John Foulcher's "For the fire" and "Martin and the hand grenade" analysis.
John Foulcher poem analysis John Foulcher is an Australian poet; his poems are described to be ‘simple, direct and convincing’. Johan Foulcher is an imagist. Foulcher takes a moment and draws it out so that a story unfolds, allowing us not only to see the moment, but to sense it, as if it has happened, is happening, to us. He uses conversational style to show us these moments and characters. He talks to us in plain English. There is no extravagance in his language, only clarity of word choice and deftness at stringing the words together. The everyday-ness of his topics makes the image that much more precious, because it points to the wonder that is simply a lived life; though he also captures war, religion and death with a faultless ease. In his poem ‘Martin and the Hand Grenade.’ The main theme conveyed in this poem is relationship and violence. Foulcher explores the ideas of the difference between adults and children in their interpretation of warfare. The poems “Martin and the Hand Grenade “is based on a personal experience that Foulcher had had while teaching at a boys school in one of his history lessons. This poem portrays the idea that adults and children have a different view of war and violence. Foulcher uses a number of techniques to create a vivid image of the incident in our minds and allows us to picture ourselves observing the same thing that
Analysis of 'Stop All The Clocks' by W. H. Auden
Daniel Lawson 9BXAPP 4 – Poetry AnalysisTuesday 17th April 2012 “Stop all the clocks”, also known as “Funeral Blues”, is a poem by the Anglo-American poet, Wystan Hugh Auden, more commonly known as W.H. Auden. Although the poem may seem as though it was written as a result of a personal loss of the poet, he actually originally wrote it for a play he co-wrote with Christopher Isherwood, “The Ascent of F6”. It was to be a satiric, parody for a politician’s eulogy, however is now more commonly known as a result of it being accurate to relate to people who truly grieve. The version of the poem used in the play was a 5-stanza version, although the current version is only 4 stanzas long. It is famous for being used in the film, “Four Weddings and a Funeral”. Even though W.H. Auden did not write the poem as a result of a loss he had experienced himself, he did have a loved one who was a man, as he was homosexual, although he was also married to a woman during his lifetime. Loss is an extremely popular topic for stories, poems, movies and many other forms of entertainment. Sometimes, loss can be an extremely boring topic, especially due to its frequent usage, however W. H. Auden represents loss in an extremely passionate way through empathy in this poem. In “Stop all the clocks”, the poet, W.H. Auden utilises a wide range of techniques to convey the sense of
Poetry analysis of Auden's Funeral Blues.
FUNERAL BLUES BY W.H. AUDEN ANALYSIS During Auden's lifetime, Auden witnessed both World Wars and the deaths of many important people. Auden found himself writing many elegies and capturing the impact these figures had on the public and their century. Here, in "Funeral Blues," Auden, through the voice of the speaker, seems to be writing an elegy for someone who meant a great deal to him personally. One can gather that speaker loved this person dearly. Auden is explaining that love does not always last. This poem incorporates a series of metaphors, personification, imagery and assonance to describe the writer's feeling about losing his loved one. "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come" In the first stanza the speaker uses some of "clocks", "oceans" and "piano" to indicate the importance of his love. With the death of this person in the speaker's world, time has stopped To show the end of happiness and the start of mourning, the writer includes the silencing of the pianos and then low thudding drums used at funeral to describe the
In "Report to Wordsworth" How does the poet convey his sense of dismay at environmental damage? .
How does the poet convey his sense of dismay at environmental damage? In "Report to Wordsworth", the writer conveys his dismay by describing humanity's atrocities to Nature, and the deterioration of Nature, while echoing Wordsworth throughout the whole poem. The first line refers to the title of the poem; in using the word "report" we get an impression that Cheng is trying to account or complain about the environmental damage; by addressing it to Wordsworth we believe the poet wanted to address someone who would have cared about this matter. Cheng addresses Wordsworth directly and pleads for help in name of Nature - this is mirroring Wordsworth's address to Milton in "London, 1802". In the second line, Cheng describes what happens to Nature. Cheng writes that waste has been dumped on Nature - "She has been laid waste"; this could also mean that Nature is not in its former glory, that she is deteriorating. The poet refers to Nature as "she" resembling Wordsworth's address to Nature in "The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon". This also invokes feelings of pity - we read, thinking that Nature is a female being, who is harmed. When Cheng writes that Natures is "Smothered by the smog", we get an impression that Nature is choked by the pollution. When Cheng writes "the flowers are mute", we get a sense that Nature and its components are losing beauty and colour. By
Explore how Peter Porter presents his thoughts on life in A Consumer's Report
Explore how the poet presents his thoughts on life in 'A Consumer's Report' Use examples from the language of the poem to support your answer [15 marks] Peter Porter focuses on the consumerist society and the problems of life that a person goes through in his poem 'A Consumer's Report'. This is explored by the sustained metaphor of life and the monologue used which has an implied listener which is the reader. The tone drifts from a solemn one to a cynical one to highlight life's problems in that to portray how people see life as a bad thing. The main issue from the poem is that it is a life is satirical and people have become too indulged by product that it has become a consumerist capitalist state of society. The first line of the poem, "The name of the product I tested is Life" expresses the poet's feelings that to him life is just a product and this adds to the title as it is a comparison of life to a product. Products, being tangible goods, have "different labels, sizes and colours". The poet comments on this because he feels that there are different races of human beings and that now everyone is being mixed together into a much more multicultural society. Since a product is anything that can be bought anywhere and anyhow, the poet compares this to life to show that nowadays life has been taken for granted and that it has not been valued. There is the irony used also
The Telephone by Robert Frost - Analysis
