What events from his life may have affected their work?
His mother was a nervous and passive woman
Neither friends nor relatives ever visited the family home, and he developed a stammer.
What society is the text set in?
The Whitsun Weddings was written during a patriarchal society.
What society is the text written for?
Philp Larkin writes his poems for a patriarchal society as Larkin was middle class his work portrays a society where him and the bourgeoisie are superior to the working class.
Their attitudes to gender, social class etc.
Larkin writes in a way that presents the proletariat as weak and inferior throughout society due to their class. His work also comes across as sexist in the way that women have little power and his woke seems to agree with this and see it as expectable.
Identifying the genre of your text
Traditional
Friday 11 December 2015
Monday 7 December 2015
The Hollow Men- Dreams,Hopes And Plans
What does the last stanza mean to you? Is the poem really describing the end of the world, or do the lines merely express a belief held by the Hollow Men?
The last stanza suggests that the world is ending. Throughout the poem 'The Hollow Men', T.S Eliot describes a miserable world full of darkness. Eliot suggests that the world is fading "For Thine is. Life is. For Thine is". This suggests that life slowly fades instead of suddenly, this is backed up buy the last stanza "Not with a bang but with a whimper". However the last stanza could express a belief held by the Hollow Men because they are described in a way which makes them seem passive and pathetic just like the proletariat. In this sense it could be a way of describing the proletariat and their everyday lives, slow and drab. T.S Eliot writes in a way that makes the reader feel miserable so a lot of his poems including 'Whispers of Immortality' use depressive language. In 'The Hollow Men' he uses depressive language and a mellow tone, especially in the last stanza, to suggest the horrible lives of the Hollow Men.
The last stanza suggests that the world is ending. Throughout the poem 'The Hollow Men', T.S Eliot describes a miserable world full of darkness. Eliot suggests that the world is fading "For Thine is. Life is. For Thine is". This suggests that life slowly fades instead of suddenly, this is backed up buy the last stanza "Not with a bang but with a whimper". However the last stanza could express a belief held by the Hollow Men because they are described in a way which makes them seem passive and pathetic just like the proletariat. In this sense it could be a way of describing the proletariat and their everyday lives, slow and drab. T.S Eliot writes in a way that makes the reader feel miserable so a lot of his poems including 'Whispers of Immortality' use depressive language. In 'The Hollow Men' he uses depressive language and a mellow tone, especially in the last stanza, to suggest the horrible lives of the Hollow Men.
Wednesday 25 November 2015
Friday 20 November 2015
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