Both Looking Into The Field and Hatching are written about life an a farm, and the things that happen there. Although one is written from many point of views, the animals, the farmers and even a complete outsiders view, whereas the other is from the point of view of someone watching the animals. This changes the mood and feel of the type of poem, however they do both share the same themes and moods, they are both about an animals passage of life, and how they react to situations and cope with things.
Looking Into The Field is the poem that has the most unanswered questions in it. Such as, when it says 'four stiff legs of a dead sheep', is it actually dead? Because later in the poem it talks about the sheep 'bleat[ing] and waddl[ing] to new grass. If the sheep was really dead this can't happen? Has the farmer brought the sheep back to life? 'legs kicking again' Is this evidence that the farmer has brought the sheep back to life. Or was it never dead in the first place. The sheep is obviously not dead then? But what happened? When it says, 'dead sheep' is it just scared to death? However, other than the unanswered questions, there is a obvious theme to the poem. Throughout the poem it suggests that the ewe is scared and anxious about the world it is in. For example 'pulls and rolls the ewe', when a sleep is scared they roll into their sides, and the farmers have to come and roll them back upright and calm them down. So was the Sheep just scared to death? Obviously this itself doesn't completely suggest the ewe is scared of the world. Scared, yes, but from just saying this it doesn't indicate that the ewe is scared of the world in particular. However, 'waddles to new grass', this gives the impression that it is new to her, or has changed. Although, as she is a ewe, an adult sheep, it can't be new to her. The author has made it come across, and created an image to the reader, that the sheep is cautious of its surroundings, perhaps something had shaken her. So maybe some of the questions presented at the beginning have been answered. When it says 'dead sheep', what does that mean? Personally i think it is an example of the traditional saying, 'scared to death'. Many things lead me to think this, 'grasp fistfuls of tight wool', trying to cause the sheep pain to get its attention and wake it up, or it could be, trying to get a grip to later begin 'pull[ing] and roll[ing]' the sheep. Either way, the farmer is trying to get the sheep's 'legs kicking again.' This is why i think it is just scared, not dead. The farmer would know if it is dead and there is a sense of calm to the farmers actions, he knows what the sheep is doing, he knows it is only scared. However, each person will interpret it differently.
The whole poem has the feel of changing points of view. Sometimes it feels like it's spoken from the animals point of view, 'This is the man who brings food', this is obviously the animals point of view. Other times it sounds like the farmer or a complete outsider, such as a narrator talking. For example the title, 'Looking Into The Field', this cannot be the animals, and it cannot be the farmer, this is where my idea of a narrator ot complete outsider comes from. A narrator explaining what he sees. There is also a lack of precise detail of what is actually happening, this reinforces my thoughts of a narrator, or a narrator actually physically there, however outside the farm, 'looking into the field'. The lack of detail is due to the distance that the possible narrator is situated.
In comparison, in the Hatching the whole poem is from the point of view of a person watching the chick, 'His night has come to an end', ' And he is out'. It gives a feeling that it is being documented. By doing this, much more detail has been added to the birth, similes and adjectives are added a lot in this poem, unlike the other poem, 'makes a mark like lightning'. This is a very small detail to pick up on, that only someone close to it can observe. Much like 'He shivers' It is a seemingly simple line, however, when you think about more. A Chick is tiny, and for anyone to see it shivering means they would have to be very close, just simple to observe that shiver. Whereas in the first poem, Looking Into The Field, the changing points of view and possible narrator at a distance has resulted in a lack of detail of what is actually going on and has only provided a simple description.
In Hatching, the chick, much like in Looking Into The Field, is anxious about the world, 'He huddles under wings' but in this case the chick is actually new to world and that is his reason to be worried and scared. Where as the sheep in Looking Into The Field is an adult and has had a shock, resulting in the anxiety of what to now expect of the world. In Hatching, as i said the chick is worried ans scared but quickly grows into his life, 'by instinct/ Returns for food', he knows what he has to do and he has an adult view on life. Had become comfortable with being a bird and is no longer scared. His fear of the world quickly disappears, 'Avid for air'. The chick now has forgotten his earlier fear and has stopped 'huddl[ing] under wings' and has become wildly enthusiastic for air and for flying.
