The poems, “She’s So Cold” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and “When You Are Old” by William Butler Yeats are two similar, yet different stories where the men fall madly in love and unfortunately the feeling are not reciprocated. The primary similarities and differences between the poems are the tones of the writers, sense of imagery used, and the speaker. In Yeats opening line, he says, "when you are old and grey and full of sleep”. Yeats uses these words to provide us with the mental image that this woman is most likely old and fatigued. Likewise, Richards includes a line about when the woman becomes older, nobody will see the beauty he saw in her. Richards and Yeats both use a similar sense of imagery in their writing. They both try …show more content…
Yeats talks about the woman in the poem like she was his world. He has a caring and authentic tone to his writing. He uses the word “grace” to express that she was an elegant lady. Yeats tone starts to turn directions when he says, “but one man loved the pilgrim soul in you” (line 7). He uses the word “but”, which signifies that he no longer feels that way towards her. The way Yeats talks about her beauty in the beginning to how he no longer loves her like he did, he changes his tone to make her feel ashamed. He sounds as if he wants her to feel regret after her decision of letting him go and never loving him back. Richards has a likewise approach towards the woman he is talking about. You can tell he has stronger feelings for the woman when he says, “I’m so hot for her and she’s so cold” (line 2). Richards is trying to get the point across that he is really into her and she is heartless. He mentions countless times that he is hot for her and that she is beautiful, but the main point he keeps making is that she is so cold. The strong repetitive tone he has while saying it infers that she is cold-hearted and never cared about him. Richards seems to be broadcasting the fact that she does not love him back unlike the way Yeats makes it seem more
The second stanza is filled with three heroes from the Easter Rising, yet W.B. Yeats begins to depict them as unlikable people. He describes the heroine of the poem “in ignorant good-will”, arguing so much “her voice grew shrill”. After he highlights all the flaws of the heroine, he acquires a more respectful tone, stating, “What voice more sweet than hers.” Yeats uses her voice as a symbol of her life— rich, easy, and privileged until her involvement in the rebellion. The once sweet voice turns shrill, suggesting that she risked her prosperous life for a life of sacrifice and rebellion for Ireland.
In romantic words, the poet expresses how much she does think of love. She state it clear that she will not trade love for peace in times of anguish.
Keats’ poetry explores many issues and themes, accompanied by language and technique that clearly demonstrates the romantic era. His poems ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Bright Star’ examine themes such as mortality and idealism of love. Mortality were common themes that were presented in these poems as Keats’ has used his imagination in order to touch each of the five senses. He also explores the idea that the nightingale’s song allows Keats to travel in a world of beauty. Keats draws from mythology and christianity to further develop these ideas. Keats’ wrote ‘Ode To A Nightingale’ as an immortal bird’s song that enabled him to escape reality and live only to admire the beauty of nature around him. ‘Bright Star’ also discusses the immortal as Keats shows a sense of yearning to be like a star in it’s steadfast abilities. The visual representation reveal these ideas as each image reflects Keats’ obsession with nature and how through this mindset he was able
When You are Old, by William Butler Yeats, represents and elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. Basically, Yeats is showing that as the woman gets older, she is alone, but she does not have to be lonely. She will always have her memories for companionship.
In all poems the theme of Disappointment in love is seen throughout. Duffy focuses on the pain, despair and acrimony that love can bring, whereas Larkin focuses on the dissatisfaction before, during, and after a romantic relationship. Both Duffy and Larkin differ in tone. Duffy takes a more aggressive and dark stance to portray what love can do to a person after a disappointing love life. Duffy also uses this sinister and aggressive stance to try and convey sympathy for the persona from the audience in ‘Never Go Back’ and ‘Havisham’ Whereas Larkin conveys his discontent in love through his nonchalant and dismissive tone, but still concealing the pain that has been brought by love in ‘Wild Oats’ and ‘Talking in bed’.
