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Title: practical criticism how to write
Description: practical criticism how to write
Description: practical criticism how to write
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How to write
Practical criticism
1st paragraph
Theme:
1) We write the general theme
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3) We describe what happens
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The title:My papa
Waltz
"my" is v
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"papa" is not formal, intimate, v
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very elegant, sophisticated dance
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The title has a special reference as the word "my" indicates
his belongings
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There is an elegance in the word "waltz", as the
father is dizzy, unable to move
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The father:-
The mother: -
dirty "palm caked…", wounded "battered", tender
bad smell "the whisky…", dizzy "on the stairs" untidy
"my right ear…", loving, kind, cheerful
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The poet portrays three characters in the poem, the son or
the poet who is young, innocent and blind to the bad aspects of his
father's character
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The mother is shown happy because of her son's
dancing
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3rd paragraph
Diction: -
"waltz" it describes the father's drinkurd state
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"romped" shows that the fathers is playful and indicates
the cheerful relationship between the son and
the father
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"battered"
shows the father's behaviour in the bar
quarelling
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"beat time"
it indicates violence, toughness and
aggressiveness which indicates that those
memories affected the poem's life by gaining
power (powerful & brave)
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"still"
shows the continuity
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Imagery
"hang on like death" simile "death" as if there is no escape from
his father which indicates the ever lasting
manners towards his fathers
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"the whisky on…" descriptive image
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Tone: nostalgic, longing for his father, cheerful
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the words here are very short words and
monosyllabic which indicates that the sound
in the poem is happy and cheerful
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gives
a
low
and
gentle
The poet employs many words to convey his own ideas like
"waltz" which describes the father drinking state
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The word "not frown" highlights the anger of the
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mother towards the husband
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There is a simile in "death", "hang on like death" which
indicates that there is no escape from his father, an everlasting
relation
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There is a
metaphor in "make time", in which he compares time to a person
to show the memory will last in his mind strongly
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The setting of the poem is in the house of the poet where he
was young (not elegant, not Luxourious)
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The sound in the poem conveys the happiness
state as the ending rhyme ab, ab, there is alliteration in the hand
that held, it gives a low and gentle movement
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2) Whether the poet has succeeded in conveying the idea
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4) How does it change / act / affect us
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In my opinion
this is a remarkable poem as it brings back my childhood
memories and the nice days I spent with my parents
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Title: practical criticism how to write
Description: practical criticism how to write
Description: practical criticism how to write