Hi everyone,
Where can we find examples of the poets' attitudes in this week's poems. Is it clear that the voices are those of the speakers? What's the tone of the poems?
Does knowing the "voice" help your understanding?
Have a nice week,
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I think the poet's attitude (in For My Daughter)is very pessimistic because instead of saying all the good things that come with having a child he just explains how difficult it is. For instance, he uses words as: poison, death, coldest, war, agony, cruel, fool and syphilitic. These words have a very negative connotation and therefore, give a negative tone to the poem. I believe that knowing the voice help our understanding because maybe, in his life, the poet lived bad experiences with a child and consequently it has a direct effect on his feeling about being a father.
ReplyDeleteAs Beatrice said, the tone of this poem is giving by the dramatic words like she mentionned on top. The poet's attitude is a negative thought about having a daugther. I found this poem very interesting, because we think that he exactly knows what is it to have one, but at the end we found out that he has no daugther and because of all the reasons he explained in the poem, he would never want one. Knowing that the voice is the supposed father helps us understanding the effect of his bad attitude toward having a daugther.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought the author was having pity for the future of his daughter. That he don't want her to live the hard times that life can deliver us. Finally we find that the author have a very pessimist vision of raising her daugther. Maybe this is all about the epehemerality of life or the signification of giving life, but he definitively does not want it to happen. As he said :
ReplyDelete''I have no daughter. I desire none''.
The poet's attitude is very negative, we think until the end that he anticipates when his daughter will grow up and when she will, what she is going to become but actually, he does not have a daughter and does not want one. I think it is interesting how in the whole poem we think he has a daughter when in reality he expresses the incomprehension of having children when all sort of bad things could happen to them. The voice helps us understand the negative feeling the poet has toward having a child.
ReplyDeleteI like how the author is making a chronological order of the deterioration of the what i would called the life of a women.By starting with the purity of the childhood and afterwards to the trouble of womenhood.and by that letting us know that having to deal with all of this is not part of his life and desire none of it
ReplyDeleteI find that the narrator of the poem is very... negative. It is as if life has no hope, which I find very depressing. At first, we all think that his newborn daughter or so will live a horrible life and we later find out that he doesn't even have one. His poem is written in such a way as if, if he had a daughter, would be destined to a miserable life! Pessimists, tss!
ReplyDeleteIn the poem For my daughter, the narrator gives to readeer the impression that having a daughter coulb be a tragedie. In addition, the last sentence : I have no daughter. I desire none, surprises the reader. Well it did surprise me.
ReplyDeleteFor the second poem, The Author to Her Book, it's hard for me to put my finger on any voice because the the vocabular is very rich and complex.