Although both poems have different view points, they do share similarities, both show an image of an animals passage through life and how the grow, both physically and emotionally. The big difference between the two however, is how the animals behaviour has been portrayed. In comparison to each other the sheep in Looking Into The Field seems a lot more cowardly whereas the new born in Hatching seems to be more grown up and more confident.
(sir, dunno if i have done that right, at all. But i am kinda proud of it, please don't crush me! Let me down on my failure gently ;) thanks!:D)
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
comparision- Foghorns and The Forn Horn
Both of the peoms are about foghorns and the horrible and loud noise that they make. In the first peom, 'the foghorn moaning' and in the second peom, 'for horn/ Calls, like a cow in pain'. In the second poem this similie is there to make it easier for people to understand and picture. We can all imagine that sound and it makes. So in both cases the foghorn is describled as moaning and loud sound.
Thursday, 3 May 2012
improvement on poem
The women in the poem is ungrateful about her life. 'I ought to feel i'm a happy women' The tone of this quote makes it obvious that she is ungreatful of her life. Even though she has so much in her life, she is not apreciative of what she has been given. This links in with what has been idicated at, that even though she has a 'man from county Roscommon' she is still not happy. She knows that she should be happy, 'I ought', but she cant help but being resentful for the fact that she didnt follow her dream and become on stage.
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Comparison of poems; Names and Oak Terrace
Both of these poems have many links and similarities between them, but little difference. There is still difference but not on the same scale as similarities.
One similarity, is the idea of loss of identity in each of the poems. The First poem, 'Names' is more of a obvious lose of identity but it is also still prominent in the second poem. In the first poem is all about how the women's names change through the years, changes with the family she has, changes with her losses and changes with her personal health. 'Now she was Nanna. 'Everyone/Calls me Nanna,' this is the point towards the end of the poem, when she has family and grand kids, her identity is beginning to be lost. She was know as so many names in her life, 'Mrs Hand.', 'Miss Steward', 'Lil', but now she has grand kids and now she is older, all her names have gone, and she is now simply known as 'Nanna'. All her past names were linked with parts of her life that she has lost, Mrs Hand, was the name she got when she got married. But her husband died, she lost that name. Lil, was the name linked to her childhood, but she grew up, she lost that name as well. All these names she has had, have linked with parts of her life, that have now been lost. Almost like a timeline of names, demonstrating her life. This is another link between the two poems. Lose. As well as physical lose, as i said, both are about lose of identity, all her names have gone. Leaving her just as Nanna. She is nothing anymore, other than, Nanna. Then when you reach the end of the poem, she is back to being called her birth name 'Eliza', this time, all of her life has been erases, almost kind of forgotten. She now has no name dedicated to key parts of her life, there is nothing in her name to signify everything she has been through, it is almost like she is back to the day she was born. No history, no experiences, all forgotten, back to just a name.There is also a idea of lose of identity in the other poem. However, in a very different way this time. This time there is no one in this women's life, to identity her. No names are ever mentioned in the poem, nothing in the poem to identity anything about her personally. It again, also has a link to lose. 'The house is quiet now' she used to have somebody there? Was there once somebody to give her a name, to make her a whole person? Either way, she now has nobody.
This also creates a difference between the poems, in the first poem, the names signify history to the women's life, we know that there is a history to this women, whereas in 'Oak Terrace' there is no names to create a history for her. The names give us nothing. Instead of names being used to create history in this one, we have lines that describe possible memories of her life.'A brothers brain melting to madness'. This could be one of two things. It could either mean, she is just imagining a hypothetical life, in which somebody's brother is losing their mind, and how their family deal with it, but more likely is that in her life she has had to deal with a brother losing his mind. If the second option is the case, then we are starting to get a back story on this women's life, however not using names like in the previous poem.
