DATE

COMPARISON OF ALL THE

POEMS
LO- To compare many of the poems that we
have studied and develop a revision guide.

By Hamzah, Abbie, Jack, Georgia, Ben and Joel

ENVY
Mary Lamb compares an envious person to that of a rose tree,
suggesting that a rose wanting to be like a different flower would
be blind to its own beauty.
If the rose wished to change its 'natural bent' and grow other
flowers, it would be unable to do so. She pictures the rose
worrying, and says if it could only appreciate its own red flower
and smell its beautiful scent, it would never be unhappy again.
This comparison is used to suggest that, if we too could only
appreciate our own strengths, talents and beauty, we would
have no need to be jealous of others.

ENVY
Envy is a grand metaphor comparing the flower that cannot see its
beauty to the people in the world who cannot see their talents. Lamb
uses a rhyme scheme and a choice of words that convey a gentle
and beautiful feeling to the reader when they are read aloud. The
title envy brings images of jealousy and of green envy to the mind
and not ones of delicate roses, but this is where Lamb did everything
right. She used the rose, the most beautiful of flowers, to convey her
message that being envious is a waste of time. Red roses signify
love, power, passion and courage. By using this flower Lamb is
trying to make the statement that people should not be envious, they
are rare flowers and have love power, and passion within them.
Lamb effectively uses different words to convey this overall message
throughout the poem.

ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH

Through Anthem for Doomed Youth, a well known sonnet written
by Wilfred Owen, conflict is portrayed directly through the effects
of war. The reader sees the horrors of war and how unfortunate it
is to die in war because the soldiers die as cattle. This similie
shows how awful war is because it shows lots of people being
slaughtered and the nature of war to be full of mass deaths.
Owen fought in WW1 and wrote this poem while in a hospital
recovering from shell shock. Anthem for Doomed Youth,
solemnly discusses death in war and shows how those who die in
war do not receive the normal ceremonies that are used to honour
the dead.

ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH

Owen was able to express how he felt about those who passed
away while fighting in the war, and he successfully
communicates a moving message to his readers through the
oxymoron, Doomed Youth, because the author suggests that
the soldiers will die before they even begin to fight.
By using a sonnet for the structure of his poem, Owen
immediately introduces a touch of irony, because the
conventional function of the sonnet is love, however this poem is
about anti-love.

LAMENT

"Lament", is a poem by Gillian Clarke which discusses the devastating effects of

the Gulf War. Clarke strives to inform readers of its effects from many different
points of view; nature, the soldier fighting, and the "farmers in it for the music".

Clarke brings us readers into the realization that this war has put out light, and
now the sea and sand are covered by a layer of black. The beauty of the arab
nation is symbolized by the silk; what once made this land charming was
stripped away by the unfortunate effects of war. The birds are now also covered
with the layer of oil, symbolizing the weight of oppression and depression nature
was left with.

LAMENT
The war is described as a mortal stain that blemishes
everyones heart and causes death to all the living things and
our surroundings. Clarke moves from the environmental cost of
the human cost of the war because Ahmed was a soldier burnt
when his tank was bombed (his uniform of fire). This creates
an impacting image of how the war caused so much pain to
everyone.
Lament'' is like a wake up call to everyone, reviving people into
the reality that the nature in all its forms should not be destroyed
due to political differences proven by ashes of language.

FLAG
This poem seems to be built on the idea that nationalism (Strong feelings of
identification with your country) is a purely abstract idea. He draws on views of
countries as "imagined communities" groups of people bound by myths, stories
and flags. We are all human and yet certain individuals, powerful leaders, will
create divisions simply by giving meaning to a limp and fluttering piece of cloth.

Flag explores how national symbols bind nations together and in

doing so also force people apart. For Agard this power is a dangerous
illusion. Flags do not represent anything real at all. Nations are merely
"imagined communities". While growing up in 'British' Guyana, for
example, Agard was taught all about British history and was meant to
identify with British culture even though hot tropical Guyana, however,
could not be more unlike cold, rainy Britain.

FLAG
The power of the flag can bring a nation to its knees. The
reader can infer pain and surrender that makes the reader angry
towards the actions of this piece of cloth. Knees could connote
surrender, imagery of praying. Being on your knees is
personifying the flag, and if someone is on their knees they are
lower than you, which means they have less power
(symbolically), which makes the flag sound degrading.

HONOUR KILLING

The concept of woman as property and honour is so deeply rooted in the

culture of Pakistan that the state ignores the regular occurrences of women
being killed by their families. It is also because the religious leaders use
justifications from their religious books for sanctioning punishments against
the disobedient women. The poet feels empathy and desires that all women
must protest against these deadly religious sanctions. She mocks the
religious authorities that instead of punishing the culprits, the incident was
welcomed as Honour Killing. So she is in an open revolt with her culture in
Honour Killing:

At last I am taking of this coat

This black veil of a faith

That made me faithless

That tied my mouth

HONOUR KILLING
Honour Killing is the homicide of a member of a family or social
group by other members, due to the belief of the perpetrators that
the victim has brought dishonour upon the family or community.

PARTITION
This poem is about the Partition between India and Pakistan
and the narrator seems frightened to go with her aunt, but the
reader is not told why, therefore the reader can infer of the
violence because before the partition there was a lot of violence
and crime. She stood in the garden listening, possibly for any
thieves, which indicates how terrible her conditions of her life
were.

PARTITION
The tittle Partition directly relates to the poem Flags because
they both have similar meaning, which is that you shouldnt
divide a country.
The irregular structure towards the end suggests her state of
mind because she may be confused or depressed because she
doesnt know why she didnt go and the guilt continues with her
until today because she is told this at midnight which suggests
that her past is like a horror story.