Research Paper on:
Communication and Poetry

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examine the poem in order to understand the meanings and the subtle images that offer up the poets unique form of communication. In the following paper we examine three poems,  discussing how the poem, and the poet, communicate thoughts and feelings through words and images. The poets, and poems, discussed are "My Grandmother" by Elizabeth Jennings, "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence  and "At Castle Boterel" by Thomas Hardy. My Grandmother In Jennings poem we are presented with the examination of a grandmother as she lives, retires, and then dies,  leaving the grandchild to wonder and perhaps experience guilt in the lack of a relationship with the grandmother as she lived. It should be noted that the poem was unavailable  to this particular writer and as such an additional source was used which analyzes the poem. Understanding that the poem was not available, the student should note that line numbers  are not attached to direct quotes from the poem. The most powerful indicators of the feelings and emotions presented are offered through the relationship that the grandmother has with the  antiques. We note that these pieces of furniture "kept her" and that they involved close attention such as seen in polishing. But, we also note, that when she speaks of  the antiques she notes that "there was no need of love (Jennings). This appears to be a reflection of her most hidden needs and desires because, although she is closely  linked with the antiques she is perhaps also screaming that she needs love and she may be hiding with the antiques hoping to feel as they do, needing no love.  In this symbolic examination we begin to see a sort of subtle desperation on the part of the grandmother who could "see her own reflection in the antiques...beneath the images