How Does Larkin Present Everyday Life In The Whitsun Weddings

The absence of meaning in both Carroll and Lear’s poems is significant, even though it may seem like the opposite. When reading these poems for the first time, the reader may be

Furthermore, poetry, and the personification of poetry, conversations with old friends and family, should not need a special occasion, rather it should “ride the bus” with patience for the stops before your own and the understanding of other’s needs before your own (line 13). You can also say the bus can represent the speed at which life passes you by and how easy it is to miss something if you are not paying attention, or even, that these missed moments have a poem to help you along your long journey home. With the use of

He describes the dresses and the cheep fabrics of “nylon” and fake colours “lemons mauves and olives” and from the way he uses foods can be interpreted to have a significant symbolic meaning in the sense that these organic foods become out of date in time, which could be suggesting he has a bitter opinion on marriage that it will soon become dull over time and never last. In the penultimate stanza he writes how “none thought of the others they would never meet or how their lives would all contain this hour” he really expresses Larkin’s view on marriage and commitment, as he appears to feel that marriage limits chances and options it also raises the question as to whether he feared marriage and the change it could have on his life and freedom. This would suggest that as opposed to hating marriage Larkin merely feared it. The line “ sun destroys the interest of what’s happening in the shade” metaphorically could be interpreted to show how fabulous display of a wedding can “destroy” or distract what happened out of view from the public like the stress, disputes and reality of faults in the relationship. The imagery of the sun also creates a bright beautiful link with weddings that people see on the surface juxtaposed with the reality of dullness as the years go on.

The fact that enjambment is used throughout the poem such as in the lines, “like a colour slide or press an ear against its hive” portrays a lack of structure and therefore emphasizes the initial enjoyment one feels when reading a poem before the chore of analyzing it begins. This is also emphasized through the fact that the poem is a free verse poem.

In the poem there is also an idea of man verses nature, this relates to the survival of the fittest. John Foulcher shows this through the use of first person point of view. For example in the second stanza “Then above me the sound drops” this again possesses sensory imagery creating a deeper human aura throughout the poem. Foulcher further uses a human aura to build a sense of natural imagery for example in the last stanza : “I pick up these twigs and leave them” adding closure

Throughout the poem, the author creates different tones using different types of figurative language and diction. The poet starts off the poem with the metaphor, “Although she feeds me

To help Year Twelve students that are studying poetry appreciate it's value, this pamphlet's aim is to discuss a classic poem and a

This tells the responder that central idea of this poem would be that we are born into this a world full of consumerism and we consume and die. The first stanza is about a baby being born into the world and the new born coming home. The first thing that the baby hears is the voice of Bobby Dazzer on channel 7. Dawe is trying to tell responder that the first thing that the baby hears is consumerism on television instead of the voices of its family. The baby has been born into a materialistic world where such an important event has occurred and still Bobby Dazzler is the center of attention. Dawe uses advertising terms like economy-size, well equipped and smoothly run to describe their family in stanza 2. This language is from advertisement and the hyphens in these words mimic the language of advertisement. The enjambment before the second, sixth and seventh stanza represents that life is fast. The family is described and categorized as shopping terms. In the third stanza it says ‘BREATHING EXCEPT BY ORDER’ which is sarcasm/exaggeration. Dawe is trying to tell that society is getting

To begin, in the poem “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins he wants his readers to appreciate each poem as a piece of art. He wants his readers to look at the poem and get absorbed into the emotion of the poem instead of only wondering what the poem means. He uses personification in this quote “tie the poem to a chair with rope/ and torture a confession out of it” to express what we do to poems (356). We the readers should instead pay attention to the rhyme and style of the word. We should stop worrying about the meaning of the poem. This is similar to another author style in “Poem” by William Carlos Williams he uses a cat to movements in the “jamcloset” to show his readers that we should be like the cat. The cat takes its time to get around the “jamcloset” which is what the readers should do with poetry we must take our time to look at it and appreciate each word, line and stanza.

Moreover, in the first stanza when describing the rural area he repeatedly uses assonance. “Skies and scarecrows, haystacks, hares and pheasants”- these soft consonant sounds make you slow down as the repeated “s” sounds become hard to say, slowing you down and not allowing you to rush past these, in Larkin’s case, beautiful little details of the countryside.

Poetry is an art form that is rich in notional and semantic content. In a few stanzas, poems are so capable of painting an idea or event so vividly that it seems alive. However poetry, by itself, cannot exhibit qualities of life: they require a willingness to understand unfamiliar ways of describing a phenomenon. Thus poetry has been likened to a scrambled code that is impossible to decipher in its literal context. Thus, poetry requires a key to decipher it and the code, often, is metaphor.

Both of Larkin’s poems explore the loss of identity however they do so in different contexts. ‘Afternoons’ depicts the continuation of life and subsequent passing of time through illustration of changing roles from a relatively carefree character to a young mother who must fully adopt this new identity and the life changes the title entails. ‘The leaves fall in ones and twos’ is representative of the gradual nature of this changing identity which contrasts to the relatively significant transition the young mother experiences. However ‘leaves’ is use of natural imagery therefore suggesting this shift of priorities to becoming a mother is hardly a rare, dramatic occurrence. ‘Our Wedding,

With so many rules in the English language, it is easy for one to wonder how they were created. The dictionary, for example, was only created a few hundred years ago by people who thought that was how language was supposed to be. Many artists have had the mission to go forward and break these “rules.” Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, bill bissett’s “text bites,” and John Agard’s “I Ain’t No Oxford Don” question rules of grammar and synaptic normality. By the way, these poems disrupt words, use non-standard prose, and have ambiguous interpretations they break the rules of grammar and disrupt the formal laws of language, inducing new ways of about the how one produces meaning.

From the very start of this poem, he declares “We all hate home And having to be there..”. Most people would say that this is a false statement; not all of us hate home.On the contrary, most of us have been the ones saying that we are anxious to leave. So from the beginning, the poet has us questioning if we truly do hate home enough to leave it. Next, he makes a personal statement, “I detest my room...And my life, in perfect order..”. Here, Larkin sounds ungrateful and unsatisfied with the simple luxuries he has, which are things we often take for granted. The sudden use of negativity in the first stanza is very important. He could have said “I have good books, a good bed, and a nice house, but I am unhappy”, however, this would lead the reader into believing that he is unhappy despite having these things. But because he makes it clear that he is unhappy before he lists all of the good things he has, it gives off the impression that he is unhappy because of these things, which is Larkin’s intention.

In both of William Blake’s poems, “The Little Black Boy” and “The Chimney Sweeper,” an innocent-eye point of view portrays the stresses of society in an alternative way to an adult’s understanding. The innocent perspective redirects focus onto what society has become and how lacking each narrator is in the eyes of the predominant white culture. Each naïve speaker also creates an alternate scenario that presents a vision of what their skewed version of life should be like, showing how much their unfortunate youth alters their reality. From the viewpoint of children, Blake’s poems highlight the unhealthy thoughts or conditions in their lives and how unfortunate they were to be the wrong race or class level. These narrators were cheap laborers and were in no control of how society degraded them. Such usage of a child’s perspective offers important insight into the lives of these poor children and raises awareness for the horrible conditions children faced in the London labor force prior to any labor laws. The children of the time had no voice or platform on which to express their opinions on their conditions. Blake targets society’s lack of mindfulness towards the children using the innocent-eye point of view and illusions of what they dream for in life.