Poetry assignment

Prelude #1

T.S. Eliot


The winter's evening settles down
With smells of steaks in passageways,    alliteration
Six o' clock. 
The burnt-out ends of smoky days,  
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves across your feet        enjambement, addressing the reader -> involving him/her into the situation of the poem
And newspapers from vacant loss;
The showers best

On empty blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street 

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.    personificaton

And then the lightning of the lamps.       ellipse

Twilight Entered My Room

by Paudelis Prevelakis

Twilight entered my room                 personification

like a red lion.                                               <- simile

Its reflected light fell in the mirror

and I felt its soft paws

touching my naked feet.

I stooped under the table

which the day’s work had blessed     personification

and saw the sun kissing my feet     personification

with its red tongue.       personification

Prelude #1
1. a)The poem "Prelude #1" construes the end of a winter's evening in a city with bad weather. It must be quite late, because nobody except the cab horse is there anymore. The relationship between darkness and lonelyness and sadness symbolised by the emptyness and the thunderstorm are indicated.
b) In the first line Eliot uses personification to create a character for the "winter's evening". That the day ends with the smell of steaks could be taken as a symbol for human consumption.
c) The connection between the poem and human conditions is based on a winter night in a town that's empty at that point and could addumbrate the influence with consequences as bad weather.

Twilight Entered My Room
1. a) The poem "Twilight Entered My Room" characterizes the end of a long working day. The relief to go home and relax could be symbolised by the expanding twilight.
b) Paudelis Prevelakis uses a red lion as a metaphor for twilight. Furthermore, the first four lines define the advancement of the twilight, while the last five lines chronicle the pleasant reaction.
c) The poem might detail the positive influence on humans. The worker eases off with the touch of it.

2. While "Prelude #1" defines the end of a bad day, "Twilight Entered My Room" illustrates harmony. "Prelude #1" accents the weather conditions and location to present the theme. In "Twilight Entered My Room" the movement of the twilight and the reaction of the human is more conspicouos. In form, the two poems differ in amount of lines and balance of syllak,l,bles. There is no discernible rhyme scheme in either one.

3.In Eliot's "Prelude #1" the last line delineates the stuttering end of the lamp. It might be nature taking back it's world from the humans' epitomized by the weather and the lamp, working because of human electricity.
Prevelakis reinstates the metaphor in the last line. The poem could actually be finished but he ends with his greatest literary device in the poem.

4. "Prelude #1" and "Twilight Entered My Room" both deal with twilight, using imagery. However, while Eliot's poem creates a sad feeling while Pavelakis composes a relaxoíng atmosphere by including lions, majestic wildcats from Africa, as a simile of twilight. Eliot  includes the reader and uses enjambement to make fluent transitions. Other from that he writes with an alliteration and ellipse.  The weather also plays an important role in his poem.  It builds a lonely, dark and totally different atmosphere than in "Twilight Entered My Room".

Invictus- Movie response

The movie "Invictus" apprises the spectator about the separation of black and white people in Africa in 1995, the year of the Rugby World Cup tournament. Nelson Mandela, just dismissed from jail, becomes the first black president and tries to unite South Africa through encouraging the young national team captain Francois Pienaar to win the tournament. Mandela plans every of his step to perfection his plan to concur the rugby team and the nation under it. He's got a very strong, intelligent and calculating character and he is setting everything to be successful and the idol for all people in South Africa, while he worries about his family, who is ashamed of him due to his incarceration that left them without anyone. The movie is very detailed and historical important and also deeply emotional, but maybe with too little prehistory.
3 out of 4

TPCASTT of "The World Is Too Much With Us"

Title
The title let's the reader foresee, that the poem explains the consequences of human being on the earth.

Paraphrase
The first six lines of the poem, talk about today's society, which has lost it's connection to nature and is ruled my money and materialism. Even when the winds howl and the sea "bares her bosom to the moon", humanity is still too blind to see the importance and beauty of nature.
Wordsworth would even prefer to be a pagan, who has a different and more respectful point of view and might see the old gods.

