Theme Of Poem At Thirty-Five Poem

From many of the poems I have studied, there is a strong recurring theme of family relationships. Some of the poems that show this are ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’, ‘Before you were Mine’, ‘Piano’,’Mother any Distance’, ‘Digging’, ‘Do not go Gentle’ and ‘On my first Sonne’. These poems are all auto-biographical pieces and all use structure, language and tone to convey their feelings. In these poems, family relationships are presented, for example as admiration and nostalgia.

Two of the poems which I believe use language and structure to convey feelings about relationships are ‘Poem as Thirty-Nine’ and ‘Before you were Mine’. They both are about a parent child relationship, and are in the first person narrative from the child’s perspective.

One of the ways Walker uses language to convey her

He also uses the extended metaphor that the sun is life, so the sunset and therefore dark is death. However in ‘On my first Sonne’ the extended metaphor used throughout the poem is contrary to that in ‘Do no go Gentle’. In ‘On my first Sonne’ the metaphor symbolises that his son was lent to him by God, and that every day he had with his son, was an extra day than he was due. Both poets use nostalgia to present different ideas, Thomas uses the idea that death is coming,’Grave men, near death’ whereas Jonson uses the contrasting idea that death has already come and taken his son, ‘Farewell, thou child of my right hand’. They both show their feelings towards their family, as neither want to lose their family as their attachment is so strong. Jonson focuses on the theme of grief, to get over the loss of his son,whereas Thomas focuses on the theme of desperation, to not let his father go