“John Montague expresses his themes in a clear and precise fashion”
You have been asked by your local radio station to give a talk on the poetry of John Montague. Write out the text of the talk you would deliver in response to the above title. You should refer to both style and subject matter. Support the points you make by reference to the poetry on your course.
Good evening listeners and welcome to our Friday night poetry segment, Poetry Aloud. Tonight we will explore the works of the famous northern Irish poet, John Montague. As anyone familiar with his work would know, Montague expresses his themes in a clear and precise fashion and that very notion is what we will be proving tonight. Montague’s poems include the themes of childhood,
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The poem highlights the beauty and sensuality of nature. He uses the theme of nature to explore the pleasure he feels whilst taking in the sights and smells of nature. Montague uses broad vowel sounds to create assonance in the first stanza. This creates euphony and a sort of verbal music, possibly representing the noise of the river and the theme of nature.
In The Locket, Montague expresses the theme of memory clearly and precisely, as it is written in memory of his recently deceased, estranged mother. It documents Montagues resentment of his mother 's rejection of him and the pain he felt at having to grow up without her love: “Sing a last song for the lady who has gone fertile source of guilt and pain”. The poet uses a rhyming couplet to begin the first stanza. This gives the stanza a song like style that is in juxtaposition with the sardonic, tongue-in-cheek tone. When he grew older he sought her out again and tried desperately to win her over but as she grows fond of him, she tells him not to come again. In the final stanza, there is a twist as, after her death, Montague discovers that she wore a locket containing a baby picture of him, beneath her clothes at all times. Although this does confuse him i.e. “mysterious blessing”, it does provide him with some closure as he realises she was guilty about her inability to love him. Similarly, ‘The Cage’ expresses the memory of
James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy are both contemporary poets. Their poems ‘In Paris with You’ and ‘Quickdraw’ both include the themes of the pain of love. This essay compares how the two poets present the pain of love in their poems, exploring things such as imagery, vocabulary and form and structure.
The appreciation of nature is illustrated through imagery ‘and now the country bursts open on the sea-across a calico beach unfurling’. The use of personification in the phrase ‘and the water sways’ is symbolic for life and nature, giving that water has human qualities. In contrast, ‘silver basin’ is a representation of a material creation and blends in with natural world. The poem is dominated by light and pure images of ‘sunlight rotating’ which emphasizes the emotional concept of this journey. The use of first person ‘I see from where I’m bent one of those bright crockery days that belong to so much I remember’ shapes the diverse range of imagery and mood within the poem. The poet appears to be emotional about his past considering his thoughts are stimulated by different landscapes through physical journey.
Gwen Harwood’s poetry endures to engage readers through its poetic treatment of loss and consolation. Gwen Harwood’s seemingly ironic simultaneous examination of the personal and the universal is regarded as holding sufficient textual integrity that it has come to resonate with a broad audience and a number of critical perspectives. This is clearly evident within her poems ‘At Mornington’ and ‘A Valediction’, these specific texts have a main focus on motif that once innocence is lost it cannot be reclaimed, and it is only through appreciating the value of what we have lost that we can experience comfort and achieve growth.
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 essay will be exploring the use of language and imagery in the poem ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy to emphasise certain emotions within the text. This poem refers to the dark side of love and relationships several times, for example; “Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips.” This creates a different atmosphere to the stereotypical love poems, which are known for their mention of red roses and satin hearts. Although the title gives us an impression of a cliché-filled poem, as we continue reading, the poem seems like more of a warning than an encouragement to involve oneself in relationships and commitment,
because the poem is talking about nature but its really nothing about nature, there's some character inside of it, nature, eden and dawn. nature is a character in the poem that is hiding the real meaning of the poem.
At the end of the poem, Hughes has a break of thought from the facade that nature wears to tell himself that to “now paint the long-necked lily flower” in “a painting, trembling hardly at all.” This personification of the water lily having a long-neck tells us of the far stretched view of the how it’s “deep in both worlds” which is hard from some people to comprehend. By describing the water lily as still as a painting without trembling, goes further upon the idea of it’s wide range of feelings that it gives to the speaker to then have a different
Poetry is an art borne of a love for language and a want for individual expression. Especially evident during times of transition, poetry can be used to define exisistence or accentuate fantasy. The Modernist movement provided room for experimentation and provocation, proclaiming, "out with the old, in with the new”. Edward Estlin Cummings illustrated himself as an exemplar example of the Modernist poetry and challenged the expectations of contemporary poetry.
Imagery plays one of the biggest roles in the poem because it describes every detail in the scenery. Imagery also helps the reader visualize the scenery without any pictures by describing the area as much as possible. For example, “heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white” (line 3-4), explains how the white snow is laid on the highway and field. The reader could depict out of that line is how the
Many people have said poetry is dead as the 21st century does not recognise and appreciate it as much as they use to. Robert Macias is a new aged poet. He started painting on side walks in Miami. He became Instagram famous by typing his poems and posting pictures of them for everyone to see. He has given a new energy to poetry and caused enthusiasm by young adults. The three poems chosen to analyse were ‘Dear You’, ‘Storms’ and ‘Between the Sea and Sky.’ They were chosen because each poem has an effect on young people by relating to aspects of their lives. ‘Dear You’ is about God’s connection to Earth. ‘Storms’ is about embracing your own self and ‘Between the Sea and Sky’ is about the importance of love in your life. These themes are not only relevant to young people but also
The idea of timeless love is also reinforced through the natural imagery in the poem such as 'breeze', 'grass'
The tone of the ballad is upbeat and sprightly, and the importance of the lyric is to demonstrate how happy everybody is to at long last get safeguarded and have enough nourishment to eat. A strategy the creator utilizes is to pass on the tone of bliss is the point at which the creator utilizes the scholarly gadget exemplification "...ships draw together and kiss". The boats getting to a great degree near each other and touching speak to the word kiss utilized by the creator to express a kind feeling. Another system the creator utilizes is the word decisions of the story "...our safeguard now certain, the gathering blooms as sustenance all of a sudden comes up from beneath". The tone of the story is bright on the grounds that Ha depicts things
Moreover, Hughes also uses a disconnected structure in the poem to show how the task is not only complex like the structure, but also to show how nature does not necessarily flow sleeplessly in a melodic manner, where everything is ever so dandy, but in reality is broken and contains many parts that are put together for the whole grand spectrum of it all. For instances, the speaker/artists essentially is speaking in what appears to be thirteen stanzas, with two lines allocated for each stanza. Basically this can represent how nature as a whole is technically balanced in regards to there being equality with the amount of lines for each stanza and the content for the most part dealing with nature itself and the water lily. Like nature, on the
The first line of the second stanza -- "But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted" -- carries an extra half-beat; the easy rhythms and order of the first paragraph are upset as we move into "A savage place" or begin to recognize the place for what it really is, beneath the surface. We become more and more aware of contradictions being held together: the contrasting ideas of nature and artifice of the first stanza, the holy and enchanted (the sacred and the pagan). The sacred river, Alph, takes on its own voice in the following lines:
The poem has a musical tone, which is particularly evident in the refrain at the end of each stanza: