Hi im currently studying GCSE Literature and wrote this essay. Can someone please comment on what i have written and tell me if its any good. I know its a lot
Essay Question: Some people find the poems in the AQA anthology very depressing. Compare four poems and their reference towards depression. Not all the poems have to be around the theme of depression.
Depression: a state of emotion which cause confusion and anxiety in an individual’s mind. Some poets portray the use of depression using vivid descriptions and imagery. My essay will be a critical analysis of four poems. Ben Jonson expresses depression through the death of his son. His emotion represents his depression. Seamus Heaney develops the concept of depression through his child-hood. Gillian Clarke also uses the effect of her child- hood to show depression. Alfred Tennyson use the element of an eagle to contradict the emotion of depression
In this paragraph I will write about how the poets use structure to express depression. Ben Jonson uses a unique structure because his poem is represented by an incomplete sonnet. The affect of this is it reflects his son’s incomplete life which in tandem causes the father into a state of depression. However the father try’s to stay positive and show admiration of his son. “His best piece of poetrie”. The words “best piece” shows the love between Jonson and his son. Jonson also uses rhyming couplets to show his depression throughout the poem. Depression forces the poet into many other states of emotion. “Rage” “age”. The depression also causes anger in the poet. The death of his son has depressed his mental state and health. Death of a naturalist also conveys the concept of depression. Seamus Heaney takes the reader through his child hood memories using vivid descriptions and imagery. The use of enjambment shows his growing fear of nature will not stop and the way it has caused a negative depressive attitude “Poised like mud grenades” “I sickened turned and ran”. The quote shows the depression Heaney went through when nature turned its back on him. The reader feels sorry for both poets. The affect of depression has had a negative effect on both their lives however the context of depression differs between both poets.
In addition Gillian Clarke uses the structure of enjambment to express depression. The use of enjambment could be the lake and the flow of the water or it could be the tears from her eyes. “She lay for dead”. The use of the stanzas splits the poem into different aspects of Clarke’s memory. The word “dead” sets a very depressing tone. The poet assumes the girl is dead and causes Clarke into a state of depression. Clarke also uses the use of rhyming couplets. “Under closing water” “poor man’s daughter”. Clarke is depressed because she doesn’t feel she knows the full content of the drowning girl. She doesn’t know if she could have helped the girl. In Contrast Alfred Tennyson personifies the use of an eagle to contradict the affect of depression. The poet use two stanza’s to express the power of the eagle. The first stanza expresses the eagle’s physical stature and predator like domination over the rest of nature “with the azure world he stands”. The second stanzas show the eagle in action catching its prey. The poet shows his passion and admiration of the eagle, and instead of being depressed he is amazed. The poets show different emotions throughout their poems. One poet shows depression the other passion.
In this paragraph I will write about how the poets use language to express depression. Ben Jonson uses metaphorical language to portray his depression “tho wert lent to me and I thee pay”. Jonson presents his son as a loan and now he is having to pay the debt by going through depression of his sons death. Jonson in tandem with the metaphorical language uses religious references so that his son doesn’t have to go through the depression. “my right hand”. Similarly Seamus Heaney also uses metaphorical language to represent depression. “the great slime king”. He creates an unpleasant atmosphere which contradicts a war between him and nature not love and passion. The growing rivalry between Heaney and nature forces him to choose between nature or nurture. His bond between nature is no longer and causes Heaney to go through depression. The reader feels both poets use of metaphorical language show the true extent of their depression.
In addition Gillian Clarke uses metaphorical language to express her depression. “Waters long green silk” This represents the poor lifestyle the girl drowning is living. Clarke compares her to silk to show the stark contrast between them. Clarke is depressed that the poor girl is nearly dying and she cannot do anything about it. Clarke also uses alliteration to create a depressive atmosphere.“ drawn by the dread of it” This adds to the drama Clarke is witnessing this increases her depression and fear of the girl’s death. In contrast Alfred Tennyso
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Kata Kulavkova:
The Great Mother
“I am her.
I rest on my crossed legs
and my hips are heavy with life
and have swelled so much
that they are almost severed from me
and are no more mine and no more here.