There is the now obvious similarity of lose in both peoples, in 'Names' as she lost things in her life she loses her names given to her as well. Also, there is lose in the second poem, there is indication that she has lost people in her life, 'The house is quiet now.' Both poems strongly involve idea of lose and death.
There is another key similarity in both poems, mental health. In the second poem it is more obvious, 'brother's brain melting to madness. Seven years of common trouble;'. However, in the poem 'Names' it is very key too, less obvious, but key none the less. 'And for those last bewildered weeks/She was Eliza once again.' These lines indicate at alzheimers, as mentioned in earlier lines of the poem, she is now a patient. The fact it says 'bewildered weeks' shows that she is not well, distressed and indicates she is forgetting things. Follow that with the line 'Eliza once again' reinforced the idea that she is forgetting things, she forgetting who she is. Due to her illness she has forgotten her history, her life, and only remembers very old things, back to when she was only known as Eliza, known with no history, a fresh life. This also, again, ties in with the idea of lose. She has lost her mind, lost her history, lost everything.
One similarity, is the idea of loss of identity in each of the poems. The First poem, 'Names' is more of a obvious lose of identity but it is also still prominent in the second poem. In the first poem is all about how the women's names change through the years, changes with the family she has, changes with her losses and changes with her personal health. 'Now she was Nanna. 'Everyone/Calls me Nanna,' this is the point towards the end of the poem, when she has family and grand kids, her identity is beginning to be lost. She was know as so many names in her life, 'Mrs Hand.', 'Miss Steward', 'Lil', but now she has grand kids and now she is older, all her names have gone, and she is now simply known as 'Nanna'. All her past names were linked with parts of her life that she has lost, Mrs Hand, was the name she got when she got married. But her husband died, she lost that name. Lil, was the name linked to her childhood, but she grew up, she lost that name as well. All these names she has had, have linked with parts of her life, that have now been lost. Almost like a timeline of names, demonstrating her life. This is another link between the two poems. Lose. As well as physical lose, as i said, both are about lose of identity, all her names have gone. Leaving her just as Nanna. She is nothing anymore, other than, Nanna. Then when you reach the end of the poem, she is back to being called her birth name 'Eliza', this time, all of her life has been erases, almost kind of forgotten. She now has no name dedicated to key parts of her life, there is nothing in her name to signify everything she has been through, it is almost like she is back to the day she was born. No history, no experiences, all forgotten, back to just a name.There is also a idea of lose of identity in the other poem. However, in a very different way this time. This time there is no one in this women's life, to identity her. No names are ever mentioned in the poem, nothing in the poem to identity anything about her personally. It again, also has a link to lose. 'The house is quiet now' she used to have somebody there? Was there once somebody to give her a name, to make her a whole person? Either way, she now has nobody.
This also creates a difference between the poems, in the first poem, the names signify history to the women's life, we know that there is a history to this women, whereas in 'Oak Terrace' there is no names to create a history for her. The names give us nothing. Instead of names being used to create history in this one, we have lines that describe possible memories of her life.'A brothers brain melting to madness'. This could be one of two things. It could either mean, she is just imagining a hypothetical life, in which somebody's brother is losing their mind, and how their family deal with it, but more likely is that in her life she has had to deal with a brother losing his mind. If the second option is the case, then we are starting to get a back story on this women's life, however not using names like in the previous poem.
There is the now obvious similarity of lose in both peoples, in 'Names' as she lost things in her life she loses her names given to her as well. Also, there is lose in the second poem, there is indication that she has lost people in her life, 'The house is quiet now.' Both poems strongly involve idea of lose and death.
There is another key similarity in both poems, mental health. In the second poem it is more obvious, 'brother's brain melting to madness. Seven years of common trouble;'. However, in the poem 'Names' it is very key too, less obvious, but key none the less. 'And for those last bewildered weeks/She was Eliza once again.' These lines indicate at alzheimers, as mentioned in earlier lines of the poem, she is now a patient. The fact it says 'bewildered weeks' shows that she is not well, distressed and indicates she is forgetting things. Follow that with the line 'Eliza once again' reinforced the idea that she is forgetting things, she forgetting who she is. Due to her illness she has forgotten her history, her life, and only remembers very old things, back to when she was only known as Eliza, known with no history, a fresh life. This also, again, ties in with the idea of lose. She has lost her mind, lost her history, lost everything.
