Memories of a Childhood
Memories of a Childhood I will remember The smell of an evening night with a light breeze The taste of milk chocolate swirling around The sound of an owl on moon light night A cocktail stick on my finger I will remember The smell of a poppy field The feeling of an apple touching my lips The sound of bird song in the morning An icicle touching my ear at night I will remember The smell of a chain saw cutting a tree The melting feeling of ice in my mouth The sound of a fog horn by the sea A bee sting on my leg I will remember The smell of the seaside The taste of an ice cold drink The sound of a grand farther clock The feeling of waves on my legs Thing I'll remember most of all Is not seen, heard, felt, smelt or tasted But it is in your heart and in your head And that's the love of my family and friends. We were asked in English to write a piece of creative writing either in the form of a poem or a story our further instructions were it had to be based on childhood or children our teacher suggested we could base our writing on past childhood experiences. I thought about what interesting events I could write about unfortunately I drew a blank so I had to go down another track. I finally settled on using feelings and emotions as the backbone to my work. I brain stormed some ideas down on paper leading of from the five senses. I came up with a lot of
Write up the ideas from your discussion about the attitudes to love shown by these writers - Promises Like Pie-crusts by Christina Rossetti
The Poets say... Write up the ideas from your discussion about the attitudes to love shown by these writers * Promises Like Pie-crusts by Christina Rossetti I think that some of the main themes of the poem are about how risky love can be, and it is better to be friends that to be lovers. For this person love is a risk which they dare not take, there are so many underlying unchangeable factors which count towards the final product; whether that be a broken relationship or against all odds a strong and healthy relationship. For them it is much safer to be friends rather than lovers "Let us be the friends we were, Nothing more, nothing less: Many thrive on frugal fare Who would perish on excess" Many people can flourish in a friendship that wouldn't survive the harsh realities of a relationship. A friendship can be loving, nurturing and much easier to live with. People can stay friends for life, but a relationship often ends in hurt and the damage done to the relationship and both parties can be irreversible. Relationships can set not only the people involved at odds but also the people surrounding the relationship. Friendship is love in checked moderation, without passion and lust to cloud judgements, consciences and sensibilities just leaving a caring, considerate love behind. Often passing love is built on first impressions, desire, peer pressure, hormones,
Discuss the difference between The Withered Arm and Lamb to the Slaughter.
The Withered Arm and Lamb to the Slaughter This essay is aimed at discussing the difference between the short stores, called The Withered Arm and Lamb to the Slaughter. These stores have similar plots and both deliver and contrast these in their very own clever ways. They are both based on the idea of revenge, involving two women and a man. In the story Lamb to the Slaughter there is a couple named Mr and Mrs Maloney, when Patrick comes home from work he wants to tell Mary Maloney something, Mary knew that Patrick was seeing another woman so she takes her revenge on him. The Withered Arm is about a middle aged couple called Farmer Lodge and his wife Gertrude. Another main character is Rhoda Brook a lady who takes revenge on Farmer Lodge because Rhoda has Farmer Lodge's child and he does not help her bring him up. The author of 'Lamb to the Slaughter' is Roald Dahl who was from a poor background he was born in 1860. His books are mostly fantasy, and full of imagination. Roald Dahl wrote a collection of 18 short stories called 'Someone like you'. In these stories he examines the dark side of human nature or mental illness in characters that initially appear to be normal. For example In 'Lamb to the Slaughter', Mary Maloney appears to be like a normal housewife. Patrick her husband, is a policeman. Their life is boring and repetitive; they have drinks each night before cooking
Compose and Contrast the two heroes in ‘The Sextons Hero’ by Elizabeth Gaskell and ‘Old Mrs Chundle’ by Thomas Hardy
Compose and Contrast the two heroes in 'The Sextons Hero' by Elizabeth Gaskell and 'Old Mrs Chundle' by Thomas Hardy The question, which has been set, is about heroism so I will start the essay by giving my personal opinion of a hero and the dictionary definition of a hero. The dictionary definition of a hero is 'a man or boy who is admired for doing something very brave or great'. This definition is very close to my own definition apart from I believe that a hero is also someone who people can look up to as a mentor or as a role model. The Sextons Hero Firstly The Sextons Hero is a story about a sexton (digs graves for a living) who has a friend with whom he has known for most of his life but they get separated when they both fall for the same woman. Gilbert (his friend) is challenged by the sexton to a fight only to be turned down as Gilbert is a religious man and finds fighting wrong. He is latter rejected by his love Letty and the Sexton marries her and they bare child. But later on when they are both visiting family without the baby they are caught crossing a bay when the tide come in and looks destined to kill them both only for Gilbert to come and rescues them and thus kill himself so that the baby may have its mother and father. Gilbert is a very stereotypical hero as he is six feet tall, broad and is very sporty. This is the more thought of sought of person when
Compare and contrast 'Death of a Naturalist' and 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney.
