You got used to his tender.
You got used to his cherish.
You got used to his smile.
And you didn’t even notice it.
You smiled and cherished like he did, then became habits.
You rely on these sweet habits everyday.
Then one day, you broke up.
You felt sad, depressed, and pain.
You started to have new bits.
You got used to cry when you thought of those memories with him.
You got used to the night without his warmness.
You got used to stand on the balcony and watch the sunset.
And you got used to it.
Then one day, you are so busy and forgot it.
You don’t remember those habits
Your tears don’t fall again.
You don’t stare at the sunset again.
Then you realize you’ve forgotten him for so long.
And sometimes you don’t even remember his face.
blurry…
You only remember his sweet smiling,
but its all blurry…
Nil
I wandered lonely as a cloud
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
By William Wordsworth
I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed–and gazed–but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
“I wander lonely as a cloud” is written by William Wordsworth. The poem is written in first person and it is about the author’s perspective. Author’s feelings are presented in the poem through figurative language and literary devices such as metaphor. There rhyme int this poem. The mood of this poem is quite sad because people sometimes fail to appreciate nature’s wonder. The writer’s purpose is to tell us his perspective of the nature.
Personification was used in the first line. “I wander lonely as a cloud” it compares the cloud to the lonely human. Personification and metaphor were also used later in the stanza to compare daffodils to dancing humans. Simile was used in the first line which shows the comparison of the speaker’s solitariness to that of a cloud. Ryhme was used through the whole poem. The patter of the rhyme is ABABCC.
“I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
The theme of this poem is “People sometimes fail to appreciate nature’s wonders as they go about their daily routines. This theme is shown in the lines “I gazed–and gazed–but little thought. What wealth the show to me had brought.” It also shows that Nature’s beauty uplifts the home spirits.
Lonely Leaf.
Lonely Leaf
I am but a lonely leaf,
As it falls to the ground,
Floating aimlessly downward,
With no other leaves around.
I am but a lonely leaf,
Drifting with a mind of its own,
Never knowing where it may land,
Or which direction it will be blown.
I am but a lonely leaf,
Yet sometimes I am as green as can be,
Flying through the air happy,
Like I was set free.
I am but a lonely leaf,
And most of the time I am brown,
For even if there are other leaves,
I feel like I’m the only one around.
Lonely leaf is written by anonymous and is written in the first person. This poem is either about the author’s feeling or other people’s feeling. Literary devices, such as metaphor, are frequently used in the poem to describe the loneliness. The mood is sad through the whole poem. The author uses figurative language to describe the loneliness as a leaf. The themes of the poem are the careless people and the forgotten. The author purpose is to persuade people not to forget the people around because they might feeling down and looking for helps.
Metaphor is frequently used in this poem. Author describes a person as a leaf.
“I am but a lonely leaf, As it falls to the ground, Floating aimlessly downward, With no other leaves around.” This person has an aimless life and nobody is around to support or help him. He is so lonely and so weak just like the leaf falls to the ground. Repetition is also used in the poem to restate that this person is helpless and lonely like a falling leaf. “I am but a lonely leaf” is repeated in the first of every four lines.
The careless people and the forgotten are the themes in this poem. There are people who are not aware of others around them. Those careless people might not feel the way that others do, but it really hurt people somehow. In this poem, the person is feeling left out, no support in life and finding no way to for the future. The author wants people to be aware of the people around. There might people who are feeling down and looking for support. Perhaps you can’t solve the problem for them but at least you can console them and make them feel better. All they need is a little bit of your helps or words, so they don’t feel like the last person on earth with no help.
The author might had the same feeling in the past. He knows what its like when you are alone and no one would support you. Those feelings in the author’s past are presented in the poem as a leaf. When the author felt aimless in life, there weren’t any people around to support him. The author had to do everything on its own. He didn’t know if he’s doing the right thing and no one would tell him because he’s alone. He felt like he is the only one in this world even though there were people around.
The house with nobody in it.
The House with Nobody in it by Joyce Kilmer
Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track
I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black.
I suppose I’ve passed it a hundred times, but I always stop for a minute
And look at the house, the tragic house, the house with nobody in it.
I never have seen a haunted house, but I hear there are such things;
That they hold the talk of spirits, their mirth and sorrowings.
I know this house isn’t haunted, and I wish it were, I do;
For it wouldn’t be so lonely if it had a ghost or two.
This house on the road to Suffern needs a dozen panes of glass,
And somebody ought to weed the walk and take a scythe to the grass.
It needs new paint and shingles, and the vines should be trimmed and tied;
But what it needs the most of all is some people living inside.
If I had a lot of money and all my debts were paid
I’d put a gang of men to work with brush and saw and spade.
I’d buy that place and fix it up the way it used to be
And I’d find some people who wanted a home and give it to them free.
Now, a new house standing empty, with staring window and door,
Looks idle, perhaps, and foolish, like a hat on its block in the store.
But there’s nothing mournful about it; it cannot be sad and lone
For the lack of something within it that it has never known.
But a house that has done what a house should do,
a house that has sheltered life,
That has put its loving wooden arms around a man and his wife,
A house that has echoed a baby’s laugh and held up his stumbling feet,
Is the saddest sight, when it’s left alone, that ever your eyes could meet.
So whenever I go to Suffern along the Erie track
I never go by the empty house without stopping and looking back,
Yet it hurts me to look at the crumbling roof and the shutters fallen apart,
For I can’t help thinking the poor old house is a house with a broken heart.
Joyce Kilmer was an American poet whose works described the beauty of the natural world and its opposite. Kilmer used figurative language and literary techniques frequently in the poem to portrayed the abandoned house. This poem is a lyrical poem, which tells us the theme of abandoned house that is left idle. This poem makes us feel bad and sad when the house is isolated. The deep feeling of sympathy and sorriness are presented in the poem.
