First quote is “... sorrow for the lost...” in line 10. This is deep sorrow because he is sad about the lose of his wife. The next quote is “ Leave my loneliness unbroken..” in line 101. Here he is saying that he is not able to love and hold his wife anymore and that there is no one else to love him. The last quote is “...respite and nepenthe from tha memories of Lenore.” in line 82.
Annabel Lee is a work that expresses great loss and sadness. The speaker laments that he has lost the one true love of his life. The loneliness and sadness that permeate the lines of the poem result in an obsession of sorts over the love that the two shared. Every thought and all the dreams he has -- everything has to do with this love that was lost. In modern day thought, such an obsession that results in the speaker going to the grave to lay by her side could be viewed as a form of necrophilism, or morbidity.
Which both the wives and husbands were forced to marry, without loving each other. “She lay stone-still (line 6-7)”, means that her marriage had killed part of who she was because she was displeased with her marriage. Another literary device that is used in this poetic sequence is metaphor, “the strange low sobs that shook their common bed (line 3)”. Since they were probably forced to marry, they probably forced to have sexual relationships, which was why the wife would cry in their bed. Another example of metaphor would be, “drink the pale drug of silence (line10)”, which would mean that she is suffering and that she has to suffer quietly, no one much know that suffers in this marriage.
Paul ponders, “[f]our days left now. I must go and see Kemmerich’s mother [now]” (180). Baumer faces adversity by pulling himself together and informing Kemmerich’s mother on the news of her son’s death, resulting in the downfall of his esteem because of the injustice in his premature death. As Baumer’s esteem is weakened, the soldiers from Owen’s poem have high esteems due to the adversities they face. The soldiers from Wilfred Owen’s poem have solid esteem due to the fact that they are facing the hardships and challenges of assuming the role of combatants.
Madison Carroll Ms. Diana AP English Literature 1 November 2012 Assignment #3 Despairing Companionship “Modern Love,” a poetic sequence by George Meredith, describes a skeptical view regarding of modern love. Meredith’s devastating tone, complex similes and metaphors, and dark imagery convey a sad and regretful outlook on modern relationships. “Modern Love” is riddled with a tone of regret and heartache, making this modern love more like the opposite of love. The speaker says, “she wept with waking eyes” and her “strange low sobs” were “strangled mute.” The words describing this woman are full of grief, full of “vain regret.” Her husband is painfully aware of his wife’s sadness, through her reaction to “his hand’s light quiver by her head” and her sobs that were “dreadfully venomous to him.” The speaker’s worried tone shows that the husband wishes for his wife to be happy, but his actions of loving care and cautiousness do nothing to quell her tears. This view of modern love is hopeless, full of despair for both the man and his distraught wife.
Both Carol Ann Duffy and Dorothy Molloy convey a theme of loneliness through their characters of their poems. Carol who wrote 'Medusa' conveyed a message of how life has mistreated her and she is lonely due to in medusa's case having snake hair and turning people to stone and therefore she has enclosed her self within a cave, she conveys this message through a dramatic monologue. Dorothy who wrote 'Les Grands Seigneurs' had a message of how he distance her self from men and due to that she is is lonely but in the end gets married but has lost all authority as she is a female and in the past men had greater authority no matter what the status was of the female, she conveyed this through four stanzas and the the fourth stanza is the turning point where she has become married also she has written the poem in the past tense showing how she misses her old self and is lonely now even though she is married. I would also compare these poems to the world war one poet Siegfried Sassoon 'the soldier' as it also conveys a theme of loneliness. I will show how these two poets convey the theme of loneliness through their poems.
I believe that she does feel bad that her children, who once really loved their father, have become bitter towards him now. She feels that she knows he painful it is to hate someone you still love, and wishes that even though, Jody D. was bad for her, that he could at least be good for them. She tends to compare her father and her ex-husband frequently. In addition to them being close, she feels that they both are “no-good daddies”. Another observation was when a fellow co-worker asked another, about T. Smith and stated that she would like to get to know her better.
Gertrude is a hard to read character, but the guilt of her actions with Claudius and her deceased husband comes out when she cry’s, “O Hamlet, speak no more./ thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul,/ and there I see such black and grained spots/as will not leave their tinct.”(III, IV, 89-91). Hamlet berated her to the point where she shows all the bottled shames she’s been concealing, showing her true superego. Hamlet main personality is his superego, which he doesn’t acknowledge, yet let’s out often. In this situation he feels he’s a disappointment to his father and guilty for not reprimanding his sinful uncle in comparison to Fortinbras, saying, “How stand I then,/ that have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d,/excitements of my reason and blood,/ and let all sleep, while to my shame I see/twenty thousand men that, for a fantasy and trick of fame,/ go to their graves like beds…”(IV, IIV, 53-65). In a similar event, Hamlet, months after his father murder, acknowledges his lack of action, his overbearing guilt, and his masked fear of confrontation when he self criticizes, “Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be/ but I am pigeon-liver’d and lack gall/to make oppression bitter, or ere this/ I should ha’ fatted all the region kites/ with this slave’s offal.”(II, II, 563-566).
Pink is drowning and drowning and want to escape but he is not able to do that. Because of Pink’s mother fixation he has problems binding to a woman. In the song “Don’t Leave Me Now” he is singing about his wife and begs her not to leave him. He sings the song right after he find out that she was cheating on him. In the song he asks his wife why she as; “Why Are You Running Away?” and “How Could You Go?”.
At the same way she confirms her anguish “Please let me know beforehand/And I will come out to meet you/ As far as Cho-Fu-Sa” (Pound, lines 27-29). The Merchant’s Wife depicts herself as a sad person due to her husband’s work. Nature plays an important row in her sorrowful letter. Despite of her strong appearance, she feels weak because her image of nature demonstrates her sadness of the husband’s journey. Work Cited Pound, Ezra.