Compare and Contrast

Both Lament and Dreamers use the sea theme to develop the idea of grief and sadness. The poem "Lament' by Glenn Colquhoun discuss them in relation to losing someone that is important to their life that he even wrote in the poem that 'It does not matter if I am happy' giving us the idea of sadness and not letting go. However, the Dreamers give us the idea of letting go and acceptance.  Colquhoun poem has an indifferent tone and melancholic mood where Turner prose is the more sympathetic mood and having the idea of hope. Both poem and prose use the language features of simile and metaphor.

Unfamilliar

In the poem “Lament” one aspect of style which effectively conveys the idea of sadness is a metaphor. Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. For example in the poem  “It does not matter if I am sad, if my eyes are grey rocks in a stream or if my chest is a suitcase I have to sit upon”. Which explains that it does not matter if he's sad because Buck is gone and it is effectively used to manifest his grief. The effect of the reader is that they can relate in the poem which conveys sadness. Colquhoun also uses the language features of repetition to convey the idea that he doesn't care anymore to anything because Buck is gone.