Show how these poets illustrate different aspects of love in their
poems. How do the poets communicate thoughts and feelings by the words
and the images they use?
The poems I have read are:
Porphyria's Lover; by Robert Browning,
The Lady Of Shalott; by Alfred Lord Tennyson,
The Eve Of St. Agnes; by John Keats,
A Trampwoman's Tragedy; by Thomas Hardy.
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It is evident that in the four poems I have read, there are different
aspects of love shown in each. In 'Porphyria's Lover', Browning puts
across some rather dark kinds of love; obsessive, jealous and
possessive love. I use the word dark, because in the poem, a clearly
insane man kills his lover Porphyria, to secure all her love for
himself, "And give herself to me forever". The man is besotted with
Porphyria, but in an extremely selfish way. He thinks that she is
seeing someone else, so he kills her to preserve her love for him
forever,
"That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I
found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I
wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her."
This theme of tainted love is continued in 'A Trampwoman's Tragedy',
with jealous love also occurring in this poem. The trampwoman's
boyfriend became jealous after she started to flirt with 'jeering'
John. Consequently, the boyfriend stabbed and killed John.
"Then up he sprung, and with his knife - And with his knife He let out
jeering Johnny's life,"
In this poem, the jealous love is basically the same as in the last. A
character is worried about their lover betraying them for someone
else. In 'A T. 's Tragedy', this is shown by the line, "my lover's
dark distress." Teasing about love is also addressed...
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..., "Burned like one burning flame together".
Keats, in 'The E. Of St. A.', uses a metaphor, "Music's golden
tongue", to describe how loud and far reaching the music is to the
beadsman. You can tell he feels sad that he is out in the cold, and
people nearby are dancing and having fun. Keats also uses alliteration
in describing the food Porphyro gets for Madeline, making it sound
tasty, "jellies soother than the creamy curd".
In 'A T.'s T.', Hardy blends in some symbolism, which adds an extra
sense of sadness to the end of the poem. It helps to describe the
trampwoman's unhappiness and loneliness, after losing all of her
friends, "The red moon low declined".
Although all the poems are based around love, and most have this
linked with death, they are all subtly different. Each highlights a
different aspect of love, which affect people in different ways.
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... live life and be with her, or die and for them to be together.
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is similar to the feelings in her heart. In the same way that there is
forced to watch one of his men die after failing to put his gas mask
In the poem First Love the content is about a first love that was so
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Will's beloved is "more lovely and more temperate (18.2)" than a summer's day; "the tenth Muse (38.9);" "'Fair,' 'kind,' and 'true' (105.9);" the sun that shines "with all triumphant splendor (33.10)." We've heard all this before. This idealization of the loved one is perhaps the most common, traditional feature of love poetry. Taken to its logical conclusion, however, idealized love has some surprising implications.
The authors of the three poems that we are working on are “The Passionate Shepherd to his love” by Marlowe, is about he is trying to get his love to come live with him and be his love. “ The nymph’s reply Shepherd” by Raleigh, is telling about how he is trying so hard, but she will not give him any chance, because he will be wasting both of their times and everything he gives her will all die and fade away. “Raleigh was Right” by William Carlos Williams, is about saying all the things the nymph was saying was true and that nothing will work. Williams transforms Marlowe and Raleigh’s central ideas by focusing on nature, love, and time.
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