It is opened with a rhetorical question, ‘Who told my mother of my shame, who told my father of my dear?’ This shows that the poem is a direct curse towards her sister Maude and has an intended audience. Also the repetition of “Who” in the first stanza almost represents a tantrum that the speaker feels as she knows the answer. Moreover the speaker uses a caesura to reflect the speaker's outrage and anger that “Maude, my sister Maude" could have deliberately caused such a tragedy. The repetition of "Maude" also adds to the strength of thespeaker’s feelings. The speaker refers to her lover in the second stanza a lot.
The narrative of the poem concerns an unnamed lover. The first part of the poem dwells on the funeral of the protagonist's (the main character in a play) father and a feeling of loss and lament prevails. Then the appearance of Maud transforms the narrative into a pastoral, dwelling on her beauty. The appearance of Maud's brother causes conflict, and the poet kills him in a narrated duel. Maud's death impacts the psychological state of the protagonist, and an emotional longing for contact with the deceased echoes the tones of In Memoriam.
It’s dreadful when a man can’t trust his wife; it’s even worse when a man’s wife leaves him. Both scenarios are terrible, yet is it worse to lose your wife or to be second guessing her every intention? In the story “The Other Two” we see Waythorn lose trust in his wife due to her lack of truth about her previous marriages. In the story “A Temporary Matter” we see a couple that has lost the spark in their relationship after Shoba gave birth to a still borne, ultimately leading to her ending the relationship with Shukumar. Both of these stories show how any relationship, if not kept healthy, honest, and maintained can lead to a lack of trust or in severe cases, a breakup.
Later in the poem, Hughes accuses his wife of abandoning her family. The repetition of “you” in the lines “unravelled your marriage, left your children echoing like tunnels in labyrinth, left your mother a dead-end” emphasises the immensely accusatory tone of the poem. These accusations in The Minotaur show that Hughes puts all blame for their failed marriage onto his wife, and is not taking any of the responsibility. Hughes’s view of Plath is a conflicting perspective to society’s view of the couple’s relationship. How Hughes portrays his conflicting perspective
Perhaps both Keats and Longfellow didn’t have enough faith in what they were trying to do before they died. They sure were sad and sorrowful middle-aged poets. Keats and Longfellow are fearful of death. In Longfellow’s poem, he is
2. I had mixed emotions while reading the poem. At the very beginning it created a suspenseful mood for me. I felt very bad for the main character since he lost his lover. I think its more difficult when the end of a relationship isn't due to a mutual agreement to end it.
The Influence of Edgar Allen Poe It is hard to find an American who has not heard the name Edgar Allen Poe. Known for his mastery of horror and romance, Poe has had exponential influence on American and European culture. This Boston native can be credited with quite an impressive list of accomplishments for someone who lived such a miserable life (“Edgar”). Poe has had a tremendous impact on film, music, and obviously literature. How Poe influenced films is clear.
No matter how much the characters discuss about love, the meaning of love remains unanswered. MEANING OF THE TITLE! Mel tries many times to approach the meaning of love, but he doesn’t succeed to understand it. He discusses about the old couple to his friends who were almost killed in an accident and that the old man was depressed that he was not able to his wife because they were in two separate rooms trying to proof his point to others whether that was love. Terri explains that Ed really loved her even when he was abusive, while Mel disagrees with her.
The relationship between the two sister's may have been fine before the introduction of a lover, but hints of jealousy and competition between the sister's is hinted throughout the poem. The poem is only in the view of the unnamed sister, we are shown a biased view on the situation. Alliteration is used within the second and third stanza to allow the poem to have a much more sinister impact, as the pace the words are said increases as the audience read the poem, therefore showing the anger of the narrator. The narrator of this poem is not given a name, as if she is lifeless, this corresponds with the theme of death within the poem, creating emphasis towards her sister that it is her fault that the narrator's husband has died. In stanza four, we have references towards religion, as she states: "My father may sleep in Paradise, My mother at Heaven-gate: But sister Maude shall get no sleep Either early or late."
He lingers over her body, mourning her death. The irony is that the man did not love she in life, but, instead, pitied her in death. This essay will examine two main elements that are used in “After Death” depicting the relationship missing and the child’s observation of the continuing absence of affection. First, Rossetti does not address the gender of the child, however, a feminine presence is felt with her description of the man and child’s relationship; both the physical and emotional aspects of the poem paint a father, daughter connection. The second is examining how “After Death” uses four out of the five senses to take us through the poem.