Personal Affects
As readers, we often step into the shoes of characters or see through the eyes of the author, but then there are compositions where the author engages the reader emotionally with a realistic scene that allows the reader to identify within themselves. The poems, Stop All the Clocks by W.H. Auden and Death of a Young Son by Drowning by Margaret Atwood, share the same realistic theme of losing someone in death. Auden and Atwood have different styles of descriptive writing, but their similar realistic theme and tone enables readers to emotionally connect and identify themselves in their work.
Auden’s Stop All the Clocks is a poem that captures the emotional thoughts and perspective of grieving. Auden, instantly and emotionally captivate readers in stanza 1 with, “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone…” The lines in stanza 1 refer to the initial emotional response of loss; when one wants …show more content…
The love she has for her son is not only felt through Atwood’s word, but the physical act of her embarking on this trip. In the last stanza when the mother reaches her destination Atwood writes “I planted him in this country like a flag” it appears the mother may have planted his ashes or made him a memorial. The end of the trip and the memorial represents closure for the mother because she started and finished this journey for him to now begin her own. The reader throughout the poem can feel the journey is more than a mother reliving her son’s final moments, but a mother coming to her final stage of grieving and finding closure to accept his death. When one is grieving, there is a time, whether in months or years, when the griever learns to accept the death of the person that has past and learns to live with their
As readers, we often step into the shoes of characters or see through the eyes of the author, but then there are compositions where the author engages the reader emotionally with a realistic scene that allows the reader to identify within themselves. The poems, Stop All the Clocks by W.H. Auden and Death of a Young Son by Drowning by Margaret Atwood, share the same realistic theme of losing someone in death. Auden and Atwood have different styles of descriptive writing, but their similar realistic theme and tone enables readers to emotionally connect and identify themselves in their work.
Auden’s Stop All the Clocks is a poem that captures the emotional thoughts and perspective of grieving. Auden, instantly and emotionally captivate readers in stanza 1 with, “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone…” The lines in stanza 1 refer to the initial emotional response of loss; when one wants …show more content…
The love she has for her son is not only felt through Atwood’s word, but the physical act of her embarking on this trip. In the last stanza when the mother reaches her destination Atwood writes “I planted him in this country like a flag” it appears the mother may have planted his ashes or made him a memorial. The end of the trip and the memorial represents closure for the mother because she started and finished this journey for him to now begin her own. The reader throughout the poem can feel the journey is more than a mother reliving her son’s final moments, but a mother coming to her final stage of grieving and finding closure to accept his death. When one is grieving, there is a time, whether in months or years, when the griever learns to accept the death of the person that has past and learns to live with their