“The house with nobody in it” is about a farmhouse which been left on the sideway for so long. People thought it is a haunted house because there’s nobody inside it. And the author would fix the house if he had money. He described the house has a broken heart and lonely. Also there are lots of dead memories in this house. He couldn’t walk pass by without looking at it. In deed, the author wanted to tell us to look back to those who are abandoned and who have broken heart and fix them up.
Metaphor is used in the stanza 2, 5, 6, 7 which compare the empty with human being and describe the feelings of the house as a human.
Eg: “That they hold the talk of spirits, their mirth and sorrowings.”
Rhyme is frequently used in the poem.
Eg: “I never have seen a haunted house, but I hear there are such things;
That they hold the talk of spirits, their mirth and sorrowings.
I know this house isn’t haunted, and I wish it were, I do;
For it wouldn’t be so lonely if it had a ghost or two.”
Personification is used in poem to describe how lonely the house is and It has a broken heart because no one cares. Joyce Kilmer makes the house alive with emotions like human being. “For I can’t help thinking the poor old house is a house with a broken heart.” This poem used lots of figurative language to describe the house and it also imply to our human life of how some of the people are isolated or left out and no one cares about them.
This poem gives us the feeling of loneliness and also the feeling of being isolated. Joyce Kilmer gives emotions to the abandoned house as if it was alive. Most parts of the house are fallen apart, broken, and faded, but all it needs is someone to live in it.
The Futility War.
5 “Owen’s imagery is as strong as his anti-war feelings.” With reference to any
three poems, discuss the poet’s use of imagery confirming Owen’s belief that
war is disenchantment, obscenity, and torture.
Owen’s poems have strong imagery as he lived through the expeirence of the horros of WWI. His poetry expressed the disenchantment of war, the obscenity of war and the tortured young soldiers. He joined the army and fought for his country, England and was injured and sent back to recover from Shell Shock. Owen’s dramatic description of war and his diverse use of imagery were conveyed through his anti-war feelings, criticism of war and the brutality of war. Through the analysis of the poems “Dulce et Decorum est”, “Disabled” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, many literary devices are evident. Owen described the different aspects such as the individuals of war, the circumstance back home, and the pressures of being on the battlefield. He spoke the truth and the brutality of war which made him became one of the greatest war poets.
Owen’s resentment was expressed in his poems and the strong anti-war feelings. One of his well-known poems “Dulce et Decorum est” described the life on the battlefield and how young soldiers were suffered during WW1. Either suffered from the injured, missing legs and arms, or the pain of breathed in the poison gas which it can’t be seen by eyes. Owen also expressed his anger of war in “Disabled”. He described how people seduced and encouraged teens, who had absolutely no idea about the horrors of war, and thought war was a good thing to do. “Legless, sewn short at elbow.” Owen portrayed the image of some survivors lost their parts of bodies which ironically criticized those who encouraged war back home. The imagery which he had created weren’t only for the readers, also released his angers to the people who had power but not knowing anything about war.
Owen felt sorry for the people who had joined the army and the people whose life were ruined. Owen’s complaints were conveyed through the words. In the poem “Disabled”, Owen described how young men were seduced and encouraged to join the army to be patriotic, and they had no idea what the war is like. Owen sympathized with those young immature men who sacrificed for their country and those survivors would suffer from discriminated by others for the rest of the life because of their fragmented body. Young soldiers might be survived from WW1, but they might be injured. “Only a solemn man who brought him fruits thanked him; and then inquired about his soul.” No one cared about the survivors after the war, yet people haven’t realized they were the people who fought and risked their life to against the enemies. In analysis of the poem “Anthem for doomed youth”, it conveyed the feelings of those sacrificed young soldiers’ family back home, who were worried and hoping they would come back safely; the mood of sorrow was presented. “The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall” Owen’s portrayed the girls were so stressed and they were heavy like coffins. Owen sympathized the young sacrificed soldiers, tortured survivors, and the stressed families back home. He expressed his feeling of war and convinced people the pity of war.
Owen used lots of literary techniques to support his view of war and convinced readers of the futility of war. Sounds and words techniques were used in “Anthem for Doomed Youth” to portray the battlefield environment. The techniques were used to evoke our senses of the battlefield. Onomatopoeia was frequently used to describe the machine guns and rifles sound around as if someone was standing on the battlefield. “The shrill demented choirs of wailing shells;” It created the sense of hearing, not just images of dead bodies and bloody war. The repeated sound of alliteration technique was used to make the images which Owen created livelier and more senses into it. Figurative language was frequently used as Owen wanted the readers to figure out the picture. Personification was used in “Anthem for doomed youth” to describe the cruelty of guns. “Only the monstrous anger of the guns.” Owen described the monstrous anger of the guns as human being. And humans are killing each other without regretting. In Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum est”, he used similes to portray the image of young soldiers on the battlefield. “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge…” This image portrays how young soldiers were bending like old beggars and coughing because of the smoke. Owen’s wise used of techniques which gave readers clear images of war, the pity of war and mostly his strong anti-war feelings which he wanted to convinced readers.
Owen’s poems which he wrote consisted of his beliefs of the futility war, the brutality of war and the obscenity of war. In the poems “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, Dulce et Decorum est” and “Disabled, Owen use of imagery and the variety of literary devices to expressed his feelings of war, either the sympathy of those sacrificed young soldiers or the resentment of those careless people. Things which he had portrayed and expressed were strong as his anti-war feelings. By using the way he described the war, he clearly gave us the point of futility war and his beliefs about the war.
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