young boy becomes a nuisance and the father becomes exasperated by what he gets up to. The poem starts off by saying "Thou happy elf!". At this stage in the poem the father is in love with the child and calls him a happy elf. An elf is slightly mischievous and perhaps the father knows that the boy is as well. "Thou merry, laughing sprite!" again shows that the father is proud and delighted with his son. In the second stanza the father completely changes his mood and becomes cross and angry with his son. "Drat the boy! There goes my ink". The son now maybe frustrating the father by doing little accidents such as spilling the ink. The father is very cross with the boy and starts letting his anger out by shouting and saying stronger language in front of the boy. The poem is extremely varied from verse to verse and there becomes a pattern of hate and love. In the third stanza the father has forgiven his son for what he has done and describes him as "thou human humming bee". The poet has used alliteration
Ode on Melancholy Explication
"Ode on Melancholy" by John Keats dramatizes the connection between happiness and beauty and melancholy and pain. The poem suggests the idea of embracing the beauty and joy of nature and humanity although it may contain pain and death. The speaker recognizes that happiness and pain are connected and to experience joy we must experience sadness or melancholy. The poem consists of three stanzas of ten lines. The rhyme scheme of the first two stanzas is ABABCDECDE. This rhyme scheme seems to make the poem flow at a smoother and steadier pace. However, in the third stanza, the rhyming changes to ABABCDEDCE. The poem has a logical structure. It progresses as the reader reads. The first stanza tells the reader not to escape pain. The second says to instead embrace the beauty and joy of nature and humanity, even though they contain pain and death. The third then says, in order to experience happiness, we have to experience the melancholy. In the first stanza, the speaker is telling the reader not to reject melancholy or sadness. It is told negatively: "no," "not," "neither," "nor." Moreover, the first two words, "No, no," imply the speaker's forcefulness towards their opinion. The speaker also tells the reader what not to do, for example, they should not "go to Lethe," or forget their sadness, they should not commit suicide, and should not become fixated on objects of
The Wind.
THE WIND Hughes' admiration of nature is often set against his lack of admiration of man. These things are balanced against each other in several of his poems such as wind In Wind, there is a conflict between the man and the power of the wind. the poem, written in the first person, describes an exceptionally stormy night. Hughes uses different kinds of imagery to show this: he imagines that the house is like a ship, tossed on the waves - "far out at sea all night". He uses personification to give the wind an identity: Hughes writes about the wind "stampeding the fields" as if it is a cowboy deliberately making the grass and crops in the fields move violently, like stampeding cattle. He allows the wind to have power of its own, as he speaks of the way the "wind wielded/ Blade-light", as if it is dangerous and deadly; he accepts his weak strength in the force of its onslaught. All through the poem, the wind seems to be deliberately creating disorder: it "flung a magpie away" and makes the "window tremble" as if fearful in the face of the wind. The poem uses onomatopoeia, too, as it describes the sounds that the wind makes: "bang and vanish"; "the house rang like a goblet"; even the roof moves and "the stones cry out under the horizon". In this poem we feel the way man is powerless when nature is at its most violent. Particularly vivid, I feel, is the way Hughes "scaled
Ode on a grecian urn by John Keats - review
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN John Keats Keats was an important figure in early 19th century poetry and arguably wrote some of the most beautiful and moving poetry in the English language, despite dying at a very young age. Many of Keats' themes and concerns are quintessentially Romantic. Keats seems troubled by a quest for beauty and perfection and this is especially evident in his odes. These lyric poems were written between March and September 1819 and Keats died in 1821. In Ode On A Grecian Urn he has turned to art (unlike in In Ode To A Nightingale, Keats turned to the song of a bird in his quest for perfection.) Instead of identifying with the fluid expressiveness of music the speaker attempts to engage with the static immobility of sculpture. This is done by examining the pictures on the urn and by the speaker describing them and interpreting their meaning. Finding a paradox in nearly all that he finds, it is as if Keats examines both sides of every coin using the urn as a base of perfection and the mortal desires of man and the passage of time on nature as the flip side. The choice of an urn as the subject is in itself interesting, a container designed to keep things safe from decay. However, by keeping something safe from harm by enclosing it, you also prevent it from being released. This symbolic struggle is a theme repeated throughout the poem. The urn's perfection is
Comparing The Eagle and Ode on a Grecian Urn
English Term One - Assignment One I will be looking at the visual imagery in these two poems I have studied, one from "The Eagle (A Fragment)" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the other is the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats. The poem "The Eagle (A Fragment)" is a short poem written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The fact that it is called a fragment leads the reader to thinking whether the poem is complete or not. The poem has a strong musical rhythm, and the poem tells us about how an eagle has high authority and strength as it flies high over other birds. In the next few lines we come to know that the bird is lonely and in the end the eagle falls. The last line has left the reader unclear as to why the eagle has fallen. Whether the eagle has died or that it is diving to grab a prey it is unclear. In this poem the literal meaning talk about the life of an eagle, but figuratively it talks about what happens to a human being when going through the same cycle as shown in the poem about the eagle. Even though Alfred has written a Short poem he still manages to use many different Language techniques. He mainly concentrates on imagery of all different types throughout the poem. He also uses language techniques such as synaesthesia this is where visual and tactile metaphors overlap. E.g. in this poem we can see this from "wrinkled sea" invokes both the sense of sight and the
Compare and contrast Keats 'Ode of Autumn' with Heaney's 'Death of a Naturalist' bringing out clearly the poet's attitudes and techniques
Compare and contrast Keats 'Ode of Autumn' with Heaney's 'Death of a Naturalist' bringing out clearly the poet's attitudes and techniques By Rachel Miller 4H Ode to Autumn by John Keats This ode is a song to Autumn, and is a classic English poem, with that 'old authentic' feel to it. In it Keats manages to create a beautiful picture of what autumn is for him. Unfortunately Keats died from consumption in 1821, and so this was one of his last poems, written in 1819/20, after 'The Fall of Hyperion'. Some people acknowledge this ode as Keats' most perfectly achieved poem, and so this time was Keats' autumn of his life, when he came to produce his best. This typical English poem follows the rules of metre, and characteristically uses Iambic pentameters, as with most good traditional poems. The landscape is also typically English rural countryside, and the side of autumn, which Keats chooses to include, is the custom of the Harvest. Where all the fruits of autumn reach maturity - the farming tradition of autumn. This is a through and through English poem. It was composed soon after a walk in the fields near Winchester (S. England), September 1819. A letter sent to a friend (J.H Reynolds) shows just how much of the poem was written from experience. In the letter Keats makes reference to Diana, goddess of the moon and of chastity, but she is not apparent in the poem, except the
Wind Power.
