Cheng and Atwood show how The Planners of suburbia and The City Planners form and mould our society and the way we live.
The ideas and perceptions of the people who control our world shape the way we live. Cheng and Atwood show how “The Planners” of suburbia and “The City Planners” form and mould our society and the way we live. In “The City Planners” Atwood shows how society has become over sanitised, becoming a “utopia” of a society. In “The Planners” Kim shows how past beauties of the world, created by man, are now being seen as unwanted and are being erased, and that this is a necessary change for our world to advance beyond the simplicity of the past. The sanitised, utopian society is created by the one track mindset of “The City Planners”. “Houses in pedantic rows, the planted sanitary trees”, Atwood uses the familiar “House” of society, a root we can all associate with, as a “pedantic”; an adjective showing the world we live in is designed to be a perfect, correct, equal world of forced formality and conformity; “row”, reinforcing the idea of uniformity and a straightened world. The verb “Planted” shows how our society is a false, “planted” man-made environment, in which “levelness” and similarity is the number one goal. The utopia of Atwood’s “The City Planners” is a perfect society. People live in quiet secluded lives, no “shouting” of pain, sorrow or restlessness, all is quiet, perfect. Atwood uses the cliché phrase
Compare and Contrast the ways in how Out, Out and Disabled present the idea of a forgotten victim
Jerudong International school English draft 2 Compare and Contrast the ways in how “Out, Out” and “Disabled” present the idea of a forgotten victim The poem “Out, Out” by Robert Frost has a strong resemblance with the poem “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen as both poems demonstrate the fragility of life and how one person’s death can be easily forgotten. “Out, Out” the title speaks of everything, used in Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ It implies how life is ultimately described like a candle, when the flame goes off there is eternal darkness. In “Disabled” it essentially shows the same meaning where the women’s interest passed to “strong men that were whole” because the once glorious man in “Disabled” became nothing at all. The use of personification in “Out, Out” where the buzz saw “snarled and rattled” evokes a sense of foreboding. The buzz saw is seen as aggressive where cutting the boy’s hand was seen as a target and was meant to happen after all. The saw is seen as aggressive where cutting the boy’s hand was seen as a target and was meant to happen after all. The boy is simply nothing but dinner to the predator as he was its “supper” was mentioned right at the same moment when his hand was cut off. This is an effective
Compare how the use of war imagery is presented in 'Nettles' and Manhunt
Compare how the use of war imagery is presented in Nettles and one other poem from relationships. Both Vernon Scannell and Simon Armitage show imagery of war through the poems ‘Nettles’ and ‘Manhunt’. Vernon Scannell uses personification, to bring human qualities to the poem and Simon Armitage uses metaphors to bring interpretation to ‘Manhunt’. Both ‘Nettles’ and ‘Manhunt’ use imagery of war, to bring an effect on the reader, for example in ‘Nettles’ he uses army term names e.g. “Spears”, “regiment” and “fallen dead”. The use of the violent and excessive objects, against something so harm less, the nettles shows his love and need of protection for his son, furthermore the use of the violent object for such insignificant event, could suggest the father has been through a traumatic event in the war. The effect on the reader is to imagine a loved one in a situation where they are hurt and how they would react. Similarly the narrator in ‘Manhunt’ uses imagery of war in a different way, he uses war to show how the injuries that occurred have injured and hurt him. “Parachute silk of his punctured lung”. The word silk suggests how delict and precious he is, however it is unusual that he portrays the parachute as delicate as it should be sturdy and strong, this shows how fragile he is and how he needs protecting. This makes the reader
Poetry From Other Cultures
Laura Jeacock Poetry from Other Cultures What is a culture? Culture is the full range of learned human behaviour patterns. The 2 poems I am going to compare are Vultures and Nothings Changed. Vultures was written by a Nigerian tribesman named Chinua Achebe. Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria in 1930. He was christened as Albert Achebe. He is one of the most admired African novelists who writes in English. On the other hand, Nothing's Changed was written by Tatamkhula Afrika, born in Egypt and came to South Africa as a child. Nothing's Changed is an autobiographic poem and follows the journey of Afrika as he returns back to his home town after the Apartheid is over. However, he fails to see how the abolishment of the Apartheid has changed District Six of Cape Town, where he lived as a child and grew up, as there is still a division between the whites and blacks. This is shown by comparing the posh "whites only inn "and the "working mans cafe selling bunny chows". Whereas Achebe's poem, Vultures, give us an insight into how 2 different sides of people or animals can exist. The vultures of the title may be birds of prey but Chinua Achebe used to represent people of a certain kind. Achebe kinks his poem to World War 2. He wrote Vultures shortly after the end of the war. H makes references to "Belsen Camp, "trench" and other words that can symbolise evil or relate to the war.
Poetry of the first world War
Dawn Dunston Assignment One Poetry of the First World War 1914 to 1918 World War One, also known as The Great War took place primarily in Europe from 1914 to 1918. It claimed the lives of millions and resulted in millions of casualties. It is all too often forgotten but when remembered, it is remembered with great sadness. It is hard to imagine that anything beautiful could materialize from this horrific conflict but something did. It inspired and produced some of the Worlds most famous poets who wrote powerful poems about the everyday reality of this epic event. The three poems that I will analyse for this essay are 'War Girls' by Jesse Pope, 'Breakfast' by Wilfred Wilfred Gibson and 'There will come soft rains...' by Sara Teasdale. All three poems depict their inner feelings and own personal views of the war and their views are conveyed with the use of powerful imagery. As the title suggests in Pope's 'War Girls' the poem is about the lives of woman during World War One. The characters are addressed as girls 'the motor girl', 'the butcher girl', giving an image of these woman being very young but very mature. An upbeat tempo has been used and with the description of the jobs that woman did, 'drives the heavy van', 'does a milk round in the rain' it conveys a sense of action. The lines, 'beneath each uniform, beats a heart that's soft and warm', is an example
War Poetry Essay
C/W War Poetry Essay! November 2007 'Charge of the light brigade' written by Alfred Lord Tennyson describes a battle in the Crimean war which took place 1854-1856. Tennyson wrote Charge of the light brigade after reading an account in the times newspaper. During the battle the orders given were a mistake because, the British cavalry commander mistook his orders to retake some guns held by the Russians. Instead he told his men to charge at the main Russian position, which was at the head of the valley bristling with artillery. The 600 horsemen gallantly obeyed but two thirds of the force were killed or wounded. The charge of the light brigade is the best known example of heroism and the stupidity of war. 'Attack' written by Siegfried Sassoon was set in WW1 1914-1918. The poem 'Attack' was written in 1917; it describes a battle and also men going 'over the top'. Sassoon was a solider in ww1 and it is possible that he is writing from a personal experience. 'Attack' describes a typical battle of ww1 and could possibly be describing the battle of the Somme which took place in 1916. There are many similarities between the poems. Both of the poems describe head on/ frontal attacks. An example of this is, in the poem 'Attack' is that it says 'They leave their trenches, going over the top' Both of the poems deal with great