Poetry Comparison - Sonnet and In time of war.

Poetry Comparison - Sonnet and In time of war.

In the poem "Sonnet" Millay is still in love with someone because it

is told to us in the last two lines of the poem. "I only know that

summer sang in me" which tells us that she feels full of summer, i.e.,

nice things, when she is in love. " A little while, that in me sings

no more" tells us that she is now sad to have lost the love which she

once knew. I think she has mixed feelings about being in love with a

person or the idea of just being in love. She feels that being in love

is both painful and confusing as she talks about this in her poem. I

think that it is possible to love more than one person in your

lifetime, but only one at a time. There will however, I believe that

there will be only one true love in your life.

Millay compares herself to a tree in winter: "thus in the winter

stands the lonely tree" to explore the theme of love. She feels pain,

Millay explains the feeling of being in love "summer singing within

her" this is appropriate as is exploring her true feelings and

affections about the fact of being in love.

Millay uses long lines to create the mood of love, for example, "what

lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why." "I only know that

summer sang in me." "a little while, that in me sings no more." These

word show how much she loved the person, that she felt lifted and

bright and that she is afraid that the feeling is now gone and will

not come back.

In the poem "In Time Of War" the language in the poem indicate that

Thanet is in love with her lover more than her country. She loves him

so much as he understands her and she feels as though their souls are

joined. There are similarities between this poem and Millay's

"Sonnet". Both Millay and Thanet have similar views on love, in that

they are both intrigued by the idea of love and have loved ones who

have gone away, not knowing if they will return safely.

Thanet evokes the familiar image of men, soldiers, marching away to

war "when the deep drums awake- go forth: do gloriously for my dear

sake." I think that the use of the word "awake" could have numerous

meanings here, it could be a representation of the realisation of what

war really is to the soldiers and the sound of guns in battle, a