The Theme of Love and Loss in Poetry
"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and
physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" Albert
Einstein. The subject of love has always inspired poets, writers, and
those lucky in love as well. Love is everything its cracked up to be.
It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the
trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more. Some of
the poets who are so inspired by love are John Clare, Christina
Rossetti, Elizabeth Browning and Edith Nesbit who wrote classic love
poems.
John Clare was an English farmer turned poet of the natural world who
wrote many poems, essays and letters on love, politics, sex,
corruption, etc. Christina Rossetti was also an English poet who wrote
many melancholic poems with symbolic religious themes. Elizabeth
Browning was a famous poet of Victorian England best known for her
romance with Robert Browning and her "Sonnets From The Portuguese"
which is widely read. Edith Nesbit was an English novelist, poet and
writer of stories for children though her novels and poems never
gained much recognition as much as her stories for children.
"First Love" by John Clare is a romantic poem about love at first
sight. This poem is linked to love and loss, and has got all the sweet
memories of falling in love for the first time and all the pain for
losing it at the same time.
"How Do I Love Thee?" by Elizabeth Browning is about a woman analyzing
how she loves her husband immeasurably. This was her last poem
probably written for her husband. "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti
is a blissful poem about n...
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All the poems bring out the essence of love, but they might lack some
elements. Like for "How Do I Love Thee?" the poem starts well enough
but then it gradually moves from reality to. "First Love" though, is
much more realistic since it shows how a person might feel when being
in love. The feelings and reactions are beautifully explained and
therefore gives a lasting impression on the reader. "Remember" conveys
a message that, remember all the good times the people had and don't
remember the depressing memories. Like in the part of the poem where
it says, "Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you
should remember and be sad." Like forgetting the worse times and
keeping a smile on your face rather than remember the worse times and
being heartbroken about it.
This poem reflects on how when you lose someone you truly care about it affects you mentally. When we lose someone who we're really close to, we tend to hold a grudge and start questioning our love for the world. We lose ourselves when we
as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer. The poem
This shows that you are constantly affected by the ones you love and have loved. This poem focuses on the theme of love and its influence on your life and body,
Overall I think this poem was sad as it made me feel sorry for the
It is something that comes without a warning, that may come silently and suddenly. Death is a power beyond us, it is fate that can never be stopped or avoided. Expressed in the words of famous poets, such as Dylan Thomas in his poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight", Christina Rossetti in "Remember", and Chinua Achebe in "A Mother in a Refugee Camp". In Addition to more poets, like Mary Elizabeth Frye in her poem "Do Not Stand at My Grave And Weep", Edwin Arlington Robinson in his poem "A Happy Man", and finally, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem "The Cross of Snow".
Death is one of the only true constants in the universe and is the only guarantee in life. Everyone knows of death and everyone will experience it, but to the living death is still one of life's greatest mysteries. In some cultures death is celebrated and embraced, while in others it is feared. However it is perceived, death holds different meanings for different people. Through the art of poetry a writer can give a reader many different outlooks and maybe a better understanding of life and death.
Loss and isolation are easy, yet difficult to write about. They are easy because every human being can empathize with loneliness. If someone denies this, they are lying because loneliness is a common feeling, anyone can relate. It’s hard because we don’t discuss loneliness or loss publicly very often, and when we do, we forget about it quickly. These poems contrast each other by speaking of the different types of loneliness and isolation, distinguishing between the ones of loss, and isolation in a positive perspective.
Death is a reality that can be interpreted in many ways. Some people fear the possibility of no longer living and others welcome the opportunity for a new life in the afterlife. Many poets have been inspired by death, be it by the approaching death of loved ones or a battle for immortality. Just as each poet is inspired differently, each poem casts a different hue of light on the topic of death giving readers a unique way to look at death.
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the poem. The closing paragraph of the poem is very powerful in how it expresses
This poem makes it seem like when you lose someone you go into a small amount of depression for a while. Because they want nothing to go on anymore they just want everything to stop and them be able to have time to
Poems reveal many inside thoughts of the speaker that can be interpreted by the reader. Death is expressed quite often in poetic work because of the simplicity to be able to express feelings. Suicide, for an example, is a form of death that may be used in poetry and is usually portrayed in a negative fashion. Surprisingly, some poems that involve death have a positive outcome. There are views found in poetry relating to suicide as a form of death that are both positive and negative. Suicide as a negative perspective is a common form of death displayed in poetry. A very good example of death brought upon by suicide is “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson. In the passage, “And he was rich-yes, richer than a king,” Robinson describes the wealth and riches in which he lived. Richard seemed to be a person without problems. Later at the end of the poem in line fifteen the speaker says, “And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head.” In one’s opinion, it may appear that money, wealth, and power is not everything. Perhaps Richard Cory was miserable because of the way people gazed at him which describes his suicide. Theoretically, the reader has to try to interpret the poem because of the lack of evidence explaining the reason of Cory’s suicide. This poem is an example of death in a negative perspective. Another poem that explains suicide as a form of death, but in a somewhat positive fashion, is “Résumé” by Dorothy Parker.
Both, the poem “Reluctance” by Robert Frost and “Time Does Not Bring Relief” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, revolved around the theme of lost love. Each poet used a similar array of poetic devices to express this theme. Visual imagery was one of the illustrative poetic devices used in the compositions. Another poetic device incorporated by both poets in order to convey the mood of the poems was personification. And by the same token, metaphors were also used to help express the gist of both poems. Ergo, similar poetic devices were used in both poems to communicate the theme of grieving the loss of a loved one.
Many people find it hard to imagine their death as there are so many questions to be answered-how will it happen, when, where and what comes next. The fact that our last days on Earth is unknown makes the topic of death a popular one for most poets who looks to seek out their own emotions. By them doing that it helps the reader make sense of their own emotions as well. In the two poems “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickenson and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas, the poets are both capturing their emotion about death and the way that they accepted it. In Dickenson’s poem her feelings towards death are more passionate whereas in Dylan’s poem the feelings
The Theme of Death in Poetry Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson are two Modern American Poets who consistently wrote about the theme of death. While there are some comparisons between the two poets, when it comes to death as a theme, their writing styles were quite different. Robert Frost’s poem, “Home Burial,” and Emily Dickinson’s poems, “I felt a Funeral in my Brain,” and “I died for Beauty,” are three poems concerning death. While the theme is constant there are differences as well as similarities between the poets and their poems. The obvious comparison between the three poems is the theme of death.