in ’Mr Death’ and "The Farmer Retires To Town" Lundgren explores relationships with the natural world. Through different techniques Lundgren presents his thoughts and feelings on relationships of life. In the poem "Mister Death"‚ the use of personification in the title brings death to life and offers him an identity and title. This presents a unique way of viewing death as natural‚ and acceptable and also indicated the relationship of his own mortality. The poem sets in a retirement home‚ ’Mr Death’
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8 September 2013 Ann Petry Prose Response In the selection from The Street‚ Ann Petry most frequently employs personification to provide insight into Lutie Johnson’s disgust with the wind and how that‚ in turn‚ builds a bitter relationship between the protagonist and the city setting. To begin the passage‚ Petry sets a dark‚ desolate mood as she personifies the wind as relentless and assaulting. It is made blatantly clear that the weather “did everything it could to discourage the people
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reader to shake his head at the seemingly obscure references within the poem. What reads as a light-hearted‚ entertaining poem is actually a deep‚ introspective satire designed to make readers examine themselves in a different way. Wilmot uses the personification of Nothing to express the idea that what humanity considers important is merely a momentary aberration and ultimately unimportant in the grand scheme of everything. The title does nothing to assuage the reader’s confusion. The reason for this
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he hides away from society. He is alone and ‘cries to nothing and the terrible night’ as he has nothing and there is no one around him. So he turns to the one thing in his life that keeps him warm‚ methylated spirits. Personification The poem continuously uses personification‚ as a way of interpreting the man’s relationship with the bottle. The bottle is personified as ‘his girl’‚ his only companion. “His woman of fire who creeps to his heart and sets a candle there”‚ this shows his love and affection
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With her personification of death as “kindly‚” Evans states this is a Christian belief “that death could be the door to an eternally happy life.” By showing how death “slowly drove‚” Dickinson is “creating suspense” of what will come on the carriage ride. Evans comments
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in his treatment of the garden‚ highlighted by his ravages “like a hungry bird”. The notion of cultural belonging is portrayed through the image of the house and its memories. The house symbolises the cultural identity of the family and the personification of “its china-blue coat…” suggests the family’s pride in maintaining their home‚ similar to caring for a family member. The memories are described as “heated discussions/ And embracing gestures/…”. This use of sensory imagery and cultural allusions
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“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden We have been studying a poem called “Musée des Beaux Arts” for the past 3 weeks‚ it is a poem about Icarus falling from the sky. These next six questions give us an insight into the meaning of the poem. In this poem by W. H. Auden there are six subjects being talked about‚ the suffering‚ The Old Masters‚ human position‚ miraculous birth‚ the Martyrdom and the disaster‚ these all refer to something that is happening in the
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Out out is a narrative poem that outlines‚ in a certain way‚ the dangers of letting a child do a man’s work. The boy‚ whom we find to be young‚ has an unfortunate accident with a buzz saw resulting in the boy’s death. The poet uses language structure and characterisation to convey the tragic circumstances in which the boy is killed and how society reacted upon it. the title is an allusion to the story of macbeth by shakesphere where the quote continues to say "out‚ out‚ brief candle". this shows
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the poem "Mirror" is all about identity‚ how the image of the mirror is a reflection of Plath herself‚ searching for herself and reflecting her inner turmoil. The first stanza gives human qualities to the mirror‚ making it a prime example of personification. The mirror "mediates" and "reflects." The mirror is used to personify how young people only look at the superficial qualities of themselves as well as others. With the shift in stanzas‚ the lake becomes a metaphor. As people age‚ they look more
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Wilfred Owen in his poem "Disabled" uses lot of poetic techniques to heighten the sense of an antiwar theme through his writing. He portrays the story of a young individual who has gone to the war due to the misleading propaganda at the time The first technique that we can pick out from the poem is antithesis. We can see that in the way he lived before he attended compared to the way he lived after he experienced war. Antithesis can be found in many aspects of these two experiences. First he presents
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