Pain in Growing Up, Snowdrops, and Your Shoes
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First I will start by examining the similarities between these three
poems. Snowdrops and Your Shoes both show pain through losing someone
that they love. If it's that they have died or that they have left for
no reason. They both feel huge pain which has caused them to become
disconnected from the rest of the world:
"It's cosy in here. Peaceful, too. I've unplugged the phone so that I
can concentrate on you and we shan't be disturbed."
Your Shoes pg 71 lines 153-154
Growing Up and Snowdrops both show an actual physical pain where the
father is attacked by the children and bitten by the dead and in the
motorbike accident where the boyfriend is killed. This physical pain
is dealt with by the characters with the emotion pain. In Snowdrops
the teacher shows this by crying and the father shows this in his
disappointment of the children:
"Miss Webster was sitting at her desk, her head in her hands.
Everything was very still." Snowdrops pg 91 lines 115-116
Another similarity is that both Your Shoes and Growing Up show pain
through the actions of their children. The separation of relationships
between the parents and the adults has followed on to cause pain for
the adults. They no longer feel as close to their children or like
they know as much as they thought they did about their children as
they used to, this has brought them a form of pain:
"No, he thought, not quite a game-not for half a second. She's growing
up and so am I." Growing Up page 77 lines 177-178
Lastly all three of the poems are reasonably long and go into a lot of
detail about the story and the views of the characters which give us a
bigger insight to the feelings of each character and how they are able
to deal with pain.
As well as all of the similarities that these three poems have when
referring to pain they also have many differences: First of all they
Both poems use repetition of phrases and anaphora to establish a pace for the speaker’s voice. The repeating syllables provide a pseudo-break in
Each stanza is composed of words that present a logical flow of growth through the entire poem. The words in the poem do not rhyme and the lines are different lengths.
It is important that we examine their poems so we can know what they experienced. It is helpful to others because they may have experienced the same situation. They may have also wanted to speak.
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Good poetry provides meaningful commentary. One indication of a poem’s success in this is the depth of thought the reader has as a result of the poem. The poems I anthologized may take different
Therefore, one can see that these poems although similar in their title and central image of the star differ in their themes, form and treatment of the author's ideas.
The poems make for a simple addition to the narrative and allows for a much more meaningful experience for a reader and makes for a much more engrossing story, thus adding to the experience as a whole.
In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by the name of Langston Hughes. A well-known writer that still gets credit today for pomes like “ Theme for English B” and “Let American be American Again.”
The first poem I think you should consider in adding to your list of poems is “For the Fire”, this poem was about the time I went in to the forest to get some lumber, and during my time there I noticed some of natures creations around me, like the kookaburra and wind that swerved in and out of the trees etc.
Links from the poem below are best read in order from the beginning of the poem to the end
Our deaths as parents would be something like this. Mostly the fond memories of things we did together; and that as parents and as a family, we did what we had to do.
...s that of the internal struggles the speaker has and the understanding of those struggles by the audience. The rhyme scheme, though all used one, are completely different and show little, if any, sign of being similar. The theme is main adhesive as to what binds these three great works together, in that, the guilt and regret felt by the speaker is so immense, signaling to the audience that the poems have a great bit in common, though, through each one’s differences, they are unique unto themselves.
In relation to structure and style, the poem contains six stanzas of varying lengths. The first, second, and fourth stanzas
You should comment upon and compare at least two of his poems and describe the tone he writes in the imagery he uses and the poetical techniques he includes to convey his opinions.
How are different types of relationships portrayed in the poems through language, structure and form?