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W. B. Yeats’s poem ‘An Irish Airman Foresees his Death’ and Shakespeare’s poem ‘Come Away, Come Away, Death’ both deal with the theme of impending death, although by varying causes. While the poems employ similar figurative and sonic elements of language, their tone and style vary. Yeats’s poem is primarily a war poem that serves as an elegy for the Irish pilot Major Robert Gregory who died in WWI. As opposed to this Shakespeare’s poem is a lamenting love song sung by the character of Feste in Twelfth Night. Despite being different in setting, they both express an acceptance of death.

When isolated from society, loneliness becomes a part of you. In the poems, The Wife’s Lament translated by Ann Stanford and The Seafarer translated by Burton Raffel, are two similar and different poems. The characters in these poems handle their exiles in different ways. The way the two characters reflect from their exile is based off Anglo-Saxon values and beliefs. These poems compare and contrast the exile between men and women.

The concept of the malign nature of the tenement is developed throughout the first stanza with Crichton Smith exploring his own role in his mother 's confinement. He tells the reader that whilst he drove away, his mother would 'wave from the window. ' Again the poet successfully employs alliterative words to draw our attention - this time to the image of his frail mother still lovingly 'waving ' from her prison 'window '. This notion is supported by Crichton Smith comparing himself to

-Essay: 1300- 1500 words. ‘A sense of belonging is never permanent.’ Discuss in relation to TWO poems and TWO pieces of related texts.

Ray Bradbury once said, “Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being.” This statement has become progressively true as an increasing number of people rely more on0 technology than they do human interaction. They prefer to depend on the screens in front of them, thus farther removing themselves from society. In “The Veldt,” Ray Bradbury uses foreshadowing and figurative language to convey that separation from family is initiated by dependence on technology.

I, Damien Smith am a baseball player and I been playing baseball since I was 6 years old. I started in youth baseball and worked my way to the top for a spot on the varsity baseball team at Mount East High school. Let me tell you about my father, my father’s name was Rick Smith and he was an exceptional great man and a great baseball player. He was a professional player in the minor league and my dream was to follow his ways of baseball. Dad introduced me to baseball as a child and I fell in love with it ever since. Unfortunately when I was ten years old, Dad died from a tumor in his brain and it was a stage four tumor. Doctors couldn’t do anything about it and it was a terminal illness and dad knew he was going to die soon.

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The poem “The Wanderer” speaks of a man who has been exiled from his clan, and is now forced to roam the land alone. Separation from his fellow kinsmen and lord seems to be the worst fate imaginable. The man speaks of his great loss, remembering the time when he was happy with his liege,

’Leaving Home’ by Peter Skrzynecki follows the poets point of view as he gets a new job and has to move away from home.The emotions that develop within the poet are caustic and pessimistic as he faces alienation within a new reality as well as confront a profound yearning for home.”watching myself outside in the rain, my severed head under one arm” portrays a visual imagery of a ghost or other being through a state of existentialism which further emphasises the poets feeling of alienation and his pessimistic attitude towards his current situation.”dreamt of three headless crows” is part of the poets subconscious dealing with the dismay of leaving home and the events of the past day.This is a prime example of the mind taking an imaginative journey to provide an understanding of the

Exile, is defined as a state of being barred from one’s native country. How could that even be possible; Being kicked out of a place of inhabitance. Many say that you’d have to do something unthinkable to have a punishment as grim as exile. During the lawless time of monsters and unruly Kings, the Anglo-Saxon era of poems make that all very practical. The creators of each poem discuss the personal endeavors of each exile and how they each come to their own acceptance, or not. “The seafarer”, “Wanderer”, and the “Wife’s Lament” use various literary devices to express the emotional toil, sorrow, and each theme of their exile.

In today’s world, people have given visual Medias a big place in their lives and have given up interacting with one another, which causes them to lose contact with the natural world because technologies such as computers and televisions are what interest them more than anything. Society is more focused on non-realistic activities on television instead of observing what’s happening in the real world. It is shown in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 that society tends

However, firstly, Thomas compares himself, as well as other soldiers, to “broken reeds” (13) through a simile emphasizing the beaten bodies of the people who served in the war. Then, the accumulation of broken reeds are described as, “Myriads of broken reeds all still and stiff” (14) hinting the death of each individual to the point in which the difference between broken reeds and humans become ambiguous. Additionally, the myriad of shattered spirits directly juxtaposes the idea of solitude of the speaker adding emphasis and stark contrast to the lonesome individual amongst the abundance of dead bodies. Likewise, the rain itself juxtaposes the idea of solitude as the rain droplets itself falls in abundance onto the “bleak hut” (2) the speaker is sheltered in. The irony of a multitude of raindrops falling from the sky inspiring Thomas to write about the solitude of war—is rather humorous, but also—is what allows the reader to realize that a soldiers experience more than just adrenaline and fear upon taking up arms against their enemies. Thomas’s use of juxtaposition within the poem helps recognize the solitude of an individual despite the surrounding environment pointing out the

In Kenneth Slessor’s ‘Five Bells’ and Derek Walcott’s ‘Ruins of a Great House’ both poets express an immense sense of loss and mourning for something that once was. In Walcott’s composition he mourns the loss of identity, culture, sovereignty and life lost through colonisation. Whereas, Slessor mourns the loss of a friend, Joe Lynch, it is plainly displayed that he is also mourning his own human fragility and mortality. Along these lines P. K. Elkin considers that ‘Slessor takes Joe Lynch merely as a symbol, concerning himself primarily with general reflections on time and on the limitations of the individual consciousness and personal relationships’…and thus leading Slessor to rest ‘…on the significance of death.’ (1978, p. 80)

This poignant dichotomy is seen explicitly in two poems in Seamus Heaney’s Field Work. One poem, “The Strand at Lough Beg” is written for “Heaney’s cousin Colum McCartney (ambushed and shot in a sectarian killing)” and is rich with pastoral scenery, dark tones, and religious imagery (Vendler 60). Another poem, “A Postcard from North Antrim” is about “his friend the social worker Sean Armstrong (shot by a ‘pointblank teatime bullet’)” (Vendler 60). These two elegies, both with a strong presence of Heaney’s personal voice, are imbued with a sort of ambiguity as Heaney struggles with the death of two people who were both very close to him. In both poems, Heaney “tries to converse with and question the dead” in an attempt to rationalize, or at least display his sentiments on the untimely deaths (Parker 159). It is interesting to watch Heaney oscillate in imagery, tone and diction as he progresses through both poems. This wavering can be seen as a result of Heaney’s background.

In the poems “The Wanderer” and “The Dream of the Rood,” anonymous authors give way to the idea that an Almighty God will solve every problem a person has by doing two things: 1) drawing upon the memories of a warrior who has lost everything near and dear to him due to war, and 2) entering the dream of a man who has been exiled and isolated. Each piece takes its reader through the trials and tribulations that one may not relate to in this era, yet the reader is still there alongside the character wanting them to find peace with their world and themselves. Initially, it is believed that the characters will overcome their hardships and achieve the happiness they seek. However, as the reader delves deeper into the character’s story, there is an overwhelming sense of incompleteness. What actually happens at the end of each piece is not written in stone - telling us the story is not whole - nor has a conclusion been reached. The intrapersonal thoughts being shared with the reader reveal the obstacles that keep an overall wholeness from occurring.