The whole world is my home.
Just like that:
I have the power to be
in different places at the same time.
I am constantly in touch with the erotic
procreation of a living, yet mortal world -
I turn into a Book of changes
I change my name, I swap symbols
and narratives, I cast off people
I change the casting
but keep the roles!
I, who communicate with the spiritual,
am fit for the worldly:
earth and sea, the Moon and the cold!
Oh, what contradiction:
to be a woman, a principle of fertility
and to carry a negative, passive
sign, an archetypal minus
rhythmical inserts from
life and death!
Who can give if not the one who has?
I, the matrix, the belly, the womb,
a mature, a calm, a wise matron
from the Other world
(no, this one has never been enough to me!)
order you:
enter the sea
don’t think of weakness
for you never know
how long you can go
in pain, and in delight
swim as far as you can see
and see far away, even further
I speak shrewdly at the cape
I speak in my motherly tongue
(oh, what relief, what comfort!)
and give you strength
not consolation!
Later you’ll read my palm
you’ll read the broken line of my life
rendered in 64 hexagrams of the enigma
and he will insert in the rebus
a line, straight, prosaic
a positive dash.
A male synopsis!”
translated by: Zoran Ancevski
Kata Kulavkova
poet, literary theoretician, critic, essayist, translator, anthologist
Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and History – University “Ss.Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje. Gained her M.D. degree with “The Metaphor and Contemporary Macedonian Poetry”. Her doctoral thesis (1986, Zagreb) was “The Specifics of Lyrics”. Currently professor of Theory and Methodology in Literature Studies at the Department of General and Comparative Literature. Worked for a year in Paris (INALCO) as a lector of Macedonian language and literature. Was president of the Macedonian P.E.N. Centre. Member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association since 1978.
Works: Annunciation (poetry, 1975), The Act (poetry, 1978), Our consonant (poetry, 1981), New sweat (poetry, 1984), Figurative Speech in Macedonian Poetry (studies, 1984), Neuralgic spots (bilingual edition, Vrsac, poetry, 1986), Step and resignation (essays and criticism, 1987), Wild thought (selection of poetry, 1989), The specifics of Lyrics (study, 1989), Thirsts, lascivious poems (poetry, 1989), Different time (poetic prose, 1989), Longing for a system (studies and criticism, 1992), Domino (poetry, 1993), Expulsion of Evil (poetry, 1997), Stone of temptation (criticism, 1997), Notebooks (criticism and essays, 1997), Vialasciva (poems translated into French, 1997), Time Difference (poetry, English translation, 1998), Prelude (selection of poetry, 1998), Theory of Literature (1999). Has compiled an anthology of Macedonian short story and essay.
Award include: “Studentski zbor”, “Miladinov Brothers”, “Narcisa”, “Mlad Borec”, “Velja Kutija
Wood & Bronze sculptures:
Meditation, Captain Kuzman
by Boro Mitrikeski
an internationally renowned Macedonian sculptor
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…The long list of contemporary Macedonian sculptors would not be complete without the names of Borka Avramova, Jordan Grabulovski, Boro Mitrikeski, Ilija Adzievski, Petar Hadzi Boskov, Tome Serafimovski, Dragan Poposki-Dada, Stefan Manevski, Vasil Vasilev, Naso Bekaroski, Branko Koneski, Aneta Svetieva, Olga Milic, BIagoja Cuskov, Aleksandar Ivanovski-Karadare, Milan Jovanovic, and Nikola Sentevski…
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“No One Saw a Thing” by Jeffrey K. Wallace. Music “2 percenter” by Williamson.
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“Parenthood has a way of repeatedly pulling this kind of thing on you. Won’t there ever come a day when I see it coming? Maybe a red flag in the yard, so I know to keep on driving?”