Compare and contrast 'Death of a Naturalist' and 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney. The poems 'Death of a Naturalist' and 'Digging' have many similarities, and contrasts. Some of the reoccurring themes in the two poems include memories of childhood and changes in the life of the writer. There are contrasts too, in 'Death of a Naturalist'; the writer is concentrating on himself and his own experiences in life, rather than the experiences of others. In 'Digging', the opposite is true, as the writer concentrates mainly on the events in other people's lives, namely his father and grandfather. The endings of both the poems have a different feel to them. 'Digging' finishes in a much more positive tone than 'Death of a Naturalist', which ends on a lower note, of the writer realising his own cynicism. In spite of this, both poems have similar tones in their openings, creating opposing feelings when compared with their final stanzas. The poet, Seamus Heaney wrote these poems. He was born on April 13th 1939 and was the eldest of nine children. His parents, Margaret and Patrick Heaney brought Seamus and his siblings up on a farm thirty miles from Belfast in County Derry. Later in his life, he went to St Josephs College in Belfast and studied English and where he also earned a Teaching Certificate. Later in his life he became a lecturer at this college. There he joined a poetry workshop
How did Roald Dahl create atmosphere and tension in the story Lamb to the Slaughter?
Lamb to the Slaughter How did Roald Dahl create atmosphere and tension in the story Lamb to the Slaughter? Lamb to the slaughter is a short story written by Roald Dahl. He is most famous for writing children's stories. This is a short story about contradicting feelings. Initially we have a woman waiting for her husband to return home from work, she is waiting, content in her warm and cosy chair, the house is "warm and clean, the curtains drawn and the two table lamps alight" an atmosphere of a nice home, an ideal one for Mr Maloney to come home to. Right from the beginning of the story, a warm and cosy atmosphere is created. She is safe in the knowledge that her husband will be arriving home soon, "Now again she would glance up at the clock, but without anxiety, merely to please her with the thought that each minute gone by made it nearer the time when he would arrive". This quote shows that she is not impatient or worried and when Mr Maloney will arrive home. Her husband is always on time, and she is becoming excited now that it is drawing near to the time that he would normally arrive. "When the clock said ten minutes to five she began to listen, and a few moments later, punctually as always, she heard the tyres on the gravel outside". When he pulls into the drive she can see "the flash of light through the gap in the curtains" now that he has arrived the
Comparison between Break of day in the trenches and Dulce et Decorum est
DULCE ET DECORUM EST BREAK OF DAY IN THE TRENCHES The poem Dulce et Decorum est is written by Wildred Owens. Wilfred Owen is one of the most famous war poets. He was born in 1893 and died in 1918, just one week from the end of World War One. His poetry is characterized by powerful descriptions of the conditions faced by soldiers in the trenches. World War One took place between 1914 and 1918 and is remembered particularly for trench warfare and the use of gas. Owing to the technological innovations in use during it, the war is often referred to as the first modern war. The other poem that is going to be analyzed is "Break of day in the Trenches" written by Isaac Rosenberg. Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets. Both Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg have a strong association with World War One. Their poems are often violent and realistic, challenging earlier poetry which communicated a pro-war message. Wildred Owens showed his contempt at the pro war message as he called them a lie. Their first-hand experience of war is arguably one reason why there is such a shift in the attitude of poets towards war. On the opening stanza of "Break of day in the Trenches", it describes the breaking of a day as the "darkness crumbles away". It was still the same "old druid" time like always. Isaac
Compare and contrast ‘My Box’ and ‘Valentine’. Explore the poets’ feelings about love. To conclude, say which you prefer and why.
