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Robert Gray Poem- Old House and Late Ferry
'Poetic Language is used to Capture Human Experiences;

`In Robert Gray’s poems, he uses language to capture human experiences. In two of his poems; old house and late ferry, gray has effectively captured human experiences by his varies poetic languages and through insight and feeling. Throughout both texts late ferry and old house, gray’s main message in the poems, with his critical analysis, is the destruction of nature by mankind.
In old house, gray has captured the human experience of the process of death. He does this through insight and he effectively conveys this with poetic language such as the use of metaphor. This is the title itself ‘ old house’. The title doesn’t literally mean an old house, but in this concept, Grays imagines it to mean more of an institute or a hospital. Gray has used this metaphor to capture a human’s sense while looking out from the interior of an institute or hospital, about to pass on.
In late ferry, gray captured the human experience of leaving home for the first time and doesn’t feel comfortable with his upcoming life style, in the city life. He provides insight to capture this experience by using imagery. In this text, gray presents the city as being fake, in contrast to his previous, and natural habitat; nature. His imagistic language is present throughout the text to emphasis how artificial the city is. An example of this would be ‘ neon’, which is fake lights; this implies that even the city light is artificial. Also, Grays portrays the ‘bridge’ to be a ‘giant prop’, this insinuates that the city is just a huge production, with fake objects to make it seem real and natural.
Gray captures the feeling of human experiences in old house by emphasising the purity of death. He effectively conveys this through the repetition of ‘white’, which is symbolic for light, purity, calmness and innocence. This is evident with the

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