Question : Show how the poet or poets you have studied this year have been creative in their use of language.
Denis Glover and Lauris Edmond are both creative writers. They take the everyday language used by ordinary people and create lasting and affecting images. Glover's "Sings Harry - Songs 1 & 2" and Edmond's "Ohakune Fires" are both concerned with man's changing relationship with nature. Each poet sets out to build an overall mood of loss, and they both employ imagery and sound devices to help create this.
Glover used imagery to help explain nature. In stanzas 2 and 3 of "Songs 2", Glover personifies nature to show it as a living entity that has a purpose. It is immense, powerful and dangerous. This is shown clearly in the wave imagery. …
