Continuum by Allen Curnow Saturday January 07th 2012‚ 1:39 pm Filed under: Continuum Biography of Allen Curnow: a New Zealand poet and journalist was born in Timaru grew up in a religious family generally wrote satirical poetry reflecting his childhood into his poems emotional connectivity greatest poet in his country received six New Zealand book awards received an award just for the continuum poem Continuum: anything that goes through a gradual transition from one condition to
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Helen In the poem‚ Helen by HD‚ the poet’s attitude toward Helen has a rejecting and negative tone. The title embodies hate by simply addressing Helen with just her name.The poem starts with‚ "All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face"‚ representing Helen as a statue‚ still memorialized for her beauty. "All Greece"‚ representing an entire population. The poet acknowledges her beauty in an unfortunate way. The second stanza states‚ "All Greece reviles the wan face when she smiles"
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WIND- Ted Hughes In this poem‚ Hughes draws a sharp contrast between the sheer intensity and uncontrollable strength if the wind in a storm as opposed to the vulnerability and fragility of man. The poet starts by describing a tremendous gale striking a desolated moorland house and its inhabitants. “The house has been far out at sea all night.” By using this metaphor he compares the house to a boat at sea. The house faces wave upon wave of inexhaustible pounding from the wind‚ as a boat would be
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Donne uses religious theology about judgement day and what happens after death to pen a poem whereby he is presenting an image of him and his lover in their graves. In the poem he describes how items of their body will become relics and they will be deemed holy because of the transcendent elevated nature of their love. The poem centres on the themes of death / religion / theology / love / life after death / judgement. These themes are prevalent in his other love poems‚ The Ecstasy (platonic theory
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The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop: A Personal Response In my answer I will be talking about my ideas on the themes‚ styles‚ and images in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. Elizabeth Bishop was born on the 8th of February 1911 in Worcester‚ Massachusetts. Her father died when she was eight months old and her mother‚ in shock‚ was sent to a mental hospital for five years. They were separated in 1916 until her mother finally died in 1934. She was raised by her grandparents in Nova Scotia. There are four
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‘The Woodspurge’ is a short 16 line poem (Four Stanzas) written by Dante Rosetti in 1856 at the age of 28. After analyzing the poem and reading it a multiple of times‚ I started to notice the true meaning behind the poem and its message to the readers. The author describes in the first stanza about how he is at the call of the winds ‘will’ and how it was still; this shows that the narrator’s is blank‚ in a closed state of mind and he has found inner peace. In the lines ‘I had walk’d on at the winds
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“A Story” All parents dread to see their children growing up‚ and realizing how fast life for them is passing by. The young boy in this poem grows older and there are other things that begin to grab his attention. He starts to replace his father‚ so that at some point he can begin to face what we call life realties. In this poem called “The Story” the author‚ Li-Young Lee shifts from a joyful tone to a very emotional tone utilizing literary devices; imagery‚ point of view and structure to show
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Planting A Sequoia‚ written by Dana Gioia‚ included in her larger work‚ The Gods of Winter published in 1991. The work is written in first person point of view because the narrator. This poem’s central assertion is remembrance and honoring of the dead with the family and rebirth. The poem is about the a father that plants a sequoia tree in honor of his recently deceased infant son. Gioia uses imagery in the first few stanzas to emphasize the severity of the father and his families’ grief and despair
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Poetry Explication Fill-in 1. Title of Poem: “Evening Hawk” eveni 2. Poet: Robert Penn Warren 3. Important background information on poet relevant to poem: Warren was seventy years old when “Evening Hawk” was published in 1975. He lies at the twilight of his life and thus contemplates the death which he knows will arrive soon enough. This allows Warren to inject his own thoughts into the psyche of the poem’s narrator‚ who is also in this position. 4. Who/what is the speaker? What kind of
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Continuum / Songs of Ourselves / Grade 8 / Dept of Lit / Hiriya School / 2012 / Term 1 Page 3 M ood And Effect In the poem continuum by Allen Curnow‚ the poet creates a sense of depression‚ loneliness and restlessness.This in turn causes the reader to experience an effect of insignificance and powerlessness.The restless mood is made clear in the first stanza when the poet is talking about the moon as a symbol for himself. He explains that the moon ³rolls behind the roof and falls behind my
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