The authorial choices in The Falling Leaves and Come On, Come Back show the impact of war on the human spirit through several factors: Title, tone, imagery, language, form and structure. The poems emotionally appeal to the targeted audience to feel sympathy about the tragedy of war and how it affects the human spirits. The Falling Leaves a poem written by Margeret Postgate Cole (1893-1980). Cole was an atheist, feminist, socialist and a pacifist. She went to Cambridge and her profession was teaching. The Falling Leaves was published in 1915. Come On, Come Back is another poem written by Stevie Smith (1902-1971). Similarly Smith is a feminist and a pacifist. Smith suffered from depression for most of her adult years. Come On, Come Back was published posthumously. In The Falling Leaves Cole sees autumn leaves falling from the trees and it reminds her of the young soldiers who have been killed in WWI. Come On, Come Back is a poem set in the future with some of the events being referred to is real.
In The Falling Leaves, the poet sees autumn leaves falling from the trees and it reminds her of young soldiers been killed in WWI. Come On, Come Back is a poem that is …show more content…
In the first half, Cole sets up gentle contrasts between the rider and the leaves, then the leaves and the snowflakes. In the second half of the poem, it has more anger and aggression, with contrast between the poet and the dying soldiers and the soldiers and the snowflakes. The poem also follows a strict rhyme scheme with the rhymes in groups of three: lines one and four, lines two and five and lines three and six. The form and structure of this poem is free structure which means it has no clear form; it gives the poem a strange feel. There is confusion on where we are and at what place of time, it in unconventional which shows confusion with the character as
In The Falling Leaves, the poet sees autumn leaves falling from the trees and it reminds her of young soldiers been killed in WWI. Come On, Come Back is a poem that is …show more content…
In the first half, Cole sets up gentle contrasts between the rider and the leaves, then the leaves and the snowflakes. In the second half of the poem, it has more anger and aggression, with contrast between the poet and the dying soldiers and the soldiers and the snowflakes. The poem also follows a strict rhyme scheme with the rhymes in groups of three: lines one and four, lines two and five and lines three and six. The form and structure of this poem is free structure which means it has no clear form; it gives the poem a strange feel. There is confusion on where we are and at what place of time, it in unconventional which shows confusion with the character as