'The Telephone' - Analysis The writer, Robert Frost, utilized greatly the literary device of connotation in his poem 'The Telephone'. Although the meaning behind the poem is not openly expressed, and hence enables the readers to make an interpretation in any way as they wish, a possible point of view would be that the poem acted as a conversation between two lovers, one of whom may probably be deceased and have left. Although the word 'telephone' is no where found within the poem, the actual word (and title) related back to its Greek definition, meaning ' a voice from afar'. Thus, the first line 'When I was just as far as I could walk' shows that the speaker is attempting to travel afar, yet is too infirm to do so. Following, Frost personifies a flower as the telephone. The usual beauty and sweet scent associated with flowers follow here as a cherished object of the speaker, demonstrating his love or fondness of the person on the other end of the line. Also, in speaking about flowers and bees, they symbolize the speaker's ethereal interaction with nature. This implies his longing to join nature itself, perhaps with his lover, who has left for, as said previously, death. Without waiting for the person's response, the speaker says 'Don't say I didn't'. Although on the first read it seems as if the speaker was being defensive, this could be seen in the context of the poem
"The Planners" is a poem where Boey Kim Cheng describes how the planners effect the nature in a negative way
The planners is a poem where Boey Kim Cheng describes how the planners effect the nature in a negative way . The planners in the poem refers not to the actual city planners but planners of a higher power, the planners of the whole country , the government. The theme in this poem is the change brought in by the planners. In this poem negative sentences have been used “not a single”, “the pilling will not stop” The opening line of the poem gives a description of how the planners work. Nature is composed of no straight lines and imperfection is an obvious element in nature; however, man disrupts the peace of nature by enforcing perfection strongly suggesting human domination. The next line describes the work of the planners. It also gives an imagery of how perfectly everything is done “meet at desired points”. In line six the poet tells how with the help of mathematics man overcame many obstacles “bridges all hang”. we are provided with a vivid imagery of a united humans who are constantly advancing upon nature “They build and will not stop”. The last line tells us that even the skies and sea are scared of the power of the planners. The skies surrenders is an alliteration. They erase flaws, blemishes of the past” – humans slowly decay nature by removing the dissimilarities in nature which make everything unique. The planners enforce uniformity. “All
Explore the way Frost presents his thoughts and feelings in Out, Out-
Explore the way Frost presents his thoughts and feelings in ‘Out, Out-’ ‘Out, Out-’ was published in 1916. It is based on a true event, which occurred in April 1910. When Raymond Fitzgerald, the son of Frost’s friend, lost his hand to a buzz saw and bled so profusely that he died of heart failure. The title: ‘Out, Out-’ invites the reader to compare this poem to Macbeth’s soliloquy on learning of his wife’s death. This thirty-nine-line poem consists of one stanza, narrated in the past tense to recreate the details of this accident. The one use of ‘I’ in the poem, in line ten, stands out and emphasizes his wish that the accident never happened, outlining his admiration and close relationship with the boy. Frost creates a central image of a boy bleeding to death to encourage the reader to feel the same sympathy as he does towards the boy. He achieves this by using several physical images such as ‘life from spilling’ and ‘But the hand was gone already’. Both images that are used by Frost are powerful images of the boy bleeding to death and of the hand severed by the saw. Frost uses these vivid images to create a sense of sympathy for the boy by emphasizing the situation he is in. The vividness in ‘the hand was gone already’ describes the seriousness of the accident. He says this to convey a sense of solicitude and compassion towards the boy by
How does the poet show how she feels about her mother in Praise Song for My Mother?
How does the poet show how she feels about her mother in “Praise Song for My Mother”? By Ines Tan 10P The title of the poem makes its subject clear, a praise song or a eulogy, is a traditional form from many African cultures and is often sung instead of being written down. This poem was written to honour the attributes of the poet’s mother; it is a metaphoric poem written from the child’s perspective, using imagery to describe the powerful emotional relationship she shared with her mother. The poet is grateful and rejoices her mothers' presence using the term 'praise' in her poem title whilst referring to her homeland simultaneously. With structure, “Praise Song for My Mother” is based around the first three stanzas, each of three lines. All of which are very similar in format, although, the rhythm is not carried all the way through. The fourth begins in the same way as the first three but is extended, emphasising the poem’s final line about the daughter’s “wide futures” and expanding horizons, as if reflecting the way her mother’s care allowed her to develop and move on. “Praise Song for My Mother” is a free verse, meaning it does not adhere to regular rhyme or rhythm, writing in this way augments the fluidity and the reading of the poem. The lack of punctuation means that there is no pause, adding to the flowing pace and has a softer effect and
In Barter by Sara Teasdale, the author uses many literary techniques to enrich the poem
Poetry essay In Barter by Sara Teasdale, the author uses many literary techniques to enrich the poem, I think he uses three main techniques; these techniques are sensory images, metaphors and similes. The author uses many times sensory images two examples of sensory images in the poem would be: “Soaring fire that sways and sings” and “Scent of pine trees in the rain”. With the first example, we can feel what the author describes. We can feel the heat of the flames from the fire, touching our skin. We have the impression that we are next to the fire, the image is very well chosen. In the example they also talk about the fire who sings, and when I thought of the fire touching my skin, I immediately thought of that song, that music, without even knowing that it was at the end of the sentence. So I think that in this sentence the author has really well used the words to create a perfect sensory image that gives us the impression to be at the authors place next to the fire. In the second example, the author describes the scent of pine trees. When I think about pine trees the first thing that comes to my mind is the smell that it gives out, this fresh and delicate odor. But this smell can be accentuated by the rain, and when you walk in a forest of pine trees an hour after it has rained, so when the author talks about the scent of pine trees in the rain, I can directly
