Compare and Contrast how feelings of fear and confusion are conveyed :: English Literature

Compare and Contrast how feelings of fear and confusion are conveyedthrough the use of imagery and opposite poetic techniques.I am going to compare the use of poetic devices to portray fear andconfusion in 3 different poems, they are Patrolling Barnegat by WaltWhitman, On the Train by Gillian Clarke, and Storm on the Island bySeamus Heaney. These poems all portray a feeling of confusion, oftenit is linked with the theme of war. In Patrolling Barnegat, WaltWhitman uses repeating to enhance the power of the assail he isdescribing.Wild, Wild the storm, and the sea high runningThe repetition of wild in this line helps to enforce the power of thestorm and nature. Whitman also uses personification in this line wherehe compares the blend inment of the sea to a person running, as if he issaying that the sea will move for nobody. He is also making it soundas if the sea is rushing to get somewhere as if it is on a mission.Whitman also incorporates rhyme in his poem. This gives his poem ast rong rhythm and this rhythm ties in with the image of the rollingsea, and gives this image more effect.In Storm on the IslandSeamus Heaney also describes a vivid, powerfulstorm. He describes the storm like he has learnt from past experience.He describes preparing for the storm as if he has gone through it manytimes before. gouge raise a tragic chorus in a galeHere Seamus Heaney is comparing the storm to a tragic chorus, whichcould be associated with an opera - a descriptor of entertainment. SeamusHeaney is using 2 opposites to help describe the ferocity of the stormand give the reader a clearer picture of what it would be like to bewhere he is. as well Heaney uses no punctuation at the end of his lines,so it is like reading a continuous sentence. Despite the lack ofpunctuation, the poem still has a distinct rhythm, and because of thelack of punctuation, an unusual style.Gillian Clarkes poem On the Train describes the Paddington rail crashof October 99 She uses many poetic techniq ues to describe what itmust have been like for people wait to find if their relatives thathad been travelling on the train that day were safe or not.The wolves howl into silent telephonesHere Gillian Clarke is talking about the people who have baffled someonein the crash. She uses the metaphor of a wolf to describe the peopletrying to phone their loved ones, only to get silence, or an answer