Zusammenfassung der Ressource
ANTHOLOGY 1
- The Manhunt
- War and love and time
- Context
- Written for channel 4 documentary - That explained the lives of soldiers and their families - about wife
of Eddie Bedow a soldier that served in Bosnia and got sent home because of injury and depression
- Ideas
- Soldier returned home from war
- Hes not the same as he was
- His wife tries to find and fix the problem
- While he has physical injuries the worse ones are mental
- Language
- Full of metaphors - soldiers body is reduced to unliving objects - eg "frozen
river" "blown hinge" - all images of things that are cold and delicate
- Uses powerful verbs - "search" "hunt" "explore" "trace" - The frequency
shows the wife's desperation, patience and care for her husband
- Wife is patient - "climb the rungs of his broken ribs" - reflects gradual steps she is willing to take in order to find her old husband
- Title is a pun - "manhunt" is a chase of a criminal - she is hunting for the man she once knew
- Uses repetition "only then" to highlight how slow a process it is and how gradually the wife is able to approach her husband
- The highlight of the word and shows how many processes it takes to fix her husband
- Bullet described as a foetus - a foetus develops into a baby - makes parents lives better - may
suggest that it will bring the two closer - may also mean that it changes their lives forever
- REPETITION of after suggest that it took a long time before the husband let her touch him
- Structure
- Made up of couplets - rhyming with vowels - some don't rhyme - makes poem seem fragmented
- Compares to
- Sonnet 43
- Love
- Context
- Traditional love poem - written in sonnet form - as it has 14 lines - and is mostly about love
- Poet is expressing her love for her husband
- Does have personal dimension to it - written for a specific person
- Poet normally writes in a way that relates to religion and worship
- Ideas
- Seeing how she idealises her love for him
- Countless number of ways she loves him
- Love is the most powerful thing
- Language
- REPETITION used to show the intensity of the poets love - "i love thee"
- LISTS are used to show intensity aswell - also creates a feeling of excitement as though she keeps on finding new ways to love him
- RHETORICAL QUESTION opening to suggest it is a response to part of their conversation and shows their intimacy
- PUNCTUATION used to show poets joy and excitement. Exclamation marks show
enthusiasm - commas create sense of that she almost cannot describe her love
- Her love is so strong its almost unimaginable - "out of sight" so strong it is almost spritual
- Love is an immesurable concept - but the poet describes it using measuring
words such as "depth and breadth and height" - This is a spatial metaphor
- Love is compared to incredible concepts - "being ideal Grace" "Right" "Praise" - CAPITAL LETTERS show importance of these words
- The poem is AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL mentioning "my old griefs" she has now replaced her previous heartache with the strongest type of love
- Her love takes the place religion "I love thee with a love i seemed to lose/with my lost saints"
- Although she still shows her belief in god - "if god choose/I shall but love thee better after death" desperate plea for eternal love
- Only concrete imagery used to mention "sun and candlelight" - light is positive and guides us. The sun is powerful and gives life. Candlelight consoles us in times of darkness
- Structure
- Rather than using perfect rhymes throughout, ASSONANCE (rhymes based on vowel sounds) is often used.
Perhaps poet is showing that true love is about accepting and imbracing slight imperfections
- Compares to
- London
- Power and place
- Context
- The wealthy used to ignore the poor back then - no one did anything for them, they were just there
- He was writing in the romantic time
- Thousands of people living in poverty
- Ideas
- Persona walks through streets of london observing the faces of the homeless. He
hears hears in their voices the damaging consequences of restrictive ideologies
- It is as if the speaker is offering a prophesy of the terrible consequences unless changes are made in the city.
