Annabel Lee is possibly a pseudonym for Poe’s late wife. The poem begins with an introduction of Annabel Lee and the obsession of her lover. "That a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me" (line 5). She is the apple of the narrator’s eye. It seems as though the narrator is infatuated with this person because he believes she has no other
Gwen Hardwood The emotive qualities of Gwen Harwood’s poetry resonate with her readers. She uses her own memories to illustrate love for her family, her loss of innocence and the swiftness of time passing. She demonstrates this in her poems Father and Child, The Violets and At Mornington. The poem The Violets opens with the line “It is dusk and cold,” the time of day symbolising that this persona has reached old age and is metaphorically drawing closer to nightfall or the end of her days. Death is made apparent with the negative adjective “cold.” The flowers she is picking at the beginning of this poem are clearly what stimulate her memory of childhood as they are referenced later in the poem.
In 'Sister Maude' a much more destructive relationship between siblings is presented. Like 'Brothers', this poem hints at the way in which the move towards adulthood brings a distance between siblings. Christina Rossetti begins her poem “Sister Maude” with two similar rhetorical questions, asking who told her parents about her 'shame'. We do not know at this point what the narrator's shame is, but it gradually becomes clear that she was having an affair with a handsome man. In Victorian times when Rossetti was writing, this would certainly have been considered shameful.
How do the poems ‘Valentine’ and ‘Sonnet 43’ compare in their portrayal of love? Two poems written approximately 150 years apart, by two extra-ordinary women of their era: ‘Sonnet 43’, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a classic example of a Victorian love poem written as a sonnet, with a flexible rhyming scheme. ‘Valentine’, by Carol Ann Duffy, a controversial expression of modern day free verse; the irregular stanza allowing for the freedom of speech that Browning would not have experienced. Elizabeth Barrett Browning opens her sonnet with a rhetorical question: ‘How do I love thee?’ which she answers with a list to her husband-to-be, expressing how much she loves him. Her father disapproved of Robert Browning and eventually disinherited her; she never saw her father again when she went to Italy.
Compare and Contrast ‘In Paris with You’ and ‘She Walks in Beauty’ ‘In Paris with you’ is a modern poem about a man rebounding from a failed relationship with a new romantic encounter, “I admit I’m on the rebound” in Paris; a stereotypical ‘city of love’. She walks in Beauty is a traditional courtly love poem, a description of a beautiful woman who “walks in beauty” typical of the romantic period Byron wrote in. The use of Paris as the setting for this poem, known as ‘the city of love’ is very cliché and a contrast with the first line “Don’t talk to me of love” which is unexpected considering the title “In Paris with you” implies a story of a couple in love. Throughout the poem there is a lexical field of war “wounded…hostage…marooned.” This lexical field implies that love is a battle and has the power to bring disaster in its wake. The themes of this poem are set out in a syllogistic manner; in the first two stanzas he talks about his past and what he’s been through “resentful at the mess I’ve been though”.
Mary married British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. The genesis of Shelley´s best known novel is well known today. It goes back to 1816, when Marry and Percy Shelley, who was still in that time married to other women whom he left in England pregnant, left to Switzerland and became the neighbours of their common friend Lord Byron, a poet and a leading figure in the Romantic Movement. With their tradition in reading German ghost stories during stormy evenings, Byron challenged his guests to write one themselves. Marry came with the idea that led to Frankenstein.
Carrie Ann Pietkoski Pietkoski, One English 102 Scott McClanahan October 24, 2012 Comparing Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess Robert Browning’s famous book,” Dramatic Lyrics“, was published in 1842. Two of the dramatic monologues found in this collection were the poems, “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess.” In “Porphyria’s Lover”, Browning familiarizes the reader with the mind of an extremely controlling and possessive man, while “My Last Duchess” tells the story about the Duke of Ferrara telling the ambassador, the murder of his wife and the motives behind it. As we compare and contrast these works we will find there are more similarities than differences. Both poems are similar in narration, the speakers are male, seen as being extremely jealous and unremorseful. These poems were written as dramatic monologues.
Is marriage a prison? According to Kate Chopin, the answer is – yes; marriage is a prison in which freedom does not exist. In 1894, Kate Chopin wrote and published “Story of an Hour.” The story takes place in the late nineteenth century in an American home, where Mrs. Mallard, the protagonist, heard about the news of her husband’s death from her sister. In the beginning, Mrs. Mallards felt sad about her husband’s death. The feeling, however, shifts because she begins to be happy about her husband’s death.
Beethoven has asked him to write the poem, and the last line of the first song that is repeated in the sixth song has been added by Beethoven to create the opportunity for a re-exposure of the theme of the first song. The song cycle has been a great inspiration for later writers of song cycles, where motives have been used also in instrumental pieces of many composers. Franz Schubert wrote two long song
An Analysis of Two Poems “My Last Duchess” and “My Ex-Husband” are two poems that are very similar even though they come from two very different time periods. “My Last Duchess,” written by Robert Browning, is a poem of dramatic monologue by the speaker Duke Ferrera. “My Ex-Husband,” by Gabriel Spera, was written to be a modern-day copy of the poem “My Last Duchess.” It includes dramatic monologue like the original “My Last Duchess.” However, Spera modernizes the poem, making the speaker a divorced woman. The two poems show similarities and differences in characters, diction, and cultural differences. In “My Last Duchess” the characters are the speaker Duke Ferrara, and his spouse the late Duchess.