Stage 2 English Studies
Shared Studies #2 – Study of Poetry
Compare the ways in which two of the selected poets explore a sense of loss
Both, Country Town by Judith Wright and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas explore the idea of loss throughout their poems. Wright discusses loss through the depiction of the Indigenous Australians, which she alludes to by referencing ‘the dingoes’, and how they are facing the colonisation, and how, presumably, the British are altering their land, mentioning the land is no longer what ‘they knew’. Contrastingly, Thomas’ poem explores the sense disorder and disturbance felt when losing a loved one, who the protagonist addresses as ‘my father’. Through the use of ‘burn’ and ‘rave’, Thomas expresses …show more content…
Plath’s poem is about approaching motherhood and the joy that surrounds that. Plath alludes to the presence of an unborn baby through phrases such as ‘gilled like a fish’, which indicates that it is still in the speakers womb. ‘My little loaf’ allows the reader to acknowledge that the speaker already has a sense of protectiveness and affection for her child. In contrast, Keats utilises imagery to communicate to the reader the delight and affection expressed by the knight when he met the enchanting women. The speaker finds the women so alluring and beautiful that he refers to her as ‘a faery’s child’ and ‘her eyes were wild’. This use of mythical imagery portrays the speaker’s disbelief of how he can be witnessing someone with ‘full beautiful’, and therefore relates her to a ‘faery’, subsequently something that isn’t real. Comparatively, Plath positions the speaker into a state of disbelief, calling her child ‘vague as fog’, signifying that she is still coming to the reality of what is happening within her. This disbelief is quickly replaced by love and excitement, as the speaker describes her baby as ‘our travelled prawn’, where the pronoun ‘our’ confirms that both parents feel this enthusiasm towards their unborn child. Similarly, Keats describes the admiration the speaker through phrases such as ‘I made a
Shared Studies #2 – Study of Poetry
Compare the ways in which two of the selected poets explore a sense of loss
Both, Country Town by Judith Wright and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas explore the idea of loss throughout their poems. Wright discusses loss through the depiction of the Indigenous Australians, which she alludes to by referencing ‘the dingoes’, and how they are facing the colonisation, and how, presumably, the British are altering their land, mentioning the land is no longer what ‘they knew’. Contrastingly, Thomas’ poem explores the sense disorder and disturbance felt when losing a loved one, who the protagonist addresses as ‘my father’. Through the use of ‘burn’ and ‘rave’, Thomas expresses …show more content…
Plath’s poem is about approaching motherhood and the joy that surrounds that. Plath alludes to the presence of an unborn baby through phrases such as ‘gilled like a fish’, which indicates that it is still in the speakers womb. ‘My little loaf’ allows the reader to acknowledge that the speaker already has a sense of protectiveness and affection for her child. In contrast, Keats utilises imagery to communicate to the reader the delight and affection expressed by the knight when he met the enchanting women. The speaker finds the women so alluring and beautiful that he refers to her as ‘a faery’s child’ and ‘her eyes were wild’. This use of mythical imagery portrays the speaker’s disbelief of how he can be witnessing someone with ‘full beautiful’, and therefore relates her to a ‘faery’, subsequently something that isn’t real. Comparatively, Plath positions the speaker into a state of disbelief, calling her child ‘vague as fog’, signifying that she is still coming to the reality of what is happening within her. This disbelief is quickly replaced by love and excitement, as the speaker describes her baby as ‘our travelled prawn’, where the pronoun ‘our’ confirms that both parents feel this enthusiasm towards their unborn child. Similarly, Keats describes the admiration the speaker through phrases such as ‘I made a