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
About His Person
This poem is a Conundrum , it has many questions, that are never answered. This make analysis harder, as by the end of the poem you are still unsure on what it is actually trying to say.
Through out the whole poem there is many metaphors hinting at the idea of death. The poem's title its self is also a hint at death. About his Person, the police use this when talking about a dead body. They use this to refer to what the body has on them. This already means that the reader, if they know this is already thinking and linking to death.
There are also many other metaphors that link to death, for example 'a library card on it's date of expiry.' This could just be a coincidence, but it could also be a metaphor, because the life of the body has expired as well as the library card. The library card is linked to the death of the person. Both expired at the same time.
Also there is the link with the analogue watch. A self winding watch is a kinetic energy powered watch, this means that it will only run when there is movement happening, or if power has been stored up by recent movement from your wrist. 'an analogue watch, self winding, stopped.' The fact that the watch has stopped means the body has not been moving, and also the fact it stores up the energy means that the body has not been moving for a while. Days maybe. No one would wear a none working watch, none moving watch, so he has to have been there for a while. This is another link to the idea of death.
Then on the 5th stanza, it provides another question, that never gets answered. 'A final demand,/in his own hand,'. A final demand could mean many things. This could mean, maybe he had bill that is on final demand. Is this why he is dead. Maybe bills and late payments got on top of him and maybe he killed himself? Or maybe it could mean that is is something like a Will. Maybe if he knew that was going to die, then he would have written a will and is holding it, so that when he is found it is easy to see what he wants done. But also the line 'in his own hand' This also has two meanings. It could mean that it is written in his own hand writting but could also mean that it is phyiscally held in his hand. And if it was a will or something of that sort, like instructions on what to do when he is dead, you imagine it would be written in his own hand writting. This is creating more questions about his death and what happened. Making the poem more intreging, you find that you will continue to read on to see if your questions are answered, but as it is Conundrum, you just find that you finish the poem with more questions than answers. The next line though, gives you a sense that you are about to get some answers, ' A rolled up note of explinations' Sounds like it could lead on to having an answer, but instead it just leads to more questions. You don't find out what that note fo explination says.
On Stanxza 9, it tells you about his finger. 'no gold or silver,/ but crowning one finger' this tells you that once there was a ring on that finger. Was he once married? at this point we don't know, it could just be a ring that he no longer wears.
But on stanza 10, you start to get answers, answers to the stanza before but not answers to questions that you want, but instead it gives you information on his life. A give away to who or what he used to be. 'a ring of white unweathered skin' This tells you that the ring has been there for a long time. People wear wedding rings for a long time and resulting in a 'white unweathered' patch of skin.
Through out the whole poem there is many metaphors hinting at the idea of death. The poem's title its self is also a hint at death. About his Person, the police use this when talking about a dead body. They use this to refer to what the body has on them. This already means that the reader, if they know this is already thinking and linking to death.
There are also many other metaphors that link to death, for example 'a library card on it's date of expiry.' This could just be a coincidence, but it could also be a metaphor, because the life of the body has expired as well as the library card. The library card is linked to the death of the person. Both expired at the same time.
Also there is the link with the analogue watch. A self winding watch is a kinetic energy powered watch, this means that it will only run when there is movement happening, or if power has been stored up by recent movement from your wrist. 'an analogue watch, self winding, stopped.' The fact that the watch has stopped means the body has not been moving, and also the fact it stores up the energy means that the body has not been moving for a while. Days maybe. No one would wear a none working watch, none moving watch, so he has to have been there for a while. This is another link to the idea of death.
