How are attitudes to love and relationships presented in To His Coy Mistress, The Beggar Woman and The Seduction and what do they reveal about the roles of men and women?

How are attitudes to love and relationships presented in 'To His Coy Mistress', 'The Beggar Woman' and 'The Seduction' and what do they reveal about the roles of men and women? The three poems I have looked at, 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell, 'The Beggar Woman' by William King and 'The Seduction' by Eileen McCauley, although all centring around the theme of love and relationships show very different perspectives on similar issues, their contextual differences mean that each poem is diverse even though all of them challenge the social society. However in the poems we can see some similarities in the representation of men and women with one theme being the portrayal of woman as prey in the eyes on men. To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell is a poem written from the perspective of a man talking to his lover, trying to persuade her to have sex with him as "time's winged chariot hurrying near". The poem presents his opinion that time is limited and that they must act now. The poem is structured into three sections. The first is about 'if' with the man explaining the way he would do things if "had we but world enough, and time'. The second section is about 'but' where the man says that although this is what he wants to do, they don't have the time. The third section is about 'therefore' in which the man says that because of this they have to be quick about things and,

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Compare and contrast how gender roles are represented in a variety of love poems.

Candidate number: Compare and contrast how gender roles are represented in a variety of love poems. Introduction In my course work I will be comparing and contrasting how gender roles are represented in a variety of love poems. Gender roles love, marriage and sex have changed since the 1800's.Now people have sex and get married because they want to make love to each other and have a nice family, wanting to spend their life with the perfect partner, together making a commitment to each other. Where as in the 1800's people only got married because they wanted to raise their status and to have children to help them work and earn financial income, when they would be old they could take over their business. In the 1800's it was much different from now because then if you was a woman you wouldn't be able to get a job that you wanted to get, the only jobs which were available where to be a teacher or a domestic servant. Whereas now, if you're a woman you could get any job you want, having the equivalent pay and respect as a male worker, there are no differences between males and females. In the 1800's if a woman would had broke off her wedding, she would risk living the rest of her life as a spinster meaning they really didn't have a choice in their lives. The court and the society's views on adultery where, the court treated the women and the men unequally, the court would

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Essay Question: Discuss both poets of murder, revenge and violence in Salome by Carol Ann Duffy and The Laboratory by Robert Browning. With reference to language, structure and poetic devices.

Essay Question: Discuss both poets' of murder, revenge and violence in 'Salome' by Carol Ann Duffy and 'The Laboratory' by Robert Browning. With reference to language, structure and poetic devices. In this essay, I will be analysing murder, revenge and violence in "Salome" by Carol Ann Duffy and "The Laboratory" by Robert Browning. I will be referring to both the poems, focusing on language, structure and poetic devices. The Biblical version of 'Salome' was set in the Kings Chambers. It took place around AD 30. This version was about Salome who danced for Herod's birthday feast. Her step father Herod was captivated by her lascivious performance so he was willing to offer her whatever she desiderated. John Baptist believed it was unacceptable as Salome's mother formerly had an affair with Herod. Salome was persuaded by her mother to call for the head of John the Baptist Carol Ann Duffy's version of 'Salome' was written before 1914. Duffy updates the biblical version of Salome and is writing from a perspective of a modern day Salome. She presents Salome as a 'modern girl on the town' who frequently goes out drinking and ends up with a one night stand. Also Duffy presents Salome a modern day 'vigilante' and a sexual predator which is a role usually associated with men. Many of Carol Ann Duffy's poems reflect on time, age and loss. It is about a female psychopath who takes

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Comparison of pre 1914 and current poems

