Death, Loneliness and Society. A comparison of poems by Stevie Smith and Jenny Joseph E-Book

Katja Buthut

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2009

Beschreibung

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics - English - Discussion and Essays, grade: 2, University of Bath (Department of European Studies and Modern Languages), course: EU 10504 Contemporary Literature & Film on the British Isles, language: English, abstract: Task: Identify, analyze and discuss the treatment of two of the following themes (one from List A and one from List B) in poetry written in English in the British Isles since 1945. You should quote from two poems on each theme (a total of four different poems). List A: Love, Loss, Death, Friendship, Loneliness/ Alienation List B: Society, Politics, Nature/ Environment, Art, Language Contents: 1. A comparison of the themes of ‘Death’ and ‘Loneliness’ in “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith, and in “Warning” by Jenny Joseph 2. A comparison of the theme of ‘Society’ in “Poor Soul, Poor Girl!: A Debutante” by Stevie Smith, and in “This be the Verse” by Philip Larkin