Comparison of two poems
In ‘Partners’ by Judith Nicholls, the teacher “sir” instructs the classmates to pair up but there was one person who was left unchosen without a partner. Similarly, in Tich Miller by Wendy Cope, when teams are being picked for outdoor games, there are always the same two girls: Tubby and Tich Miller. Left out unwanted by their fellow classmates.
Both authors of ‘Partners’ and ‘Tich Miller’ use similes, imagery, view point, sentence structure and similar themes to create different effects on the reader and to emphasize the themes of both stories.
Firstly, the plot in both poems is akin because both describe a scene where the characters are left unselected or chosen. For example, in ‘Partners’, the theme starts more joyful using chirpy words like “whisper...shuffle...and rush” this adds emphasis of how cheerful the children are to be in pairs and not by themselves. This relates the reader to the rest of the class -the …show more content…
In ‘ Partners’ the story is being told in third person narrative who tells the story as an observer’s point of view who is looking at the lonely boy making the reader sympathize with the one who was left out. However, in ‘Tich Miller’ the story is narrated as a first person “I” which makes the reader feel as he himself is Tubby and empathize with her and everything she says.
When Cope writes about the characters reactions to being the last ones to be selected it says that the narrator learns her own strengths by mocking illiterate “hockey players” because they couldn’t “spell”. This means that from being unwanted because of not being physically capable she “sneered” at others who weren’t mentally capable. The poet just says that Tich “died” when she was “twelve” not giving a clear reason for her sudden and untimely death implying that she committed suicide. This leaves the reader distraught and full of sympathy of being and feeling rejected and
In ‘Partners’ by Judith Nicholls, the teacher “sir” instructs the classmates to pair up but there was one person who was left unchosen without a partner. Similarly, in Tich Miller by Wendy Cope, when teams are being picked for outdoor games, there are always the same two girls: Tubby and Tich Miller. Left out unwanted by their fellow classmates.
Both authors of ‘Partners’ and ‘Tich Miller’ use similes, imagery, view point, sentence structure and similar themes to create different effects on the reader and to emphasize the themes of both stories.
Firstly, the plot in both poems is akin because both describe a scene where the characters are left unselected or chosen. For example, in ‘Partners’, the theme starts more joyful using chirpy words like “whisper...shuffle...and rush” this adds emphasis of how cheerful the children are to be in pairs and not by themselves. This relates the reader to the rest of the class -the …show more content…
In ‘ Partners’ the story is being told in third person narrative who tells the story as an observer’s point of view who is looking at the lonely boy making the reader sympathize with the one who was left out. However, in ‘Tich Miller’ the story is narrated as a first person “I” which makes the reader feel as he himself is Tubby and empathize with her and everything she says.
When Cope writes about the characters reactions to being the last ones to be selected it says that the narrator learns her own strengths by mocking illiterate “hockey players” because they couldn’t “spell”. This means that from being unwanted because of not being physically capable she “sneered” at others who weren’t mentally capable. The poet just says that Tich “died” when she was “twelve” not giving a clear reason for her sudden and untimely death implying that she committed suicide. This leaves the reader distraught and full of sympathy of being and feeling rejected and