my first look at this picture, I think that there is a strong feminist undertone here. A woman is the main focal point, and not only that but she is also about to kill a man. She is exuding power. This scene is reminiscent of a biblical story in the Old Testament where a woman drives a stake through a man’s head during wartime. Descriptive Analysis One of the first elements of this piece was the contrast. The piece was done in black and white so there are mainly just highlights and shadows. Highlighted
Montague and Heaney both write about their observations on old age. Compare and contrast two poems, one by ach poet, taking account of the methods which each poet uses to write about old age. Both ‘Like Dolmens Round My Childhood, The Old People’ by John Montague and ‘A Drink Of Water’ by Seamus Heaney deal with the theme of old age in a rural Irish environment. ‘A Drink of Water’ tells the story of woman who Heaney sees collecting water from the well on his family land. Heaney then goes on to compare
In the poem, “35/10” by Sharon Olds, the speaker uses wistful and jealous tones to convey her feeling about her daughter’s coming of age. The speaker, a thirty-five year old woman, realizes that as the door to womanhood is opening for her ten year old daughter, it is starting to close for her. A wistful tone is used when the speaker calls herself, “the silver-haired servant” (4) behind her daughter, indicating that she wishes she was not the servant, but the served. Referring to herself as her
In the poem, “The Old Man Dreams” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Holmes demonstrated that an old man craved to be young again. Holmes supports his message by writing the poem as an extended metaphor by comparing youth to old age. At the end of the stanzas, he reveals that the old man didn't just want to be a young boy again, but he also wanted to be a father and a husband, too. In conclusion, one can understand that the theme of Holmes’ poem is to be forever young and to be with his loved ones
can be found due to the fact that whoever wrote this poem is dead and that the answer will always be in speculation even if it is correct. Hopefully, at the end of this quest I will be slightly more enlightened as to who the true speaker may really be. There are some things that we do know about this poem. It is most often referred to as an elegy because of the mood of mourning and regret. Upon further reading I discovered that this poem is like others of its time period. Many parallels
poor desiciosns? The poem “Wasted on the Old” written by Mary di Michele is trying to give the message that the society is becoming more and more boring and uncomfortable; also most people in the society are becoming less unique and different by following the media and society. She has represented her message through the perspective of two girl best friends that communicate with each other and talk about the world they are in. Mary di Michele has used different features in her poem that makes it special
How Larkin apprehends his/our ageing and then inevitable mortality in ‘The Old Fools’ and ‘Ambulances’ In ‘The Old Fools’, Larkin describes the slow depression of life that one experiences in old age as a steady dissolution of what makes us up. He explores the idea of dignity being the first component of oneself to neglect them, and how incomprehensible it is that the elderly manage to ignore the terrible nature of the horrors that await them in death. ‘Ambulances’ is more an exploration of the
he is happy only when his love is content. This theme is shown in Sonnet 37, in which Shakespeare declares that when he is old, her happiness will comfort him: "Look what is best, that best I wish in thee./ This wish I have, then ten times happy me!" He is saying, in effect, that he wants her to have everything; and if this could only happen, he would be at peace in his old age. In Sonnets 50 and 51, Shakespeare uses an image of himself riding a horse. When he rides away from his lady, in Sonnet
suggests the subject will feel ‘new-made’, in a sense that he may have a new purpose in his life, even when he is old and ‘feel’st it [blood] cold’ as his blood will be running ‘warm’ through his heir’s veins. Shakespeare uses another method here to create effect – through his use of oppositions and directly contrasting words such as ‘new-made’ and ‘old’, or most obviously ‘warm’ and ‘cold’. The sonnet is slightly paradoxical and contains much opposition such as this -
There are many poems about love, but fewer poems about the dynamics of that love, of the power structure inherent in heterosexual relationships. Two poems that don’t seem to have much in common at first glance “The Lady of Shalott” and “My Last Duchess” make these power dynamics a central theme of their respective plots. Specifically, these poems put a huge emphasis on how women interact with men, and revolve around a feminine need for male approval, even in death. In this paper I will examine the