IGCSE English

This poem is a very interesting poem as it contrasts the different opinions about a happy and a sad life. I like how Jane Kenyon tells us that even though she is doing all the things she describes she is also doing the work that she likes to do, it might be sewing, knitting or [...]

Happiness is a poem written by Jane Kenyon. Jane Kenyon is a poet that died in April 1994 because of cancer. In this poem, she says that happiness is “a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squanered a fortune far away”. She also says that happiness can come to everything/everyone, [...]

Happiness by Jane Kenyon made me to wonder about what is happiness’s true meaning. I read through this poem as I contrast with other poem from Jane Kenyon, “otherwise”. I think there is evidence of author wondering by herself to figure out certain thing in the poem. There was two idea of what happiness mean. [...]

Happiness by Jane Kenyon is a poem that really makes us wonder what happiness is. In this poem, the author, Jane Kenyon first says that happiness might just turn up like a prodigal, which means that happiness might just turn up like a waste. She is trying to tell us that we never know when [...]

The Poem”Happiness” by Jane Kenyontalks about how people judge happiness to easily, even though at the same time there is no way of describing what it is. The Poet is saying that happiness comes to everything and everyone even if we don’t know it. she somehow gives the cup, boulder, and rain personification by saying [...]

“Happiness” by Jane Kenyon is a poem about the different forms of happiness and the how everyone and everything can find it. She tells us how when we are destroyed and completely depressed happiness will surely come to us. How even a tired glass holding wine will be rid of the wine in it.

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this poem is in my opinion very thought-provoking. thoughts like why it could be otherwise and who this character is, and when will it be otherwise. i liked this poem because it is so mysterious and it keeps you guessing, feeding you only small crumbs of the story at a time, yet at the end [...]

Otherwise by Jane Kenyon is a poem I personally think, about a person who is stuck in a rut and hopes that one day, they will be able to escape from their routine. In the poem we see that the narrator daily gets out of bed, eats cereal and a peach,walks the dog to the [...]

This poem describes a daily life of a person. However, the strange part is that it repeats “otherwise” over and over again. It made me feel relaxed when it was describing the person’s daily life, hungry when it was describing the food she or he ate and wonder when it kept on saying otherwise. It [...]

It became one of my favourite poem since “Our other sister”. I liked how the writer Jane Kenyon repeated word “otherwise” few times and describe the setting of the story in detail. It confused me sometimes but it built up it’s own personality of the poem by repeating specific word to emphasise and make the [...]

The poem gives me several feelings. The first and foremost feeling is mortality. I am not sure you can technically feel mortality as it is not a emotion. However after eating the poem i feel mortal. The whole poem is about how one day things will change whether you like it or not. The most [...]

The poem, The Early Purges, is written by Seamus Heaney. When “I” was six years old, “I” witnessed kittens being drowned by a person called Dan Taggart. Dan threw the kittens into a bucket that was hung on the snout of a water pump and filled it with water. The cats were making every effort [...]

Poem: And you left me Written by: Jolly Yau

You took away my happiness And shut them all into a jar Why did you do such a thing? I can’t believe you went that far.

You sealed away that jar. And threw it into the sea. You said, “Good luck finding it.” And then you [...]

Much like an Italian sonnet, this post comes in one part, with two distinctive sections; but unlike said poem structure, said distinct sections don’t correlate very well and are very convoluted indeed… which makes this a terrible metaphor.

Over the past few days, our class has been studying a variegated collection of love poetry. From [...]

Poetry is not my favourite thing in the world, but it’s something I do not hate. Although, there is something about poetry that drives me nuts and that is when some authors name their poems ‘Sonnet #.’ I know that it is a sonnet what they wrote, but at least the writer could be more [...]

Topic: Imagery

In the poem, “A Birthday”, Christina Rossetti uses extensive and positive imagery, mostly pertaining to natural descriptions. In fact, the whole poem is composed of imagery, that are all solely for the purpose of relaying the sense of pure joy the speaker is feeling. The first line starts off with “My heart is [...]

“Poets often use unusual images that force us to think in new ways about familiar things” This makes you think twice, about what the poets are actually trying to convey to the readers. Some examples from poems would be:

“A Birthday” by Christina Rossetti,“peacocks with a hundred eyes” (which can be found on the second [...]

“Poet often use unusual images that forces us to think in new ways about familiar things.” says Mr.MacKnight, while writing on the board, in one of year 10′s english classes. “Our next poem is Pike. We are going to silently read it first.”

There was silence in the room. A little while later, when Mr.MacKnight [...]

‘Poet often uses unusual images to force us think in new ways about familiar things’

This sentence can be approved easily on almost all the poems. Poets use these techniques to make us to rethink about those things we might ignore in everyday life around us.

In ‘Continuum’ the poet says ‘…bright clouds dusted (query) [...]

Poets often use unusual images that force us to think in new ways about familiar things. In the poem “The Planner” the author writes, “… The blemishes of the past, knock off useless blocks with dental dexterity. “ The phrase “ dental dexterity” gives us an impression of the houses on the street are the [...]

“A Birthday” is a beautifully written poem by Christina Rossetti, which contains a good deal of outstanding features features. The most obvious features that is shown in this poem is the rhymes; the rhymes in the poem creates a rhythmic beat when you read it. From the first stanza, it is noticeable that the poet [...]

The feature I like about this poem is that Christina Rossetti uses a lot of similes in the poem, that in the deeper meaning they represent love. Like what Mr. Macknight said, “Poets are the people who play with word”, “Boughs are bent with thickset fruit”, “Paddles in a halcyon sea”, “Raise me a [...]

The feature I like the most about this poem is the author’s use of descriptive similes comparing herself to nature which depicts joyful, blissful, and beautiful imagery, like “a singing bird” or “a rainbow shell.” This strongly emphasizes the passion her heart is feeling and the author depicts a clear picture of how she feels. [...]

This week I was introduced to a whole new way of looking at poetry. Prior to this week I thought of poetry as a time consuming nuisance, a labyrinth of different connotations, different interpretations and differently structured wording. And it is all of those things, however, now I understand how a poem can mean different [...]