Many poets write about life, their opinion on life, and how they like to live it. Alexander Pope writes how he would rather spend his life in "Ode on Solitude". While William Wordsworth expresses his opinion on life "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. The authors both have different opinions on life and how life should be taken. Both poems can be compared and contrasted about their perspective on life. These two poems are from two different poetic ages. "Ode of Solitude" is from the Age of Reason. The Age of Reason was in the time period of 1600s-1800s. This age followed the Renaissance and was filled with valuing reason over emotion. The Age of Reason also had man being the center of all truth and thought. On the other hand "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" was from the Romantic period. The Romantic period fell between the years of 1798 to the 1830s. Unlike the Age of Reason period the Romantic period favored nature and believed that nature holds all truths. Though time periods may be the same, they can also be very different. …show more content…
The theme that is common among both poems is, life is whatever makes a person happy. Pope and Wordsworth both believe that life should be what a person makes it. Pope's opinion on life is being alone is better than being with other people. Pope would rather live off of his land. Pope has everything he needs like clothes and food, "whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, whose flocks supply him with attire" (5-6). On the other hand Wordsworth believes that nature needs to be thought of, and properly "worshiped" when one is pondering about life, "They flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude" (21-22). Wordsworth also believes that a person should go walk among nature and take in all of its beauty to understand nature itself. Though two poems may seem different simply because of the periods, they may be very
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Compare the way in which these poets convey their attitudes to love. and relationships with the people. How is this affected by the era in which they lived. Then the s The two poems I am comparing are 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew. Marvell.
Both essays together give us a formula to achieve a life devoted to God and the plans He has for us. We need to enjoy life by seeking knowledge, questioning life, and discovering or God and the route He has planned. The threats we face in life should not hold us back we need to push on and uphold the life we are blessed to have. We need to focus on working through calamities and focusing on our true mission to God. There will never be a time in one’s life where there is no struggle or hardship. Dwelling over these constant hardships will never help us we must continue carrying out our duties. Lewis has a view on life that I agree with. I agree that all our duties are religions duties and help bring us closer to God.
Although the poems have different plots, settings, and characters, they both develop a common theme of a huge conflict in the way people interact with their surroundings. In both poems, the protagonist is forced to make a decision involving the life or death
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...’s reevaluation and extolling of the flesh body, it is not difficult for us to conclude that the essence of “Song of Myself” is a passionate praise for life. The poem fully expressed Whitman’s celebration of the force of life, which drives the universe to move forward. The life spirit is the key concept to summarize and outline this American poet and his poems. To display the life spirit, each “myself” must experience and encounter the world and the nature from both the physical and spiritual level. Body and sexual love deserve as much as praising as the soul. “God” is also no longer the one in a strictly Christian sense, but the universe itself driven by life spirit, the full and complete realization of each “self” in the universe. Correspondingly, the way to discover and meet “God” is to return to “myself” through embracing human nature and every aspect of life.
Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke are both poems commentating on the effects of war, yet both have two drastically different viewpoints. Both poems are examples of the authors’ perceptions of war; Owen’s being about its gruesome and harsh reality during his experience and Brooke’s about the glory of dying for one’s country. The poets express their sentimental emotions on the subject matter in terms of figurative language, tone, diction and imagery. The tone is exhibited through the use of unyielding and vivid imagery, primarily by the use of compelling metaphors and similes.
