Tone/Narrator - The reader particularly feels the poet's affection and longing for Alice as he starts the poem with 'Alice', directly addressing his former wife to show that he was truly thinking about her a lot when he was writing the poem. Also, the poet uses the first person to write the poem and directly addresses the reader by using personal pronouns ('you'), and 'you' is repeated for many times in the poem, showing that again the poet is obsessed with 'Alice' and that he can't stop thinking about her, emphasising how much he longs for her. By his obsession of the word Alice and the repetitiveness of personal pronouns it can show his love to the Alice. Language – Ali A lot of winter imagery is used in the poem (' The earth's still as hard', 'empty gardens'). This is used so that the reader can visualise these scenes and connect them to the status of the poet's relationship with 'Alice': There's no warmth, no passion, their relationship is dead and non-existent just like how the gardens are 'empty' and how all the plants and flowers die in winter.
The nature of immortality is such that it has been a constant source of enticement for several generations of men altogether. They have been enamored by the prospect of immortality, some have destroyed themselves and even those around them trying to attain it. Thus, when Elizabethan poets like Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare chose poetry as a platform for the expression of their love, they simultaneously seeked to eternalize their beloved using the transcendental ability of poetry to immortalize their lovers within the hearts and minds of the readers of their age and the generations that followed. Spenser’s Amoretti 75 opens with the striking imagery of a man attempting to write the name of his lover on sand only to see it be repeatedly washed away by the tide. Similarly, in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 55, the speaker, through his writing, desires to convey to the subject of his verse that his/her persona shall live on eternally and that this can be accomplished through literature and literature alone.
‘She seemed to hear my silent voice And loves appeal to know’ (L19, 20) This depicts love as obsessive and selfish. A love that exists only in the mind of the lover. John Clare is writing as an adult looking back to his youthful past, to his 'First Love'. It is an innocent love toward a girl he has only just seen, yet feels instantly transfixed and ensnared by. The very first line of Clare's poem declares 'I ne'er was struck before that hour' The use of the word struck gives us an image of someone unexpectedly being hit by a spell or by one of cupids arrows, leaving him unable to resist falling in love.
The significance of place 4. The nature of creativity and the artist The understanding of shared ideas across different contexts is enhanced by the reader’s study of poetry and film. Thomas Hardy’s poem, “The Voice” and Woody Allen’s contemporary film, Midnight in Paris, both effectively convey a range of different emotions that arise from the subject’s longing for the past and the importance of romantic relationships. In “The Voice”, the subject is a victim of his feelings of longing for the past and his romantic relationship. Similarly, Woody Allen’s film, Midnight in Paris, conveys longing for the past through the character Gil Pender, and demonstrating his love for the 1920s.
His sense of longing for his partner is clearly depicted via the enjambment used between stanzas three and four, perhaps to prolong the memory of his wife. In contrast in “All Legendary Obstacles” it is unknown whether the relationship is based on fact or fiction. The four-six lined stanzas tell of the narrator waiting for the arrival of his lover. However there do seem to be some flaws in this relationship as the full stops between each stanza not only break the continuity of the poem, but also makes the relationship seem disjointed. Throughout Montague’s poem the tone is quite pessimistic and nervous as he awaits and it causes the reader to wonder whether Montague
Yeats’ tone helps enrich the reader’s conception of the poem’s theme. William Butler Yeats conveys tone through his choice of words and use of details. On the first stanza, the poem expresses a serene feeling as he writes, “when you are old and grey and full of sleep”. On the second stanza, the poet delivers a desperate yet sad tone as he admits his love. “But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you”, we find with this tone that the narrator is
Within the first stanza, Yeats utilizes monosyllabic imagery when describing the subject who is commonly believed to be a future Gonne – such as “old grey and full of sleep”, emulating the disposition of an elderly person, whose gentle temperament is enhanced through the soft sibilance of phrases such as “slowly read, and dream of soft look, dream of shadows deep” – which also enriches the romantic tone of the poem. The word “and” is repeated six times throughout the first quatrain -– slowing the rhythm of the iambic pentameter to impart a melancholy and contemplative tone to describe his struggle for a conjoint love. The poem shifts from an intimate and -reverential tone to a broader perspective in which Yeats involves himself, and reveals that the subject was ‘loved by many’. Yeats further connotes a tone of reminiscence and melancholy in which he ideally describes her “pilgrim soul” that “one man loved” – the past participle representing the desire for her to return his current deep affections and the emotional struggle he has grappling with his
The Melancholy and Pessimism in Housman's Poems A.E. Housman was a human figure whose life and career were often moving as well as extraordinary. The melancholy and pessimism in Housman's poems capture the attention of readers and is perhaps the reason why his poetry is still read and studied today. Alfred Edward Housman, a classical scholar and poet, was born in Fockbury in the country of Worcestershire, England on March 26, 1859. His poems are variations on the themes of the regrets and frustrations of young men, especially soldiers.
Mandy moore English 101 Ying yung Circle of Love Throughout history there have been several themes which always seem to prevail through literary work. One of these themes is that of love. Love is universal but yet unique in the reality that it can be portrayed on many different levels and to different degrees in a single literary work. This is what William Faulkner did in his short story "A Rose for Emily." The story tells of a woman whose father kept her from love and how, as a result, after his death she struggled for love with both her community and with her lover.
Lines 5–10 Neruda repeats the first line in the fifth and follows it with a declaration of the speaker’s love for an unnamed woman. The staggered repetitions Neruda employs throughout the poem provide thematic unity. The speaker introduces the first detail of their relationship and points to a possible reason for its demise when he admits “sometimes she loved me too.” He then reminisces about being with her in “nights like this one.” The juxtaposition of nights from the past with this night reveals the change that has taken place, reinforcing his sense of aloneness. In this