Black Rook In Rainy Weather Poem

The poem “Drifters” by Bruce Dawe explores how sacrifice is needed to belong in a family, the effects of moving communities, and how maturity is largely related to age. Through exploring these themes, Dawe shows the complex nature of identity and belonging in a family.

Silvia Plath’s Mushrooms and Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s Municipal Gum both use extended metaphors to symbolise the poets experience with oppression. Plath’s mushrooms become symbolic of the rise of housewives whereas Noonuccal compares the oppression of Indigenous Australian’s to a native gum tree imprisoned by a city. Through their inclusive language, both poets biographically reflect their encounters with oppression. Both poems are free verse, as Plath carefully configured 11 stanza 3 lined poem, to ensure there are 5 syllables in each line whereas Noonuccal’s 16 lined poem contains a peculiar end rhyming scheme. Plath begins the poem with her ‘mushrooms’ growing overnight to ‘acquire the air’ in different places ‘even the paving,’ metaphorically

Change is a concept that will effect everyone at some point in their life; quite simply it’s inevitable. How an individual reacts to change is dependent on a number of factors such as the situation and their personal perspective. Positive or negative change will obviously have different reactions in terms of a person’s acceptance or rejection of its influence on their life. Ray Lawler, author of the play, “Summer of the 17th Doll”, and Gwen Harwood, author of the poem “In The Park”, use a number of various aesthetic features in their writing to portray the ideas, attitudes and values surrounding change, and its affects on their characters. Change of career, relationships and lifestyle were evident in “Summer of the 17th Doll”, whilst the focused

The attitude, or tone, of the poem is exemplified by the speaker's skillful word choice. Some of the words chosen were: louring, low, delight, and gleams. The words louring and low force the reader to empathize and visualize the speaker's distraught

This poem has three stanzas. Each has its own color and body part as a focal point. Stanza 1, beginning "Where only my scar line remains", speaks on the removal of a body part and a red rose. I believe that this stanza refers to passion. Red is a passionate. It is often to express sensual desires, and passionate love for someone or something. She uses terms such as "luscious" and "flaming center" to express the passion that she feels from the loss of this part. However, I sense a slight pain from the loss. She uses crimson to describe the rose's center. Crimson, normally used as a reference to hell, reveals a harshness about the passion. Another hint of pain that I sense is in the order of colors ending the poem: "quartz pink, blush, vermillion". Quartz pink and blush are very soft, pink colors, whereas vermillion is a bright cross between orange and red. That scaling may translate to mean very sensitive to extreme pain. What could this pain be in reference to?

Eavan Boland cleverly uses language features, such as metaphors, similes, references to Greek mythology and symbolism, to connect to her personal experiences, seen in the poems Motherhood and Love, celebrating the durability of love, the joys of motherhood and the ordinary everyday. She also conveys the cold and disturbing truths about society, like the ignored presence of War and Violence in places like suburban areas.

In “ Blizzard” Sylvia Plath shows us the ritual a woman practices every day by looking into a mirror.The author gives the mirror a voice for it to communicate its thoughts across to us. Sylvia Plath uses imagery figures of speech and symbolism to show us that everyone will be forced to face the truth of aging , and death which in the end is inevitable.

Perspectives denote ways in which individuals view their world, and, when foregrounded by composers in a unique and evocative manner, significantly influences the way in which readers are positioned with regards to events, individuals and situations. The exploration of conflicting perspectives arising due to subjective human experiences results in alternative

The idea of loss is prevalent in both “Stop all the Clocks” by W.H Auden and “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath. Auden’s poem reveals the travesty of death and the consuming emotions which accompany the devastation of the physical loss of a loved one, whereas, Plath depicts the symbolic loss of

Written by Gillian Clarke, ‘Catrin’ is a poem which conveys the intense yet tremendously loving relationship between a mother and her child. The poem seems to display a rather personal relationship between Gillian Clarke and her existing daughter Catrin. However, the name ‘Catrin’ is only mentioned in the title which noticeably puts it into paramount importance however allows the poem to be universal. The fact that no names are mentioned at all throughout the poem may convey the idea that the scenario described may be common amongst mothers and their children; this stresses the poem being universal and relatable to anyone. The poem conveys love to be an extremely powerful emotion and one in which arguments will be present; as she ultimately conveys love as a permanent emotion.

In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” there are similar topics of negatively portrayed fathers. In Plath’s “Daddy,” Plath portrays the father with hatred and abhorrence although she loves some parts of him, and in Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz,” Roethke portrays the father as an oblivious drunk, whom he still loves. These events not only contribute to the mental illnesses that Plath and Roethke later acquired but also they contribute to how we interpret the meanings of their poems and what topics their poems are about. Sylvia Plath and Theodore Roethke have backgrounds that have a major influence on what topics they choose to write about, they share mental illnesses, their backgrounds influence the way each reader

Sylvia Plath’s“Metaphors” conveys an understanding of the stages of maturity (1) when dealing with new challenges (2), which is a key element in the development of empathy (3).

In “Daddy”, poet Sylvia Plath uses imagery and allusion to show her bad relationship she had with her father, how her life was miserable while she was writing the poem, and blaming her father for her status by comparing her depression to the holocaust during World War 2, thereby suggesting that her pain is greater than a world catastrophe.

To this day, Sylvia Plath is one of the most dynamic and esteemed poets of the 20th century. As a poet, Sylvia Plath has been renowned by multitudes of readers for her style of writing and the power she evokes from the concepts of discussion in her poems. However, most people do not realize that her all of her works are intensely autobiographical. Sylvia Plath’s own painful life experiences greatly contribute to her style of writing with themes of death and the patriarchy in poems such as “Full Fathom Five”, “Tulips”, and “Lady Lazarus”. Before one can understand Plath’s style, one must take a look at her brief, tragic life.

Several critics seem to assume that for one to endorse the values of female empowerment, they must represent the image of overt liberation over those who seek persecution covertly. However, that is not the case; female empowerment describes a woman’s struggle for liberation from societal bounds. Liberations can manifest as words or actions made to reinstate one 's rights and control. These efforts are found in the narrating persona of Melissa Febos “Whip Smart,” as well as Sylvia Plath’s "Daddy." These works depict fights against oppression by particular males as well as against the systematic oppression of patriarchal society. In both cases, the narrators achieve personal empowerment employing