The two poems I chose to compare are The Laboratory, and Mid-Term break. The laboratory is a poem from the pre 1914's, in 1845, whereas, Mid-Term Break was written in the present time. I am going to compare the poems, and this will show the differences and similarities between poems from before 1914, and the present time. To analyse the poems I used FLIRTS, which is an abbreviation for form, language, imagery, rhyme, tone, and subject. Secondly, I compared the form, or structures of the poems. In both poems, there is lots of reliance on structure for effect, however, the structure of both poems is very different, and the use of structure in both poems is very different. The first poem's structure I analysed is Mid-Term break. The poem is in tercets, which means stanzas of three lines, however, I feel that the poem should not be structured this way. I feel that the poem should actually be structured in quartets, as this would make much more sense, as many phrases which should be on one line, are actually split up in 2 stanzas, for example, "By old men standing up to shake my hand and tell me they were sorry for my trouble." I think that this should be on the same line; however, it is spilt up into two stanzas after the word hand. I think that the poet, Seamus Heaney, may have actually does this purposefully, to show the confusion in the boy's mind. I feel that this confusion

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Discuss the ways men and unmarried mothers are presented by the poets in the poems you have studied. Do these poems reflect a change in society(TM)s views

Discuss the ways men and unmarried mothers are presented by the poets in the poems you have studied. Do these poems reflect a change in society's views? The poem "Cousin Kate" was written by Christina Rossetti in the 19th century. The poem "The Seduction" by Eileen McAuley is a modern 20th century interpretation of real life events. In the first poem we studied "Cousin Kate", at the beginning of the poem the speaker is happy and "contented" but all of a sudden "a great lord found her." He then lures the woman to his "palace home" and then uses her as his "plaything." He then leaves her for her cousin, Kate, who he then marries. The speaker then regrets ever accepting the lords offer but then realises she has his son and that he would part lands for someone to carry on his family name. In "The Seduction" there is also a girl, just 16 years old, who is taken advantage of in a party by excessive amounts of alcohol and then taken to a quiet dock where the man spends his schooldays with "sweet paint thinner" while the man makes his way with her. The next half of the poem describes how the girl copes with her pregnancy and that she rather starve herself like a "sick precocious child" than to tell the neighbours. In both poems there are unmarried women who have been taken advantage of in a similar way and are left, just to reflect on their situations, while the men in the poems get

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Compare and Contrast Tennysons Charge Of The Light Brigade with Owens Dulce Et Decorum Est

Compare and Contrast Tennyson's Charge Of The Light Brigade with Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est War and poetry have been linked for hundreds of years. The function of poetry in war is to aid the memory and convey details of war. Over the centuries it became a way in which people could communicate not only stories but also ideas and emotions in an imaginative and expressive way. One characteristic of the link between poetry and war has remained: Throughout the history of war, poems have provided a commentary on what people, communities and nations do. The first of two poems that to be analysed is The Charge Of The Light Brigade written in 1854 by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892). Tennyson was a famous, well recognised writer. His father, George Clayton Tennyson was a rector and vicar so Tennyson was born into a religious family which could influence his poems. He was well educated and studies at Trinity College Cambridge. He wrote in blank verse and couldn't follow conventional rhyme schemes as he was tone deaf. He attempted to write drama but had limited success. He was Poet Laureate from 1850 to 1892 and was made Baron in 1884. He died aged 83 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Tennyson did not fight in any wars so did not have the same knowledge of war when writing COTLB as the writer of the second poem, Wilfred Owen. COTLB was written during the Crimean War. The Crimean

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Compare and Contrast "Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan" by Moniza Alvi and "Search for my Tongue" by Sujata Bhatt

Compare and contrast the ways in which two poets present the themes of cultural displacement and being torn between two cultures in "Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan" by Moniza Alvi and "Search For My Tongue" by Sujata Bhatt. In this essay I will be comparing two poems about cultural displacement and being torn between two cultures and how it has affected its writers. These two poems, Sujata Bhatt's "Search For My Tongue" and Moniza Alvi's "Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan", are both about the feelings the poet experiences living in one culture whilst originally from another. Sujata Bhatt includes Gujarati in her poem along English for greater effect, as this shows her entrapment between the two cultures. Similarly, in "Presents from My Aunt in Pakistan", Moniza Alvi shows her entrapment by giving vivid descriptions of traditional clothing against English clothes. These techniques help to give the reader a more in depth feeling of what each poet was feeling while living away from their original culture and also they show the difficulties involved in doing so. Moniza Alvi's first stanza of the poem describes the clothes sent to her by her aunts; she lists and describes in great detail these clothes to her readers. The first things she lists are two "salwar kameez" outfits. This particular piece of clothing is specific to her Pakistani culture, however it may be

