“Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain. Similarly in “Valentine” “Carol Ann Duffy” uses a very forceful tone with words like “here” and “take it” which tells us her lover is not being very co-operative and like “Havisham” suggests a degree of pain within there love. The theme of love is taken to a deeper level by “Carol Ann Duffy” when she shows through literary techniques that the pain of love can be dangerous. The theme of love is contrasted by violent metaphors in both poems. “Ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with”-Havisham This is another example of the pain of love and it is particularly effective as it shows the extreme physical tension within “Havisham” and describes the pain of love as a driving force of murder.
Prior to this her life was shown as dark and deathly through the personification of the “mystic shape” that moves behind her. Love is shown as a saviour and a brilliant force that can transcend and give life to her darkest days. Barrett Browning’s sonnets were set in the wake of the Romantics, making the tone of the poems gloomy and filled with sorrow as well as the feelings of the force and intensity of
Pattern The poem “Funeral Blues”, written by W. H. Auden, is based on a loved one who is deceased. The poem is written based on nontraditional and traditional elements. This poem is also based on several different themes such as death, order and disorder, and also the meaning of love. Throughout the poem W. H. Auden mixes his stanzas with some words that rhyme and rarely some that don’t. “This coupling of ordered and unordered patterns symbolizes the speaker’s efforts, and final failure, to reestablish order in his life after suffering the devastating loss of a loved one.
She dwelt among the Untrodden ways William Wordsworth was a Romantic poet who believed that poetry was an overflow of feelings and emotion according to what he wrote in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads. His poem "She Dwelt in Untrodden Ways," part of the grouping called the Lucy poems, certainly shows the reader a wealth of emotions. The Lucy poems "variously ordered in different editions tell...of an uneasy courtship, blissful domestic life, and abrupt and devastating loss" (Jackson). According to most, the Lucy poems are seen as a "lyrical sequence," according to Mark Jones, but that interpretation may be much too simple. However, in any event, the power of Wordsworth's poetry is undeniable and the feelings that he brings forth are remarkable.
In the beginning, when Achilles is the hero, there is a very angry and harsh, almost scary, tone when reading the poem. Now, with words like soft, pity, touched, and gently, the whole mood has changed to this sad, lonely and sort of soft feeling. The last thing I noticed about words having similar meaning is the words: together, one, universal, and they. These selected lines from the poem are the two completely different men coming together and mourning, surely out of understanding of what the other is feeling. These words throughout this passage just solidify that even
The poem’s theme appears to be about unrequited love and a man wooing his “coy mistress” to sleep with him, but this poem does has a deeper meaning, which is really impressive and therefore is striking. The theme of mortality is highlighted in this poem through word choice and by using imagery which reinforces the idea of death. Words relating to death such as “ ashes” and “grave” are used to emphasise the lack of time that we have and the stark contrast between the slow, idyllic first stanza and the sped up, heavier second stanza shows the difference between the idealistic eternity and the reality that we are all mortal and have to die at some point. Another deeper theme introduced is the idea of “carpe diem” which is shown through the lustier language in the poem, word choice such as “time devour”, and also through the quickened pace of the second stanza. The speaker is not simply asking the “coy mistress” to sleep with him, what he is saying is if there was all the time in the world then life would be ideal but there is not so they have to live for the moment.
Yellow typically symbolizes sickliness, decay, and withering. This is showing what is happening to the speaker because his lover is gone and “far off there” as written in the last stanza. The occasion is a man in love is missing his lover. He years for her, as shown through him driven to madness, and this is also seen in the first stanza when he says, “I lie here thinking of you.” The audience is his lover, because it shows he is speaking to her when he says, “I lie here thinking of you.” It seems that she is far off in the distance somewhere, maybe she may not even be real, but he years for this woman he has been dreaming of, seen through the implied line, “you far off under there.” The distance between him and his lover must be great because even the format of the poem shows there great distance. This poem seem to have three important factors within its prose: a man longing for his lover or a lover, a lover or unknown woman to the speaker, and a great distance between the two full of madness and dreaming.
Still some go insane from the idea of it, drowned in sorrow or misery, leading ultimately to their madness. There are many authors that stay true to the gothic style of poetry and drama. One of the most prevalent in this literary style is Edgar Allan Poe. There are few examples in which this author uses death as a focal point in order to get an ideal across. In “The Raven” the black, feathered messenger of the dead seems to approach the narrator with the intent of letting him know that “nevermore” will the narrator be able to see his loved one, Lenore.
Matthew Arnold: A Bridge between Romanticism and Modernism Abstract: Matthew Arnold is generally known as a poet of Victorian social unrest and spiritual crisis. The critics have shown profound interest to evaluate him as a classical poet in view of real estimate. Their approach has often led to misleading judgment of his poetry. There is no denying the fact that Arnold is a classical poet. But that is not all.
As a consequence, this world becomes known through “experience”, a state of being marked by the loss of childhood optimism and enthusiasm, by fright and inhibition, and by social and political corruption. William Blake considered that without contraries there is no progression and, indeed, some of his works are built on oppositions, like The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Ideas of Good and Evil or, of course, the volume Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Two of Blake’s famous collections of poetry are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The two collections go together-that is, many of the poems in Songs of Innocence have corresponding poems in Songs of Experience. Many of the poems are religious and a prime example of contrasting two poems is 'The Lamb' from Songs of Innocence and 'The Tyger' from Songs of Experience.