Edgar Allen Poe demonstrates in his written works of “Lenore”, “Annabel Lee”, and “To Helen” an element that seemingly attempts to give the reader exceptional emotional sadness. Poe does this by telling the poem in a point of view where a man tells the story of the death or remembrance of a young love or woman. He also puts a sense of gloom in each of his poems. This allows for the reader to create a mental image if the setting, without him having to directly point it out. As well, the gloominess of his poetry could also be due to his longing effect of sadness that he attempts to express.
They both explore the theme of love or rather painful love. the poet revels the link between the two poems’s through a verity of techniques which is done very effectively but also shows the difference between the obsessive love in “Havisham” and the possessive love of “Valentine”. The pain of love is evident from the beginning in both poems. “Carol Ann Duffy” uses the tone in the first couple of stanzas to show the unorthodox nature of the love. “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.
The Dark Outlook of Romance, Society, & Seclusion Emily Dickinson wrote poems of love, despair, religion, her love for nature, and celebration of life. Nonetheless, she wrote “The Soul has Bandaged moments,” which uniquely engages the idea of Goth and the literary genre of dark romanticism, to share her dark outlook of romance, society, and seclusion. First of all, this poem reflects Dickinson’s style of writing using the literary genre of dark romanticism and Goth. According to A. Leverkuhn, he describes this type of literary genre as having various meanings. He explains the most popular meaning pertaining to this literary genre is the dark emotional aspect, and that dark romanticism can also be a general ethos related to a person’s individual outlook on life (1).
These are both threatening words, which can imply that the brain can imagine things that are much scarier than reality. Dickinson uses imagery such as ‘midnight meeting’ to present the state of mind in the poem. She is presenting the image of someone in their bed at night secluded from everyone else, reflecting and reminiscing about things what they have done, and the things they did wrong ‘haunt’ them like an ‘external ghost’. This may show the present state of mind she is writing about in this poem is depression. Dickinson goes on to give other scary imagery such as- ‘assassin hid in our apartment’.
The use of “...we are, for as long as we are.” (Line 16 and 17) Shows that Duffy is inviting her readers into the poem to help reflect upon how she feels. The formats of these pieces are all varied. Shakespeare firstly has written a play. However, within his play he writes a few sonnets to show the feelings of love between both Romeo and Juliet. One of the famous sonnets in the play is in act 1 scene 5, where Romeo shows his true feelings for Juliet during their first encounter.
It will describe my initial reactions after reading the poem, my analysis of the poem, and my feelings after reading Harold Blooms analysis of the poem. My first impression that came to mind while reading “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe was of a children’s fairy tale that contained a rhythm and a musical tone. Throughout the poem Poe seems to rhyme every word to the poem’s title “Annabel Lee”. Towards the end, I noticed the original tone darken a bit with phrases such as “the wind came out of the cloud chilling,” and “killing my Annabel Lee” with the progression of the poem. Poe’s starting fairy tale tone worked to show innocence, a true love, an inseparable couple in perfect harmony with each other soon turned sad and dark.
Response to “Boy at the Window” Heather Jordan ENG 125 Instructor Angela DiGualco December 17, 2012 Response to “Boy at the Window” The poem, “The Boy at the Window” is a very emotional poem. Most poems are written to be emotional, dramatic, and responses to actual life. The author of the poem, Richard Wilbur states that, “in order to write the poem, he first had to pay attention to something that was right there in front of him, allow himself to be drawn deeply into it, and then evoke (call forth) feelings and implications from it. Therefore, it is more accurate to say that poetry is an evocative response to ordinary life experience (Clugston, 2010).” This poem is about compassion; compassion for a young boy who has compassion for a snowman. In this poem, and most, there are examples of figurative language.
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?
The concepts of originality and forgery, the backbone of the novel, are purposely introduced at the very beginning of the story. On the way to Leno Antiques in Dodd’s Gardens, Charles, the main character and a poet himself, makes a very keen observation. He notices that “all these houses seemed
Some of the poems in the final third of Edmund SpenserAmoretti sonnet sequence display this feature. Some poems by the same author are paired, allowing one character to make a statement in one poem and then allowing another character to reply in an accompanying work. For example, in the poem "Wrapt in my careless cloak," by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, a dsigruntled man complains about the behavior of women, while in an accompanying poem titled "Girt in my guiltless gown," a woman replies to the man's charges. Of course, another way in which lyric poems can be performative is that they almost demand to be read aloud if one hopes to appreciate all their subtleties of sound and sense. This is less true of novels, and reading an entire novel out loud is therefore not something that most people do (at least not any