Connotation
"The World Is Too Much With Us" is written as an petrarchan sonnet, so the first eight lines are called the octave, are written in an ABBAABBA rhyme scheme and introduce the problem as the consequences of human being on earth. With a change in tone and rhyme scheme - CDCDCD - the sestet builds the last six lines by applying the comment that he would rather be a "pagan suckled  in a creed outworn", so that he might have the chance to see the old world with it's gods than be one of the people who forgot the importance of nature. His diction is aggressive and provocative. "Upgathered  like sleeping flowers" demonstrates the change of the "winds that will be howling at all hours". It's an image for noise created by human and the end of nature's harmony. His point of view is that the world would be better without external influence and he uses allusion to refer to the old gods who used to rule in balanced harmony.

Attitude
The author's attitude is very cynical, though he's a big admirer of nature since he was little. He feels left outside and lonely with his request and denounces his fellow men of betrayal.

Shifts
In the ninth line is the major shift, when the speaker expresses the wish to be a pagan, so he can relate to the old world again.

Title II
After analysing the poem you can still recognize that the major theme is about the bad human influence on nature, but you get a better view on the topic from the eyes of the author. There's a new insight on a solution as a pagan, an outcast who lives for nature.

Theme
The speaker excruciates the humans for the destruction of nature, hence the world, as they don't care about it.

"The Bull Moose"

Down from the purple mist of trees on the mountain,

lurching through forests of white spruce and cedar,

stumbling through tamarack swamps,

came the bull moose

to be stopped at last by a pole-fenced pasture.

Too tired to turn or, perhaps, aware

there was no place left to go, he stood with the cattle.

They, scenting the musk of death, seeing his great heas

like the ritual mask of a blood god, moved to the other end

of the field, and waited.

The neighbours heard of it, and by afternoon

cars lined the road. The children teased him

with alder switches and he gazed at them

like an old, tolerant collie. The woman asked 

if he could have escaped from a FAir.

The oldest man in the parish remembered seeing

a gelded moose yoked with an ox for plowing.

The young men snickered and tried to pour beer

down his throat, while their girl friends tok their pictures.

And thebull moose let them stroke his tick-ravaged flanks,

let them pry open his jaws with botles, let a giggling girl

plant a little purple cap

of thistles on his head.

New end

But after a while his surrounders become disinterested

and go home to their cozy, warm houses.

Nobody except a few, care anymore

about the helpless bull moose, who got caught in their own nets.

The few people left behind, cut up the fence

and free the animal out of his jail.

Put anticetics and bandages on his wounds,

help him to recover from humanity's influence.

Even though most people shut their eyes,

there are always ones, standing up for nature's rights.

Explanation

I chose an almost happy ending.

My end is about people who handle as they do because of their beliefs and don't care about being mainstream, but the the world's flow.

Literally advices for "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"

The poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" has a rhyme scheme, which acts reprically between night and day as symbols for live and death. Lyrical advices used are Repetition, Metaphor, Personification, Pun, Exageration, Oxymoron, Simile and Paradox. 


Do not go gentle into that good night,                               pun, metaphor
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;               personification, metaphor
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.                            metaphor


Thoguh wise men at their end know dark is right,              metaphor
Because their words had forked no lightning they              metaphor
Do not go gentle into that good night.                               Repetition (also in lines 12,18)


Good men , the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a gree bay,    personification, metaphor
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.                           Repetition (also in lines 15, 19)


Wild men who caught and sand the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,                   metaphor, exageration
Do not go gentle into that good night. 


Grave men, near death, who see with blinding soght         pun, oxymoron
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,                simile
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.          paradox
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Paraphrases "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"

The theme of "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", written by Dilan Thomas from the book "The Poems of Dylan Thomas", published in 1946 by New Directions Publishing Corporation, evaluates four types of persons, summarized as men, shortly before they die.

1. When you are about to die, you  re-evaluate your whole life, like all the mistakes you made, but also all your passions.

2. Wise men know that dead is not dreadful, if you enjoyed it to the full.

3. Good men have risk aversions and avoid problems, which could give them important life experiences that make life desirable. They had a good but boring life.

4. Wild men had always amusement and liveliness,although they weren't caring about the consequences. In their last days they might regret some actions, however they didnt waste their life time.

5. Grave men accept other one's point of view at no time. Their fear and inevitable way to death makes them angry with every little thing and blind enough to forget about the beauty in life.

6.  You, father, dieing in this moment, changed your life a lot of times. Regret some parts of it, but don't forget about all the joy you were chosen to experience! Don't end your life in affliction.