Michael Donaghy Machine Poem

I now realise that the Arts, including music, creates opportunities to engage, inspire and enrich our lives. Music making and responding can challenge, provoke responses and enrich our knowledge and understanding of ourselves, our communities and the world.

To begin, the poem Callum written by Milton Acorn has a variety amount of poetic devices, which helps the poetry have more meaning and depth. Throughout the poem, the author was able to use similes, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, imagery, and hyperbole. Furthermore, the author uses similes and imagery to illustrate Callum’s handsome appearance, since he had hair like mustard-weed;.../that tangles inside his head.” (Acorn 1-6). This demonstrates that Callum’s hair stood up in tufts of yellow like a mustard-weed plant and his shoulders were probably brawny and boxy like a scoop, thus using imagery as well. Also, it is clear that Callum had clear, bright eyes, since he is referring to a lake which is transparent, in which one can see the

|In the first of the following poems, ‘The Railway Modeller’, the narrator (Pugh) describes a man (her husband) and his hobby. In the second, ‘The Railway |

In the first stanza William Stafford stops realization. He describes a motorcycle below a bridge. The cycle is abandoned, “engine running as it lay on its side, ticking over slowly in the high grass.” To begin his poem Stafford gives

The novel is able to share how music is of great importance and is able to affect people’s moods and thoughts.

Often music is consisted not only by sounds made from musical instruments, but also by voice and verbal messages. The structure of the voice, or as Roland Barthes describes it ‘the grain of voice’ is the element in a certain piece of music which is responsible for creating the emotions when listening. The grain and the lyrics make the signified and carry out the message. The vocal part of music is formed of words, text, which communicate and make the representation and expression of what it is sung - talked about. According to Barthes the emotive modes of the voice and the changes of the tones from low to high is what delivers the final message and makes us feel the music. (Barthes, R. 1977 [1972]).

It a lyric poem as the poetry is basically him declaring what should be done to reckless drivers who ran over the poor, little animals who were in their way, although not seriously, for in the first few verses declare death as punishment and oddly it not the driver but the vehicle itself, is given personification, accounting for it crimes of the animals it murdered:

The meaning of life is defined by a measure of excitement and enlightenment. Music is way of finding this enlightenment which is translated to vibrations causing a flowing of body movements. Later, these body movements cause us to dance, forgetting of the environment around us and putting us in our own little world where we can find purpose. This is the purpose we can decide to choose. In the poem Atrophy written by Julia Copus, the author shows the veracity of individuals who constrict themselves, leading their capability of find a meaningful life dissipated. Julia depicts this effect when we “sit alone” “at the edge of the open floor,”. Without any aspiration, individuals will fall in the “open floor” which will progressively lead our internal demise. Individuals have the power to devise a meaningful life, if such individuals do not take into consideration of what makes them purposeful, they will be disconnected in their own sense of life.

In the poem “The Man in the Dead Machine”, the main theme is about fate and how sometimes neither outcomes is what you want. Lord of the Flies mirrors this when the boys firstly land on the island and when Simon is killed. Both pieces, discuss how both outcomes of a scenario aren’t favourable and how you can’t ever be at peace with your outcome.

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

This describes what the man on the bike is enduring and what he is seeing. By describing surrounding and what people look like, it allows the reader to create an image in their head of what is happening in the poem.

In the second and third quatrains, the speaker uses analogies to describe why he wouldn't return to his lover. In each of the analogies, Gascoigne uses an animal longing for their object of desire. In the first second quatrain, it is a mouse that doesn't not fall for the same trap it once escaped from. In the third quatrain, it is the fly that will not be scorched by the same flame twice. In both analogies, the subjects escape from a dangerous conflict, only to want to return to that conflict again, as the desire is one that the subject needs to survive. By using this type of application to show the speaker’s conflict, the speaker better shows and develops their attitude towards the main subject of the poem. The imagery in these analogies helps to create the complex attitude of the speaker because by using the analogy, the reader is able to connect the speaker's feelings to a real life situation. The audience is able to better understand the scenario because the author compared it to an everyday scenario that can be easily pictured. Gascoigne skillfully uses imagery in the form of analogies to convey the complex attitude of the

Everyone remembers his or her first crush. Making the grand leap during adolescence from a child to a teenager brings about many unusual feelings and thoughts. It is usually around this time when most boys and girls begin to develop strong emotions directed toward the opposite sex, which can lead to some odd behavior. In Melanie McCabe’s poem “Paperboy,” the speaker uses imagery to make a coming of age poem much more vivid as she describes how a local paperboy made her feel as a young girl during this important transition in life.

Both Poems are faced with the problematic situation of inner hassle. Piano’s narrator struggles with his oppression of his emotions in sentimentality. When he is listening to the sounds of the chant from the women singing he says “In

Thesis: Music is a unique form of sound powerful enough to manipulate mood, feelings, and cognition.