Tears‚ Idle Tears In the short story‚ “Tears‚ Idle Tears”‚ the author Elizabeth Bowen uses an indirect method of presentation for the portrayal of Mrs. Dickonson as a cruel and vain woman who is trying to make her emotionally sensitive son into a stronger man. One can see the type of person Mrs. Dickonson is through her speech and actions. The way she speaks to her son Frederick is cold and calculating. She does not bother to worry about his feelings but rather belittles him. For example
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described by these description but once again is linked to war. From being in a trench so long‚ war gets “outmoded”‚ War is often glorified or “dignified”‚ all war is “Dark”‚ and the longer war goes on the more vacant or “untenanted” it becomes. But Edward Thomas could quite possibly be describing himself and how he is feels from being in the war. Allusion – “Blenheim oranges” this is an allusion to tell of the location in the poem‚ It was found at Woodstock‚ Oxfordshire near Blenheim in England. And at
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Discuss the ways in which Thomas makes ordinary things seem extraordinary in ‘Words’ Thomas’ choice of language and use of personification help him create an extradoniary exploration to the nature of ordinary things such as the nature of words. Like many of his other works Thomas’s keen interest in the smallest details adds to the extraordinary atmosphere and helps the reader build a personified character and importance for ‘English words’. His first personification of words; ‘You English words
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Man And Dog. Frost depicts an elderly individual who is isolated form others because of the harshness of the natural environment around him. Whilst Thomas depicts a nomadic individual who wanders the countryside and who‚ In contrast to Frosts character embraces his isolation‚ choosing instead a “brown bitch” for his only company To begin with‚ Thomas writes in rhyming couplets which create an on-going effect of the individuals story also reflecting the oral tradition of the English countryside.
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In Alfred Tennyson’s poem‚ “Tears‚ Idle Tears‚” imagery and figurative language are used to reveal the pain of remembering the past. The narrator is sitting in the “happy Autumn-fields‚/ and thinking of the days that are no more” (Tennyson 4‚5). This allows the reader to vividly picture the field during the fall where the narrator is thinking about the past. He then describes the past as being as “fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail” (6). This simile compares the freshness of his past to
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Discuss ways in which Thomas presents memory in ‘Old Man’ in your answer; explore the effects of language‚ imagery and verse form. Jan Marsh says ‘the sense of searching (for the) mislaid key‚ is the central theme to Thomas’ life and works’ This critical quotation is accurate as this central theme is portrayed throughout Thomas’ poetry. In Old Man Edward Thomas contrasts age with youth and explores memory as he looks back on his daughter plucking the old mans bush. The lack of consciousness within
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Edward‚ Edward is a ballad written in the seventeenth century. Edward‚ Edward tells the story of a man called Edward who has killed his father because he wants all of his father’s riches and is having a conversation with his mother about it. The ballad was a popular form of entertainment in the seventeenth century as people to sing them to remember them. A ballad is mostly a conversation between two people like Edward‚ Edward. Also Edward‚ Edward is written in first person and is told from Edward
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Human Tears We all cry‚ but what biological function does it serve‚ and why are humans the only species to shed tears of sorrow and joy? Tears are less important when you are alone because there is no one to witness them’ When it came to solving the riddle of the peacock’s tail‚ Charles Darwin’s powers of evolutionary deduction were second to none – the more extravagant their feathered displays‚ he reasoned‚ the greater their chances of attracting a peahen. But when he tried to account for the
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The Lesson “Your father’s gone‚” my bald headmaster said. His shiny dome and brown tobacco jar Splintered at once in tears. It wasn’t grief. I cried for knowledge which was bitterer Than any grief. For there and then I knew That grief has uses – that a father dead Could bind the bully’s fist a week or two; And then I cried for shame‚ then for relief. I was a month past ten when I learnt this: I still remember how the noise was stilled in school-assembly when my grief came in. Some goldfish
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Around twenty thousand Indians traveled the Trail of Tears either on horseback‚ wagons‚ steamboats‚ keelboats‚ or by foot (The Trail of Tears). All along this Trail of Tears were a series of stops along the way called forts. These forts were put into place for the Indians to have a place to stop and rest for a while along their tough journey and also a way for
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