Paris is often thought of as the city of love and romance. However James Fenton opens his poem with the sentence “Don't talk to me of love.” By starting with a morose tone and a negative imperative it not only shows the narrator is getting over a broken relationship, but it also shows the reader that the narrator finds it a difficult subject to talk about. Fenton then goes on to say “I've had an earful / And I get tearful.” Rather than both words of the rhyming pair coming at the end of lines, “tearful” is in the middle of the second line. The rhymes actually seem to give a lighter atmosphere to the first stanza, even though Fenton is feeling down. He describes himself as “one of your talking wounded,” which of course is a play on the phrase “walking wounded” used to describe people who have only slight injuries.
He continually juxtaposes images of the passion he felt for the woman he loved with the loneliness he experiences in the present. He is now at some distance from the relationship and so acknowledges, “tonight I can write the saddest lines,” suggesting that the pain he suffered after losing his lover had previously prevented any reminiscences or descriptions of it. While the pain he experienced had blocked his creative energies in the past, he is now able to write about their relationship and find some comfort in “the verse [that] falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.” Love and Passion Throughout the poem, the speaker expresses his great love for a woman with whom he had a passionate romance. He remembers physical details: “her great still eyes,” “her voice, her bright body,” “her infinite eyes.” He also remembers kissing her “again and again under the endless sky” admitting “how I loved her.” His love for her is still evident even though he states twice “I no longer love her, that’s certain.” The remembrance of their love is still too painful to allow
Matthew Ray Mrs. Jepsen-Harris AP Literature 28 February, 2012 Dryden and Dickinson on Losing Loves During the Romantic period of literature poets and artists focused on emotions, nature, and about the feelings involved in their subject of choice rather than simply stating the object in question. two good examples of this period are the poems “One Happy Moment” by John Dryden and “I Cannot Live Without You” by Emily Dickinson because they both exemplify the emotions felt by the speaker, yet at the same time the two contradict each others views and feelings on the same subject. An easy way to comprehend the Romantic Period of literature is to analyze the similarities and differences between the two poems and their contrasting messages. Even though Dryden and Dickinson were certainly not contemporaries in writing, the concepts they shared stretched across the time-gap. These two poems are so similar, in fact, it begs the question as to whether or not Dickinson wrote her poem in response to Dryden.
One Art One Art by Elizabeth Bishop is a poem about the art of losing. Bishop writes about the art of losing as if it were something you can learn to master with practice. She goes from speaking of losing things as little as keys to talking about losing “you”, which we can assume is someone close to her. This poem, although it sounds as though it would be depressing, manages to maintain an upbeat attitude throughout. The first section of the poem is less personal and written in second person.
Merwin, Woloch’s poems arises from her own observation of the world and experience. Her works are mostly about one's innermost feeling. Feelings those are hurtful, hopeless, and overwhelming; also about the wretchedness in relationships –family, friends, and lover. She once stated in an interview that when a person is emotionally disturbed by grief, they tend to perceive words more effectively than those who are not. Therefore, the usage of short but striking words are alike an apperception for those who once were in a brittle state, making her work sensible and prominent.
Compare And Contrast ‘My Last Duchess’ And ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ On the Issue of Love ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ are poems which were written by Robert Browning during the Victorian period. The poems expose the failure of a relationship and the complex nature of love between a man and a woman. The aspects of jealousy, vanity, pride, obsessive desire, beauty, and flirtatious behaviour are depicted in both poems. The poems were written in the form of a dramatic monologue; this gives the reader an insight into the narrator’s inner thoughts and motives when involved in a particular situation. Using this literary technique, Browning allows the reader to explore the abnormal psychology of the two speakers and also to get closely involved with two acts of murder.
Confusion and doubt is strongly felt in the poems, and is expressed by the use of contradicting phrases that indicate emotions of deception and sadness. Clare and Hardy also present the idea of romantic love with deeper messages relating to loss and grief. Both “First Love” and “The Voice” use language features to enhance the meaning of the poem. In “First Love”, we can see that the love was “so sudden”, which gives the sense that an arrow “struck” the lover like Cupid’s arrow. However, Clare finished line 2 with “so sudden and so sweet” and the effect of the repetition of ‘s’ sounds smoothed the tone.
Chuyen Le English 101 Professor Lynn Hodev 06/10/2015 Poetry has been used to express ideas and feelings in the indirect way that is fully know by the poet. However, it is hard for readers to understand those ideas and feelings unless he or she analyzes it intensively. When we analyze poems, we want to find out what meanings, emotions or feelings that poets want to convey to readers. Sylvia Plath is a very emotional writer, and her poem “Daddy” displays a very complex set of emotions. “Plath also uses her writing to unleash her personal feelings, and her signature of describing her life through her work in a way that is not biographical” (Moore , 2008).
In the opening statement of the poem Sharon Olds starts by stating "How do they do it, the ones who make love without love?" (Olds). Early on Sharon Olds begins to express her disgust for those you have "sex without love". In the following essay I will be performing a close reading on the following poem and my reaction to poem as I deconstructed it to unlocked its purpose and meaning. In the first stanza of the poem Sharon Olds poses a question to the audience and then throughout the rest of the poem she begins to explain her thoughts and answers through a number of metaphors.
Literary criticism theories such as Marxism, feminism, new historicist and many more, helps the reader to interpret and understand the text. New Historic theory is used to look at the history of the poet and the critic itself to understand the meaning behind the poem. Tragic love is the theme of the poem, and it shows the reader that love was not fulfilled between the two people. One did not accept the love of another. One can consider that “She was too kind” is the greatest poem ever because when one understand the history of the poem between the poet and Eliza, it can be determined that the poet used imagery, repetition and alliteration to convey the tragic love between Miss Savage and the poet himself.