D Martinez’ Online Journal

My character is very cold hearted as he feels let down by his son turning into a beetle, but at heart he still loves his son but does not want to show it as he feels embarrassed.

There is a part in the play when Mr Samson shows a part of compassion when they are about to feed Gregor, this showed that Mr S still loved his son as he did eventually help with the feeding by supplying goods such as the left over over night smelly stew.

My character is aged 46 or may be older also looks older. Family does not have enough money as Gregor is the only working person in the household. He  wants to get rid of Gregor as he turned into a beetle. Gets easily annoyed also genreally disagrees with the family.

I’ll perform this by my emotions on my face which will be sad and strussed I’ll show this by showing a frown on my face and looking lost by looking towards the floor. My body was also be dropped like it’s melting as it shows the audience that I’m not even strong enough to hold myself up. Finally the way I talk will be aggressive most of the time as I lose my anger quickly.

The poem is written as one long stanza, this called a dramatic monologue.

The author reacts to the presence of Porphyria in a warm way. As soon as she entered “she shut the cold out and the storm”, this creates an image of when she enters she enters with warmth as all cold and bad things which is represented by the storm is left outside.

Both poems have many similarities, but a thing that stands out is the subject as the subject is what the poem is about. They’re both about break ups, we know that they are about break ups as for the poem ‘when we two parted’ the clue is in the title as parted means they are breaking signifying that this poem is about a break up. I think this is a good trait as the reader instantly knows what the poem is about and does not have to guess about what they think the poem is about.

Dear Dad,

Time has flown by its been 25 years since you’ve brought me to this beautiful earth, and I appreciate it very much. You’ve always supported me in terms of everything I’ve wanted to achieve for examale when you came to my first game of football because I wanted to be a footballer or

Theme- the theme is a relationship between the mother and a daughter, the daughter is imagining a glamours life which her mum might’ve had. memory

Language-  there is use of alliteration such as ‘stamping stars’ the effect of alliteration is to emphasise something so it sticks in the readers memory

Structure- 4 stanzas and 5 lines per stanza which has an effect of a conversation

What is the tone?

Admiring, and with gratitude for the way her mother livened up her childhood.

Wistful, dwelling on the poets own memories and iimaginings.

How does Carol Ann Duffy explore ideas about the relationship

My prediction about the poem is about a relationship which has broken up and they have both gone on different routes of life as they have parted.

1. Parted, Broken, Sever, Pale and Colder

3. Verse 2 tells me that the poet is telling us what he felt on a certain morning. On this certain morning he felt a warning the warning was a cold chill on his brow. He said feeling ashamed as his remembering what happened for example thy vows were all broken, he feels betrayed because she broke them.

In my opinion a follower is a bad thing as I see a follower as someone who follows the herd and does not have an opinion for himself, a follower normally agrees with what everyone says for example, if I believed that Ronaldo was better than Messi but I looked up to one of my peers and just followed him and he said Messi, a follower would generally agree with what the leader says. I believe this is a bad trait to have as a person should have the chance to express there point but they don’t. In addition a follower may also be someone who follows a group like the Donald Trump campaign.

My four points would be that in the first 3 stanzas the son is admiring his father as its his role model and the son is just saying postive things about him.

Another point is that in the last 3 stanzas we learn that the son has matured and now he has to look after his father, we as an audience can learn from this as it’s reality and our parents will eventually grow, this can be seen as a negative but it aint as its just a relationship that has matured.

The father starts of as a strong man we know this as it says in the poem “his shoulders globed like a full sail strong as his admiring his strength”, this line represents his father is strong as his shoulders are broad.

My last point would be the rhyme pattern in the last paragraph.

The salute in scene 2 represents respect to the person in command, this is respect as it is a traditional army thing and a salute is always towards a leader a

Climbing my grandfather and letters from Yorkshire are very similar poems as they both include relationships, with both being about family members. Furthermore letters from Yorkshire is about her father and Climbing my grandfather is about his grandfather we know this as grandfather is included in the title however we are not 100% certain if letters from Yorkshire is about her father but the way we analysed it we believe it is the father because there is someone working in a garden so we believe it is an older person possibly retired, we know he is a male as it says ” his knuckles singing”.

Use of deformal language as it gives us the impression that the characters are not educated and they are farmers.

Use of nature imagery which shows the maid can relate to nature and the story is based in four seasons as well.

Sibilance makes a soft s sound which makes the reader feel like he loves her. Good use of imagery.

Charlotte Mew uses different types of language and structure of her poem to show the dysfunctional relationship between the farmer and his bride, one of the langunge techniques she uses is colloquial language, with using this language technique we instantly know that the characters in the poem are uneducated as they are speaking in a informal manner such as “she runned away”, which also gives us the impression that the characters are uneducated as using the word runned makes no sense and an educated person would use ‘ran’ instead of runned. It also tells us that the character is a farmer as using ‘runned’ is a technique of colloquial language.

Charlotte Mew uses different types of language and structure of her poem to show the dysfunctional relationship between the farmer and his bride, one of the langunge techniques she uses is nature imagery, this is a great technique as it makes the reader understand the poem easier as we know more about the maid. Using maid imagery tells us that the maid can relate to nature as it says “happy enough to chat and play with birds and rabbits and such as they”, this tells us that the maid trusts nature and is the only thing in the world she can talk to and be herself as its the only time in the poem when she is not forcing being happy.

Use of nature imagery which shows the maid can relate to nature and the story is based in four seasons as well.