“Compare the ways in which Larkin and Abse write about time and it’s passing.” In your response, you must include detailed critical discussion of Love Songs In Age and one other poem by Larkin. Many poems in Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ are connected through one common factor: Larkin’s rather dismal attitude towards time and the passing of it. In many of his poems Larkin presents time as a menial entity resulting in an inevitable mortality. However, on further examination Larkin reflects back on time in a nostalgic manner. 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.
Alonzo Booth III IB English Due: November 8, 2013 Porphyria’s Lover Analysis Robert Browning was a famous English Poet who mastered the use of dramatic verse expecially dramtic monologues. One of his famous pieces was Porphyria’s Lover. Robert Browning use situational irony, personification, imagery, iambic tetrameter, juxtaposition, rhythm, and enjambment to complicate the notion of truth throughout the poem. Robert Browning uses situational irony to depict the love portrayed by Porphyria’s lover but it ends up going awry when he took, “ in one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around and stranged her.” (lines 39- 41) It displays the irony of a person saying a whole lot of good things about that person that they love and cherish but they end up killing them. Browning uses that to throw the readers off from the suspecting romantic love poem or love story to a romantic tragedy that ends up leaving the reader wondering why did the man kill the woman he loved so dearly?
ANALYSIS ‘What Lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why’ Edna St. Vincent Millay’s What Lips My Lips Have Kissed is a conventional Italian or Petrarchan sonnet – iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde. It speaks of various loves coming to an end and the despair associated with those losses. Many different aspects of the sonnet's form are used to portray its distinct meaning, including its structure, the turns, the mood, and especially the powerful metaphor. Two of the major themes that this sonnet is centered around are change and loss. The theme of change is most obvious in the season imagery that Millay uses.
Latin Project- Pyramus and Thisbe: Their Last Hour The original story of Pyramus and Thisbe was a poem written by Ovid in his book Metamorphoses. Pyramus and Thisbe is a lot like the story of Romeo and Juliet in that it consists of a story of two passionate or even “star-crossed” young lovers from parents who forbid their love. It is in fact said that Shakespeare based his famous play on Pyramus and Thisbe. Our story takes place in the nation of Babylonia where Pyramus and Thisbe, whom like many other characters in classical literature had qualities beyond normal human standards, theirs was their unmatched beauty and their reputation as the most handsome and most beautiful young man and woman in Babylonia. They quickly fell in deep passionate love but despite the love they shared their parents didn’t approve; They forbade the two to marry or as much as see each other.
The authors of these two poems incorporated a similar theme in these two examples of lyrical poetry. While Marlowe portrays the Shepherd's fervent love for the Nymph, Raleigh's piece addresses love as well but from a completely different perspective. One might say that Raleigh's character takes the more realistic approach accounting for how time affects everything. Since Raleigh wrote this to mirror Marlowe's poem from the opposite perspective, examples of this relationship abound but one example is when in the fourth stanza of his poem Marlowe writes, "A gown made of the
The theme of the 16th century sonnets was courtly love. It is the traditional love which is not necessarily lived and derived from the love conventions as set in Petrarch’s sonnets to his beloved Laura. The central point or core in any courtly love sonnet is a complaint of the speaker towards something in his beloved. The major themes of courtly love sonnets are: the speaker’s sleeplessness, the cruelty of the beloved, the renunciation of love, the fire of the speaker’s feelings contrasted by the ice of the speaker’s feelings contrasted by the ice of the beloved’s feelings, and, finally, the unattainability of the beloved. I will discuss Sidney’s “Come sleep!” whose major theme is sleeplessness, Wyatt’s “Whoso List to Hunt” whose major theme is the renunciation of love, Spenser’s “Of this World’s Theatre” whose major theme is the fire of the speaker’s feelings versus the ice of the beloved’s feelings, and Spenser’s sonnet 75 “One day I wrote her name upon the Strand” whose major theme is the beauty of his beloved and the eternity of his poetry.
It also allows individual readers to experience the powerful emotions described in the poems, letting the reader visualise the proceedings depicted in the poems in their minds eye. The function of the dramatic monologue is not so much to narrate an occurrence, as to reveal the character of the speaker. The dramatic monologue of ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ captures the moment after the primary incident of the poem; Porphyria is dead before the narrator commences. The poems are different in that they have contrasting rhyme schemes. ‘My Last Duchess’ is written in rhyming couplets (although you cannot always hear the rhyme) and is written in a single stanza.
A simile is also used in Train’s song when it says, “Acts like summer and walks like rain” (Stanza 1, Line 3). Lastly, the use of personification gives the song the ability to be a poem. It can be seen when Train says, “Did Venus blows your mind,” in stanza 6. All of the these elements are typically found in poetry. Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” is a bitter song about the loss of a loved one could stand alone as a poem.
Narrative Voice in Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning Porphyria’s Lover was written in 1936 by Robert Browning, his first ever short dramatic monologue and a poem that despite going almost unnoticed throughout the 19th century, remains greatly studied, analysed and respected to this date. The poem demonstrates several of Browning’s defining characteristics as a poet; not only does it portray his criticism towards the traditional Victorian practice of self-restraint, he employs violence as a tool to elicit aesthetic excitement- but only at a superficial level, as he skillfully uses the bloody, aggressive actions of his narrator to represent human passion and the destructive tendencies of love. Narrative voice is perhaps the most defining characteristic of Porphyria’s Lover, enabling the reader to view the dark, evenly-paced series of events that occur throughout the poem through eyes distorted by the compulsory internalisation of the narrator’s forbidden love for Porphyria. Browning’s use of the dramatic monologue form is quintessential in shaping the narrative voice to become narrow and focused on exposing the narrator’s personality, as well as that of Porphyria herself, which will be explored in this essay. One of the various ways in which the narrative voice in Porphyria’s Lover can be described is as straightforward, reasonable- in a twisted, psychotic way; very smooth and with an odd matter-of-factly sort of tone to it.
Harmony Galambos ENG 102 Professor Makonie 21 October 2012 With His Venom, Golden Bells, Remembering Golden Bells Although Sappho and Po Chu-i experience love and pain differently, they both prove that love and pain are inseparable. The poem “With His Venom” written by Sappho and the poems written by Po Chu-i “Golden Bells” and “Remembering Golden Bells” are poems that describe human experiences that metaphorically express how love and pain are inseparable in more than one concept of love. Sappho was a famous poet from ancient Greek, who lived about 600 BC; she is considered the greatest female poets of the classical world. Additionally, Po Chu-i was a gentleman poet and government official during the golden age of the Tang dynasty in China. The poem “With His Venom” illustrates romantic love that is described as bittersweet (Sappho, page.772, line 3).