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Both “Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy and “Mother Any Distance” by Simon Armitage focus on the role of being a mother and having to give up something. In “Before You Were Mine” its Carol Ann Duffy’s mother letting go and giving up her carefree lifestyle, to take up the important role of a mother. Whereas in “Mother Any Distance” its Simon Armitage’s mother realising she has to let her son grow up and leave her grasps.…
Bikker et al., (2014) states that by using empathy it can be particularly beneficial in reducing distress and positively improving the quality of therapeutic relationships. This would be useful in my role play due to the fact that the client finds it difficult to maintain relationships and has no one she can talk to. By showing empathy, this will enable me as the professional to look at the situation from her perspective, and engage with her in a way no one else has. This will result in the increase of beneficial changes been made in her…
Both swallowed in their job, the janitor in “Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits” by Martin Espada and the secretary in “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy feel unappreciated and lost as employees. Jorge is “outside…of [Americans] understanding” and The Secretary is lost in her work and compares herself to objects such as her “hips are a desk.” The employees from these poems have become hidden behind their duties and are slowly sinking into the unknown.…
Fanning wrote the poem Child Carrier, which is one poem out of a set of poems, entitled Man Carrying A Corpse. I believe that this poem is about the main character, Man. He is trying to fit into a crowed elevator with a corpse draped over his shoulder. When he gets in the elevator a little girl reaches up and touches Corpse’s hand. The Man was startled that the little girl touched Corpse without any reservations. Then the little girl told Man not to worry as she readjusted the large load she was carrying under a blanket. I think that the little girl was also carrying a corpse of her own.…
In the novel, Oryx and Crake, empathy is shown to convey the author’s truth about abandonment in someone’s early life. Empathy is used to identify what a person is feeling in many different situations including traumatic events. The protagonist Jimmy has found out that his mother has left him and his father and is going through many emotions in his head, trying to cope of what has happened. “Maybe she had loved Jimmy, thinks Snowman. In her own manner. Though he hadn’t believed it at the time. Maybe, on the other hand, she hadn’t loved him. She must have had some sort of positive emotion about him though. Wasn’t there supposed to be a maternal bond?” (Atwood 72). This quote has the device of empathy as it identifies how Jimmy is feeling after he learns the news that his mother has left him. He is going through many different emotions like confusion by asking questions like, “Maybe she loved Jimmy?” and “Wasn’t there supposed to be a maternal bond?” and depression as he is mourning the loss of his mother. Identifying what a character is feeling plays an important role of finding the traumatic event in someone’s early life to foreshadow how they will feel in their adult life. When a mother decides to abandon their child, they are left to feel many emotions mentally and psychologically and grieve for a long period. In Genevieve van Wyden article, Mother…
Empathy assists students to develop a sense of solidarity with others through imagining the perspectives and experiences of others…
In poetry, more so than any other form of literature, understanding sound, meaning and theme are key to understanding the work itself. In the case of the poems “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes and “The Coora Flower” by Gwendolyn Brooks these elements, when heavily focused upon, allow the reader to discover the message that these writers were attempting to convey. Thought both writers use these elements to their fullest to communicate their respective messages, the method and messages vary greatly.…
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” (Mandino) Every parent expects for his or her child to succeed. In “Mother to Son” the mother entrusts herself with the duty to impact wisdom on her child in reference to her own successes and failures. The main theme is perseverance, a mother who motivates her child to never falter in the face of life challenges.…
The poem talks about a mother’s regret for the aborted children, she failed to bring into this earth and by extension give life. The poem is a lamentation of the dreams that failed to materialize because of a single decision. In the first line, the reader finds evidence of this in the warning about abortion not letting the guilty individual forget. The poet gives a vivid description of what an aborted child looks like, describing it as a small mass composed of lumps with attached hair. By using the expression “Singers and Workers," the poet again expresses frustration that the mother failed to accord the baby a chance to make a contribution in this world. Even the words “neglect”…
According to the Merriam dictionary, “Empathy” is defined as: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also: the capacity for this.…
This is the ability to feel for others by trying to put ourselves in their shoes. As parents, empathy can be modelled by striving to understand a child’s point of…
Jack Ma once said, “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” Life is guaranteed to have some degree of difficult. Everyone comes across obstacles in their life that make them want to just give up and stop moving forward. The poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes shows a mother describing how life, “ain’t been no crystal stair,” (line 2). As the poem continues the mother describes how her life has been difficult as she says, “It’s had tacks in it… and places with no carpet on the floor- Bare.” (Lines 3, 6, 7). The mother then begins to tell her son to not turn back, or give up, when life decides to throw adversity his way, because life was not good to her and she came out okay. This poem is based on the idea of hope, and encouragement to always keep moving forward despite all the difficulties of life.…
In David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” he uses a personal appeal while Paul Bloom’s “The Baby in the Well” uses more of a professional writing approach. Their individual use of ethos, pathos, and logos gives their arguments different meaning. Their purpose of their articles is to argue the nature behind empathy. Finally, they question whether or not empathy is to be used selfishly or to help others. While both articles are very effective, David Foster Wallace is more likely to succeed in accomplishing his goal of connecting with the audince by using a personal appeal than Paul Bloom who used a straight forward appeal of facts and statistics.…
What is motherhood? Being caring and having patience are the main two components that make a good mother. In the poems “Daystar by Rita Dove and “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan both of the mothers are going through different stages of motherhood. In both poems we see the similarities that both poems have and we also see the differences. Dove and Pastan show us an early stage of mother and a late stage of motherhood. Although they are different stages of motherhood, they are both tough stages to go through.…
The poetic language and writing in these two poems “Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening ” and “Loveliest of Trees” describe man's attraction to the beauty of the nature outside. Robert Frost and A.E. Houseman each use different types of sentence structure, imagery, and diction to depict the environment and feelings of the narrators in their poems.…