Theme Of Plena Timoris And Poem At Thirty-Nine

Love

"Plena Timoris," "For Me From You" and "Poem At Thirty-Nine" can be compared and contrasted in several ways regarding the theme of love. Each and every poem approaches the topic of love in a different way but at the same time share certain similarities.

"Plena Timoris" by Hardy Thomas tends to present love in terms of philosophy. "For Me From You" by Rita Anyiam St John approaches the theme of love in an objective manner while the "Poem At Thirty-Nine" tends to explore love through contemplating the past. Hardy looks at how romantic love does not last long, and he actively does not agree with the opinion the colorful nature of love, the love of glories, perpetuating the concept that love lasts for a very short time, and therefore,

In a familial manner, “Poem At Thirty-Nine" brings out the subject of love as a bond between a father and a daughter. The similarities in the theme of love in the three poems are explainable in the context of culture. In the "Plena Timoris" by Hardy, the author aims in distinctively bringing out how love does not last longer throughout the poem. As a way of distancing himself, which is the persona and the narrator; Hardy has the intention of presenting a "trust" between the two lovers. The trust is presented in conditioned love. It is a kind of love that the persona and her love builds on the belief that it supersedes the others before Hardy could destroy this consideration and build his theme of love to pass the message. The theme could have come from Hardy 's experience of love and his original marriage that got perceived as unhappy and unsuccessful. He might also have been transformed into the concept of the romantic love by that time which was ideal and his experience about it. In the same manner, St. Johns theme of love seems to be affected in the same manner

The similarity is that all the three poems lead to disappointment no matter the kind of love. The poem “For Me From You” expresses a lack of confidence and love. At the beginning of the poem the poet applies the style of repetition, "For days and days, poured and poured" to put more pressure on her frustration concerning the tedious behavior of man. The repetition may also mean that the words do not have the emotional symbolic of their love. The love of the suitor is materialistic in nature as he asserts that “a trunk of the box of wrappers for him and her, and a fat allowance for him from her.” This implies that the poet has the knowledge that he can make her happy through fulfilling her related financial needs and also shows that in a desperate attempt longs for a return of love from her. Interestingly the poet is aware her love is connected to money grasping and is not at all genuine and emotional. What the poet gets provoked about is that he never lives to her expectations. St John uses the term uncountable in expressing her refusal on the monetary value that the man places on everything. "If I buy" is a portrayal of the positive end of the unenthusiastic poem by St John, and this illustrates the fact that she has made a choice, and she does not want an experience of the materialistic love. On the other hand, the poem of Plena