With Chaucer’s humour there is also satire which parodies ordinary life and the previous tale. Because of the position of the Miller’s Tale as an answer to the Knight’s Tale, we have to look at what that means. Seeing as the Miller’s Tale is a direct answer to the Knight’s Tale of high romance and courtly love, we get the juxtaposition of two very different tales that really are about the same thing. Chaucer shows us that the fabliau can be a parody of the romance genre. In both stories we have a love triangle with a woman which is unobtainable and two men that fight over her.
They both explore the theme of love or rather painful love. the poet revels the link between the two poems’s through a verity of techniques which is done very effectively but also shows the difference between the obsessive love in “Havisham” and the possessive love of “Valentine”. The pain of love is evident from the beginning in both poems. “Carol Ann Duffy” uses the tone in the first couple of stanzas to show the unorthodox nature of the love. “Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain.
Poe’s famous poem, “The Raven,” is about a man’s descent into madness. Whereas, Hawthorne had a family and seemed to enjoy his life, he believed that man had the ability to overcome the very worst of itself. Hawthorne’s, “The Scarlet Letter,” is about one woman over-coming and sticking it to the system. Edgar Allen Poe is seen more as an idealist due to his psychological issues relating to his writings. The realist of the two would be Nathaniel Hawthorne, his intentions for writing was to eliminate degradation and to retain morality.
In The Bloody Chamber Angela Carter reverses gothic traditions so that the males become the victims instead of the females. Consider at least two of the stories in the bloody chamber in the light of this view. The gender constructs of passive, young, virginal woman who are victimised by dominant, strong and wealthy males is a common trait throughout gothic tales including many of Angela Carters short stories from “The Bloody Chamber”. However, Carter received the criticism of “[extracting] latent content, conjuring up a new exotic hybrid” in which she challenges the typical stereotypes of gothic conventions, influenced by her feminist nature. These caused the post modern versions of her stories to adopt dualisms of combining sexual desires with naivety and give alternative interpretations that perhaps the male characters suffered victimisation instead.
The literary elements in the poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci, make it an interesting and engaging story. It is a ballad about a knight and his story of a faery lady he falls in love with. This poem is a tragic one, that includes the love story of a knight and a lady. The three elements that affect the reader is the imagery, the tone, and the theme. Also in this poem are elements such as persona and metaphor.
Poetry and drama have a few key features that emphasize their per formative nature. One is the use of rhyme, rhythm, meter, alliteration, and other types of sound symbolism. For example, in Gwendolyn Brooks' "We real cool", the poet uses a strong rhyme scheme, a consistent meter, and an almost sing-song tone to demonstrate the lack of education of the narrator and his or her youthfulness. It also emphasizes the last line "We die soon.". Another is in "unity of action".
This poem uses a lot of literary devices, such as alliteration, assonance and internal rhyme. The use of alliteration and rhymes such as “open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter.” (105) From my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Lenore. (10) “While I nodded, nearly napping”(3) All of these are good examples of alliteration because it gives good sources of repetition of consonant
Many people consider Wuthering Heights to be a classic straightforward love story, a Romeo and Juliet scenario in Yorkshire moors but this is not true. The story, instead, focuses on how love drags the lives of two people to agony. As stated before the main focus is on life of
(Title) Edgar Allen Poe wrote his stories during the Romantic Literary movement. This movement began with the book published by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe titled “The Sorrows of Young Werther”. Authors during this time period (1770-1860) included Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Henry Longfellow. Yet one author who was the most prominent at this time was Edgar Allen Poe. Poe’s writing style demonstrated the knowledge of the human mind, the fears that haunt human being, and the work of literary genius.
Many have been killed in both the name of love and hate. Therefore, while these emotions are wholly different regarding the connotation that they purvey to the person experiencing the affection, the depth and breadth of these emotions are eerily similar. In the poem “America” by Claude McKay, the reader is treated to the beautiful expression of both of these emotions in a poem full of frustrating duality and an extremely strong statement about society. The piece is a standard sonnet composed of three quatrains and a couplet written in iambic pentameter featuring the traditional English rhyming scheme. Throughout the poem, McKay ferries back and forth between his intense positive and negative feelings of both America and the American societal norms of the period.