The two authors use love to develop the theme in ¨Annabel Lee¨ and ¨The Highwayman¨ by using characterization, plot and word choice. The theme of ¨Annabel Lee¨ and ¨The Highwayman” both coincide with each other, such as how they both depict the actions it take to show that love conquers all. You can see this theme connect the two stories when both narrator's love die, they continue to love them and fight for them even after death. In the poem ¨Annabel Lee¨ the author uses love to develop the theme that love conquers all, such as how in the poem the narrator and a young girl are in love. At the end of the fourth stanza she is killed, he becomes angry at the heavens and demons for killing her. In the fifth stanza it states, ¨But our love it …show more content…
In the poem a criminal and a inn man's daughter, Bess, are in love, but it is a forbidden love as he is a wanted fugitive. Bess and the Highwayman would meet at night, but on a moonlit night the red coats come and bound her and use a gun to keep her in place so that if she were to move to warn him she would be shot and killed. She is then shot and killed as she needed to warn him so he wouldn't die, she sacrificed herself because she believed their love was worth fighting for. In the fifteenth stanza it states, ¨Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky, With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high. Blood red were his spurs in the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat; When they shot him down on the highway, Down like a dog on the highway, And he lay in his blood on the highway, with a bunch of lace at his throat.¨ The meaning of the quote from the poem is that he came back because their love was so strong that they would sacrifice their lives for each other in order to keep their love eternal. This shows the theme using characterization and plot as both find that they love each other enough to be willing to sacrifice their lives in order to save the other and be together in death. This development of the poem shows the theme that love conquers
In the fourth stanza, line one to three the female has an upper hand in this relationship. In line four to seven the male feels uplifted by the deeds of the female and chooses to change himself for the
In the last stanza it is explained how, even when she was a child, she
Poetry in my opinion is a writer describing, life experience, feelings, things he has seen and perhaps things he would like to see or experience. In Randall Jarrell's poem "The Death of the Bull Turret Gunner," there are many ways this poem maybe interpreted. I really did not understand the poem until I read it a few times. This is what I believe the writer is saying:
In the third stanza, she picks up where she left in the second stanza, but this time she tries to figure out what she did.
The opening line “I cannot let you die” (Line 1) represents how much the persona loves the reader and wants that she/he should not die. Immediately, the persona explains her love by saying “I block factual death” (Line 2). This shows that she doesn’t want you to die and she could block death with any fact. Again the second line ‘I’ is used to explain the persona’s love with ‘you’ that she can use any fact to block the death. The binary of “I” in the first two lines and use of ‘you’ before the last word “due” explains the relationship between ‘I’, ‘you’ and ‘death’ in the second line. The binary use of ‘I’ in first two lines and closing them with rhyming words ‘die’ and ‘death’ create the punch line of the first stanza that no one wants his/her loved ones to die and they could try to block death using any fact they can. The link of first two lines in with line 7 and 8, that by blocking death she will “There fix you shining / In a place of sun” (Line 7, 8). The interesting link between the first two lines of Stanza 1 and last two lines reinforce the feelings of love and hate for death that everyone will block death to let their loved one shine like the
In conclusion, even though both of these works resulted in death, they still represent two completely different genres with a common theme. Two different approaches came up with the same theme which was supported throughout the poem and the short story. Without this aspect of the story, there wouldn’t be a story. Because without these themes there is no conflict in the poem or short story, and without conflict, that leaves a very boring plot.
The soldier is compared to a fallen lance, a weapon, that lies on the ground” (1). Most of this poem involves metaphors and imagery, which help the reader understand the theme. The fallen soldier lies dead on the ground and as time passes he begins to deteriorate yet he remains in the same location, just like the lance. Frost also condemns war and all of the consequences that occur because of it. Furthermore, another Frost poem that contains the theme of death is “Nothing Gold Can Stay’, the poem indirectly references the theme of death.
And them behold no more shall I” (Lines 27-28). She suffers through an internal struggle between her love of people and things and her love and service to God. By being able to tell the story of her house, she believes she is special to God and he makes her realize what is truly important in life.
In this stanza there is a question asked to the question reveals that the girl is puzzled about the lord is after her. This suggests that she is aware that he has different motives, rather than love and romance. This also shows that she knows the compliment is false and just a way of seducing her into bed. The second stanza is where the great lord isn’t so “great” anymore. He lured and tricked her into going to his palace home.
On the third stanza, she pretty much saying that it is not her fault that she had a abortion and she has no choice but to do it. “Since anyhow you are dead, Or rather, or instead, You were never made” (Gwendolyn Brooks) she making excuses of what she had done.
The second stanza immediately shows symbolism starting with the first few words. Line 10 begins with, “Once the renegade flesh was gone.” The use of the phrase, “renegade flesh” within this poem symbolizes the person who was causing the hurting. Renegade involves synonyms such as: traitor, deserter, and rebel, thus contributing to the meaning behind the phrase. Then throughout the rest of the stanza, the woman resumes talking about her time slowly going by until she begins to completely give up on
The first stanza describes the depth of despair that the speaker is feeling, without further explanation on its causes. The short length of the lines add a sense of incompleteness and hesitance the speaker feels towards his/ her emotions. This is successful in sparking the interest of the readers, as it makes the readers wonder about the events that lead to these emotions. The second and third stanza describe the agony the speaker is in, and the long lines work to add a sense of longing and the outpouring emotion the speaker is struggling with. The last stanza, again structured with short lines, finally reveals the speaker 's innermost desire to "make love" to the person the speaker is in love
of the difficulty in acceptance. In the first few stanzas the poet creates the impression that she
example in the first three lines she says 'How do I love thee?, Let me