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“Plum Island” by Norm Appel, an account of being a father and being an addict. The Good Men Project is a collection of stories about what it means to be a man in America today from Pulitzer winners and Poet Laureates to ex-cons, Pro Football Hall of Famers and just regular guys. On sale now, at Amazon: http://bit.ly/BuyGoodMenBook
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“I didn’t want children when Wendy and I married. I was afraid I wouldn’t be a good father, and for good reason: Though I kept it secret, I was drinking a lot at the time and taking pharmaceuticals – mixing everything. How could i have another child in the family when I was still a child myself?”
Music: “You Have Been Chosen” by Professor Kliq
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Macedonian movie from 1952
Director: Trajche Popov
Music performed by the Simphony Orchestra of Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra
The film is a kind of a film poem according to the poem of the Macedonian poet Kocho Ratsin (Kosta Solev Racin). Through a film panorama of the people’s life in the past, the film expresses his poetical way and style.
Koco Solev Ratcin is the most revered poet and is the founder of Macedonia’s modern poetry. Born in Veles in 1908 to a poor family, Ratcin was encouraged by his parents to study art and literature His father Apostol was a poor potter who taught Ratcin the pottery trade.
In his youth, Ratcin participated in the progressive movement that propagated a Communist ideology. During this period, he wrote Antologia na bolkata (Anthology of the pain). In 1931, he published an essay on a famous German philosopher, Hegel, in the magazine “Literatura” in Croatia and was named the miracle of Veles. He was only 23 years old at the time.
His book “Beli Mugri” (White Dawns), immediately attracted the interest of the public and was considered a culmination of the poet’s cry for justice as it emerged from the pain and sufferings of the Macedonian people. In May 1943, Ratcin joins to the workers party in the same time when he published his first anthology of the folk songs dedicated to liberation of Macedonia. Kosta Solev Ratcin was killed on June the 13, 1943. Today, important institutions and international manifestations carry his name. The anthology White dawns is foreseen also in the Golden Library of chosen European books which is an UNESCO initiative. Today, in the center of his native city of Veles, lie monuments in his remembrance. One such monument is a nightingale that sings with its eyes closed. Also, in honor of Ratcin, an annual international festival for poety is held here in Veles.
Филмска поема по стиховите на македонскиот поет и револуционер Кочо Рацин. Неговиот поетски пат е предаден преку филмска панорама на животот на македонскиот народ во минатото.
More tags: Kocho Ratsin Throughout the Pirin Macedonia
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im doiin GCSE work on poems from my anthology and im not exactly sure how im suppose to do this essay question…How is death portrayed in Hitcher and three other peoms ! i have only done one where you compare two i need help n advise as soon as possible.
Comparing three, four or more poems is just the same as comparing two. Some things you should start thinking about are different approaches to the topic ie is death seen as good or bad? a release or something unescapable? In glory or despair?
Then language – how does the language differ between the poems? Why do you think it differs – how is the language affecting the mood of each poem and why are certain words used? does the language affect the emotion of the piece, and in what way.
Also, what similarities do the poems have – do they use similar language but for different effect? What about the structure of each poem, and how does that affect the reading.
And, of course,which do you like the best and why – which has the greatest effect on you, and do you think the different poems are successful in what they set out to achieve?
“Silence” by Joseph D’Arrigo. Music by Williamson “Whiffle”
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“Early one morning she leaned over to me, and with tears in her eyes she said, “I love you very much.” We kissed. She wanted to apologize for whatever she thought she might have done wrong in the thirty-five years we spent together. There was nothing to apologize for.”
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not to order but just to look at i need to know if there’s a website like that-40 model essays a portable anthology
Each author in the anthology would have to give permission for the essays to be legally available online.
“I had a plan when I was in Iraq. I was going to come back to the States and live on a tree-lined street with this smart, sexy woman I loved. She had an apartment full of sunlight. Our friends and family would be there with us, eating and laughing…But when I got back I felt a certain arrogance washing over me, and a certain anger. I couldnt think about much except getting out again.”Michael Kamber, in his essay “Shooting the Truth”, from The Good Men Project anthology, now available: http://bit.ly/BuyTGMP
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How do you cite an essay found within in an anthology in MLA format?!?!?
here is your homework -
This site should tell you exactly how to do it — step-by-step
http://resourcesforwriters.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_cite_a_story_in_an_anthology