Poetry for Students Vol. 10

Volume 10 121 tails, he can force his reader to confront the ugly reality of war that masks behind fine phrases and edifying sen ...

122 Poetry for Students to the types of poetry with which Owen’s readers would have been familiar. Take for instance, “The Charg ...

Volume 10 123 from it: “on the haunting flares we turned our backs / And towards our distant rest began to trudge.” Having alrea ...

124 Poetry for Students Williams, Merryn, “Poetry,” in her Wilfred Owen,Seren Books, 1993, pp. 46-114. The Works of Wilfred Owen ...

A Farewell to English “A Farewell to English” is a political poem, pre- senting to readers a moment in the poet’s life when his ...

126 Poetry for Students Author Biography Michael Hartnett was born in Newcastle West in County Limerick, Ireland, in 1943. He at ...

Volume 10 127 rhythm of the speaker’s language. The adjective “mountainy” in line 7 should not be taken to mean that the server ...

128 Poetry for Students Lines 26-29: The speaker of the poem is pulled back from the magical spell that the Gaelic language had ...

Volume 10 129 tle tells readers that the cultural awakening de- scribed here led Hartnett to turn away from using English to exp ...

130 Poetry for Students Easter Rebellion was quickly put down by British troops, and its leaders were executed, but in mem- ory ...

Volume 10 131 and the beginning of all-out warfare between the two sides. The Language The very first examples of a language tha ...

132 Poetry for Students work from then on in Irish, even though his mother- tongue has for several centuries been a near-dead la ...

Volume 10 133 culture’s separation from the mainstream. It could also be used as a tool to convert speakers from Ebonics to stan ...

134 Poetry for Students American Indians has already been mentioned, with the late-found respect for their ways, which were near ...

Volume 10 135 the bar in stanza one inspires in Hartnett the need for poetry, and by line 15, he has slipped into Gaelic with th ...

136 Poetry for Students dominance of Ireland by England, even though he previously established that the Irish sow was not unwill ...

Volume 10 137 Donoghue, Denis, “Being Irish Together,” in Sewanee Re- view,Vol. 84, No. 1, Winter 1976, pp. 129-33. Grennan, Eam ...

Funeral Blues The Auden poem called “Funeral Blues” first ap- peared in The Ascent of F6,Auden’s 1936 play written with his long ...

Volume 10 139 Author Biography W. H. Auden was born on February 21, 1907, in York, England, to George (a physician) and Ros- ali ...

140 Poetry for Students ter the landscape to more closely reflect the speaker’s emotional state. In the first two stanzas, the s ...