The Presentation of Love by Different Authors

" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) is a poem that uses a variety of language techniques to express the depth of the author's love. The poem compares love to the vastness of the universe, using imagery to create a vivid picture in the reader's mind. Similarly, the poems 'First Love', 'Villegiature', 'My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun', and 'Sonnet 18' also use imagery to convey the theme of love. 'First Love' creates an image of a young girl with a delicate, flower-like face framed by darkness. It also uses physical imagery, such as 'pale as deadly pale'. 'My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun' uses imagery to express the ordinariness of the dark lady. 'Villegiature', although set in a dream world, gives us a picture of 'pear-tree bloom, white-curtained shone'. In 'Sonnet 18', passion is conveyed through complementing imagery by creating an angelic image of the man, with 'his gold complexion' and 'every fair from fair'. To create imagery, the poets use a mixture of similes, rhetorical questions, caesuras, metaphors, and alliteration."