He uses imagery and metaphors to show the results of pollution. McGough shows us images of darkness. Premium Life , Debut albums Words 2 Pages. The teacher is using violence to control the students swords and all and The Head is supporting that. His work has become so well recognized that he has received an O. E for his contributions to poetry from the Queen. McGough was born in Liverpool and attended school in the nineteen-forties and fifties during a time when corporal punishment was widely present in British education.
The three poems I have chosen are mainly written in the area of inequality of this world and the unfairness of social class. Premium Social class , Poetry Words 4 Pages. Still dealing with the theme of wiping out nearly all human civilisation the poet uses it to talk about the use of machinery and how these survivors completely discarded technology. Going back to almost Biblical times this is the best way to farm without the use of technology.
Another good example of showing the determination of how they have learned from their ancestors errors is. They would not let the use of technology engulf then gradually destroy the world again.
It has so many times been said and films have brought the suggestion that one day we will destroy ourselves so the way the poet brings this out is very effective towards the reader. Using a very good simile. The tractors sitting in the fields like they are ready to be turned on and thrive off polluting fumes.
They will slowly rust though. The poems deal with nuclear war very differently. Roger McGough using action and description of what happened. Edwin Murir using the aftermath to try and express how the earth needs a new start.
They are both effective in their own ways as all poems. It deals with the coming of white horses. They appear from nowhere the only place it suggests that they came from is when the poet write. This means a sort of different dimension or world like they had been sent to help them, from god? We do not know. They are not just your ordinary horse though. They look noble almost shining with holiness.
There entrance being very dramatic as well. They rush starting form a distant tapping to a roar of thunder. The most dramatic thing is the surprise of it. A bleak world of nothingness then suddenly a mass surge of horses appear from nowhere.
It is very strong and effective. Another large aspect to notice is the language of the two poems. Icarus using very clever short and not to descriptive lines and versus. Where as Horses using detailed and strong language in almost every verse and line. Both effective in their own ways. The survivors use the horses for re-building an agricultural need and co-operating with nature as we are animals to. Icarus Allsorts ends on a serious note, differing from the humour which is expressed throughout.
Would it? The final, short rhetorical question secures the ruthless truth of the consequence of nuclear war. I chose to write about this poem because it had a huge effect on me when I was younger and is one of the reasons why I became so interested in poetry in later life. This poem inspires me to create work that reflects this same energetic passion.
Icarus Allsorts A little bit of heaven fell From out the sky one day It landed in the ocean Not so very far away The general at the radar screen Rubbed his hands in glee And grinning pressed the button That started World War Three From every corner of the earth Bombs began to fly There were even missile jams No traffic lights in the sky In the time it takes to blow your nose The people fell, the mushrooms rose.
V Times but the very last Civil defence volunteers With their tin hats in one hand And their heads in the other C. D supporters Their ban the bomb badges beginning to rust Have scrawled 'I told you so' in the dust A little bit of heaven fell From out of the sky one day It landed in Vermont North-eastern USA The general at the radar screen He should have got the sack But that wouldn't bring Three thousand million, seven hundred, and sixty-eight people back, Would it?
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