Comparing the effect and viewpoint of Westminster Bridge and London
Comparing the effect and viewpoint of 'Westminster Bridge' and 'London' Both 'West Minster Bridge' and 'London' in various aspects are similar and diverse. Whilst 'London' portrays the city as bleak, crowded and unhappy; 'West Minster Bridge' portrays it as peaceful and calm by comparing it to nature. An example of this is when Wordsworth states 'Never did sun more beautifully sleep,' this emphasises the beauty of the city by suggesting it is more beautiful than nature itself. Whereas Blake uses metaphorical language to imply the monarchy is responsible for the bloodshed when he says 'runs in blood down palace walls.' This will affect the reader by surprising them with a gruesome image. The juxtaposition here contrasts 'blood' and the 'palace', bloodshed implies disorder, however the palace is stereotypically authorised and ordered: Blake has combined two opposing nouns for maximum impact on the reader. This might possibly set off a trigger in the readers mind, evoking past wars and particular historical events; forcing them to consider the historical values of the palace. 'London' is a bleak poem, reflecting Blake's outrage at the waste and suffering of human life - especially in the great city. In contrast with this, is the surprise and impressiveness of the cities beauty in a captured moment of tranquillity brought across by Wordsworth. In
How are male and female relationships portrayed in "Romeo and Juliet", Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy and Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barret Browning,
How does Shakespeare portray the male/female relationships in Romeo and Juliet? Male/female relationships are also present in a number of the poems you have studied. Discuss the way the role of these relationships is portrayed in the poetry you have studied. What is your personal response to the literature you have studies. Shakespeare presents male and female relationships in a myriad of ways throughout ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The first part of this essay will focus on Romeo and Juliet infatuation with each other and their relationships with others in the play. At the start of the play Romeo’s unrequited love with Rosaline consumes him to a point of unhealthy obsession .The use of negative oxymoron’s such as ‘brawling love , O loving hate’ portrays Romeos chaotic state of mind due to his feelings for Rosaline . Romeo says ‘she hath Dian’s wit’. This refers to the goddess Diana who is chaste. Because of this Benvolio suggests that he should leave her but because his love consumes him Romeo says that he is ‘blind’ without her. Shakespeare alludes to the lover’s fate by writing ‘winged messenger’ this could also be seen as irony as it refers to the Greek god of messaging Hermes. In the poems ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy and ‘Sonnet
Compare and Contrast Poem William Wordsworths
Compare and Contrast Poem William Wordsworths's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge 1802" and William Blake's "London" In this essay I will discuss how London is portrayed quite differently by the two poets and their poems William Wordsworth's "composed upon Westminster Bridge 1802" and William Blake's "London." Blake is known as a political poet whereas Wordsworth is acknowledged for writing about Nature. His descriptions of natural places and observations and images are so lovingly dwelt upon; He describes London as a peaceful place to be, in the Morning. On the other hand William Blake is a visitor to London and he speaks of the City at dawn and describes a dark, inactive and suffering city on London. Leading on, London is and was Britain's Capital City and is the subject for these two poems. But it is perceived from different viewpoints, we see London in Worthsworth's perspective, and he represents London in a very beautiful way. In Blake's poem he portrays a Suffering City of London, Blake's London was written in 1794. Therefore it is clear that both poets show sharp contrasting views about London. Wordsworth tries to affect the reader with a sense of wonderment at the natural beauty which is created with a sunrise in his poem. However William Blake informs the reader of evil, social conditions at that time as he describes London at night. However the reasons why
Deborah Moggach uses humour to address social issues consider how she does this, paying particular attention to her use of language