Both poems are about the love each narrator feels, and both strive to express how intense this love is. Yet, each author comes from a different angle with the hope of explaining this love. Browning uses soft imagery with terms like, "ideal grace", "Most quiet need", and "purely" to show her narrator's love. These soft, feminine terms give the reader images of a pure, untainted love. Conversely, Auden's poem uses much darker, modern language, and instead of mentioning death only at the end of the poem, all but three lines concern death. This use of language and focus causes Auden's poem to be very negative, while Browning's remains positive, even in light of death.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an influential literary figure during the nineteenth century; his works inspired people to think about the world and their own lives differently, but what prompted him to write his poems? How does his life reflect off of his poems? Longfellow’s philosophy begs the question how and why he wrote what he did and what deeper meanings lie behind his poems. His interest to pursue writing, had been encouraged by various events and led to the publishing of numerous essays, poems, novels and dramas, receiving great success. One of his more famous poems, entitled “A Psalm of Life,” had been influenced by the romanticism period and was known for its inspirational message to live life to the fullest. As Longfellow’s work
In the late 1700’s, numerous young children were forced to clean the inside of chimneys, which was called the chimney sweeps which would then cause young children to have an early death. William Blake wrote two poems about this issue; both called The Chimney Sweeper in response to the condition of children sweeping chimneys. Blake’s first poem was published in 1789 while the second poem was published in 1794. However, there are many similarities and differences between these two poems as well. William Blake uses several poetic techniques, such as having similar meanings for the poems, using repetition, anaphora, alliteration, a metaphor, a simile, and onomatopoeia to help the reader see the similarities and the differences between these two
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” By anonymous. In the Poems One Perfect Rose and How do I love the? Let me count the ways, they talk about similar things but there forms are very different. In this poems I will compare and contrast their forms, themes and rhyme.
The romantic era was originally from Europe at the end of the 18th century. During this time nature and beauty was most importance to express their inner feelings. Poet Emily Bronte was born in Thornton in Yorkshire, England, on July 30, 1818, in the romantic era. She was the third child born out of six kids to Patrick and Maria Branwell Bronte. Her father Patrick use to be a teacher but became a minister after their mother pasted away from tuberculosis. Bronte grew up in the Haworth in the bleak West Riding of Yorkshire her whole life. When she finally went to school Bronte could not stand to be in large crowds of people, so she could not leave home for every long periods of time. Paul Laurence Dunbar was born at the end of the romantic period on June 27, 1872, in Dayton, Ohio. Both of Dunbar parent were former slaves. Dunbar’s mother enjoyed teaching him how to read. In addition Dunbar was also the only African American student in his high school also being the editor of Newspaper. Later on after graduating from high school Dunbar was not allowed to attend college so he became an elevator operator were he sold his books for a dollar to people who would read it. Even though these two poets are every different in their lives they still have a lot in common in there poems ‘The
The resulting poems, "On the Beach at Night" and "Sunday Morning," express similar beliefs about the cyclical nature of life. Their similar structures, of a doubting character and persuasively responding narrator, allow the poets to profess their beliefs about the character of mortal life. And although Stevens focuses on refuting his contemporary religious practices and Whitman centers on acknowledging his personal theology, the poems equally address the search for immortality in the human world.
A short story and poem, are two literary pieces where a rich story is embedded. Readers are drawn towards these scripts by means of rhythm, characterization, or a fictional setting in their respective narratives. The script would not make it entertaining enough to hold the reader’s attention. It would depend on the imagination of the readers as they are reading the story as to what they take from it. Every reader has their own way of visualizing the descriptions and symbolism used by the author. It is through imagination that the readers are able to interpret what the author is trying to depict within the symbolism and other descriptive languages. The beauty of stories and poems is that they are generated and created through the readers own imagination which consequently allows each individual reader to build their own personal connection with the literary piece. The two literary pieces “The Road Not Taken” (poem) and the short story “A Worn Path” are different in terms of actual writing styles, however they both share the same theme which is every person’s journey is greatly governed by their decisions and no matter how many paths there may be, it is still the choices that the person makes that determine the ending of his or her journey. Each one conveys a theme of life journeys and the challenges and struggles that go along with those journeys. In “The Road Not Taken” it is the journey one must make while trying to choose the right path in life. One path seemingly offers a more familiar road and perhaps the easier of the two. The other path is clearly been less traveled upon, yet yearns to be. In “A Worn Path” the journey that one woman takes on in order to care for her sick grandchild is unfolded. It is described to the reader ...