Comparing Love Poetry
In this assignment I am going compare and contrast two poems, 'A Red,
Red Rose' by Robert Burns and 'Lucy Poems' by William Wordsworth. In
this assignment I am also going to discuss, how each poet uses
language, how they portray the theme of love, the tradition and
culture of each poet and my own personal response to these poems.
Robert Burns was born in 1759, in Alloway in Ayrshire in Scotland.
Burns' father was a poor tenant - farmer but he was a well-educated
man and made sure that his son had a good education.
William Wordsworth was born in 1770, in Cumberland in the English Lake
District. He was left an orphan at the age of thirteen and was
educated with the help of his uncles. Wordsworth is said to be one of
the greatest and most influential of the Romantic poets who changed
the direction of English poetry.
Throughout both poems there are recognisable differences and
similarities between the two poets. In the "Lucy Poems" Wordsworth
talks about his love for Lucy and also the love he has for his
country. The tone of this poem is very tranquil and peaceful,
Wordsworth creates this by his use of language and his use of imagery
in each of the poems, "And she I cherished turned her wheel, Beside
and English fire." Also this use of natural imagery by combining his
love for Lucy with his love for the England and English countryside
encourages the reader to imagine an idyllic image and sets the scene.
In the poems Wordsworth's love for his home and the love for Lucy are
all mixed up, he cannot think of England without thinking of his love.
Wordsworth uses personification this helps to show the relations...
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... bonnie lass," Burns uses simple language, which is also another
indicator that this love he feels is real because he sees no need to
make it extravagant. In the poem he talk to her like a real woman and
therefore this gives us no reason to doubt that she is not real and
that his love is idealistic, "Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear," In
the last stanza he is separated from his love but this separation is
not permanent unlike Lucy in Wordsworth's "Lucy Poems". "And fare thee
well, my only Luve, And fare thee weel a while! And I will come again,
my Luve,"
My personal favourite out of these poems is" A Red, Red Rose" because
it has a very cheerful tone and its songlike. Also it highlights the
true feelings of a man who is deeply in love with a woman and it's a
very visual poem and you can sense how deep his love is.
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