Zeus takes her at her word and grants Tithonus immortality, but not the youth that he might have imagined would accompany it. Tennyson, however, changes the story and has Tithonus as the one who requests immortality from Eos, who grants the wish, and then regrets her folly, departing every morning on her duties as goddess of the dawn after leaving her tears on Tithonus ‘wither[ing]’ cheek. The effect of this is to take emphasis away from Tithonus as a victim of the gods, and place responsibility for human happiness on the shoulders of men themselves. Perhaps Tennyson also sees the god Eos as having human qualities in the way she regrets what she has done in acceding to her lover’s request. Tennyson chooses to tell the story of Tithonus as a dramatic monologue.
Second, from the third paragraph, there’s a paradox, “capable imagination” describes the most important concept of this poem. Is it a figure of woman’s imagination? When the moonlight faded away and the sun light shone on, the man who signifies the positive, bright and capable image appears to make the world real. It is a contradictory idea exists in “capable imagination.” If a capable man is divine as a God makes everything real, it denies that a woman has said no to everything (line 6) who wished faithfully for a falsifying bell( line 15), a person who rather believed in the imagined faith. Here we can make a small conclusion that men are real and capable but women are the creations of imagination.
Akhenaton talks about the sun being the only divine god having divine or godly powers to give and take away life. The hymn leads me to believe that Akhenaton considered Aten the sun god as the only god, and creator of the universe(lines 70 – 105).In (lines 105 – 120) Akhenaton praises the sun god for giving direction to everything on earth and also giving purpose and that everything that Aten’s makes that it is good. Only praises like Akhenaton is giving the sun is praises to a higher power the praises that he is talking about are not for a regular person but for a divine thing which for him is the sun god
McMillan uses the form of a sonnet, where the iambic pentameter rhythm imitates the regularity of the heartbeat, which shows the love towards his mother and the physical intensity of his reaction to her death. On the other hand, Jennings’s ‘One Flesh’ is in three stanzas of sestets, which separates different views on her parents’ marriage and their lack of physical contact. Both poets decide to use end-stops in the middle of a line to interrupt the regularity of the structured stanzas and add tension to the poem, for example in line fifteen of “One Flesh” and line ten of “04/01/07”. Looking at the imagery and the use of the senses in the poems, Jennings and McMillan refer repeatedly to feelings in order to present their attitudes to relationship. Similes such as “like a confession” and metaphors such as “fire from which I came” are used by Jennings to convey her feelings.
In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry. In ‘Love Songs In Age’, Larkin illustrates the view that time and it’s passing merely leads to many disappointments. The enjambment he uses amongst all three stanzas, “and stood/relearning” in the first and second and “more/the glare” between the second and third; this implies the suggestion that love cannot stop the passing of time and the instances that happen within it, for example the death of the woman’s husband. During the first stanza, Larkin uses imagery to create a memoir of the music sheets that the woman has found, “one marked in circles”, “and coloured”, suggesting that the joy of life, love and happiness isn’t appreciated until age shows what one has missed during their youth. We can then imply from this suggestion that Larkin feels time is only appreciated during the older years of one’s life.
In Remembrance however the way this poet (Emily Brontë) presented her feelings about relationships slightly differently due partly to the story told in her poem and the way that it’s written portrays different feelings. First off the type of relationship is different compared to 01/04/07 because in Remembrance it is about a woman visiting the grave of her once
Subtle Doubts: The Examination of an Anne Bradstreet Poem Anne Bradstreet, a female poet who is often mistakenly regarded as the quintessential Puritan woman, appears to have instilled themes in her poetry about the love she shares with her husband, her children, and God; however, when one takes a deeper look at some of her works – for example, a poem called In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet – it becomes apparent through subtleties found in her diction, syntax and tone that Bradstreet secretly holds a dark and wrathful view of both God and the Puritan society in which she dwells. The surface understanding of In Memory of Elizabeth Bradstreet is rather simple; Bradstreet is deeply saddened by the loss of her granddaughter, and exhibits her grief through heartfelt metaphors. In the first three lines of the poem, Bradstreet refers to her granddaughter as the “the pleasure of mine eye” and describes her as a “fair flower”. Then, the poem shifts focus from Bradstreet’s love of Elizabeth to her view on death. Indicators such as the repetition of “farewell” emphasize the tragedy of the situation while lines such as “…a space was lent” solidify the idea that Elizabeth’s young death suggests that her life was only temporary.
There can be connections between the two because as we saw the ‘The Manhunt’ was a poem written by Simon Armitage and is about a man who is suffering from post traumatic disorder furthermore it is written in the point of view of his wife who has to live with her husband who had changed dramatically since the experiences of death in Bosnia. Linking on with this in the poem we see that the structure of it is much disrupted and is constructed into tiny little pieces maybe referring to the wife’s feeling finally it is also shows repetition of the conjunction referring to it being disjointed. Another poem of we looked at is ‘in Paris with You’, this poem is however totally opposite to the one above this is about having sexual desires towards a woman. This however doesn’t really have a connection to the appearance and what the poem is actually about, it just states in the last stanza about the ‘all points south’ referring to the bottom of the physical human body and in the first stanza it refers to the top of the body stating about ‘an earful’. Finally we can see that there is all round connection between structure and what the content of the poem is actually about.
“Compare Hardy’s representation of Emma in two or more poems we have studied” Thomas Hardy’s poetry represents his late wife Emma in several different ways, his opinions of his wife seem to have changed over time, and similarly his perception of her death also seemed to have changed. The death of his first wife Emma seems to have inspired him to create some of his most famous works. Hardy’s poems explore the guilt he feels for the neglect throughout the later part of their marriage, he uses his writing to pardon himself of this guilt and to come to terms with the fact his beloved wife is dead. A frequent representation of his wife is a ghostly presence that remains with him while writing his poetry. There are often contrasting interpretations to be presented throughout his poetry, and he uses many of his own experiences in relation to the memories they once shared.
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe “Annabel Lee” is the last complete poem Edgar Allan Poe made. This particular poem has the theme of the death of a beautiful woman like many other poems Poe made does. The voice of this poem may be the author, Allan Poe, or it very well may be a character the author developed. Even though Poe uses first person in this poem, one must be careful to not assume that he is talking or referring to himself; because if one was to assume that the speaker is the author then the reader would try to make connections between the poem and the author. Drawing connections between the author and poem is not always what the author intends on his reader to do.