Assignment 2 literature final
- 1. 1 NAMA KAD PENGENALAN NO MATRIK / TELEFON NURHAFIZAH BINTI AJLAN 801204-14-5448 D20102040807 019-7166070 BIS 3013 – INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATUREBIS 3013 – INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2 POEM ANALYSIS – POEM 2 ( LIFE ) S HOUSE ASSIGNMENT 2 POEM ANALYSIS – POEM 2 ( LIFE ) S HOUSE GROUP UPSI 01 LECTURER DR. LAJIMAN BIN JANOORY
- 2. 1. COPY OF POEM ENTITLED, LIFE. Poem 2: LIFE Life is but a passing glimpse A small frame of time out of many Too short for Pleasure 2
- 3. Too long for Suffering It’s a sand of uncertainties Of Happiness, Sadness … Apprehension It’s the eternal cycle of Fate Sometimes motherly, sometimes a tyranny It’s but a shadow play And we the insignificant puppets Playing the short scripts of Destiny Directing our little histories Applauded by Death. By Lajiman Janoory 2. This poem has been written by Dr. Lajiman Janoory. 3. Physical analysis : It has been written in three paragraphs which is contains of 2 sets of quatrain and a set of quintet. 4. Topic : Life 5. Theme of the poem : A cycle of life. 3
- 4. 6. Summary : This poem is telling about a cycle of life which is facing by all the human in the world. All the human will be having their obstacles or problems, happiness, sadness as their experiences in their lives. The point is, all of the human have their own experiences but towards the end, they will be going and arriving to the same destination, that is the dead. The first stanza is telling about the nature of a human life which is the feeling and emotions of human are there in living in the world. It is normal for human to feel the happiness for a short period of time but it is longer for the human to feel the sadness or the obstacles in lives. It also a normal thing when we are having fun, we will feel that our lives are too short but when we have any problems, we will feel that the lives are too long to go through. The second stanza is describing that all those problems, obstacles, emotions, feelings are happening in different ways. Some of them are good and nice to be memorized but some of them are a bit tragic , sad or suffer to be remembered and go through into it. And, all those things are apprehension which is nobody knows what will be happened in the future. The last stanza is the climax of the poem which is telling the conclusion of the part of a human. We as the human are only a part of the lives, playing a role as a puppet, who are only playing our role and characters ( good or bad people ) in this short period of lives. Towards the end, we will be at the same and last phase of lives that is the dead. 7. RHYME – This poem is not using the rhyme scheme which is a pattern of rhyme ( usually end rhyme, but not always ). But, it uses some Onomatopoeia which is words that imitate the sound they are naming or sounds that imitate another sound such as the sound of /s/. For example : 4
- 5. It’s a sand of uncertainties Of Happiness, Sadness … Apprehension It’s the eternal cycle of Fate Sometimes motherly, sometimes a tyranny 8. VERSE – It is a free verse poem which is does not have rhyme, very conversational which sounds like someone is talking with you and it is a more modern type of poetry. 9. IMAGERY – The writer uses some imagery elements to intensifies the impact of the poet’s words as he shows to us. For example : Life is but a passing glimpse of existence is showing that our lives are too short. And another example is the use of word ‘puppets’ in the line of And we the insignificant puppets is telling to us that we are the characters or person who are having the lives with our own experiences in this world. 10. Personal Reflections : I selected this poem because it is related closely to my own life because all of us are having the same cycle of life. The only different is the way how do we face and deal with our memories, obstacles, moments in our lives. My favourite lines are in the first stanza which is telling the true and real scenario of a human life. For example, we as human will automatically feel that it is too short of time to feel the happiness rather than facing the sadness. That is the reality of human lives. All of us will feel the same feeling. The most attractive lines to me are in the third stanza, line 3 to 5, which is telling that we are only functioning as the players of the characters and scripts ( flow of lives ) in the world. All of those things are destined by our God and we should be more thankful to Him for giving us chances to live in the world in certain period of time given. So, the moral of the poem is, we should try and do the best and good things before leading to the dead. And. to me, life is like a drama too as we have the characters of the story, plots, settings, conflicts, climax and the ending. Each of the elements have their own impacts to bring the audience or the other people to think of the reality of lives. 5
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