The Way Poets Present Ideas of Death and Loss in Mid-Term Break, On the Train, On My First Sonne and The Affliction of Margaret

In literature, themes shape and characterize an author’s writing making each work unique as different points of view are expressed within a writing’s words and sentences. This is the case, for example, of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” and Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death.” Both poems focus on the same theme of death, but while Poe’s poem reflects that death is an atrocious event because of the suffering and struggle that it provokes, Dickinson’s poem reflects that death is humane and that it should not be feared as it is inevitable. The two poems have both similarities and differences, and the themes and characteristics of each poem can be explained by the author’s influences and lives.

The theme of loss is portrayed similarly in the two poems ‘Disabled’ and ‘Out, out-’. Both of these poems are about the protagonist dealing with physical loss as they both experience an accident. Both Wilfred Owen and Robert Frost manage to mesmerize their audience’s attention, and also sympathize for the protagonists’ misfortune. They do this by the use of many literary techniques which are obvious at times, but some are very subtle, such as similes, metaphors, personification, and contrasts.

Seemed to provide me with a private context for exploring my own grief at the loss of my father” (Stanford). She informs her readers that while writing these poems, she was going through a terrible time for her and her family, so it's understandable why the theme of grief is very

Death has inspired poets across time and space, language barriers, and cultures allowing them to create transcendent works that resonate with many individuals. Two poets whose works incorporate the theme of death are Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), a Welsh poet and writer, and Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician. Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," one of his most famous poems, focuses on Thomas's struggle to come to terms with his father's death. Neruda's poem, "The Dead Woman" focuses on the poets resolve to overcome the loss of the woman he loves. Both "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" and "The Dead Woman" demonstrate how each poet views death and how he is able to come to terms with the loss of a loved one.

Unlike many believe, a poem is not defined or restrained by rules of structure for poetry is more than a simple structure or rhyme patter of those are just used to give huge meaning and not necessary to portray what the authors are seeing in their mind. Richard Wilbur’s poem, “Year’s End,” is rich in imagery and symbolism that gives us a vivid image of different ways to look at death. Wilbur depicts how the volcanic eruption as if it were a gentle snow fall and the fate of the people Pompeii as a tender sleep and nothing more. With these images, Wilbur gives us imagery that give depth, segments of time that are frozen the moment between life and death. Wilbur also introduces the symbolic meaning of “cold” and its connection to the end of life

In A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Edmund Burke writes, “It is the nature of grief to keep its object perpetually in its eye, to present it in its most pleasurable views, to repeat all the circumstances that attend to it”. Burke’s writing attempts to clarify the “pictorial, literary, cultural, economic and psychological” phenomenon of sublimity, explicating the ways in which power, vastness, obscurity and beauty intersect to form emotional response. A Philosophical Enquiry elucidates why so many Romantic poets and writers would make grief, mourning and death the subjects of their works; the limitless, obscure, infinite theme death corresponds to the existential, contemplative and introspective ideas Romantic writers were attempting to interrogate. But the subject of death in Romantic literature transcends the topic of corporeal death and explores the death of memory, of youth, of innocence and of the past. Furthermore, the Romantic writers were grappling with a shifting, changing society that caused a sense of pervasive loss in their works; as artists, authors and the population attempted to navigate a society characterized by political revolution and technological innovation, poems about mourning act as almost consolatory works.

The ways death is approached and depicted in literature are diverse and numerous. Not unlike the ways different religions throughout the world and history have interpreted, and continue to interpret, this inevitable phenomenon, art and literature offer a wide variety of views as to what happens after death and what dying means. Of course, there are some common threads and themes associated with dying that are frequently seen and used, both in prose and in poetry. The tropes of death are familiar and common, but each writer still brings its own vision and frames it in its own personal way. Ernest Dowson and Dylan Thomas are two writers who, while not separated by a long period of time, came from very different period and wrote in different literary movements. Despite those differences, they share some similarities in the way they chose to depict and portray death in their poetry. In the poems Do Not Go Gentle Into

Compare and Contrast the ways in which two Poets create Sympathy for their Characters – ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’ and ‘The River God’.

In the poems “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime” and “Lament,” each poet provides an account of a widow grieving for her late husband, but in a different manner. In “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” William Carlos Williams describes the widow grieving for her husband every year during spring since his death. In “Lament,” Edna St. Vincent Millay shows how the widow grieves for her husband by providing their children with his belongings. Although the widows grieve in contrasting ways, both of them seem to share a similar act in common. Throughout “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime” and “Lament,” each widow takes part in an act of remembrance towards her late husband.

Literature, poetry included, gives us the opportunity to understand a person’s experiences, or at least empathize with him or her. Often these experiences are categorized and labeled as themes; such themes include contrasting death to life, age, and regret. “Those Winter Sundays” and “Eating Together” focus on the death of the father of the narrator. Each poem also details briefly how the narrator has chosen to respond to his or her father’s death. One takes a particularly regretful stance on the issue, whereas the other focuses more on appreciating the time shared. This essay will explicate each poem, compare these explications, and compare the writers themselves.

Have you ever loved so deep and so unconditionally that it becomes your own way of being?

Poems are like snowflakes. While no two are the same, they all have common structures and themes. One prevalent theme in poetry is that of death, which is present in both “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost. Dickinson perceives death as a gentleman, while Frost perceives death as loneliness, which provides insight on how the time periods of the poems, the genders of the authors, and the authors’ personal experiences influence literature.

the theme of death. The speaker of the poems talks about the loss of a

“Mid-term Break” and “Carpet Weavers, Morocco” are poems that represent loss, each of these poems convey loss in different ways. “Mid-term Break” by Seamus Heaney, is a poem about the loss of a family member, the poem starts of in a school’s nurses room, where he is waiting to be picked up by neighbours, already this suggests something wrong has happened as you wouldn’t normally get picked up by a neighbour if you came from a medical room, it then shows the emotions of his family and others. He met his father on the porch crying and his mum unable to cry as she was in so much grief. It also describes the speaker meeting strangers saying they are sorry. At last

The Recurring Theme of Death in the Poetry of Philip Larkin. In reading the poetry of Philip Larkin for the first time, one is struck by the characteristically glum atmosphere that pervades most of his poems. The vast majority of his verse is devoted to what is generally taken to be negative aspects of life, such as loneliness and dejection, disappointments, loss, and the terrifying prospect of impending death. Evidently, there are uplifting and humorous sides to his work as well, but for certain reasons Larkin is invariably identified with a downhearted, pessimistic temper and tone of voice, conveying a constant sense of failure and of disappointment that underlies all the more specific emotions and reflections of individual