The two poems I have chosen on the theme of love are Porphyrias
Lover’ by Robert Browning and Stop All The Clocks by W.H Auden.
A Comparison of Two Poems About Love.
The two poems I have chosen on the theme of love are ‘Porphyria’s
Lover’ by Robert Browning and ‘Stop All The Clocks’ by W.H Auden.
‘Porphyria’s Lover’, a dramatic monologue was written as a piece of
entertainment in Victorian times, it would have been acted out to an
audience. The narrative of this poem is that Porphyria was seeing
someone below her own social class and no one knew about their
relationship. She left the party early to go and see him as shown in
the lines “When glided in Porphyria ; strait she shut the cold out and
the storm” even they both knew that they could never be together
forever.
‘Stop All The Clocks’ is about the death of a much loved partner , The
speaker wants all the ordinary thing in his life to stop happening and
he also wants the whole world to stop. Now he has lost the love of his
life he has no reason to go on any more, as shown in the lines “Stop
all the clocks, cut of the telephone, prevent the dog from barking
with a juicy bone”
‘Porphyria’s Lover’ a very dramatic monologue as shown in the lines
“and strangled her. No pain felt she, I am quite sure she felt no
pain.” This shows that there is a use of dramatic language, he did not
want her to feel no pain because he loved her, it also emphasises the
point that she is dead.
This poem is written as one long story, consisting of one long stanza.
The poem is written in first person as if there is an imaginary
speaker, the young man. No one knows who he could be, perhaps Browning
heard about the story from real life and turned it onto a poem.
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repetition is used it forces the message across to the reader, in this
case the message was that the heart broken lover who lost there loved
one is saying that his lover was only his and no one else’s, also no
one else would understand his feelings because o one would understand
why he was hurting so much.
The final reason why I preferred this poem to ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ is
because the heart broken man just wanted everything in the world to
stop as shown in the lines “pack up the moon and dismantle the sun”
and I can understand that and it made me feel sympathy for him. The
reason why he wanted everything to stop was that he had no reason to
carry on in life. He has lost the person who was the centre of his
world and he is now lost because he is by himself. This poem is a
very expressive poem and it explains his feelings and what he is going
through.
know what he has lost, but he will one day, when he misses having someone to
as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer. The poem
...m to hate the world and soon make the Media Luna into a desert. He is willing to continue his cruelty but he knows that it will ultimately get back to him, it will cost him and most importantly, he will have consequences. The deaths that were caused in his world ruined him, ruined his want to feel emotions or change. The deaths in his childhood and adulthood made him indifferent to the emotions that he was feeling.
... until he does complete his quest of individuation, he shall never be nor feel whole.
found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I
and it's as if he is prevented from ever having a chance to live a
The use of Bishops words at the beginning of the poem refers to her earlier years when she lost her father when she was eight months old, which was not so hard to cope with the loss of her since she was just a baby to know about pain. On the contrary, the conclusion of her poem refers to the last recent loss of her lover Lota de Macedo Soares, which was painful and she has not yet mastered the loss.
apart, a lonely and isolated figure, out of touch with his own age and without
This is in such a tone, that it is suggesting that a higher being is
The speaker’s language towards the woman’s death in “The Last Night that she lived” portrays a yearning attitude that leads to disappointment; which reiterates human discontent with the imperfections of life. The description of woman’s death creates an image of tranquility that causes the speaker to aspire towards death. Her death compares to a reed floating in water without any struggle. The simile paradoxically juxtaposes nature and death because nature’s connotation living things, while death refers to dead things, but death becomes a part of nature. She consents to death, so she quietly dies while those around her refuse to accept her imminent death. The speaker’s description of death sounds like a peaceful experience, like going to sleep, but for eternity. These lines describe her tranquil death, “We waited while She passed—It was a narrow time—Too jostled were Our Souls to speak. At length the notice came. She mentioned, and forgot—Then lightly as a Reed Bent to the water, struggled scarce- Consented, and was dead-“ .Alliteration in “We waited”, emphasizes their impatience of the arrival of her death because of their curiosity about death. The woman’s suffering will be over soon. This is exhibited through the employment of dashes figuratively that form a narrow sentence to show the narrowing time remaining in her life, which creates suspense for the speaker, and also foreshadows that she dies quickly. The line also includes a pun because “notice” refers to the information of her death, and also announcement, which parallels to the soul’s inability to speak. “She mentioned, and forgot—“, refers to her attempt to announce her farewell to everyone, which connects to the previous line’s announcement. The dashes fig...
The tone of the poem is one of reflection and possibly regret, The narrator starts out as a man...
...stanzas in First Love tend to be of similar length. In How Do I Love
In the short story, “The Story of an Hour,” author Kate Chopin presents the character of Mrs. Louis Mallard. She is an unhappy woman trapped in her discontented marriage. Unable to assert herself or extricate herself from the relationship, she endures it. The news of the presumed death of her husband comes as a great relief to her, and for a brief moment she experiences the joys of a liberated life from the repressed relationship with her husband. The relief, however, is short lived. The shock of seeing him alive is too much for her bear and she dies. The meaning of life and death take on opposite meaning for Mrs. Mallard in her marriage because she lacked the courage to stand up for herself.
Solitude, “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone;” Here is laid bear the paths of solitude and the plights of sorrow. By opening the poem describing the universally known effects of two quite potent emotions, Ella Wheeler Wilcox draws the reader in with familiar experiences. The poem also portrays the light tread of those untroubled by woe, for friends who don’t exist cannot be missed, nor do those who are friendless ever cease to dwell on the past and those times when they did not fair alone. The contrast between the solitary and social lines of the poem emphasizes the sad and solitary theme by describing that which the travelers in solitude no longer have. The flow and rhythm of the words in Solitude etch an image of remembered friendship and lonesomeness into the mind that all might recognize and that most will realize.