Michael Clafton
'Choose two poems in which the poets celebrate scenes. What is celebrated in each poem and how do the poets use form, structure and language to express what makes the place special.'
The two poems I am going to look at are 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' and 'In Romney Marsh' in which both poets express their love of the place through the poem.
We know that the poet wants to celebrate Romney Marsh because of the way the poet is written. The poet is written in the first person, which means that the poet is showing that he is talking from experience so as to give the reader a sense of reality. The sense of reality is also emphasised by the ballad being very similar to an almost circular journey, the end of the poem is a repetition of the beginning: 'The wire...' is repeated, and 'Pealed' and roared are repeated as well.
John Davidson is expressing his love of Romney Marsh through rhyme, rhythm, sound, colour and language. To begin, Davidson uses personification to show Romney Marsh as a place rich in beauty: 'A veil of purple vapour...', 'air like sapphire...', '...all diamond drops.', '...silver fire'. These all express the writer's love of the place and how he finds it as beautiful as normal people would find a royal monarch. Davidson also expresses how he finds Romney Marsh a colourful and bright place by using words like '...yellow sunlight...', '...purple vapour...' and '...crimson brands...'. The writer also expresses how bright he finds the place by the fact that even in the evening the place still shows colour and he uses an oxymoron at the same time to particularly emphasise the brightness: 'The darkly shining salt sea drops,'.
'Choose two poems in which the poets celebrate scenes. What is celebrated in each poem and how do the poets use form, structure and language to express what makes the place special.'
The two poems I am going to look at are 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' and 'In Romney Marsh' in which both poets express their love of the place through the poem.
We know that the poet wants to celebrate Romney Marsh because of the way the poet is written. The poet is written in the first person, which means that the poet is showing that he is talking from experience so as to give the reader a sense of reality. The sense of reality is also emphasised by the ballad being very similar to an almost circular journey, the end of the poem is a repetition of the beginning: 'The wire...' is repeated, and 'Pealed' and roared are repeated as well.
John Davidson is expressing his love of Romney Marsh through rhyme, rhythm, sound, colour and language. To begin, Davidson uses personification to show Romney Marsh as a place rich in beauty: 'A veil of purple vapour...', 'air like sapphire...', '...all diamond drops.', '...silver fire'. These all express the writer's love of the place and how he finds it as beautiful as normal people would find a royal monarch. Davidson also expresses how he finds Romney Marsh a colourful and bright place by using words like '...yellow sunlight...', '...purple vapour...' and '...crimson brands...'. The writer also expresses how bright he finds the place by the fact that even in the evening the place still shows colour and he uses an oxymoron at the same time to particularly emphasise the brightness: 'The darkly shining salt sea drops,'.
