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Thomas Kinsella - A personal response Thomas Kinsella is a poet that is very aware of transience.
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Critical Evaluation Unto Us
Explain the message in the poem "Unto Us" by Spike Milligan. Then by close examination of poetic technique, explain how successful Milligan is in getting his message across. In the poem "Unto Us" by Spike Milligan the poet very effectively conveys his anti-abortion message by using various interesting poetic techniques. The poem is written in first person from the perspective of the unborn child. It describes the foetus' feelings, firstly the baby's excitement to live and then it's reaction to the abortion and the change in feelings towards the parents. The title of the poem is taken from the Bible, it comes from the quotation "unto us a child is born" but in this case the quotation has been cut short. The poet leaves out the second part of the line - "a child is born". By doing this the reader can begin to see what the poem is about, a child which will not be born. Also by quoting the bible in the title we are reminded of, for example, the Catholic church's opinion against abortion. The use of the foetus as the narrator does help to give the poem a strong message. By implying the foetus has thoughts and feelings the reader feels sympathy for the child. Also many people who are pro-choice make the strong argument that the child has no awareness therefore is not alive, but in this poem the foetus is portrayed as being intelligent and perfectly capable of realising what is
The Hollow Men
I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us - if at all - not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. II Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star. Let me be no nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer- Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom III This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star. Is it like this In death's other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone. IV The eyes
Compare and contrast Tony Harrisons poems Bookends and Long Distance 2
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