Catrin by Gillian Clarke is a poem about the conflict the can arise between a mother and daughter. The poem is written retrospectively which represents a memory and makes it seem more personal. The speaker is looking back on memories based on the conflict with her daughter and how her daughter is constantly trying to pull away from her. “I can remember you” clearly tells the reader that the speaker is thinking back to an earlier time in relationship and this builds up the foundation of what the
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Gilian Clarke-Lament Student’s Worksheet Activity one * Name: Gillian Clarke Nationality: Cardiff‚ Wales * Family life: She has a daughter and two sons‚ Professional activities/jobs: She was and now lives with her husband (who is an poet‚ playwright‚ editor‚ translator arquitect) on a smallholding in Ceredigion‚ President
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Lament focuses on the destructive nature of war. Gillian Clarke conveys this by using a large amount of personification‚ irony‚ contrast‚ metaphor and connotative language to describe the negative impact on the environment and people that is caused by war. The authors tone is very angry and sad and brings out emotions of sorrow and despair in the reader with imagery of death. Gillian Clarke uses personification with the environment to describe the effect the war has had on it. The "ocean’s lap"
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How does Gillian Clarke express strong feelings about the death and devastation described in this poem? What devices does she use‚ and why? Analyse and evaluate… Lament by Gillian Clarke is a poem written after the 1991 Gulf War. The word ‘Lament’ serves as the title of the poem but is also used to start list of people‚ places and animals which were devastated by the war and are lamented for in the poem. Clarke expresses her feelings through the structure‚ wording‚ and imagery featured throughout
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Gillian Clarke – Neighbours Gillian Clarke is a Welsh poet whose writing often uses natural and rural settings to explore larger themes and ideas‚ particularly political ideas. She draws on the Welsh landscape and her experience of sheep-farming on the small-holding where she lives in West Wales. She has been the National Poet in Wales since 2008. The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in Russia was the site of a massive explosion in 1986. Radiation from the accident killed people and animals from the local
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Lament Imagery Analysis Kautilya Palaypu Gillian Clarke‚ the writer of Lament‚ uses imagery in his poem in the form of animals and nature to express the consequence of war and greed on the innocent. He uses nature imagery to show that the very thing that was meant to nurture us is being destroyed. Clarke uses imagery to mourn the destruction of the innocent and nature. He also uses imagery to show how appalling the consequences of human nature are to its surroundings. Clarke explains that “for
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Essay on “Lament” Re-read the poem “Lament” by Gillian Clarke and explore the way in which the author resorts to words and phrases to make this poem effective and memorable. “Lament” by Gillian Clarke is a memorable and effective poem due to the poet’s resorting to specific words and phrases. The poet uses lots of metaphors to achieve her objective. For example‚ “her pulsing burden” is a metaphor referring to the turtle’s need of a place to discharge her eggs and how she sees pregnancy
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CATRIN-GILLIAN CLARKE Gillian Clarke’s ‘Catrin’ deals with the often tense but loving relationship of a mother and daughter the conflict that can arise. It explores this idea through two separate confrontations: one is the birth; the other is as a teenager who wants to play out after dark. She uses very simple language‚ which indicates the simple‚ intense feelings that the poem conveys. The title simply tells us the name of the child involved in the poem. Her name is not mentions again in
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Lament by Gillian Clark is a poetry that summarizes the sadness and loss of the people from the gulf war. Lament means ’sad and despair’. Clark has used a lot of language techniques to convey her thoughts on the gulf war. Some techniques was: she uses anaphora of the word ’for’ which is used a lot at the start of each line‚ the use of personification and the description of the war through an animal’s point of view. Also‚ the last line is the most important line of the whole poetry. The anaphora
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Molly Clayton Instructor: Roselyn Siphengphone College Writing 24 February 2015 Lament Lament is an under appreciated concept and practice in the typical evangelical Christian liturgy and imagination. It may be under appreciated because it is understood as harsh or abrasive language towards God. This may in turn lead one to think that lament is expressing unbelief. Alternatively‚ lament may be under appreciated because joy is emphasized in evangelical Christianity. Though this emphasis is certainly
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