Explorations of Modernity and Excitement in Two Poems: The Teachers an

Poems- The Teachers and In Mrs Tilschers Class I am going to be comparing 2 poems, The Teachers by Liz Lochhead and In Mrs Tilschers Class by Carol Ann Duffy. The 2 poems talk approximately the same thing, which is teachers, tho in different slipway and the way that the poems structures are created for the reader. Both the poems recall parts of their cultivate day age and talk ab turn up memories of teachers they once had. Carol Ann Duffy talks about her sensitive memories of a teacher she once had, saying about how mischievous her school day was, she uses skittle of milk to describe the joy of being competent to have milk, also, she relates many parts of the poems to toys, including her teacher, Mrs Tilscher, who made many of their lessons much playful and at the end of the day it would leave her happy. On the other hit Liz Lochhead concentrates on the description of what happened in school and the characters of her teachers. On lines 5- 6 she says Wars we re heavy(a) but sometimes necessary, this could represent the fact that the poem was scripted during or after the war era, she could also be talking about classroom wars, for example wars of the sexes. She chooses to hold out the poem on a authentically dull note this could be because she may not have matt-up any emotions towards her school life or her teacher and peers. This dreary give way makes the rest of the poem bland, with no detail of emotions, leaving it plain and staple to the reader. In the first stanza of In Mrs Tilschers Class Duffy, starts it with You could travel up the gloomy Nile with your finger, even though the sober Nile isnt blue, its like she remembers the start of the day as being perfect, but whilst everyone knows that the water in the blue Nile is actually ... ...e last line of the poem would make us destine even though they are going into a newer school home ground and age, they still are growing up and they will find out things that they ne ver knew and are able to learn more even though that there are dangers on the way. Also the line could mean that they are now leaving Mrs Tilschers Class and now their lives may become tremendous without her. Overall, I think that both the poems are good, but Lochheads is lacking the exhilaration that school can bring. Both the poems are similar to each other, but In Mrs Tilschers Class is more modern than The Teachers which many have been pay back in the war era, meaning everything was in short supply during the school day. Lochheads poem doesnt make you tincture any emotion, but Duffys makes you feel what she is feeling as a child, which I think makes it a more interesting poem to read.