The whole poem is about an event of a mother who takes her children to a park. While at the park, she runs into a man that she used to have feelings for and they begin to discuss how their lives have changed and the speaker’s children. The conversation between the two is short and is suggested by the statement, “But for the grace of god…” that the man thanks god that he is not involved with the hustle and bustle of being involved in the woman’s life. As the conversation ends and the man exits the park the woman states, “They have eaten me alive”. This statement gives the reader a greater understanding of what the woman goes through and what she has given up when she
While at the onset of the poem between lines one through three, the speaker displays noticeable signs of regret for her partnership by the negative connotation of the diction she chooses. When first learning of her lover’s emotions the speaker “looked forward to the moon,” whereas other young women would be delighted at hearing their significant others proclaim their love. (2) Instead when the speaker implies that she is “looking forward to the moon,” it can be assumed that the speaker was anticipating for the day to end. (2) Furthermore, the
William Yeats is deliberated to be among the best bards in the 20th era. He was an Anglo-Irish protestant, the group that had control over the every life aspect of Ireland for almost the whole of the seventeenth era. Associates of this group deliberated themselves to be the English menfolk but sired in Ireland. However, Yeats was a loyal affirmer of his Irish ethnicity, and in all his deeds, he had to respect it. Even after living in America for almost fourteen years, he still had a home back in Ireland, and most of his poems maintained an Irish culture, legends and heroes. Therefore, Yeats gained a significant praise for writing some of the most exemplary poetry in modern history
The poem says that "since feeling is first" (line 1) the one who pays attention to the meaning of things will never truly embrace. The poem states that it is better to be a fool, or to live by emotions while one is young. The narrator declares that his "blood approves" (line 7) showing that his heart approves of living by feeling, and that the fate of feeling enjoyment is better than one of "wisdom" (line 9) or learning. He tells his "lady" (line 10) not to cry, showing that he is speaking to her. He believes that she can make him feel better than anything he could think of, because her "eyelids" (line 12) say that they are "for each other" (line 13). Then, after all she's said and thought, his "lady" forgets the seriousness of thought and leans into the narrator's arms because life is not a "paragraph" (line 15), meaning that life is brief. The last line in the poem is a statement which means that death is no small thi...
Although, this poem can be seen as a poem showing impartialness rather than overall being dark and grim. This poem is a great example of Modernism being displayed by William Butler Yeats, because of its speakers unusual thought process. Also, even though William Butler Yeats had a great impact on Modernism, especially during his time, he still wrote in the Victorian style. Therefore, William Butler Yeats was a great poet, who greatly influenced the style of writing during his time, and the Modernistic style of writing after him.
Neruda begins his sonnet in a most unusual manner. He states in the first few lines ways in which he does not love his companion. He does not love her as if she were “the salt-rose, topaz, or arrow of carnations.” These are all examples of beautiful things that are to be admired. Each one is a bright and colorful breed of rose. The poem is not implying that this person is unattractive. Rather, it is simply stating the unimportance of her appearance in relation to his love for her. The beauty within her soul charms him. The narrator is completely captivated with this person. Neruda uses emotions to portray love in his poem. “Sonnet XVII” does not describe a love for someone who has done kind things or someone who has been there emotionally, mentally, and physically for another. It describes a love that is illogically based on intense affection alone.
This refrain enforces his disgust at the type of money hungry people that the Irish have become. In the third and fourth stanza, however, Yeats completely changes the tone of his poetry. He praises the romantics of Irish history, such as Rob...
To begin, the poem, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, uses the lake Innisfree to send a symbolic message. Yeats begins by telling us where it is he is leaving to. “I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made…” (Pg. 1141, lines 1-2) Once he tells us of where he is going, he then uses lake as a symbol to describe his place of peace and serenity. “And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, dropping from the viels of the morning to where the cricket sings; there midnights all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, and evenin...
The first half of the poem begins with the poet expressing his heightening disapproval of Maud Gonne's politics. He questions whether he should "blame her that she filled my days with misery." A. Norman Jeffares writes in W. B. Yeats that "the second line's 'of late' refers to Maud Gonne's withdrawal," but the poem seems to blame her inactivity on the "ignorant men" for not having "courage equal to desire," rather than her marital problems. These "ig...
"A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1919. This poem is a prayer-like poem. And it generally tells about the poet's ideas about his daughter who is sleeping at the same time while the poem is being told. Throughout the poem Yeats reflects how he wants his daughter's future to be. This essay will analyze the poem in three sections: 1- What does this poem mean?, 2- The poetic devices, imagery, rhyming, figures of speech, used in the poem and mood, diction, language, and the structure of the poem, 3- An essay in a feminist point of view titled "What does the poet want his daughter to become?" .