Deborah Moggach uses humour to address social issues consider how she does this, paying particular attention to her use of language In this essay I will look at how Deborah Moggach uses humour to address social issues. I will give my own opinion and I will also pay particular attention to her use of language. In this essay I will focus on 'fool for love' by Deborah Moggach, she addresses the social issues of older women having a relationship with younger men. In this story there is a middle age mother with two teenagers and she found a 26 year old man for a relationship through her day time job in a dispatch room. Deborah Moggach uses humour to address a social issue a number of times throughout the story. The first time we see this is when Deborah Moggach the 26 year old man ask Esther out, 'want to help me buy a Christmas present for my mum'. This is used as a social issue as he is asking to spend time with her. However the humour comes in later when Deborah Moggach says 'but did he just want the advice of mature woman'. This makes the audience think and brings reality into the story and reminds us of Esther's age. We are reminded by the young man's age later on in the story through humour when Esther is telling him about the state of her son's bedroom until she realise he is young himself 'you couldn't complain about adolescents to somebody who was practically one
Compare and contrast W.H Audens
Compare and contrast W.H Auden's 'Stop all the Clocks' with Maya Angelou's 'When I think of death' In this essay I will be comparing 'Stop all the clocks' by WH Auden with 'When I think of death' by Maya Angelou. Auden is mourning his lovers death where as in 'Death' Angelou is expressing an opinion about death, she is not mourning a bereavement. Angelou's mood is thoughtful and reflective as explained in the title of her poem 'When I think of death'. On the other hand Auden seems to be angry but melancholic when he uses imperatives in his title 'Stop all the clocks' and at the start of each line, such as 'cut', 'prevent, 'silence', 'bring'. These commands make him impatient. He also seems bitter by saying' I thought love would last forever. I was wrong'. In 'clocks' Auden seems to act selfishly and bitterly by saying' stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone', he uses imperatives such as 'silence' and 'cut' to command actions. Auden implies that death should be an event and you should 'bring out the coffin' for the funeral and everyone should 'stop' and watch an important event, showing respect. Where as in 'Death' Angelou creates an impression that everybody dies but they might not want to, 'I am unable to accept the death of anyone else' suggests that she knows that they will die, but when they do her 'anger will follow in its wake'. The mood and atmosphere in
Comparison between The Doffodils and The Darkling Thrush
Several poets wrote about nature, compare and contrast The Darkling Thrush and Daffodils and explore the individual's relationships to the natural world. The Daffodils and The Darkling Thrush In The Darkling Thrush the speaker is not changed nature and hence doesn't acknowledge the beauty of it at all but in The Daffodils the speaker is moved greatly by the beauty of nature and everything that surrounds it. In The Daffodils the rhythm is an unstressed, stressed iambic tri-meter pattern likewise with The Darkling Thrush, this enhances the sense of harmony of the poems. The rhyme in both poems is similar; it gives off a sense of harmony and regularity of the subject. In The Darkling Thrush the rhyme connotes the harmony of the song of the bird and in The Daffodils it connotes the harmony of the yellow flowers. In The Daffodils Wordsworth puts the speaker in isolation and uses the simile "I wandered lonely as a cloud" to convey this, this suggests that the speaker is totally detached from the rest of the world, the repetition of the possessive pronoun "I" also suggests this. Likewise in The Darkling Thrush Hardy again puts the speaker in isolation and also makes the speaker seem very depressed and down with adjective's such as "favourless" again in The Darkling Thrush the possessive pronoun "I" again suggests that the speaker is on his own. In The Daffodils there is use
Storm on the Island and Patrolling Barnegeat Comparison
9.9.09 Compare and Contrast How Nature is presented in the two poems, 'Storm on the Island' and 'Patrolling Barnegat' In the poem 'Strom on the Island' by Seamus Heaney the title immediately stands out. It is blunt and to the point. Heaney was born in Northern Ireland 1939. The poem is about a storm on an island, but because there is no 'The' or 'A' at the start of the title, there is a sense that Heaney is not writing about one storm in particular, but about many similar storms. It seems as if it is an experience that he is used to. The poem describes the experience of being in a cliff-top cottage on an island off the coast of Ireland during a storm. 'We are prepared: we build our houses squat,'. These opening words of the poem suggest that a community is getting ready to endure wartime bombing or bombardment - an idea which Heaney returns to at the end of the poem. They also convey the idea that this is not the first time that it has happened. The poem is written in the present tense which creates a sense of drama and reinforces the idea that storms happen all the time. Heaney describes the bare ground, the sea and the wind. Heaney describes the island as 'wizened', which once again reinforces the idea that this is not the first time that it has happened. There is also an oxymoron 'Exploding comfortably' this conveys the idea that they are dangerous but they are at a
