The Revelation of Truths: The Preoccupation with Life, Love and Loss in Kate Llewellyn's Poetry

In this first quote, we see Beauty as a virgin and appalled that the Beast desires to see her naked. As time at the Beast’s mansions passes, she connects and relates to him more and more, and realizes they are more similar than she once thought. Beauty shows her first sign of maturity and shedding of her first layer of skin when she shows curiosity of the “fleshly nature” of her body. This is the first time she shows an interest of her body, signifying Beauty maturing. Beauty’s biggest weakness at this point is nudity, once she is able to show her nude body to the Beast, she has shed her last layer of skin. After shedding this last layer, she is free of the stereotypes given by society and free to roam the world as she pleases. Drawing from the examples listed in the above paragraphs, it is clear to see the linear-progression from Beauty at a full level of innocence, consisting of only humanistic qualities, to the end of the novel where the transformation is sealed by her acceptance of animalistic qualities and sexual

Poetry can elicit various emotions from the reader, and not everyone will find the same meanings to the poems. For example The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, The Sky is low, The Clouds are Mean by Emily Dickinson, and Harlem Night Song by Langston Hughes all have different themes. Of the three my favorite is The Road Not Taken because it offers its audience a chance to make life choices.

In this interpretation, the role of the “beauty” is played by the young and beautiful, not to mention white, Ann Darrow, and the role of the savage “beast” is unsurprisingly represented by the legendary god, Kong. One way in which King Kong displays his own struggle between savagery and civilization, is in his lust for Ann. Although, Kong is surely well aware of the barriers he will encounter by pursuing his desire for Ann, he is unable to resist the temptations of her beauty. Thus, in spite of his raw animal instincts, he continues to pursue an unrealistic relationship with Ann, proving that even a beast like himself can recognize and appreciate genuine beauty. We can again see Kong’s battle between savagery and civilization when he is forcibly taken to New York as the “eighth wonder of the world” but promptly escapes to find Ann, the beautiful woman whom he loves dearly. However, instead of simply finding Ann, his innate savagery gets the better of him and he ends up destroying an entire city and harming innocent civilians. The final instance in which we see the struggle between savagery and civilization in Kong himself, is in the final scene of the film, where Kong attempts to save his beloved Ann from the top of the Empire State Building. Despite his best efforts to stay atop the building and rescue the damsel in distress, he can only be seen as a threat through the eyes of those piloting the planes, thus, he is shot, causing him to fall to his death. In this final scene we hear Carl Denham say, “Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.”, which in my opinion, implies that it was in fact civilization that triumphed over savagery. Though, King Kong unfortunately met his end, it wasn’t beauty that killed him, it was his own struggle between choosing civilization over his inherent

Not only do these poems share differences through the speakers childhood, but also through the tones of the works.

One similarity that the poems “A Blessing” and “Predators” have is that they both have tame animals. An example that supports this statement it that in the poem “Predators” there are two tame animals or domesticated animals. One example that proves this theory is that in the poem it explains that there is a dog and a cat that is the speaker’s pets. Additionally, in the poem “A Blessing” it explains that in the poem it informes that “We stepped over the barbed wire into the pasture.” This proves that the two Indian ponies are tame because the barbed wire is protecting them and they are in a pasture. Furthermore, the speakers also have similarities. One similarity between James Wright and Linda Hogan is that in the two poems they both learn something. James Wright learns about the feelings that the two Indian ponies had and how that made him happy and peaceful. Likewise, Linda Hogan learns that she needs to be more protective of her pets once she finds out that there are wild animals living in her

This text response will be looking the comparison of the two poems, ‘Drifters’ by Bruce Dawe, And ‘In the park’ by Gwen Harwood under the name of Walter Lehmann. Drifters is about a seemingly constantly moving family, it describes the process the family will go through leaving their newest home. In the park is about a seemingly single mother raising her children, it describes the mother sitting in the park with her children when a previous lover comes by and talks about the children. With in each poem, the form and structure, language techniques and the tone and message will be analysed and compared with the other to gather a grater understanding of the Australian voice.

Understanding a poet’s context can greatly shape a person’s understanding of their poetry. Australian poet Gwen Harwood (1920-1995) was born into a self-sufficient family full of music, philosophy and language. Harwood can be seen to draw inspiration from her lifelong influences, primarily music and her childhood, to shape her poems. The gentle meditation, The Violets, is an exploration of the existential concerns of the poet regarding the innocence and experience of childhood. The _____ Four Impromptus conveys ideas of the power of music and the human experience. Both poems display the personal themes of music, childhood innocence, human development and romanticism, reflecting these dominant experiences in Harwood’s personal life. By

In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by

This foregrounds potential of narcissism within Beauty. The Beast allows Beauty to go back to London to be with her father under the condition that she must return before winter is over. While in London, she, “[sends] him flowers, white roses in return for the ones he had given her; and when she left the florist, she experienced a sudden sense of perfect freedom, as if she had jus escaped from an unknown danger” (48). With this gesture, Beauty feels all her debts are settled and she no longer has an obligation to the Beast. When she puts on her robe of fur, she becomes her own beast, showing a parallel between her and the Beast.

In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself.

The power of the poet is not only to convey an everyday scene into a literary portrait of words, but also to interweave this scene into an underlying theme. The only tool the poet has to wield is the word. Through a careful placement and selection of words, the poet can hopefully make his point clear, but not blatantly obvious. Common themes of poems are life, death, or the conflicting forces thereto. This theme could never possibly be overused because of the endless and limitless ways of portraying life or death through the use of different words.

Throughout Beaumont’s version of Beauty and the Beast the idea of a patriarchal relationship was evident between Beauty and the Beast. The Beast used the tactic of manipulation and had complete control over Beauty ultimately leading to her falling in love with him. Every night the Beast would ask

Now, when it comes to technical similarities between the two poems (i.e. rhyme scheme and meter), there aren’t any, so instead of stating all they don’t have in common, we’ll just move straight on to the similarities in their subject matter. Of course, the most glaring similarity between the two is that they both feature a gloomy sailor

Beauty’s role in beauty and the beast glorifies her as a sweet girl who can find light in any darkness. She prefers to move forward in life rather than sulk in misery. Being such a positive female character allows her to fall in love with a man who is not of the society standards of handsome, name Beast. She was more intent on focusing on what he had to offer as a person. Karen Rowe states in “Feminism and Fairy Tales” “such alluring fantasies gloss the heroine's inability to act self-assertively, total reliance on external rescues, willing bondage to father and prince, and her restriction to hearth and nursery” (Rowe). The heroine being beauty in this case, doesn't have opinions or rights because her character wasn't created to. Rowe believes that fairytales have paved the way for our expectations towards what women and men should be doing and what romance is. Rowe argues that “These "domestic fictions" reduce fairy tales to sentimental clichés, while they continue to glamorize a heroine's traditional yearning for romantic love which culminates in marriage” (Rowe). Beauty’s character found herself in these “sentimental cliches” with her

When considering the structure of the poems, they are similar in that they are both written loosely in iambic pentameter. Also, they both have a notable structured rhyme scheme.