In the poem “Singh Song!”, the poet uses repetition to show the persona of Singh as being very personal and intimate when he spends the little time that he has with his “newly bride”. The repetition of the word “baby” tells the reader that Singh is happy being married to his wife and that he gives her a high status in his life. The repetition of “my bride” is triple refrained which perhaps suggests that Singh has a surprising nature about his wife. This creates an interesting character as it tells us that he is willing to stop working and go against his father’s orders just to spend time with his wife. Despite the criticism he receives from his customers, Singh seems to hold his wife as a major and main priority in his life and could suggest that his emotional and mental wellbeing depends on his wife.
The novels Ethan Frome and Catcher in the Rye by Edith Wharton and J.D.Salinger, respectively, are two great works that depict two characters’ struggles in life. Three themes that both novels share are the need for companionship, regret over lost potential and immersion in a fantasy world. Ethan Frome and Holden Caulfield are both very lonely characters in desperate need for companionship and compassion. They both search for human contact of sorts to prevent the onset of loneliness. Frome marries Zenobia Pierce prematurely, only to obviate “the mortal silence of…long imprisonment.” (Wharton, page 61) He wanted “the sound of a …voice” to fill the void on his farm.
The narrator explains in the first line that he “may cease to be” and rushes to include he is afraid to die “before [his] pen has glean’d [his] teeming brain”. It almost seems as though Keats was unable to fit his ideas neatly into spaced lines, with punctuation marks because he is afraid to lose valuable time while he is still living. In Longfellow’s poem, however, pauses, punctuation and composition of multiple sentences produce a relaxed tone and overall feel of the poem. The poem is filled with caesuras that decrease the entire speed of the poem. “Half of my life is gone,” the comma allows for a pause and a deep breath to continue on to say “and I have let the years slip from me”.
In the last two stanzas things take a turn for the worst. Daisy no longer has interest in Gatsby because he has become unsafe and demanding. The theme of my poem is love, focusing on Daisy and Gatsby. Love can be described as a strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, but that’s not the case in the Great Gatsby. Relationships in Great Gatsby are not “loving”and tend to be more motivated by money than true love.
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.
“...he was consumed with wonder at her presence… he was running down like an over-wound clock” (92) Gatsby’s love for Daisy was succorded by his deception of her image. This quote compares Gatsby to an overwound clock because Gatsby wants to ignore the lapse of time where they were separated and wants to have it revert back to when they loved each other in Louisville. Once Gatsby realized he had succeeded in acquiring his dream of Daisy’s affection, he no longer had the vitality of his allusion for what life could be with
But, when Eva’s poems turn out to be quite a success both in bookstores and in the eyes of the literary critiques, he pays greater attention to her written words. It so transpires that the author describes a long lost clandestine relationship with ayounger man. He soon becomes jealous even though the Colonel“supposed he’d been in love with her when he asked her to marry him, at least sufficiently in love for a man who wanted to marry and settle down, but with time he discovered that they had nothing much in common.” Although, he, himself, was cheating on his wife with Daphne, a girl “with whom he was in the habit of passing a few agreeable hours whenever he went to town,” the Colonel feels hurt by his wife’s confessed betrayal. The Colonel’s Lady, by Somerset Maugham What’s it about? A husband who doesn’t understand his wife.
‘Unable to close the distance I’d set in motion’ this could suggest that the distance in relationship has grown further and further apart between the speaker and the brother, and also it uses imagery to make it more real like. Andrew Forster’s poem contains many verbs one of which shows the attitude of the brother to his little brother which is ‘Saddled with you’ the verb ‘saddled’ is saying that he is stuck with him, the tone in that part is quite sarcastic but annoyed too. In Praise Song For My Mother the metaphors which Nichols uses
Romantic love is universal across cultures yet folklore is the most fruitful meaning to the examination of it. However, we can’t really distinguish love from sexual attraction in a such culture because of the influence of Solomon and Shakespeare’s songs, which can push others to use powerful poetic expression to display their feelings, especially in western societies. Also, other imported cultural ideas can be expressing thru folk tales as well as suppressing emotions and moral tales. Consequently, some charming stories implanted in literature or songs in a specific society cannot contribute as manifest or proof that romantic love is valued and experienced by most members in that society. As a result, the validity of “romantic love” is universal relies on the examination at which this declaration has been made.
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. This is shown in the structure of the poem. The first line shows the speaker saying, “I lie here thinking of you”. The second stanza is significantly longer than the third stanza. This second stanza shows the wilting and withering of the speaker’s sanity because of his distance from the lover.