Poetry Analysis: Death Approaching
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English Laura Hui Poetry creates people, place and issues. Discuss how these 3 poems recreate a time or situation and to what effect? Death affects us all. However we are more often viewers, onlookers. Some people get to voice their last words, but little get to write an actual poem about death approaching. The poems "Remember" by Christina Rossetti, "Crabbit Old Woman" by Phyllis McCormack and "Refugee Mother and Child" by Chinua Achebe from the EDEXCEL English Anthology create and portray different times and issues by using vivid imagery, sounds and senses and some diction. They play on our emotional responses and provoke us to discuss this slightly controversial issue. "Remember" written by Christina Rossetti tells of a person, in what may be their last moments in our world, informing their loved one not to hold on to her memory and her death forever. Set in the 18th century, mourning and grieving for...


