Conflict In Derek Walcott's A Far Cry From Africa

Agitation and turmoil of whites and blacks filled South Africa. A major theme that Alan Paton develops throughout the novel, Cry, the Beloved Country is the importance of acting with kindness. The author promotes the idea that kindness is a part of the solution to the problems in South Africa. Being able to be kind helps people understand one another which can help bring reform and hope to the small community of Ndotcheni. Alan Paton through the novel teaches the idea of love thy brother as yourself, as Christ did, in order to help the White and Blacks of South African Society to overcome their fear and misunderstanding of each other.

The most visually noticeable part of this poem is the format. It isn’t written in familiar stanzas with any kind of meter or complex

Wilfred Owen’s poetry effectively conveys his perspectives on human conflict through his experiences during The Great War. Poems such as ‘Futility’ and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ portray these perceptions through the use of poetic techniques, emphasising such conflicts involving himself, other people and nature. These themes are examined in extreme detail, attempting to shape meaning in relation to Owen’s first-hand encounters whilst fighting on the battlefield.

This poem is written in iambic trimeter, which is a meter of poetry that consists of three iambic units per line (Wikipedia). It is also a tercet, a three lined poem that often contains a rhyme (Study). Hyland creates rhymes throughout his poem by rhyming words such as “cities” (Hyland 11), and “memories” (Hyland 12). This creates more emphasis on these words throughout the poem.

The body of the poem has four stanzas and each stanza is written in a quatrain configuration. The rhyme structure within the poem combines both exact and slant rhymes, but has no specific organization of how they are arranged within each stanza. The poem is written in a simplistic Abba arrangement, while the rhythm and meter throughout most of the poem is in an iambic trimeter. The typical music of a waltz is played in a ¾ time signature similar to the rhythmic pattern within the poem; however while playing music for a waltz, the accent or stress is on the first note. In iambic trimeter, the stress is on the third syllable. The exceptions to this pattern are, “The hand that held my wrist,” written in iambic dimeter and “You beat time on my head,” written in trochee monometer (9, 13). The words “hand” and “You” are stressed within the first line of the third and fourth stanzas indicate who the speaker is talking to, emphasizing an accusation towards his father.

The title of this poem tells about the people trying to escape a degraded place to struggle no matter what. Also no matter hard they try it’s not going to change anything or it won’t matter because either way there is still going to be a war or battle that would never end. The symbolic passages from the story was “lands turned black and bare”, this means how their lands were abandoned by the attack of the enemies and people being left with no homes. The theme of the poem was even though people would have these arguments that end up to a war and tragic. The mood of the poem left the people devastated, women crying, and heartbroken people without joy or careless. A symbolic image from the poem was, “Where upon clamor of tongues.” Which you can

This poem has a strict a,b,a,b,c,d,c,d pattern. It has roughly 10 syllables per line in iambic pentameter. It has a very strict rhyming pattern and amount of

The poem has no rhyme scheme or particular rhythm; this makes the descriptions stick out more to the reader, while having a varied sound when it is written

Chaos and drudgery are common themes throughout the poem, displayed in its form; it is nearly iambic pentameter, but not

Owen’s poem has the clear intention of showing the true nature of war to the reader, which is mainly achieved by contrasting reality against the ways in which war is so

Poems using strong poetic technique and devices are able to create a wide range of emotions from the readers. Wilfred Owen’s poetry effectively uses these poetic techniques and devices to not only create unsettling images about war but to provide his opinion about war itself with the use of themes within his poem. The use of these themes explored Owen’s ideas on the futility of war and can be seen in the poems: Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility and The Next War. The poems provide unsettling images and belief of war through the treatment of death, barbaric nature of war and the futility of war.

Robert Lowell prefers the use of free verse for his poems. He doesn't use a specific style for this piece; it is more free styled. He uses poetic language but there is no metered rhythm in the poem. Lowell even said once in an interview: "Prose is in many ways better off than poetry...I thought poetry was getting increasingly stifling. I couldn't get my experiences into tight metrical forms" (J. Myers and D. Wojahn, p.

John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African essayist, novelist , linguist, literary critic and translator. He has also won the Noble prize in the Literature category. The following lecture ‘The Novel in Africa’ was given by him in the University of California in Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities.

Structurally the poem is a ballad written in twelve quatrains. Keats wrote the poem with the intention of it being read as opposed to sung (Cummings). The first three lines of each quatrain are written in iambic tetrameter, while the fourth varies between iambic dimeter and