- Very specifically about london - it is real
- Persona walks through poor parts of London
- In every face, he sees suffering and hardship - these are weak and vulnerable people
- Contrast to how many poets romanticised London
- Hes critical of the church - the church doesnt really help - religion was often
the only comfort for these people had - and it didnt offer any way out
- A lot of men would have been forced to join the army - suggestion that soldiers were lead to
death - they were sacrificed for the benefit of the rich - their lives don't mean anything
- In the first 3 stanzas we see a system that benefits the rich and exploits the poor
- Language
- REPETITION of "in every" shows how extensive these issues are - women
and children in this situation - Emphasis on widespread suffering
- He uses the image of the "manacles" (handcuffs) to show that these people
are metaphorically trapped in poverty - no way of breaking the cycle
- "Chimney sweapers" refers to the children forced to clean chimneys for little money - they were exploited by the rich
- Last stanza he focuses on women - "harlot" (prostitute) would have been forced into it for money - it is a "curse" because they
will probably die of STDs due to a lack in medicine - or killed - they lack any respect - young and desperate
- It all ends with death - war for soldiers and STDs for women
- "Hearse" is a metaphor for a coffin or grave - their deaths would be premature and are given no chance because of their poverty
- Compares to
- The soldier
- Context
- Was written in November 1914 - 3 months after the start of WW1
- General feeling was that the war would be over soon
- The horrors of the war weren't discovered yet
- Brooke did serve in WW1 and did experience it
- His views are different from the majority of war poets
- Wasnt unusual for people to have these stupid views
- People back then had a strong sense of national identity and patriotism
- At this point in time England was the most powerful country in the world
- War Love and past
- Ideas
- Direct contrast to Dulce et decorum est
- Written as a sonnet - shows his love for his country - reinforces his love for England
- England is the subject of the poem - he addresses it as if it is a person and almost as a
mother - England is personified - clear sense of a strong love like a child towards its mother
- He also writes about how England is pure and heavenly - England is life itself
- No mention of violence or fighting - makes it very different from other war poems - much more like a traditional love poem - much more similar to Sonnet 43
- Langauge
- He's called it the soldier as he means this to show his feelings, also representing other soldiers - he is the voice speaking for all of them
- Opens with idea of death - he knows there is a possibility he will die - he is not afraid of that - if it does happen it will be for a "good" cause
- He is also providing comfort to the reader - he wants the reader to see his death as a positive - if he were
to die it will be for England - and where he is buried that "foreign field" the "that is forever england"
- He uses alliteration of the "F" sounds
- Death won't separate his connection to his country
- He develops the metaphor of being buried in a foreign country by suggesting that as his body decays it will make
the earth richer - it is a substance of him but also England - he cannot be separated from his English identitity
- The REPETITION of "England" reinforces how nothing can take away this bond with his country
- England gave birth to him, shaped him, educated him, gave him knowledge, wisdom - she's
basically given life to him - he owes his life to her - makes it clear why he will die for england
- Given reader idealistic idyllic image of England
- The main metaphor is "a pulse in the external mind" suggesting that the love for England and his identity is eternal
- cannot die - using the idea of a pulse even through death he will live through England and this poem
- He is writing about a reciprocal relationship, the love is shared, both sides support each other - England gave him life and when he dies he gives it back
- In his mind England is always right and he sees it as something connected to god - he will never be defeated - even if he dies - Pride and courage in that attitude
- Final word is "heaven" as that is the image he want to leave the reader with - England itself is heaven
- Structure
- Second stanza reinforces what he has said in the first
- Last 3 lines focus on beauty and perfection of England
- Compares to
- Sonnet 43
- She walks in beauty
- Context
- One of the Romantic poems
- Lord Byron was extremely famous, he was known for his writing and infamous for his personal life and behaviour in society
- He was a womanizer, he had numerous relationships
- Most well known is him sleeping with his sister
- Known for pushing the boundaries of what was moral behaviour
- Was friends with a lot of the Romantic poets
- Ideas
- Focuses on women who Byron is describing using Romantic images and language
- Focus of poem is on her beauty
- Language
- Uses rhyme to help give the impression of his passionate feelings
