comparing blake's london and wordsworths unpon west minster bridge
How do the poets use Structure, language and form in the two poems to help present their visions of London? William Blake's 'London' 1793 and William Wordsworth's 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' 1802 stage two contrasting views of London. Having both been written in the Romantic period, the two poets use their personal experience of London to illustrate the different visions of the city. Wordsworth adopted the Petrarchan pattern (abba abba cdcdcd) to create his flowing sonnet that describes the silent, undying beauty of London; the intimacy with his description could be inspired by classical poets such as Horaz, Virgil and Ovid. Blake however hardened to use a more harsh approach, delivering his dramatic reality of the dejected city. The two poems hold an expressive passion throughout and both have a deeper inner meaning than what's seen at surface value. At a first glance, these two poems seem the complete opposite. One compliments the natural beauty of London whilst the other only states the traumatic situations faced through a sinister, dark city. This style could have been inspired by Blake's surrounding of the French revolution which was imminent over London, there's a possibility that the murder and violence could have encouraged Blake to give his reality of the capital in the 18th century. Despite the obvious differences, the techniques and narrative set out by
Culture Shock
Culture Shock Definition of Culture Culture as the most complex terms has countless different definitions ranging from complicated phrases to the simple statement describing culture as "the way we do things around here". The widely used definition of culture is that of Meads (1951), "A body of learned behaviour, a collection of beliefs, habits and traditions, shared by a group of people and successively learned by people who enter the society"(Joynt and Warner, 1996, P. 33). Hofstede(1980) created the very illustrative definition of culture as "the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another". Again to Hofstede's option, culture is learned not inherited, it is not impossible to learn new cultural traits and to unlearn old ones (Manz, 2003, online). Therefore, it must be feasible to integrate cultural differences. Culture has significant influence on the behaviour of individuals. In general, a person's perceptions, attitudes, motivations, values, learning experience and personality are shaped by culture. The importance of culture lies in the fact that it provides the body of knowledge and techniques that enable people to act, both physically and socially, in the world and make sense of the people and around world . (Forester, 2000, p.63) Culture items 'above the waterline' include language, food,
Compare Nothings Changed by Tatamkhulu Africa and Two Scavengers on a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Compare "Nothing's Changed" by Tatamkhulu Africa and "Two Scavengers on a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti As the name suggests Nothing's Changed is about the apartheid. A poor black man in district six, a poor area of South Africa, who is describing the area and his feelings and he says that nothing's changed. It's all the same even though they had black president Nelson Mandela who stopped the apartheid. It was still the same, all the buildings were covered in glass and there was a restaurant but it was only for the whites, The only place for the blacks was a cafe with white plastic chairs and tables. Two Scavengers in a truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes is about two classes brought together by a red light and the scavengers are looking down into the Mercedes then the poet describes the two beautiful people in the Mercedes to be rich and the two scavengers to be poor. The language the poet uses in Nothing's Changed is mostly aggressive the phrase which suggests this "Hands burn for a stone" this means he wants a stone to throw through the glass, The writer also uses repetition of the word "And" also he uses personification by saying "bearded seeds" personification means to make something human or alive. The poet gradually gets angrier throughout the poem because as he enters the town he's realizes that it is still the same
Macbeth
Discuss the role that blood plays in Macbeth, what does it symbolize for Macbeth and his wife? In this essay, I will be discussing and analysing the role of blood in the famous Shakespearian play, Macbeth, how Macbeth and his wife are symbolized by blood throughout the play. Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare's plays and shortest tragedy, it was written between 1603 and 1606. It solely highlights blood imagery of a tragedy that happened in Scotland around 1530's. The pay tells the peril of lust for power and megalomania. Briefly, the play outlines how the two main characters strive their way through to power through destructive and tragic deeds. The two main characters, Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, are driven by ambition to commit evil actions. Lady Macbeth, a more ambitious person than her husband plots to have her husband murder the king of Scotland so that he can take the throne. Macbeth commits more murders to protect his throne, all the while becoming sick with guilt and paranoia. The guilt that engulfs him and his wife lead to their gradual insanity and eventual death. Besides, the spark of all of this tragedy is when Macbeth met the weird sisters, who serve a huge dramatic function in the play. Closely looking at Macbeth, one can distinguish the many functions that they serve in the play. The role of the three Weird Sisters in the play
English Poetry
Using Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening and The Road Not Taken, write about the way Robert Frost uses some apparently simple situations to explore life's journey. Robert Frost often writes about journeys. Although his poems may at first seem plain, they have wider meanings, which often regard life's journey. Because people can often relate to Frost's writing due to his simple language, he is a still a very popular poet today. His life spanned two important eras of literature - the Victorian and Modernist eras - as he was born in 1874 and died in 1963. He was American but travelled to England, which may account for his vivid descriptions of the world and his knowledge of the decisions in life which have to be made. 'Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening' is a typical Frost poem. It centres on this theme and a natural setting. The narrator is travelling near woods. He is alone and has complete solitude: 'Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though'. The poet here suggests that this man is on his own in an isolated area as even the owner of the woods does not live nearby, but in the town. The man is aware that the owner will not be there, perhaps suggesting that he was looking for time alone. Snow is filling up the woods, suggesting suffocation and a feeling of entrapment. In the second stanza the reader is again reminded that the man
pre 1914 prose
Pre 1914 prose "Great expectations" Great Expectations written by a famous man called Charles dickens. "Great expectations" is a famous and tense novel which was first published in the year 1860 to 1861 every fortnight in a magazine called all year round. The plot is based on a young boy called "Pip", who in the first chapter meets and odd fellow in a gloomy, dark cemetery, pip walks on and soon finds himself turned upside down bye an ex-convict who threatens pip at the throat that he would cut out his heart and his liver if pip dose not do as he says. This dark gloomy fellow scares pip which makes you sympathize for pip. In chapter 8, pip is at a house with his mean sister and her kind and caring blacksmith husband Joe. As pip is a working class orphan he has no parents just is evil sister. Then a rich old, creepy women called Miss havishem asks pip to come round and to play, as he doesn't want to, his sister forced him. When he arrives he ends up in a room with no external light only candles and a dead like figure who demands him to play is Miss Havishem, she demands him to play with her beautiful older then pip daughter, Estella, whom pip falls in love with, you feel sorry for pip now because he cant get her because she is upper class and he is garbage to her. In chapter one, Dickens sets the scene by describing the marshes, saying it is an open dark place and that's
The poems
The poems "This Room" and "Not my Business" can be seen as a contrasting pair. Compare the two poems focusing on: themes, language and structure. The poem "This Room" suggests it has a theme of liberation and freedom. The first stanza hints at this e.g. "This room is breaking out". From line 14-15 talk about celebration by banging pots and pans. Perhaps the room has been oppressed for so long that its joy of freedom can only be expressed with sounds. "Not my Business" is a definite contrast to "This Room". The writer uses this poem to express apathy and oppression in the country they are in. Another theme that could be seen in this poem is fear. Fear of the jeep, fear of "They", and fear of losing the yam from his hungry hand. Both writers use personification in their poems. The use of personification makes the object seem alive when it isn't. In "This Room" the writer personifies the room by saying it's "breaking out" (line 1). This could mean breaking free of things like oppression, death or material belongings. The effect of this is the room is more animate and it gives more meaning to the text as a whole. It also gives a vivid imagery of what is going on, allowing the reader to understand the poem. The writer uses onomatopoeia ("bang" and "clang" in lines 14 and 15). Onomatopoeia is a form of aural imagery. The purpose of using onomatopoeia is to produce the sound of
