November and Mid Term Break Poem Analysis

Mid- status Break, by Seamus Heaney, is a free-verse metrical composition that portrays the event in which the speaker, who came back from boarding school, deals with the expiry of a young blood brother. In this poem on that point are several important themes such(prenominal) as time, age, family, pain, love and most of all death. This poem takes the audience on on the speakers journey to accepting his little brothers death. The author used a number of resourcefulness to envision the themes of the poem. In these imageries, Heaney challenges not only the audiences visual imagery only as head as auditory, olfactory as well as emotional imagery.For example Counting bells knelling classes to a close, the corpse, stanched and candles soothed the bedside. throughout the poem, Seamus Heaney only used simile once to compare the coffin to a cot, He lay in the four foot box as in a cot. The poem is organised with three lines per stanza in which there are no specific rhythm or rhym e pattern. provided the last word in the poem rhymes with the last word in the stanza before. Seamus Heaneys selection of oral communication in this poem is what made the poem so special.The phrase it was a hard blow and the line more or less the cooing baby supply certain awkwardness to the poem. Also the word soothed brings a certain warm feeling to the poem. However this word is besides words that are associated with mourning and death such as bedside, candles and Snowdrops These choices of words bring the audience on a emotional rollercoaster. Moreover, the authors choice of words once more highlighted the last line. Heaney used alliteration, assonance and repeating to add further emphasis on the four foot box Which suggests how important this line is to the core of the poem. The poem November By Simon armitage is about how a man , the speaker, do its with the loss of a family member, not through death but through age.The speaker and a man named fanny (probably a friend) squander taken magics grandmother to a nursing home. They fill out she will not come back out of the home. When they leave the elder lady, they drive back to Johns house and drink alcohol, to cope with the emotions of the situation. The poet tries to lift John out of his depression. As with all poetry, the poem captures the pursual of the reader through its exploration of pitying feelings and motivations.The choice of November as the claim is effective in that this is clearly the winter of the grandmothers carriage, which is draught to its close. There is little, if anything, that is attractive about the month of November the weather is bad, and certainly not picturesque, and the dismal and dank darkness which we associate with the month reflects the feelings experienced by the poet and John in the light of the old ladys decline. In Stanza 1, the effects of ageing on the grandmother are shown by the steering she walks she takes four short steps to every two taken by the po et and John.Stanza 2 shows the genuine affection and care John lavishes upon his grandmother, making received that she has all she needs, as well as mementoes of home family trinkets he is stressful to cater for her emotional, as well as her physical, needs. The obvious closeness of the consanguinity is reflected in the fact that he pares his grandmothers nails quite an snug act for a grandson to carry out. However, the old lady has degenerated into an object, as John wraps her in the rough blankets.The reference to the old ladys incontinence provides the reader with a clear indication of her helplessness, and why she has had to go into a nursing home. Stanza 3 begins with a play on words, It is time John. this could sozzled that it is time to leave the old lady, or that it is the passage of time and wherefore the ageing process which has brought things to their current situation. The stanza concenteres on the lack of quality of life of old people they are drained of colour, their bodies show signs of ageing escaped breasts and baldness and they are losing their mental faculties stunned rains.The loss of normal human attributes and capabilities is brought home by the poets shocking reference to these monsters. Stanzas 4 and 5 pore on the aftermath, emotionally, of leaving the grandmother in the home, no doubt Johns main feeling being one of guilt, and the final stanza is an effort to lift the emotions of the reader and of John by giving a mental object of expediency, but one which is positive for the younger men.The poem is written in free verse and contains little rhyme. The poem is constructed of six stanzas, the first flipper of three lines each, the last of only two lines. The first three stanzas focus on the nursing home, leading up to a crescendo at the end of Stanza 3 with these monsters. throughout these stanzas, the poet is reassuring John, despite feeling repulsed by the images of the elderly in the home.Both Poems are effective in thei r exploration of the emotions of mournfulness and guilt felt by relatives and friends when the passing years lead to a loved one losing all sense of dignity and quality of life. The choices of lyric poem and literary devices are very appropriate and served their purpose. In November, the speaker tells of the loss of a family member, not through death, but through age, using ferine language to put the point across while Mid Term break attempts to do the same, in a more bitter cherubic way.