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Write about At a Potato Digging and three other poems you enjoyed reading.
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Compare the ways parent/child relationships are represented in Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy and three other poems, one by Simon Armitage and any two from the Pre-1914 Poetry Bank.
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war poems comparison
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Compare and contrast the ways in which Owen and Sassoon present images of suffering and death in 'Exposure' and 'The Hero'.
Compare and contrast the ways in which Owen and Sassoon present images of suffering and death in 'Exposure' and 'The Hero'. Owen and Sassoon are both famous poets, who wrote their poems during and about the First World War. Wilfred Owen was very descriptive poet, who wrote in great details about all that he saw, using much poetic and flowing language. Siegfried Sassoon however was very cynical about the people running the war, and could not see a point in all the death going on all around. However, they both fought in the war and since they should have many experiences of war in common, their poems should surely have very common themes and views, and those should be typical of the time. However, after examining the poems closely, one can determine that there are a great amount of differences between the two poems. In 'Exposure', Owen uses much descriptive language to allow the reader to perfectly understand and almost feel the suffering that is going on in this war. He describes the wind as 'iced' and 'knifing', which in itself would be painful; he personifies the wind to a point, because it is stabbing him, and only humans can do that. The suffering and pain that is going on will not and cannot stop, since in the distance, 'incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles'. Owen seems to convey a sense of misery and hopelessness upon the whole situation. He even makes the
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Little Boy Crying The "Little Boy Crying" is a poem written by Mervyn Morris, which is a poem that shows up the theme of "How the father treated the little boy". Little Boy Crying is about a father treating badly the little boy because of his behavior, but sometimes his father also cry when his son cry when he hit him. In stanza 1, line 1 "Your mouth contorting in brief spite and" this means that the mouth of the little boy was twisting hardly. In the whole stanza 1 "Hurt, your laughter metamorphosed into howls, your frame so recently relaxed now tight with three-year-old frustration, your bright eyes swimming tears, splashing your bare feet, you stand there angling for a moment's hint of guilt or sorrow for the quick slap struck" with this, it means that the father was hurt by the child with what he said to him, so it is why the father treat his son so bad that make him cry aloud in the house. In addition, in stanza 2, line 8 "The ogre towers above you, that grim giant", with this, it means that the father was the third person like a giant people that is hitting a little boy because of what he do to adults. In line 9, "Empty of feeling, a colossal cruel" this means that the father was very cruel to the little child and that he does not have any feelings about the little boy. In stanza 2, line 10 to 13, "Soon victim of the tale's conclusion, dead at last. You hate him, you
Catrin Notes.
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How are attitudes towards others presented in 4 poems
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