Wind Power The wind turbine, also called a windmill, is a means of harnessing the kinetic energy of the wind and converting it into electrical energy. This is accomplished by turning blades called aerofoils, which drive a shaft, which drive a motor (turbine) and ar e connected to a generator. "It is estimated that the total power capacity of winds surrounding the earth is x 1011 Gigawatts" (Cheremisinoff 6). The total energy of the winds fluctuates from year to year. Windmill expert Richard Hills said that the wind really is a fickle source of power, with wind speeds to low or inconsistent for the windmill to be of practical use. However, that hasn't stopped windmill engineers from trying. Today, there are many kinds of windmills, some of which serve differen t functions. They are a complex alternative energy source. What to consider when building a windmill In choosing where to build a windmill, there are many important factors to consider. First is the location: 1) Available wind energy is usually higher near the seacoast or coasts of very large lakes and offshore islands. 2) Available wind energy is gene rally high in the central plains region of the U.S. because of the wide expanses of level (low surface roughness) terrain. 3) Available wind energy is generally low throughout the Southeastern U.S. except for certain hills in the Appalachian and Blue Rid
A Parental Ode to my son (Thomas Hood) and Upon my Son Samuel (Anne Bradsheet) comparison
A Parental Ode to my son (Thomas Hood) and Upon my Son Samuel (Anne Bradsheet) are both poems about parental relationships. Compare and contrast how each poet presents the relationship and say which poem you prefer and why. In your answer you should consider: * Treatment of theme, * Use of language and imagery, * Form, * Context. 'A Parental ode to my Son, aged Three Years and Five months,' by Thomas Hood, was written about Hood's own son. The poet contrasts the idealised view of childhood with the reality of his son, John's, misbehaviour. This makes the poem quite humorous and light hearted. 'Upon My Son Samuel on his going for England, November 8, 1657, ' by Anne Bradsheet, is also about her son. However, this poem is more serious as, the poet was a Puritan woman. She was controversial at the time the poem was published as it was a rarity that woman's literature was published. She left England for the New World in 1630 and lived in a Puritan society. Puritans were strong in belief that God controls everything. Bradsheet named her son Samuel after the story of Hannah and Samuel in the bible. Hannah struggled to conceive, like Bradsheet, but God gave her a son. Perhaps, the reasons for Bradsheet's worries as her Son left for England were influenced by the fact that she had made the opposite journey in 1930. She wrote, on her arrival, of the 'half-dying, famine ridden
Ode on a Grecian Urn - New Criticism.
Ode on a Grecian Urn - New Criticism John Keats' poem Ode on a Grecian Urn describes an urn and the way it makes him feel. The poem begins by asking questions about the characters depicted on the urn and leads into the speaker's feelings of eternity and death. This is followed by a show of frustration and a restatement of the speaker's feelings on eternity. In actuality, the entire poem is the speaker comparing the people and events depicted on the urn to life. Therefore, the urn is symbolic, as it embodies the meaning of life for the speaker. The poem is written about a Grecian urn, not literally but as a symbol for the speaker's feelings about life. The speaker indicates that he enjoys the little mysteries of life and basically that he feels the best things in life should be kept secret. "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweater; ..." (ln 11-12) In the last stanza, this feeling is compared to his feelings about the anonymous form of the urn. "Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought/As doth eternity: ..." (ln 44-45) The speaker has many questions that he wants answered and compares this to what he sees on the urn. "What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape/Of deities or mortals, or of both/ ... /What men or gods are these? What maidens loath? ..." (ln 5-8) However, by looking at the urn, he receives no answers only sees a superficial
Using 'Ode on Melancholy' and one other, examine how Keats uses language to explore his muses
Keats Using 'Ode on Melancholy' and one other, examine how Keats uses language to explore his muses In 'Ode on Melancholy' Keats accepts the truth he sees: joy and pain are inseparable and to experience joy fully we must experience sadness or melancholy fully. The first stanza urges us not to try and escape pain; stanza two tells us what to do instead - embrace the transient beauty and joy of the nature and human experience, which contain pain and death. Stanza three makes clear that in order to experience joy we must experience the sorrow that beauty dies and joy evaporates. The more intensely we feel happiness, the more subject we are to melancholy. The poet's passionate outcry not to reject melancholy is presented negatively - "no," "not," "neither," "nor." The degree of pain that melancholy may cause is implied by the ways to avoid it, for example "go to Lethe" and "suffer thy pale forehead to be kissed by nightshade..." The first two words, "No, no," are both accented, emphasising them; their forcefulness expresses convincingly the speaker's passionate state. In the first stanza, the language used presents "the wakeful anguish of the soul". Keats speaks of "yew-berries" which are generally associated with mourning; the mood of the stanza is joyless which mirrors the subject it speaks of. However, Keats describes the "anguish" as "wakeful" because the sufferer still