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Compare and contrast the different moods and themes created in Out, Out-and Disabled

Compare and contrast the different moods and themes created in ‘Out, Out-‘and ‘Disabled’ In ‘Disabled’, Wilfred Owen a war veteran tells the story of a young soldier who returns from war and realizes how dissimilar his old life is to his new ne where he is disabled both mentally and physically despite the fact that his mind may seem unaffected by past traumas the reader will begin to understand the subtle hurts that have slowly damaged him. In contrast, the story of ‘Out, out-‘ is of a boy completing his everyday chores, sawing wood, in the backdrop of the Vermont mountains. He accidentally cuts his hand off and he succumbs to death despite a doctor’s aid. Robert Frost’s poem on the human condition and the short life span doomed for all humans is similar to Owen’s‘Disabled’ in that the point that one apparently small decision has the ability to affect and have an enormous influence on that person’s identity and life. The soldier’s choice to enlist for the war then caused him to lose a leg and impacted him so drastically that he now views the world differently moreover the vividness of his former life has drained away ‘down shell-holes’ and his experiences are thus dull and meaningless. Whereas, in ‘Out, out-‘ the poem’s continuity also generates the effect of sudden death with the normal day to day routine of the boy serving to further

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Compare the viewpoint on war in Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson And Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen

Compare the viewpoint on war in 'Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson And 'Dulce et Decorum est' by Wilfred Owen By Abbi Jerath In this essay you will notice the differences and similarities between 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'. 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' was written in nineteenth century by Alfred Lord Tennyson. In contrast, 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' was written in the twentieth century by Wilfred Owen. The main similarity we have observed is that they both capture war time experiences. However, the poets' present these events using their own style, and the effect is two completely different observations of war. Alfred Lord Tennyson became a Poet Laureate for Queen Victoria. This meant all his audience were usually upper class, literary comrades. Tennyson had never been to war, and wrote about how he imagined war to be although many people did question his perception of the war. His poem 'Charge or the Light Brigade' was written about the Crimean war, October 1853 - February 1956, when six hundred men were mistakenly sent into a valley full of the opposition, only few survived. It would have been impossible for them to have been beaten they were destined for defeat. Tennyson could not criticise the country because doing so he could jeopardise his position because Poet Laureate could overlook his point, so his poem

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GCSE English Essay - I am not that woman and still I Rise comparison

English Coursework Essay on poem Compare and contrast the representation of oppression in "I Am Not That Woman" and "Still I Rise". In the poem "I Am Not That Woman" the writer Kishwar Naheed expresses her opinion and knowledge on how woman in her culture are treated. Throughout the motion of this poem the writer seems to be trying to send a message to all men - in particular men from her culture and possibly someone from real life experience. The writer is an Asian woman, most likely to be Pakistani considering that this poem was translated from Urdu (Pakistan's national language). She was born in 1940 in the town Bulandshahr which is in India. She was born and brought up in a traditional family where the atmosphere always favoured men over woman. The message she gives through this particular poem is an objection, what is that objection is a mystery soon to be uncovered. It is also interesting uncovering how Naheed expresses her objection through the poem, she does this in an unorthodox but interesting fashion. Straight away from the poem the phrase "I am not that woman" tells us something about the poems purpose. This certain phrase has been mentioned at the beginning, end and most effectively and importantly is the title of the poem. Overall the phrase has been used in the form of repetition and is a phrase that will be remembered and associated with the poem, so in

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