Examples Of Juxtaposition In Anthem For Doomed Youth

How is the perception of war depicted by Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon similar and to what extend?

‘Anthem for doomed youth’ portrays the sad and tragic aspects of loss by generalizing it to focus on young men losing their lives on the battlefield to be deprived of their funeral rights. Owen expresses the horrors of war and openly criticizes the loss of life; the loss of young and promising men sent to their inevitable death. Owen effectively portrays the suffering of war to draw the responder’s attention to the victims who are only ‘boys’. Through the use of rhetorical questioning in conjunction with a simile Owen makes comparisons between the cattle and the solider, this is showcased through the line “what passing-bells for these who die as cattle?” In which the disaster of sending young men to die is emphasized through the solemn lament

The visual’s background is formed by a dark and starry night sky; stretching across the image and transitioning into a sunny day sky. This is a representation of the passage of time, life, death, and the power of memories. The nighttime depicts ageing and adulthood, whereas the daytime represents youth and life. In the poem, the narrator describes the sky, ‘Ambiguous night, ambiguous sky,’ which is symbolic for the transience between adulthood and childhood. An ambiguous sky is a sky which is unclear or undecided. The faded transition from the night sky to the day sky reflects this notion and the uncertainty of memories; displaying how the poem

The voice in this poem is one of pure happiness and innocence. In this state of joy, the infant is unaware of the world in which he lives and that awaits him. In these opening lines, we see Blake revealing the everyday modeling and structure that categorizes the world, but is absent in the simplicity and purity of childhood. The child has no name because joy needs no other name. Labeling and classification are products of organization and arrangement that the world uses to assimilate innocence into experience. Blake demonstrates that it is through this transition, that the virtue of child’s play is destroyed. Blake utilizes specific emotions such as “happy,” “joy,” “sweet,” “pretty,” “sing,” and “smile” to describe this uncorrupted state of being. There is no danger, darkness, or struggle for the infant. Instead, he exists in a care free state, free of guilt, temptation, and darkness. The birth of a child is celebrated by Blake and it stirs in us powerful emotions of peace, love, and hope.

     Blake also uses startling irony in this poem. This irony shocks the reader into realization of how terrible life is for these small boys. Some of the verbal irony Blake uses lies in the first stanza. The poetic voice claims that “[his] father sold [him] while yet [his] tongue/ Could scarcely cry ‘ ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep!’'; (554). These words have a double meaning. They can mean that the speaker was not yet over mourning for his mother, or they can mean that he was so young that he was not yet able to sound out the s sound properly. In this case, he would stand on the corner and, instead of repeating the word sweep in an attempt at getting someone to hire him, he would repeat the word “‘weep!’'; (554). Another, more startling irony is that these young children hoped and lived for death because only in the after life could they become children. Blake emphasizes this with the

The idea of innocence loss is prominent in the last three stanzas because this is the part of the story where the child begins to understand the world. In order to make this transition, Thomas uses rhetorical situations such as tone and symbolism to convey the shift. In the fourth stanza, Thomas uses the child’s sleeping as a symbolism for the dark coming, meaning the idea of maturity and aging is hinted. This initiation equates the beginning of the world of maturity, and the end of youth. It also involves the loss of innocence, freedom, and purity. The loss of innocence also infers that the child’s unification with nature is no more, since the setting is referred to the Garden of Eden, the child’s ability to create and fantasize is no longer possible. Despite the clear transition where the child is starting to understand the implications of the world outside of his own, he continues to ignore its heavy presence. In the fifth stanza, the child continues to enjoy the paradise of youth, with the author describing his attitude as he “[runs his] heedless ways.” The author describes the child’s reluctant actions by using a rhetorical situation called register. Register helps the language of this poem to give it authenticity, and meaning to the themes. Thomas displays some of his Welch register in the poem, giving the poem a more genuine feel. In stanza five, Thomas uses a phrase “sky

Compare and Contrast the ways in which Heaney and Blake write about innocence and experience in their poetry

In the second stanza, “dogs are fierce and wild, And clubs and hoses, guns and jails Aren’t good for a little child.” The highlighted words suggests that the images of fights, riots, danger and feuds that can be found out there. The imagery of Freedom of March is an explanation on how dangerous that place is and typically for a child. We also have the image of the church where the mother was referring to as a safe place and it turned out to be the scared place, which is haven. The image of the white gloves and white shoes is a reference to the innocent and purity of a child even though the world is filled with chaos. Dark hair and brown hands is a reflection of a darkness society the child is living

Children of a lower social rank were not fortunate enough to receive and education and instead were expected to learn nothing except how to master their given trade. In his poem, Blake implies that due to organized religion and society failing them, these working children were only free in their dreams. He writes about a dream in which an angel came to Tom Dacre and all the sweepers with a key and unlocked them from their black coffins. This symbolizes freeing the boys from their seven by seven holes that they were confined to each day. Once freed by the angel, the boys were no longer required to work and were free to roam and play in the fields similar to how the children of the middle and upper class had done. Enjoying their freedom, the boys, “wash in a river and shine in the Sun” ridding themselves of the soot that had become embedded in their skin as they soaked in the warmth of the sun (Blake 15-16). The angel then came to Tom and told him that “if he'd be a good boy, / He'd have God for his father & never want joy” (Blake 19-20). Tom’s dream acts as a tool for Blake to comment on the lack of involvement and help from the Church upon the failure to do their

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This gives the tone of the sinister intentions of the speaker helping Blake convey the theme to the reader of the evil of holing anger inside until it builds up, but describing the catering of the wrath as being sunned with wiles which are usually evils schemes or plans. Alongside this example another in the last two lines of the poem during the finale when is says, “In the morning glad I see; My foe outstretched beneath the tree.” The death of the speaker’s foe is described with a malevolent tone, because the speaker is described as being glad to see his foe dead beneath his tree with no show of remorse or compassion whatsoever except for the fact that his foe is dead. This also majorly helps convey the theme to the reader the evil outcomes of letting ones anger build up inside them especially when they allow it and purposefully nurture it until the manifests itself as a violent act against another leading to another’s

The style of Songs of Innocence and Experience is simply direct, but the rhythms and language are often deeply complex. Many of the poems are narratives, but some like, “The Sick Rose” use symbolism and abstract concepts to deliver a message. Blake often uses Biblical symbolism and language in his writing. He seems to enjoy applying simple, nursery rhyme meter to his unorthodox conceptions. This combination of familiarity with the unfamiliar is what keeps Blake’s work perpetually interesting (Erdman, David V. Complete Poetry and Prose. New York, 1982.

Symbolism is an artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind. It originated from Europe in the late nineteenth century and has been used ever since in countless writings. More specifically, symbolism is a prime literary device used by numerous poets. Although symbolism has become an extensive device in poetry, many poets came about expressing it in various unique ways. In this paper we will discuss how two poems, The Sick Rose by William Blake and A Noiseless Spider by Walt Whitman, distinctly convey symbolism but in very unorthodox ways.

When analyzing poems of innocence and experience, often they are viewed to be a “contrast between what we thought in our youth and what we have came to know, painfully, as adults” (Abcarian, Klutz, Cohen 76). When deciding which poem I wanted to recreate I decided I wanted to choose The Lamb and The Lion by William Blake because it was enjoyable how the author made a poem of innocence and experience

Blake's portrayal of childhood is far from happy. A small child's mother dies while that child is still very young; this is sad but not all together strange. However the child's father then, very soon after, sells him off to be a chimney