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.
He uses persuasion at the start of the poem, but then starts charming his mistress by saying he’ll love her once they have sexual intercourse. One of the most obvious similarities between both poems are that they both have a male narrator. Both poems are also similar as they both contain lines about death. In Sonnet 116, Shakespeare is saying that if its true love what someone is going through then they shall love someone even until they die. “but bears it out even to the edge of doom” He is really saying, that no matter what happens through life, you shall love that person unconditionally even when they die.
These experiences include the strong attachment between author and book which is also hinted at the beginning with the possessive pronoun ‘Her’. However, if the context of Bradstreet being a female writer and the period of time in which the poem is set in is taken into consideration, the use of ‘Her’ and a female persona could also be interpreted as the poet’s attempt at an egalitarian approach to literature. This is subtly suggested towards the end of the poem when the speaker states, “If for thy father asked, say thou hadst none;” The poem begins with the archaic pronoun ‘Thou’ and it immediately sets up the historical context of the poem. Recognition of the archaic form is vital as it helps modern readers gain a clearer picture of the predicament at that time and
(78) The manner in which the narrator described each detail about the poem implies his discontent with the idea of his wife’s proximity to another man. He also brought up the strange back and forth of audio tapes between his wife, who at the time was married to another man, and the blind man in a way to kept in touch and to receive advice from each other. He said: This went on for years. (79) Once she offered him to hear the latest
A Valediction, Poem cleverly used situation of separation to explore power of memories and differences between youth and maturity. Begins with persona looking for comfort after parting with a friend (assumed husband), commonly seeks reassurance through John Donne’s poetry that are “inked with aches from adolescence” showing collection is full of past memories. Title Valediction directly links to his poem about not having to worry about parting with his wife b/c love shared between them is so powerful. H. then talks about her turbulent youth with comment about not needing drugs; “who needs drugs is she has enough uppers and downers in her head”. She refers to novelist Lou Salome and her loathing in giving up intellectualism for love and sex, portrayed through her inability to recall details of kissing a famous philosopher.
It can be translated in different ways through the time. “Conjoined” (1891) by Judith Minty is a blank verse poem which uses a lot of metaphors that describe a broken relationship ; the poem gives you a feeling of a general unhappiness. In contrast, « My Dear and Loving Husband » (1678) by Anne Bradstreet, is a true declaration of love. The poet talks about her husband, celebrating their unity and stating that there is no other woman in the world who is as happy with her husband as she is. The two poems give two competing visions of marriage.
ENGL103 August 2 2010 Browning's "My Last Duchess" A dramatic monologue is a poetic form where there is one speaker telling the events to a listener. The speaker is usually arguing for something that he wants to prove and therefore the reader must pay attention to what the speaker explicitly says and what he implies between the lines (Markley). The gap that exists between what is actually being said and what the listener understands from the poem entails deep irony. "My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue written by Browning. Browning uses the process of double masking to introduce both a character and a mask (Garratt 115).
The man’s obvious trust issues are portrayed in his scruples concerning his wife’s fidelity. The poet alludes to the woman being promiscuous, “They smile...You first”, and this paints a less sympathetic image of the persona’s character. The poem is set in winter ‘this is my first winter…perhaps it is the winter’, this is the poet’s way of expressing sorrow or in short, an example of an extended metaphor. The husband’s possessive nature is succinctly put forward by one line, ‘Somebody came here’ The man asks hypothetical questions like, ‘So what?’ to show that, in spite of his loyalty one woman has deserted him. It seems quite ironic due to the fact that he has proved to be distrusting by sending out spies, ‘Have you noticed?’ Visual imagery is provided by the reference to winter
A Song Thomas Carew The poem "Ask Me No More" is a plea to his beloved not to ask the speaker a number of questions that he seemed to have been asking to himself. In the poem, the narrator is a first person. Even though “I” is not used in the poem, the use of “me” suggests that the speaker is speaking from his own experience. This point of view is maintained throughout the poem and it may seem that the persona is speaking to the person he loves and he is in all praise for her. The opening of the poem is abrupt and starts with a request of the persona: “ Ask me no more…” these opening words is repeated throughout the poem at the beginning of each stanza.
And now we have a complex re-seeing of himself, missing her deeply, and wishing she were with him, and speaking to her remembered presence, a seeing presented with a novelistic firmness—he’s wandering restlessly, talking to her, revisiting places where they had been together. It’s a kind of reverse love poem, in contrast to the far more common pattern of a male speaker swearing his own undying love and accusing the lover of fickleness Imaginatively, and most pitifully, Hardy writes this mournful and moving poem from the point of view of Emma. It is written in the first person, with her as the imaginary narrator. It is almost as if, in putting these words in the mouth of Emma (who, in the poem, sees Hardy as oblivious of her presence) Hardy is trying to reassure himself that she forgives him and continues to love him. Hardy uses the words “sets him wandering, I too alertly, go.” This shows that she follows Hardy where ever he goes.