Compare And Contrast To Thomson

The poet’s role is to challenge the world the see around them.’ How far is this true for the poetry of Bruce Dawe? How (ie through what techniques) Does Dawe achieve this? Discuss a maximum of 2 poems.

How does the poet use language forms, features and structures to convey ideas and feelings?

against the standard poets to say the least, “I wanted to break the linearity of poetic text — to mess with it, if you will.” (poetryfoundation.org) He was not born into the wealthiest of families and found himself unable to pay for education, yet he has pushed boundaries for many

The poem suddenly becomes much darker in the last stanza and a Billy Collins explains how teachers, students or general readers of poetry ‘torture’ a poem by being what he believes is cruelly analytical. He says, “all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it”. Here, the poem is being personified yet again and this brings about an almost human connection between the reader and the poem. This use of personification is effective as it makes the

George Szirtes article “Formal Wear: Notes on Rhyme, Meter, Stanza, and Pattern” from the Poetry Foundation opens with opinions which focus on limitations of poetic form. As a counter to these common arguments, Szirtes claims, “Verse is not decoration: it is structural. It is a forming principle and words at depth” ("Formal Wear: Notes” 2). He then develops an argument explaining, “the constraints of form are spurs of the imagination: that they are in fact the chief producers of imagination” ("Formal Wear: Notes” 2). Taking these ideas into consideration Szirtes incorporates the idea of language explaining how language connects to memory and imagination which come together to form poetic images. Additionally, when poets use form it develops

`In Robert Gray’s poems, he uses language to capture human experiences. In two of his poems; old house and late ferry, gray has effectively captured human experiences by his varies poetic languages and through insight and feeling. Throughout both texts late ferry and old house, gray’s main message in the poems, with his critical analysis, is the destruction of nature by mankind.

Parini, Jay, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Vol. 1. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. Print.

In conclusion, form, content, and language come together in this literary work to offer a striking emotional response from its reader. Without each of these specific components, the poem simply wouldn’t have the same effect. Form is necessary to provide structure, content its scene and language its sound and feel. Gwendolyn Brooks has included each ingredient to provide a brief, but strong feeling one way or another, for the young people of this poem.

Moreover, Forman believes that poetry is everywhere, and surrounds the world in simple, everyday things, and is even to “wear bright red lipstick/n practice kisses in the mirror” (Forman 5-6). In her poem, she describes different scenarios that poetry is present, such as on the bus (Forman 13), and delinates how it isn’t confined to just lines on a page. In contrast to the traditional views of poetry, Forman theorizes that poetry is not words on a page waiting to be begrudgingly divulged, but is an art form that can take several different forms, whether that be an act of kindness, love, or simplicity. Vis-à-vis, Forman views poetry as an intangible force all around her, and thinks that “poetry should drop by a sweet potato pie/ask about the grandchildren/n sit through a whole photo album” (Forman 17-19). In this, she is saying again how poetry is an undemanding art form and is not just stanzas and lines.

Reading these two journals was very thought provoking on both sides. I applaud both Thomson and Marquis for how they presented their belief and evidence the used. Thomson defends abortion (certain cases I am perceiving) even when the fetus is considered living being. While Marquis explains why abortion is immoral and discusses that the fetus still has a right to live. I don't believe I have seen discussion where the pro-choice or pro-life where they take a stance or scenario that is typically against their "groups" choice. I thought it adds more depth and leads to a more thought provoking discussion. Both journals in my view where respectable and done in a professional manor, which can be hard to find sometimes

Ben Lerner makes an assertion in The Hatred of Poetry, that when people come in contact with poets they expect them to create poems that will bring social unification. He continues claiming that if put on the spot he would be unable to meet this “impossible demand”, because it is beyond one humans possibility. Though when poems are unable to do this people are quick to criticize poetry as a whole, whether it be because the poet failed to create, or the reader failed to understand. This stance comes from his previous run ins with non-poets who have put him on the spot, where he has been unable to meet the expectations of the public. Though Learner claims that criticism of poetry comes from it meeting failed expectations of social change, he is generalizing his one experience, with one person, on all of the critiques of poetry.

Another one of the most important aspects of a great poem, is it’s form. The author’s

The first stanza of the poem already brings up the main theme of the poem, that books possess power. The narrator presents that books already have strategies and plans to transform the world, even though they are “like invalids” books possess so much power of us. “To stillness, they do their work through others”, in line 4 reveals to us why books have so much power without even moving. The narrator may already be aware of some people’s view on books to be dull, but the narrator suggests that it is important not to underestimate their power.

poem is not merely a static, decorative creation, but that it is an act of communication between the poet and

During the Romantic Period, poets believed themselves to be very politically aware and important. William Blake and Charlotte Smith are those amongst those Romantic Poets who took it upon themselves to educate the public on the events of the time; particularly the established Church, the Industrial Revolution and the Slave Trade in Haiti: ‘[Poetry] speaks to a divided society in an attempt to constitute its readers as citizens of what [Geoffrey] Hill calls… the just kingdom… and the commonwealth’.