The poem begins with an order “move him into the sun”. The persona seems to be desperate to move someone under the sun. The second line talks about the beginning of life when the rays of the sun must have touched the delicate body of the person as a baby. The following words “field unsown” refers to immaturity‚ incomplete life or a half grown state. It acts as a metaphor on the cycle of life. The persona continues to speak about the regular behavior of the person. He seemed to have been acquainted
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by Seamus Heaney and “Stop All The Clocks” by W. H. Auden are beautifully opposite poems about family and love. By using two opposite themes‚ imageries and rhymes‚ both poems bring to reader different feeling. The first similar thing between “Digging” and “Stop all clocks” is their theme. Both of them talk about their personal experience. However‚ the reader still can find the difference when they read these poems. In “Digging” by Seamus Heaney‚ the readers can see the multiple themes. The first
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There are an abundant number of poems in the selection that do convey the futility of war and some that do not at all. Wilfred Owens ’Futility’ and ’Anthem for Doomed Youth’ are examples where pointlessness of war is addressed. On the contrary‚ ’The Dead’ differs with the question given as it exalts the dead and affirms that war is a place where one can die with honour. In the poem ’Futility’ by Wilfred Owen‚ he emphasises that war is pointless and stresses that the soldiers that have died in
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Compare/contrast In Dudley Randall’s poem “Ballad of Birmingham” and Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to son” are two poems of two different mothers wanting the best for their child. In the poem “Ballad of Birmingham‚” Dudley Randall illustrates a conflict between a child who wishes to march for civil rights and a mother who wishes only to protect her child. Much of this poem is read as dialogue between a mother and a child in a way that paints a picture of both character’s feelings. “Ballad of
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Compare how poets present ideas about death in ‘Mametz Wood’ and ‘Futility’. ‘Mametz Wood’ and ‘Futility’ both present different ideas about death. Sheers shows ideas about the deaths of many soldiers‚ whereas Owen presents ideas about the death of only one soldier. ‘Mametz Wood’ suggests the fragility of life when Sheers writes ‘broken bird’s egg of a skull’. The metaphor gives the image of a young and vulnerable hatchling that could be easily broken at any point‚ just as the soldiers were who
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"Futility" Futility means that something is destined to fail. The quality of producing no valuable effect‚ or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The structure of the poem is in balanced stanzas - the tenderness and hopefulness at the beginning; the growing bitterness of the second‚ with its climax. Owen is telling the persona’s story of the death of a comrade as a balance. This has to happen as so many of them died that there still has to be a degree of sanity left in them. "Futility" mourns the
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Owen uses structure to present the loss of innocence of the soldiers in Anthem for Doomed Youth alongside Futility. The poem is presented in a Petrarchan sonnet form‚ which is ironic as their conventional functions are as love poems. However‚ it can be interpreted that this sonnet conveys strong emotions of fear and grief‚ reflecting the love and admiration he had for the soldiers lost. In the first eight lines (octet)‚ the soldier asks a rhetorical question in the present tense. The imitation of
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Johns’ “Flag” Created in the age of McCarthyism‚ Jasper Johns’ “Flag” was the first and perhaps most popular version of his flag paintings. Johns is said to have first dreamed of the flag before painting it‚ but John’s painting was rich in symbolism as he liked it to the use of things the mind already knew. Done in 1954‚ when flag’s seemed to be everywhere in the news and as the McCarthy hearings were going on questioning the loyalty of citizens to their government‚ as symbolized by the flag were
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benefit from the treatment they are receiving‚ and that there will be no improvement if they are in a permanent vegetative state. Although the concept of medical futility dates back in the Ancient Greek days with physician Hippocrates‚ it has only recently (in the past 40 years) become a controversial topic. The issue of medical futility is important because it deals with many issues such as patient-physician relationship‚ financial resources‚ and most importantly it deals with lives of people. The
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mistrewatment of slaves either. Another example is the slowly decreasing of hierarchy in Africa. Kurtz is to be in charge of finding ivory‚ but instead‚ he abandons his job and in the mean time loses his civil traits. Another example of the futility of the Europeans is that they’re not good they’re not good at navigating and end up taking longer. Marlow has difficulty trying to complete his task because of the stupidity in navigating. Framework story structure: Heart of Darkness‚frame
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