Robin Hyde, ‘In the Lane’, ‘The Last Ones’, ‘At the Beaches’
1. Horses occur in Robin Hyde’s poems ‘In the Lane’ and“The Last Ones’. Compare and contrast how these animals function in each of these poems.
2. What euphemisms and other indirect techniques does Hyde use in the ‘The Beaches IV’ to refer to the couple’s romantic activities and her own desire?
Dennis Glover, ‘The Magpies’, ‘extracts from ‘Sings Harry’
3. What is the rhyme schema of Dennis Glover’s‘Tom and Elizabeth’? (Represent as letters by stanza, i.e. ABBA, etc).
4. Based on your reading of ‘Tom and Elizabeth’ and the extract from ‘Sings Harry’, what common themes does Glover draw out of life on New Zealand farms?
Q4. I think Glover indicated everlasting of nature. In 'The Magpies', Tom and Elizabeth were getting old. And, Elizabeth is dead later. But, the magpies still say Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle. So, The human passes time, but the nature is permanent. And, in 'Thistledown', whenever the poetic narrator does something, thistledown is stil and continuously planted on the wind.
ReplyDeleteQ3. 'The Magpies' is "end rhyme". But, it is not perfect rhyme but imperfect rhyme because 'bed' and 'said' have only the same final consonant sounds but vowel sounds are different. The rhyme schme of 'The Magpies' is ABCB DBCB BBCB EBCB FBCB GFCF. Except the final stanza, it is same from the second line to the fourth line.
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ReplyDeleteI think, 'ouardle oodle ardle wardle doodle' line is repeating in each sentence.
'magpies said' mean is symbolised by the unchanging backdrop. But human is changing.
And rhyme is repeated same sound. For example, bed red overhead instead and head.
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ReplyDeleteQ1. Well, I think that In the lane, the white horse represents the vitality.
ReplyDeleteBut The last ones, the black horse seems to be representing death.
Q1. i think the old white horse which mentioned in 'In the lane' functioned in good ways to express the nature itself which don't have to work in the brain or have a cleverness. Just peaceful and lie quite.
ReplyDeletebut the last black horse mentioned in 'The last ones' functioned about dark,last one.