Then on the 5th stanza, it provides another question, that never gets answered. 'A final demand,/in his own hand,'. A final demand could mean many things. This could mean, maybe he had bill that is on final demand. Is this why he is dead. Maybe bills and late payments got on top of him and maybe he killed himself? Or maybe it could mean that is is something like a Will. Maybe if he knew that was going to die, then he would have written a will and is holding it, so that when he is found it is easy to see what he wants done. But also the line 'in his own hand' This also has two meanings. It could mean that it is written in his own hand writting but could also mean that it is phyiscally held in his hand. And if it was a will or something of that sort, like instructions on what to do when he is dead, you imagine it would be written in his own hand writting. This is creating more questions about his death and what happened. Making the poem more intreging, you find that you will continue to read on to see if your questions are answered, but as it is Conundrum, you just find that you finish the poem with more questions than answers. The next line though, gives you a sense that you are about to get some answers, ' A rolled up note of explinations' Sounds like it could lead on to having an answer, but instead it just leads to more questions. You don't find out what that note fo explination says.
On Stanxza 9, it tells you about his finger. 'no gold or silver,/ but crowning one finger' this tells you that once there was a ring on that finger. Was he once married? at this point we don't know, it could just be a ring that he no longer wears.
But on stanza 10, you start to get answers, answers to the stanza before but not answers to questions that you want, but instead it gives you information on his life. A give away to who or what he used to be. 'a ring of white unweathered skin' This tells you that the ring has been there for a long time. People wear wedding rings for a long time and resulting in a 'white unweathered' patch of skin.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
How does shakespeare write about love in Sonnet 130?
In the poem, Shakespeare describles his love in the most honest way.
He doesn't pretend she is something she is not, instead it talks about how she actually is. In conventional love poems the love or person being describled is done so in a possible false way that doesnt truly represent how they look. In this he does though, 'I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,/ But no such roses see I in her cheeks' In most love poems you read, the cheeks of people are describled as being the colour of roses, but hers are not. Shakespeare knows this and doesn't care. At the end of the poem he talkes about although there is all this, he still loves her.
As the poem continues Shakespeare persist's to talk about how she really looks, nothing like the conventional, ideal image of a lover. 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;' This is kind of a miss uses simily aswell as the true. Everyone knows what a sun looks like and instead of what you would normally find, something like 'My mistress' eyes are like the sun.'
He doesn't pretend she is something she is not, instead it talks about how she actually is. In conventional love poems the love or person being describled is done so in a possible false way that doesnt truly represent how they look. In this he does though, 'I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,/ But no such roses see I in her cheeks' In most love poems you read, the cheeks of people are describled as being the colour of roses, but hers are not. Shakespeare knows this and doesn't care. At the end of the poem he talkes about although there is all this, he still loves her.
As the poem continues Shakespeare persist's to talk about how she really looks, nothing like the conventional, ideal image of a lover. 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;' This is kind of a miss uses simily aswell as the true. Everyone knows what a sun looks like and instead of what you would normally find, something like 'My mistress' eyes are like the sun.'
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Poem Analysis- How is the love between the narrator and the Lord presented in the poem?
In the poem, the relationship between the Narrator and the Lord is presented to be a very complicated, stressful and untrustworthy.
The poem is a lot a like the story and development of the relationship of Pertruchio and Kate in the novel 'Taming Of The Shrew'. Both relationships are controlling and in both cases the women is treated badly and with little respect.
At the beginning of the poem the narrator talks about the fact that before the 'great lord', she was a 'cottage maid', meaning that she a virgin and unmarried. And to stay a virgin until the day she is married. She lived with her cottage maid mates. She also, in this same stanza, but towards the end, she say 'why did a great lord find me out/ To fill my heart with care?' And this point, we are unaware what this 'care' is, but what we do know its that she is regretting letting the lord into her life and effect her. So even at this point, straight into the poem is starts with regret and loath for him and how he changed her.