Rain Man Review
Rain Man The movie Rain man is rated M15+ for over 15 years old. Its director Barry Levinson won the 1988 Academy award Best Director for the movie. The film has a fairly simple story line and with a similar structure to the novel by Mark Haddon's "the curious incident of the dog in the night time" it has a beginning, middle, and end with its events occurring in chronological order. In the film, Charlie's (Tom Cruise) millionaire father has died, but at the reading of the will Charlie discovers that he has inherited a 1949 Buick, some well-tended rose bushes and something more important, a previously unknown autistic brother, Raymond. The 3 million dollars he wanted had gone to Raymond, who was living in Wallbrock institution. It may have been a great film for teenagers and adults between 15 to 25 years old, at the time it was made. However for today's audiences they might find it a little slow, although they may still be interested in the parts when in the casino with its fast pace and party mood. Hoffman produces an incredibly believable well-researched and polished performance as a character who lives by strict routine and is said to be incapable of forming human relationships because of his disability. For this chosen movie Hoffman won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Actor. Tom Cruise is well cast in the role of Charlie Babbit a young hustler who is trying to get his
Poetry Comparison
Comparing poems for English literature - example with details filled in Heaney - Blackberry Picking Clarke - The Field Mouse Whitman - Patrolling Barnegat Hopkins - Inversnaid Subject Write a short description (one sentence) of what each poem is about. Picking blackberries Cutting the hay - a field mouse is killed A stormy night on the New Jersey coast A beautiful place in Scotland Theme What are the main ideas in the poems? Hope and disappointment - things never live up to our hopes The fragility of natural and human life The power and danger of the natural world The beauty of nature and why we need wild places Meaning Is each poem straightforward or ambiguous in meaning? What do you think it means? Fairly clear move from optimism to pessimism - blackberry picking as a metaphor for other things Less obvious - subject changes from hay-cutting, to wounded mouse, to worries about children Very straightforward - nature is shown as powerful and majestic Moves from description of wonders of nature to reflection on why we need to preserve it Viewpoint What is the viewpoint? Adult recalls childhood experience Parent concerned for children Observer filled with awe Observer filled with wonder Tone and mood Comment on each poem's tone and mood. Does either poem make any use of humour or irony? Reflective and philosophical Highly serious and concerned
Poem November analysis
November "November" is a poem about a man who is accompanying a friend who is taking his grandma to the hospital, where she is going to die. "Badly parked car" show the distress that John (the poets friend) is in, and that they are rushing. . "Four short steps to our two" shows an uneven rhythm and echoes her tiny steps; this shows the poor health his grandma is in and how the poet and John are walking faster than her. "We have brought her here to die and we know it" is a blunt statement that they can't ignore the sad truth of what is happening, and it shows the inevitability of the death of the grandma. The poet does not show any emotion towards grandma, and describes the events as how he sees them and not how someone who is emotionally attached to her would describe the events. The closing lines "The sun spangles" shows there is only a brief flicker of light and the daylight is fading away like the life of the grandma. The poem also goes from morbid death to life. "One thing we have to get, John, out of this life." Shows he tries to take something positive out of the day's events. In the poem "On my first sonne" the poem is about a father who is mourning the death of his seven year-old son. The poem is the father's way of saying goodbye to his son. The poem "On my first sonne" shows a lot of grief and sadness that the poet has towards his son, whereas in