Comparing Aubade And The Shout
There are many ups and downs, fast slopes, and steep hills throughout life and beyond all these things, life has a deeper meaning than what meets the eye. It is not uncommon to watch people speed through life while moments pass them by. This is portrayed in “Aubade” by Philip Larkin and “The Shout” by Simon Armitage. In “Aubade” the author describes a lonely man who views life as tragic mistake. He sees people not giving there all throughout life and cutting themselves short of their expectations. In “The Shout” the author depicts a time where they were experimenting how far the human voice was traveling. As the person was shouting they soon disappeared and received a gunshot wound to the head while the shout remains in the authors head. Throughout
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He put stress on his binary opposition, of life versus death, by tugging at the audience’s emotions. It made the difference of the two bold and gave ginormous meaning to life and has them fearing death. He demonstrates this by one of his last concluding sentences when he states “Boy with the name and face I don’t remember, you can stop shouting now, I can still hear you.”(Armitage 19-20) Armitage is getting into the mind of his reader and attempting to get them to feel remorse. Early on he gets the reader to feel the life of the shouting boy. With the intention of taking him away from the audience and flooding the reader with disgust. Armitage manages to emphasis the importance of life while including that death may happen at any moment. With such a dark emotional ending he puts emphasis on this dichotomy and Armitage is able to set the theme and create great meaning. To conclude, both Larkin and Armitage both use the same binary opposition of life versus death to make a complete effective poem. Larkin demonstrated it early on through his poem by having a dark mood. In comparison, Armitage only demonstrated it in his last couple stanzas and captured the audience emotions and used it to reflect his own feelings while also creating this dichotomy. Overall both authors plot life versus death to set the theme, and they have the binary opposition strive by effectively pulling from the reader’s
He put stress on his binary opposition, of life versus death, by tugging at the audience’s emotions. It made the difference of the two bold and gave ginormous meaning to life and has them fearing death. He demonstrates this by one of his last concluding sentences when he states “Boy with the name and face I don’t remember, you can stop shouting now, I can still hear you.”(Armitage 19-20) Armitage is getting into the mind of his reader and attempting to get them to feel remorse. Early on he gets the reader to feel the life of the shouting boy. With the intention of taking him away from the audience and flooding the reader with disgust. Armitage manages to emphasis the importance of life while including that death may happen at any moment. With such a dark emotional ending he puts emphasis on this dichotomy and Armitage is able to set the theme and create great meaning. To conclude, both Larkin and Armitage both use the same binary opposition of life versus death to make a complete effective poem. Larkin demonstrated it early on through his poem by having a dark mood. In comparison, Armitage only demonstrated it in his last couple stanzas and captured the audience emotions and used it to reflect his own feelings while also creating this dichotomy. Overall both authors plot life versus death to set the theme, and they have the binary opposition strive by effectively pulling from the reader’s