The narrator then continues to talk about how he has main her feel and how he has treated her. ' He changed me like a glove' She is hurt by the way he has just moved from her to her own cousin. He doesn't treat her with any respect, he just got bored and moved to someone else. She is hurt by this, and feels that he has changed and ruined her prospects in life 'so now I moan, an unclean thing,/ who might have been a dove.' She feels she could have been so much, but because of this stupid choice she made, to fall in love with him all that is good. This line makes it obvious that he took her virginity and gave her so many other things, at this point we only know he had given her hate and embarrassment but as the poem goes on we find out that, as well as taking so much he has given a illegitimate child then has just left her for her cousin.
Later in the poem The Lord marries the narrators cousin. To much hatred of the narrator. She expresses her wishes to spit in his face. She is disgust that he has managed to win over another women, and says that she would never let this happen, she would instead 'spit into his face'.
The Narrator has much hate for The Lord and what he has done to her, loved her, taken part of her, left her and left her with a child to carry for 9 months. She hates every part of him for the disrespect he has shown. And the has a child with this man. This child is the cause of so much embarrassment, the cause of becoming an 'outcast' in her social circle. 'My fair-haired son, my shame, my pride'. She is aware that this child is the cause of so much past, current and future pain, but she also knows that it is her pride. It is the symbol that she can be strong and get through things, without a man. And she will never let the hate of other people get her down, as long as she has her child.
All the way through the poem it is about how much she hates and despises the Lord for so many reasons. But at the end of the poem, roughly the last stanza, the mood changes completely. The Narrator forgets about all the hate she has for him and instead turns her attention to her feelings toward the child. What ever The Lord has done, not done or said, there is one thing she can not deny and that it the love for her child. A mothers love for her child is unconditional, and what ever the lord has done means nothing. The child is her shame but on the other hand it is her love, her 'pride'. and she will never let go of that love 'cling closer'.
The poem is a lot a like the story and development of the relationship of Pertruchio and Kate in the novel 'Taming Of The Shrew'. Both relationships are controlling and in both cases the women is treated badly and with little respect.
At the beginning of the poem the narrator talks about the fact that before the 'great lord', she was a 'cottage maid', meaning that she a virgin and unmarried. And to stay a virgin until the day she is married. She lived with her cottage maid mates. She also, in this same stanza, but towards the end, she say 'why did a great lord find me out/ To fill my heart with care?' And this point, we are unaware what this 'care' is, but what we do know its that she is regretting letting the lord into her life and effect her. So even at this point, straight into the poem is starts with regret and loath for him and how he changed her.
The narrator then continues to talk about how he has main her feel and how he has treated her. ' He changed me like a glove' She is hurt by the way he has just moved from her to her own cousin. He doesn't treat her with any respect, he just got bored and moved to someone else. She is hurt by this, and feels that he has changed and ruined her prospects in life 'so now I moan, an unclean thing,/ who might have been a dove.' She feels she could have been so much, but because of this stupid choice she made, to fall in love with him all that is good. This line makes it obvious that he took her virginity and gave her so many other things, at this point we only know he had given her hate and embarrassment but as the poem goes on we find out that, as well as taking so much he has given a illegitimate child then has just left her for her cousin.
Later in the poem The Lord marries the narrators cousin. To much hatred of the narrator. She expresses her wishes to spit in his face. She is disgust that he has managed to win over another women, and says that she would never let this happen, she would instead 'spit into his face'.
The Narrator has much hate for The Lord and what he has done to her, loved her, taken part of her, left her and left her with a child to carry for 9 months. She hates every part of him for the disrespect he has shown. And the has a child with this man. This child is the cause of so much embarrassment, the cause of becoming an 'outcast' in her social circle. 'My fair-haired son, my shame, my pride'. She is aware that this child is the cause of so much past, current and future pain, but she also knows that it is her pride. It is the symbol that she can be strong and get through things, without a man. And she will never let the hate of other people get her down, as long as she has her child.
