The Highwayman Timeline

The poem shifts to the present with the second stanza, which depicts the runner being carried once again “shoulder-high,” however, this time in a casket by pallbearers to his grave (Housman 2013, “Overview” 1). The townspeople come together again, but this time they are “Townsman of a stiller town” (Housman 2013). The poem highlights the theme of early death as the young runner is put to rest for a final time, and Housman makes it clear through his writing of the sorrow that townspeople feel towards the young life being cut short.

Loving relationships are presented in the two poems. The wife in 'The Manhunt' helps her husband to come close to her again, whilst the father in 'Nettles' unhappily realises he can't protect his son from life, no matter how hard he tries. Both poems use the same semantic fields. War and pain are expressed in both poems. The words ‘regiment’, ‘recruits’, ‘bullet’, and ‘parachute silk’, all relate to war whilst the words ‘tender’, ‘blisters’, ‘blown...jaw’, ‘fractured...shoulder blade’ and ‘broken ribs’ all relate to pain. In both poems the relationships are both shown as being damaged by a war, whether it be emotional or physical, which has destroyed the two relationships. In Conclusion, both poems present vulnerability in relationships, not only is the person in pain vulnerable but the partner is also, due to an uncontrollable desire to help. This has been shown through their partners account of pain and through war

The poem As Traffic is a different kind of poem from the rests. It has words and sentence that you wouldn’t expect in other poems. For example “Bitch, Fuck, without Rubber” (Hayes, ll 14-15). These are just a few of the words the author says but why does he say them? What does he mean by them? What is he doing? These are just a few question that will be answered in the next couple of paragraphs.

INTRODUCTION – (1 paragraph) STRUCTURE 1. Opening sentences which introduce the poem, its author and its form.Explain why the poem is of a particular form (either a ballad or lyric poem). 2. Thesis statement: A general statement about what the poem communicates about life and life experience. 3. Signpost: briefly outline the more specific reasons for how/why the poem conveys this life experience and / or message. (Introduce the main features which will be explored in more detail in the body of your essay).

In this poem there is a lot of figurative language. One of the biggest types of figurative language used in this poem is irony. The irony in this poem is how the mother wouldn't let her child go to march because she feared her child would get hurt. Instead she sent her child to church because she believed it was a safe and sacred place but ironically the church ended up being bombed. Another piece of figurative language that is very effective in this poem is imagery. The way the poem is written helps me create images in my head for example, "She raced through the streets of Birmingham." I can imagine her running around desperately, looking for her child. The metaphors and hyperboles in this poem also help with the imagery, for example, "...night dark hair," and "…rose-petal sweet." These metaphors make me think of the girls smoothly combed black hair and her fresh and beautiful rosy smell. A hyperbole that had a huge effect on the tone was, "But that smile was the last smile to ever come upon her face." This hyperbole really helps me understand the effect of a tragic moment like this and how it can completely ruin

Visual plays a great factor in the passage, Marquarts want to describe how the Midwest gets looked down. Marquart uses visuals “ .. through the state of North Dakota, you’ll encounter a road so lonely, treeless and devoid of rising and curves in places that it will feel like a long-held pedal steel guitar note”. The visuals are used to print a picture in the reader's mind showing the reader that long rides are boring and driving through the Midwest is boring because there is nothing to see. She also used a simile to describe how it just one big long road of nothing. The long guitar note is used to show the reader that a single note is dull when a single note is playing the audience waits in suspense to find out what is happening next later to find out nothing going to happen. By focusing on what the visual mean Marquart is able to how the reader an understanding of what the Midwest means to her as well a in showing the characteristics of the Midwest.

The clever use of vocabulary to describe the digger assists the audience in visualising the digger, for example, “his body ached from the marching,” “the old digger then climbed to his feet” and the repeated use of the term “old digger”. The striking use of the words “ached” and “climbed” emphasize his age. The repeated use of the word hero, emphasises the theme of the poem. Hamilton also uses simple, but very effective language. The words and phrases are carefully chosen in this poem, making the poem easier to comprehend. Punctuation enhances the flow of the poem, such as the use of dashes after phrases for pauses. The use of direct speech throughout the poem offers depth to the poem, it immerses the audience into the moment and the conversation as though they were

was a new route and this was only the second time that Mendez had taken it.

The mood and tone of the poem are a sinister feel, established by the line ‘the jeep was waiting on my bewildered lawn, Waiting, waiting in its usual silence’. The word ‘waiting’ was repeated 3 times in this one stanza, first building up the stress in the reader's’ mind. With

The men were unruly and rude and got quite handsy with the barmaids. His wife who could not bear watching the soldiers torment the young barmaids had stabbed one of the more violent men to protect one of the younger girls and she paid the ultimate price. One of the soldiers, a giant brute of a man grabbed her by the hair and dragged her kicking outside where they ran her through with a spear. Driven mad by grief he had left his children with their grandfather with the promise that he would avenge their mother and headed in search for "King in the north" and from there into the bitter battle with his head, heart and

Do you know wear the longest rode on Earth can be found? The Pan-American Highway begins in Alaska. It passes through Canada, the United States. and Mexico. Then it continues down the west coast of South America all the way to Chile. Altogether, the highway passes through 12 countries. It passes through jungles and mountains the road is about 16,000 miles long. At this time, only one 54-miles stretch of the road remains to be completed.

causes the poem to flow, and thus lightens up the dark and serious issue of war. The lines "But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place." are easy to read; however, their meaning is extremely

This poem is about these people that fell in love with each other.The first person is Bess, Bess is the girl who lives in a hotel room because her father own the place.the Highwayman man is a thief and rob carriages and takes gold. Their was a man who loved Bess and so he found out and word sped to the guards and locked Bess up in her room.Then the Highwayman came riding,riding and she heard the highwayman riding so she warned him with her life.the Highwayman heard it so he keeps and he gets caught and he dies. some people say that you can still hear the ghost on a winter.

All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan is a poem jam packed with allegories. Reading it may seem like putting together a puzzle. It can be interpreted in a vast amount ways. Dylan does not like when people interpret in a single way; therefore, this may have been his goal. It is written within a basic structure; however, the position of each stanza is rather abnormal. The diction of the poem changes from low to high as the speaker changes from the joker to the thief. There is a simple rhyme scheme that adds a melodic feeling.

The narrator gives an encounter he had with another solider. His vocabulary used adds to making the story seem very unintelligent and adds to the impressions that it is coming from a common man fighting with the army. Hardy uses informal words including “nipperkin” and “half-a-crown” to show that this poem is written by an average man, and also helps to set the time period. This poem also includes multiple breaks within the lines, "I shot him dead because — Because he was my foe” (Hardy 9,10). These breaks demonstrate long pauses the reader should take to understand the tone behind the line being read, as well as the author searching for a legitimate reason to explain why he shot the man.