Literature
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- Newspaper Article For Brother Man
Assignment: Pretend you witnessed the beating of Brother Man. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper in your country and express your feelings about the attack and your feelings on Rastafarianism on a hold. ...
- Summary Of My Parents By Stephen Spender
Stephen Spender (1909-1995) mixed with a number of left wing poets while at oxford including W.H Auden, and joined the fight against Fran coin the Spanish Civil war. Always interested in human and social concerns, he questioned how poetry could address...
- Summary Of The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost
One day, the poet Robert Frost, travelling all alone, reaches a point where the road forks into two. He faces a dilemma as to which road to take to continue his journey. He is unable to decide which road to follow. He pauses for a long time. He gives...
- One Art By Elizabeth Bishop Summary
One ArtBorn in 1911, Elizabeth Bishop had a turbulent childhood, her father dying in her first year of life, while her mother suffered from mental illness and was committed to an institution when Elizabeth was five. She was never...
- Praise Songs For My Mother Summary
Praise Songs for my Mother Grace Nichols was born in 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana, and grew up in a small coastal village...
Literature
Summary of The Trees Are Down by Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mew (1869 - 1927) was highly regarded by writers such as Thomas Hardy. She vowed never to marry because she feared she might carry hereditary mental illness, as a brother and sister committed to institutions. This fear, and grief for the death of her sister Anne, led to her suicide in 1927.
There's a clear sense of desolation and loss in this poem, a lament for the feeling of "the great plant-trees". The trees have survived the variations of nature - 'sun', 'rains', 'wind', 'breeze' and 'gales' but are brought down by men whose 'Whoops' and 'loud common talk' seem to show their lack of care, creating a strong contrast with the narrative voice. The men are also separate from the connectedness of the natural world, with the narrator showing links between the 'rat', the trees, the weather conditions, 'the sparrows' and 'the small creeping creatures'. The narrator is also connected sympathetically and suggests a spiritual dimension with the 'angel' of the penultimate line and the initial quotation from Revelation, one of the books of the Bible.
The poem contains a number of onomatopoeic and rhyme effects while it uses form quite freely, with short lines and very long lines(several are so long they have to be split for printing, to which Mew objected). Its worth considering how these techniques maintain the connections between ideas in the poem.
There's a clear sense of desolation and loss in this poem, a lament for the feeling of "the great plant-trees". The trees have survived the variations of nature - 'sun', 'rains', 'wind', 'breeze' and 'gales' but are brought down by men whose 'Whoops' and 'loud common talk' seem to show their lack of care, creating a strong contrast with the narrative voice. The men are also separate from the connectedness of the natural world, with the narrator showing links between the 'rat', the trees, the weather conditions, 'the sparrows' and 'the small creeping creatures'. The narrator is also connected sympathetically and suggests a spiritual dimension with the 'angel' of the penultimate line and the initial quotation from Revelation, one of the books of the Bible.
The poem contains a number of onomatopoeic and rhyme effects while it uses form quite freely, with short lines and very long lines(several are so long they have to be split for printing, to which Mew objected). Its worth considering how these techniques maintain the connections between ideas in the poem.
- Charlotte Mew
- Newspaper Article For Brother Man
Assignment: Pretend you witnessed the beating of Brother Man. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper in your country and express your feelings about the attack and your feelings on Rastafarianism on a hold. ...
- Summary Of My Parents By Stephen Spender
Stephen Spender (1909-1995) mixed with a number of left wing poets while at oxford including W.H Auden, and joined the fight against Fran coin the Spanish Civil war. Always interested in human and social concerns, he questioned how poetry could address...
- Summary Of The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost
One day, the poet Robert Frost, travelling all alone, reaches a point where the road forks into two. He faces a dilemma as to which road to take to continue his journey. He is unable to decide which road to follow. He pauses for a long time. He gives...
- One Art By Elizabeth Bishop Summary
One ArtBorn in 1911, Elizabeth Bishop had a turbulent childhood, her father dying in her first year of life, while her mother suffered from mental illness and was committed to an institution when Elizabeth was five. She was never...
- Praise Songs For My Mother Summary
Praise Songs for my Mother Grace Nichols was born in 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana, and grew up in a small coastal village...