English Poetry

EmersonThe repeat Green and The Eolian Harp The Echoing Green is a poem write by William Blake. It was taken from Blakes Songs of Innocence, and is withal a pictorial poem of Blakes. In this poem, the poet describes a joyous country side view w present the arrival of spring is welcomed by jocund skies, and ringing bells. It takes place on an ideal day in the British Isles. Blake practises the theme of innocence and peace through erupt the poem. The theme plays out here when Blake states that the skies ar happy, the children are playing, and the old folk who reminisce about their aver childhood.This poem is a symbolic and draws a contrast amidst jejuneness and old age. The spring symbolizes the youth and the children. Morning is the beginning of delirious state and ignominious change surface is the curio. The poet symbolizes the innocence of children with birds. The birds are happy and they sing mocking the children. dwell of birds symbolizes peace. The poem could be at tributed to the life of a person-birth, life, death. Birth being the morning, life being the kids playing, the routines throughout the day, and men reminiscing, and lastly death being the end of the day when all goes dark, and quiet smothers the earth. The Eolian Harp, is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Inspired by the peaceful music being compete by wind this poem was written for his wife, Sara, while visiting a house of his in Clevedon, Somersetshire. The theme in this poem is also peace, as well as inn at a timence. Peace comes to him while he ponders on the stunner of character, and the wonder of God giving him everything approximately him including Sara. Coleridge personifies nature by analyze it to abstract nouns. For example, the white flower represents innocence.This abstract noun does exactly this it gives life and fictitious character to nature. Coleridge uses unperceived nature to appeal to the charitable senses. Each are forego in turn starting with sig ht through the watching of the clouds and the evening star. The introduction of God to contendds the end is another vision. a vision to the soul. It is immediately that the audience visualizes the peace that Coleridge impressions. The allusion to sight and vision in these poems are earthshaking because of the dept of imagination needed for physical and emotional imagery. Its full of emotional feelings, as well as physical sight.The audience is needed to picture, and feel what the poet did to understand the poem. For example, both Coleridge and Blake set the poem outside, in nature to introduce the peace and innocence. These two poems also maintain central connectedness. They both have vision and sight. Not only emotionally and mentally, but physical as well. There are many times where both poets use thick-skulled feelings and thoughts. Hiding meaning behind delivery, and using polsemes. Blake hides meanings behind his entire poem. very much(prenominal) as morning being the beginning of life, and evening being the end. slope PoetryIn Bayonet charge and capital of Northern Ireland confetti the consequences of war are presented as vicious, devastating and confusing by the poets. In both poems a range of semantic fields are used to display the surprise of the soldier in Bayonet charge and the civilian in Belfast confetti. For example in Belfast confetti Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the explosion. Itself an ace on the defend. This hyphenated line, a burst of quick fire Several semantic fields are used at once.For instance nuts, bolts, nails and car keys die to a semantic field of household objects, whilst asterisk and hyphenated line would work in to a semantic field of punctuation and explosion and rapid fire are part of wars semantic field. This use of variation in semantic fields creates a sense of confusion as the words do not fit in with the scene Carson is trying to paint, much like the civilian does not fit in w ith the war that is ferocious on around him. Similarly Hughes also uses the semantic field of nature as metaphors to create confusion Stumbling across a field of clods towards a thousand hedge Clods are something used to describe mud or soil in a field. Here Hughes are using them as a metaphor for the people who had fallen during the charge. This metaphor shows how disorientated the soldier is, stumbling around the field oblivious to what he was walking through. However the poet makes the soldiers ignorance sound as if it was forced, that in order to make it through the battle he had to tailor what was happening to his comrades.The metaphor field of clods also shows the inhumanity applied to warfare, fashioning the soldiers appear as nothing more than pieces of earth not human beings who had lives and families. It also shows how devastating the battles were, as an entire field has been covered with the corpse of those fighting. Green hedge, another metaphor used in the charact er reference I have chosen, used to describe the end of the soldiers time on the battlefield. I felt that this was particularly powerful as the colour green and nature, in general, are used to represent life and hope, something which would beguilem out f place in a battlefield meaning that the metaphor also serves as an oxymoron. Both poems consist of many enjambments. Structuring the poem in such a way causes the poems to gain a stop, start rhythm. I felt that this made them sound like the train of thought climax from the subject of each poem. Often cutting off and continuing or switching points completely much like a person in a state of confusion unable to focus solely on one thing before finding more questions to ask to guarantee to ease their confused state.By setting the poems out this way both Carson and Hughes let the reader to be enveloped in the same state of confusion creating empathy between the reader and the subject. Hughes uses automatic imagery in order to show t he insensate consequences of war Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his toilet table The use of the simile Molten iron makes the soldier sound mechanical and inhumane as it appears to be coming from within the centre of his thorax.This suggests that the poet believes that war and conflict devastates a persons humanity, becoming nothing more than a weapon. This also adds to the effect of the verb Sweating showing us that despite how inhumane the soldier may be, he is still scared enough to be Sweating conveying his fear to the reader. Meanwhile Carson explores the devastating effect war has on the land it takes place on I know this tangle so well The contrast within the quotation displays how much the bowl has been ruined.The phrase So well emphasises the degree to which the subject knows the area he is talking about, the personal address term I know also creates a sense of desperation and longing for the town this person had once known but would now have to use a map to find the right road. Labyrinth, more likely to be undercoat in Greek mythology, describes a maze almost impossible to avoidance or find your way around. Here this metaphor displays the extent of the wrong done to the town.So devastated and unrecognisable that a person who, presumably, had lived there most of their lives could swallow lost. Overall the poets use metaphors and enjambments to allow the reader to empathise with the subjects of the poems allowing us to turn back how the consequences of war would have affected them. I personally found Carsons use of contrast and reference to Greek mythology particularly evocative, letting us see the scale of devastation caused by war.