English Coursework Task:- Compare and contrast 'My Box' and 'Valentine'. Explore the poets' feelings about love. To conclude, say which you prefer and why. 'My Box' and 'Valentine' are both written by two female poets, Gillian Clarke and Carol Ann Duffy, respectively. They are both contemporary poems about love. Clarke has an idealistic perception of love while Duffy writes more metaphorically about and onion. She uses single isolated lines and words; there is no regular rhythm or rhyme scheme. 'My Box' does have a regular 8,6,8,6 rhythm and a rhyme scheme. Duffy portrays her strong feelings against the commercialism of Valentines Day in her poem; Clarke mentions nothing about it. Both of these poems contain effective imagery. Duffy uses an onion as an extended metaphor; she writes 'It is a moon wrapped in brown paper'. As the moon is associated with mystery it may be referring to a mysterious relationship or a mysterious lover. Another example of effective imagery in this poem is 'It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief' which could mean, that because onions make your eyes water every thing will be distorted. Metaphorically this means that the future of a relationship is never clear, you never know what is just around the corner. All of these images near the beginning of the poem are positive but they get more and more negative throughout the poem until 'Its
Compare and contrast the poetic of death and 'seizing the day.' 'Death the leveller' by James Shirley and 'to the virgins, make much of time' by Robert Herrick.
'Compare and contrast the poetic of death and 'seizing the day.' 'Death the leveller' by James Shirley and 'to the virgins, make much of time' by Robert Herrick. 'Death the leveller' by James Shirley suggests that death is chasing us all, including peasants, kings and queens but there is joy in life and take advantage of what time you have. I will compare and contrast this poem with another called 'To the virgins, make much of time' and explain what similarities and what differences these poems have. 'Death the leveller' says death is inevitable and the 'to the virgins' says that life is great, 'Carpe diem,' 'seize the day.' The language in these poems are very similar and use very similar verbs, metaphors and adjectives. These is personification in both poems such as 'old-time is still a flying' which suggests that old-time is a person and in the other poem there is 'Death lays his icy hand on kings' which suggests that death is a person and will eventually get us all. In 'death the leveller' in contrast to the 'to the virgins' poem there is a lot more powerful verbs used such as 'murmuring, crooked, stoop, creep, shadows, mighty, tumble, pale, glories and kill. In the 'to the virgins' poem, verbs used are blossom, sweet, reap, spent and boast. So in contrast there are more powerful verbs used in 'death the leveller.' There are metaphors in both poems especially in the 'to
Compare and contrast 'Anne Hathaway' and 'Frau Freud' in Duffy's collection 'The World's Wife'
Compare and contrast 'Anne Hathaway' and 'Frau Freud' in Duffy's collection 'The World's Wife' There are both similarities and contrasts between 'Anne Hathaway' and 'Frau Freud 'One of the mail similarities between the two poems are the sexual references in both poems , the structure of the poems and that they are both written in a women's voice. One of the main similarities between the poems is that they are both written by wives of two very famous men, William Shakespeare and Sigmund Freud. There are also similarities in the fact that there are sexual references in both of the poems. In 'Anne Hathaway' she uses these sexual connotations as a way of explaining why Shakespeare did leave her the second best bed. "The bed we loved in was a spinning world/of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas/where he would dive for peals." In 'Frau Freud' the poem contains a list of euphemism for penises that men use. Duffy or Frau Freud uses these synonyms to completely debunk Freud theories with this list that brings the readers attention to Freud's theories of the male obsession with the penis. The women in the two poems both enjoy sex, Anne Hathaway comments on how she and her husband shared their love with their actions and words. In 'Frau Freud' she also says that she enjoys sex "I'm as au fait with hunt-the-salami/as Ms M. Lewinsky" Another similarity between the two