All the way through the poem it is about how much she hates and despises the Lord for so many reasons. But at the end of the poem, roughly the last stanza, the mood changes completely. The Narrator forgets about all the hate she has for him and instead turns her attention to her feelings toward the child. What ever The Lord has done, not done or said, there is one thing she can not deny and that it the love for her child. A mothers love for her child is unconditional, and what ever the lord has done means nothing. The child is her shame but on the other hand it is her love, her 'pride'. and she will never let go of that love 'cling closer'.
Friday, 10 February 2012
Roller-skaters
A poem such as this, about Roller-Skaters, has a lively and young atmosphere about it. The subject and content of the poem is not highly mature or adventurous. There is not really any hidden meaning behind the it, and most of the poetic devices are not extremely. The Poem is mainly about two teenagers, being compared to Earthbirds during the poem. There are other phrases and words that link in with the reference to being a earthbird. Such as, Unfeathered. Birds are feathered, and if the author is describing them birds, but specifically earthbirds she, (the author) needs to make it obvious that she is thinking earthbirds not normal birds. This why the unfeathered birds was added, it makes sure the if there were any initial thought that they were normal feathered birds is changed, creating a difference, making the teenagers described as birds different.
As well as using phrases to create difference, they are also used to create pace and slow down the speed of the poem. for example, 'smooth swoop', these two words slow the poem now considerably, the words themselves, indervidualy, are very slow spoken words. If you say them outloud, they are lots slower that for example, Zig-zagging', another example from the poem. This is a very fast phrase.
As well as using phrases to create difference, they are also used to create pace and slow down the speed of the poem. for example, 'smooth swoop', these two words slow the poem now considerably, the words themselves, indervidualy, are very slow spoken words. If you say them outloud, they are lots slower that for example, Zig-zagging', another example from the poem. This is a very fast phrase.
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
How shoudl women behave? 5:2 136-179
In the Act 5:2 lines 136-179 Katherina makes a speech telling Bianca how women and wives should behave towards there husbands. And how women should treat the husbands' with up most respect.
She say that women should be loyal to their husbands. they are 'They are bound to serve, love and obey.' And also that they should look after them self's 'Our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth,' 'for they maintenance; commits his body'
She also says talks about her duties to her Husband. She talks about him being superior 'Thy husband is thy lord, they life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign;' She talks about obeying everything that he does and he ''owns'' and ''controlls''her. 'true obedience.' this sums it up really, all she does it so obey him and she can only do things that he allows.
She say that women should be loyal to their husbands. they are 'They are bound to serve, love and obey.' And also that they should look after them self's 'Our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth,' 'for they maintenance; commits his body'
She also says talks about her duties to her Husband. She talks about him being superior 'Thy husband is thy lord, they life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign;' She talks about obeying everything that he does and he ''owns'' and ''controlls''her. 'true obedience.' this sums it up really, all she does it so obey him and she can only do things that he allows.
What is the point of Wager? 5:2 136-179
The point of adding Wager in this part of the text was to indicate and make ovbivious to the reader and Characters in the play, who is the most obediant wife and loyal wife.
Thursday, 5 January 2012
How does the Widow insult K? 5:2
The widow says multiple things that insult Katherina, such as, 'Your husband, being troubled with a screw,' the widow is telling Katherina that she effectively feels sorry for Petruchio and her behaviour is bad and Petruchio has been lumbered with a 'shew' that needs to be controlled. She as anyone would, took offence to this. She has just been told that she is a handful and people should feel sorry for Petruchio.
How has P&K's relationship changed? 5:1: 115- end
In lines 115 to the end of the Act, this is one of the first signs that the relationship has changed. The once uptight and aggressive Katherina is now showing her affection and love towards Petruchio. When they first got together she would dream of kissing him willing let alone in public, but here she is. The arguing has stopped and the relationship is lots happier, this could be because he has tamed her or maybe she just has feelings for her. Petruchio says 'First kiss me,' it could be interpreted as a controlling way, and her reply, ' I will give thee a kiss' as he obeying what he said and giving in to not make a scene. But it could also indicate that she has fallen in love with him. and he previous attitude to him has changed.
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