Tone Of The Poem Xiv By Derek Walcott

The setting of this poem is in a rural part of an unnamed Southern state, off of Highway 96 at Cherrylog Road. It is at the peak of a summer afternoon in a junkyard full of discarded automobiles. This setting affects the reader’s perception of this poem by using a hot southern junkyard with an active sun that is “eating the paint in blisters from a hundred car

From the very beginning of the poem “XIV”, it is clear the author is describing an experience that has left a lasting impression on him. Walcott vividly details his childhood visit with the elderly storyteller, and his journey there. Throughout the poem the author uses poetic devices to convey how this experience was a defining moment in his transformation from childhood to adulthood, and contributed to his identity and newfound wisdom.

In the poem “XIV”, Derek Walcott recalls a memory in which he visits an elderly storyteller. The reader can understand the significance behind the journey as Walcott uses poetic devices such as imagery, metaphors, and personification to establish tone and highlight symbolic aspects in the poem. The overall intriguing tone of the poem adds

The land in this poem is very important to the development of the theme. So the Pauline Johnson spends most of the describing it. Pauline uses a unique structure similar to slow close up to emphasize all the features of the land and give them depth and color. In the first stanza she starts of with a shot of the skyline. Witch at first only gives an basic idea of the landscape, we know not of the bleaching skeletons of the never coming herd of buffalo. In the second stanza she zooms in add a whole new layer of nuanced description breathing life into anything that occupies the land. "Etched where the cloudland touch and die" In the

Throughout the poem, the speaker uses a reverent tone to communicate the sacredness of the places mentioned. His understanding of the situation filters through the calmness of the scene and is exhibited through neutral word choice. The most descriptive words are only used at the beginning. “Fidgeted,” “shrank,” and “serious” build up an intense mood, which dissipates when the mention of a car as a sacred place steps in. While other hiding places and rooms are mentioned, the car keeps coming back as a savior, the thing that frees the

The poem ‘Driving through Sawmill Towns’ describes the people and the scenery of a rural town. In the poem, Les Murray writes from the perspective of a person driving a car through a rural town. Throughout the poem Les Murray uses imagery such

In our society today, fairy tales are full of magic, tiaras, ball gowns, and Prince Charmings, which serve as entertainment for their audience. Bruno Bettelheim, one of the most renowned psychologists and fairy tale experts of his time, proposes that fairy tales are therapeutic tools for children. However, the essay “Why Fairy Tales Matter: The Performative and the Transformative” by Maria Tatar proposes a different view, one deeper than therapeutic realms. She believes that children must read fairy tales because it is their gateway to the land of curiosity and imagination. Through these fairy tales, children are motivated to use the power of language to communicate and effect change throughout their lives. Tatar provides numerous proofs to support her claims, however the contradictory logic and substandard quality of evidence makes her readers question if reading fairy tales is truly essential for children.

From the physical journey of driving through a town the reader will experience a second journey, a spiritual journey when they oversee the lives of the people within the town. The composer utilizes a 2nd person perspective to engage his audience and hopefully take them on the same physical and spiritual journey. He uses personification such as “The houses there wear verandas out of shyness” to give the audience a sense of the community and set a harmonizing tone. I believe this poem really captures Les Murrays hypothesized concept of journeys, as it’s much deeper than a simplistic drive.

The poem Backyard conveys the notion of the simple yet chaotic life that is found when living in the landscape of suburban Australia. This blank verse poem of seven stanzas has slight rhythm, no rhyme and has utilised enjambment throughout. These aspects contribute to the sense of reality and chaos created as the poem sound closer to normal speech, as though you’re just have a conversation with the narrator. The poem follows the events that occur and environment of a family’s backyard, discussing the various aspects with which most Australian’s would be able to relate with to some degree and overall telling the reader to live life simply. Moreover, the use of the rhetorical question ‘Is that a fifties home movie, or the real thing?’ makes the audience think about what the true Australian landscape really is. People outside of Australia don’t tend to associate this country with the suburbs but this statement makes them

econdly, Derek Walcott's "Codicil", is published in 1965 in his collection The Castaway, and Other Poems. Codicil means literally an addition to one's last will and testament. The poem's title reflects the theme of aging and death, and also shows how the speaker's life is going. It is an autobiographical poem that shows Walcott's identity crisis. The poem's tone is angry, because of his hybrid inheritances and its consequences, and also exhausted from fighting against the colonizer and losing people. "Codicil" begins with "schizophrenic"(1) and ends with "rage" (30), showing that Walcott's anger is because his cultural schizophrenia.

Furthermore, every fairy tale can be written over and over by many different people and have different points of views and meanings and the story line can be changed around. However, the true aspect of fairy tales is how the reader interprets it by “making them hiss and crackle with narrative energy with each retelling” and the effects the stories make on themselves (234). They are kept alive and vibrant in the same sense of what keeps “life pulsing: anxieties, fears, desires, romance, passion, and love” (235). Fairy tales are mainly intended to create characteristics that allow us as readers to yield towards “happily-ever-after-endings” for readers and their kids (235). For many, they develop a sense of our own values and provide us with finding what we want or expect most in life and Tatar helps show that imagination can be the key to the most powerful and brilliant ideas and guide us to the real world in ways not many people would expect fairy tales to do.

The ‘big bush-covered hills’(Mansfield 1) and ‘sandy road with shallow puddles(2) of the opening are made evident that they’re not situated by the ‘weed-hung rocks’ and ‘small rock pools’(20) of a later section, yet the consistency of the style in which each area is described, the narrative voice wandering from components of the setting, such as the ‘tide’ to the ‘sunlight’ (20) to the ‘green binds...in the bungalows’(21) and the ‘pawa shells’(21), not unlike a montage, unite the set of surroundings by replicating the manner in which they are portrayed.

Abstract: The themes and issues discussed in Post-colonial poetry are much the same as in fiction. After the withdrawal of colonialism the Caribbean islands were fragmented as they had no unified history or identity. Walcott, as a Caribbean poet, created a great poetry that highlighted the themes of memory, displacement, loss of history, exile, brutality and tried to celebrate the rejected or little known aspects. Walcott as a poet represented through his poetic forms the unfortunate encounters of people and islands with alien, hostile forces. He had used iconography in his poetry and sensitively mark each aspect of his natural world from stones, rocks, trees, flowers, birds, animals, climatic changes and even the blowing of the wind and tried

Rural life is well captured in the poem as a theme. Marlowe utilizes imagery to create a rural setting that characterizes the entire poem. In line two, the Marlowe describes his residential area as “…valleys, groves, hills, and fields” to introduce the concept of the countryside (Roberts and Zweig 733). Most of the