- The title is revealing that he is writing for a woman. Might be a specific woman - could be
about any woman that possesses beauty - Love poem to women in general
- REPETITION of title, helps reinforce how the poem is going to be focusing on the beauty of the woman
- "She walks in beauty" suggests that everything around her is also beautiful and everything she touches
- She seems to be flawless - sense of him idealising her
- He compares her to a "cloudless" knight, a beautiful peaceful view - makes image stand out more by using alliteration to add a pattern - very peaceful image
- Byron is a Romantic poet because they wrote a lot about nature, he compares her to aspects of nature - he believed that connecting to nature was like
connecting with "god" - by comparing her to nature/god she cant be any better. He is elevating her in terms of status
- Starts off with simile to describe her beauty "like the night"
- You get the impression she has perfect hair, skin and eyes
- She almost sounds like a work of art, with how perfect she is
- Traditional for poets to talk about eyes and how they show beauty
- Image of light being explored, the light is always flattering on her. Also clear he doesn't know who she is
- "Grace" is given by god, he is associating her to god - seeming like an angel in many senses in the way he is describing her
- Shes completely calm and completely peaceful in the way of expressing herself - "sweet" sweetness aspect to her - "dear" worth something, it has value
- She is valuable because of her looks and the image she gives off, we get the image of traditional femininity
- He moves on to different features of her, "soft" "calm" and "eloquent". Society behaves in a way that is expected, she confirms to what her role is meant to be in society
- "The smiles that win" smiles that are valuable
- End of poem has referance to how she spends her life, she spends her life doing good - conveys the sense of her having
qualities that are essentially good like kindness which would have been expected
- She has no sins (referance to hell) she has nothing to concern herself with. No hidden darkness in her - " a heart whose love is innocent" implies that she can be trusted
- She is not in anyway a monster, we get idea of natural beauty
- Due to the rhyming helping lines flow into the next the poem is easy to read - as it is easy for him to see her beauty
- Living Space
- Context
- Describes slums of Mumbai, India - people migrate here from all over India in the hope of a better life
- Slums are made of many found materials: corrugated sheets, wooden beams etc...
- In this poem she celebrates their existence of their living space as a miracle
- Set in India, she is from India - she is writing from her own experience of her own culture
- Compares to
- London
- Ideas
- The lines of the buildings are sitting and unstable, balancing peculiarly between dangerous and "miraculous"
- The eggs are all in one basket, that hang out "over the dark edge"
are an act of faith, not only because someone has delicately placed
them in such a ramshackle environment but also they contain new
life. The eggs are life and the buildings are miracles.
- May seem like an act of faith to live in one of these rough structures - a
daring attempt to live in such a place - in this way the poem represents the
fragility of human life and celebrates the way that faith brings boldness
- Focus on poverty - writes in a way that makes it in the end affirming
- It's offering an insight of what its like to be poor in India - there is hope
- Structure
- Structure reflects the main ideas, the lines are uneven in length just like the buildings - written in free-verse
- Very short stanza in the centre of the poem to represent how someone has squeezed more living space into the slum - offers reader visual image of the living space
- First stanza focuses on the nature of the structures and how uneven they are
- Language
- The underlined phrases in the anthology show how delicate the building is
- Seems dangerous but then we see "miraculous" - ends stanza on a positive - offers people a place to live - without it they'd be
homeless - she finds something to celebrate - by placing it at the end it gives the reader more time to see the word
- Style is quite factual in the way she describes the living space
- The word "squeeze" shows how hard it was to move into such a small space
- She uses "living space" instead of house or home because they are not homes, just shelter, places for people to survive - they are utilitarian, they dont need it
- Emphasis of "living" to suggest that it isn't dying and is surviving
- The metaphor of eggs in the basket is about people's faith but they also represent the delicate nature of life. -
Metaphor for people's lives - They are trusting that they will survive and the shelter won't fall down
- A lot of language in the last stanza is metaphorical
- "Slanted universe" could represent the slum and also society, because it is uneven, people with great wealth and people who are poor
- Final word "faith" ends on a positive - represents how it will make them go on - gives them faith - ends with celebration of what these people have achieved and the respect she has for them