Miss Campbell March 28, 2011 English 2201 Adam loder Comparison Essay The movies Twelfth Night and She’s the Man both have some similarities and differences that the Authors expressed in their own ways. The ways the author uses these is through setting and tone. The movie Twelfth Night was a play written by William Shakespeare. The setting is the time and place of where the action takes place. The setting is a main point in this movie because when Viola discovers her brother is missing and she thinks he is dead, she goes into disguise as her brother.
Explore the ways poets present their feelings about relationships Both of these poems (Remembrance and 04/01/07) are both about death and loss in relationship, in 04/01/07 the loss is a mans mother and in Remembrance the loss is about a women’s lover who has died quite a long time ago whereas in 04/01/07 the man has just received a phone call from his brother informing him of his mother’s death therefore for the brothers just finding must then mean that the death has happened very recently compared to Remembrance because your first and automatic emotions towards a death are different to the ones after it sinks in for a while. For example one of the first emotions you will feel when you know of a death of someone near to you would be something like shock or a sudden rush of sadness but as time goes on the feelings change more over to the side of grieving and just missing the person in general. Firstly Ian McMillian presents his feelings from the get go of a very strong and emotionally tight relationship with his mother, we can clearly see this because as soon as he hears the bad news from his brother it immediately affects him and also quite strongly. “And I feel the tears slap my torn face.” This shows that he was very fond of his mother hence this sudden and strong reaction to the news of her death you would expect this from her son but this would not happen in all cases in which maybe the mother and son did not get on, he would still be sad that his mother had died but he may not of necessarily cried. In Remembrance however the way this poet (Emily Brontë) presented her feelings about relationships slightly differently due partly to the story told in her poem and the way that it’s written portrays different feelings.
In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry. In ‘Love Songs In Age’, Larkin illustrates the view that time and it’s passing merely leads to many disappointments. The enjambment he uses amongst all three stanzas, “and stood/relearning” in the first and second and “more/the glare” between the second and third; this implies the suggestion that love cannot stop the passing of time and the instances that happen within it, for example the death of the woman’s husband. During the first stanza, Larkin uses imagery to create a memoir of the music sheets that the woman has found, “one marked in circles”, “and coloured”, suggesting that the joy of life, love and happiness isn’t appreciated until age shows what one has missed during their youth. We can then imply from this suggestion that Larkin feels time is only appreciated during the older years of one’s life.
My Last Duchess - YELLOW Macbeth - GREEN ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning is a poem which deals with the imaginary character of the Duke of Ferrara. In essence, the poem is a psychological portrayal of the Duke presented to the reader as if he or she is simply listening in on a conversation. As the poem unfolds, the reader becomes aware that the Duke is talking to an envoy from his fiancée’s family in order to make final arrangements for his new marriage. Thus, the nature of the discussion seems rather strange as the Duke is standing in front of a portrait of his former wife, recounting memories of his last marriage. The fact that the reader is able to get a strong sense of what the Duke is like, is testament to Browning’s skilful use of the dramatic monologue form, coupled with effective word choice and imagery.
LOVES LOST July 19, 2005 Edith Wharton’s novel, Ethan Frome, appears to be at least somewhat autobiographical. There are many similarities between Edith Wharton and the character from her novel, Ethan Frome. Both Ethan and Edith married for the wrong reasons. Neither were in love with their spouses. After his mother died, Ethan could not bear to be alone again, and therefore, asked Zeena to marry him.
This may be why this poem is written like it is, compared to poetry written years after this. Marvell puts across the point of they don’t have all the time in the world together, if they don’t have sexual intercourse soon. This may be because points we’re looked at differently two hundred years after Shakespeare time. The first similarity I noticed was that the both poems share the same theme. This is the theme of Love.
However, in ‘The Manhunt’, the poet uses metaphors to refer to some of the husband’s body parts. His jaw is called a ‘blown hinge’ tells us that the husband can no longer open up to his wife about his feelings and emotions, and that he is keeping not able to communicate with his wife like he used to before war. This communication is what is making the wife question whether her husband will ever normal again. Just after the personification in the poem ‘Sonnet 116’, Shakespeare then adds, ‘though rosy lips and cheeks. During Shakespearean times, rosy lips and rosy cheeks were often used to describe beautiful girls, representing health, wellness, beauty and youth.
In my last duchess the characters mentioned in this poem are based on real life, historical figures. The narrator is Duke Alfonso II who ruled a place in northern Italy called Ferrara between 1559 and 1597. The Duchess of whom he speaks was his first wife,Lucrezia de' Medici who died in 1561 aged 17, only two years after he married her. In real life, Lucrezia died in suspicious circumstances and might have been poisoned. The poem is set in 1564, three years after the death of the Duchess.
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.
Daisy is seeing Gatsby behind her husbands, toms, back. However, Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, but her husband doesn’t find out that until the end of the novel. Wilson, Myrtles husband, when he found out he told Myrtle, “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool god.”(pg.160) More immorality took place in the novel