plog 4

in margaret atwood's siren song, she uses vivd imagery and a tone and mood of deceit and trickery to capture the leader in more ways than one. she captures the speaker with her diction and grabs them with her song. there is alos a theme of women overpowering men in the way they can capture then.
the tone and mood of deceit and trickery comes from the change i see in the poem after the first three stanzas. she seems to try and trap the reader as if the poem were her song. there is a main thme of helplessness in the siroens song and it goes along with how men treat women and women's power over men. the siren or women in general can sing this song and make men kill themselves. it shows how women control the thought and actions of men.
through her diction she uses hooking words to capture the reader like "help me!" and "you are unique" and how she says you a lot and talks to the reader/sailor to pull them in with her "song."

Plog 4- "Punishment"

in seamus heaney's punshiment he uses the imagey of body parts and binding imagery. he also shows the theme of love lost and betrayal of another.
in punishment the strong descriptive imagery shows the reader what is going on with this women in the bog. heaney uses a lot of body imagery. he talks about the neck, nape, ribs, nipples, and other body images. he describes the woman's body and what has happened to her since the altercation between her and her sisters. other images he shows are ones of binding. heaney talks about the rock that is on top of the woman and the noose that is around her neck. these images along with the blindfold and the bandages go along with the binding imagery. there was also a lot of unsual images to describe things, like the amber beads used to describe the woman's nipples and the stubble of the black corn used to describe her hair.
the two themes in this poem are lost love and betrayal. the theme of love lost is conveyed in punishment because the speaker talks about the memories of love but she soon after died and how the speaker says "i almost love you." this shows how she was thinking of love but that it soon after ended. the speaker saying that line shows that he could've loved her in time but at that moment he didn't and that is another example of love lost. the second theme in punishment was betrayal. the two commited the crime of adultery but the young woman was the only punished. she had been betrayed by the man who says "in but would have cast, i know, the stones of silence." this shows how he stood by and did nothing when he knew he should also be being punished for the crime.

plog 3- mid term break

in seamus heaney's poem mid-term break. we see through his diction the theme of death and the contrast of big and small and old and young.
the stark imagery in the poem shows the reader what exactly is going on in the house as the speaker walks in. we see the baby and the old men and the mother and father and all of the other event going on very clearly through the descriptive vocabulary heaney uses. we can see into the time period he wrote in also through the diction with words like sick bay and pram, words that aren't commonly used in today's language.
the contrast of big and small starts in the first stanza when the speaker is talking about "big jim evans" and in the second he talk about babies. another contrast that is seen is the contrast of old and young. we see the young college studnet and the deceased four year old in contras to the old men who stand up to shake the young one's hand and how the parents them selves are older. heaney also uses the word eldest to describe the college student which goes along with the theme of young and old.