In the second stanza, last line, “share in its shame” represents the foolishness the speaker feels for loving that woman. In the third stanza, the speaker does not like hearing the lover’s name after their separation. He compares hearing her name to the sound of a “knell” which means a bell usually used in funerals or deaths. By this word choice, the speaker tells the reader just how deep his sorrow is, comparing hearing her name to hearing death bells each and every time. It causes him to question why he ever loved his ex-lover.
I am going to provide a comparison of two of his poems, ‘The Going’ and ‘The Voice’. I chose these two poems as I believe they both share a close association, they were both written shortly after the unexpected death of his wife, Emma in 1912. Both poems are extremely personal and powerful in exploring the guilt he feels about the unhappy marriage him and his wife shared before her death. Both poems are written in first person, Hardy evidently being the speaker. In ‘The Going’, he uses a monologue style, in my opinion addressing Emma.
Duffy seems to use a lot of repetition and alliteration such as “over and over”, “dead, dead” I believe she uses this to symbolise that she thought of him repeatedly. I believe this stanza displays her almost hating him because he died, which believe gives a sense of resentment over him. It also says “Married” which implies that she had wed Lazarus the same day she had lost him, it says “ripped the cloth I was married in” this portrays that she got married on the day that her husband died and had ripped her wedding clothes from her body because of her suffering that she went through on the day. Where it says “burial stones” I believe this conveys the image of a graveyard where she grieved over her loss and it implies that it was a terrifying experience for her. In the second stanza Duffy talks about the loneliness that she is going through and how she can’t stand to live without him.
Emily Dickinson’s poetry came deep from her personal experiences, life, and feelings. She used her life as a painter would use a palate of colors to pain a canvas. Dickinson wrote about a wide assortment of topics, for example, death, love, religion, beauty, and nature. Her use of metaphors, unusual capitalization, and abstract language helps define Dickinson as a writer and a transcendentalist. However her transcendentalist-like poems only appear when she discusses nature, not necessarily when she primarily discusses death and eternity or emotions.
How does Hardy tell the story in Under the Waterfall? In his poem Under the Waterfall, Hardy gives his wife Emma a voice, we assume he is writing with her as narrator and with the prior knowledge that their relationship is deteriorating the reader may already know that this is a retrospective, romantic yet sad look at the question of eternal love. Hardy uses a woman as a narrator in order to get a feminine perspective of the event of that day as well as a view on their broken down relationship; feelings of sadness and regret are conveyed using this technique since a sorrowful tone emanates from “no lip has touched it since his and mine” a play on words, not necessarily regarding the glass anymore but a metaphor for their marriage. Moreover, Hardy uses lots of personification and metaphorical language in order to convey similarities between the waterfall and the question of the elusive eternal true love. “With a hollow and boiling voice it speaks and has spoken since hills were turfless peaks” is an example of Hardy’s belief that like the waterfall, true love “never ceases” even “in wars, in peaces”.
Explore some of the ways in which Tennison powerfully uses language to explore feelings grief and loss in “in Memoriam” Tennyson wrote “in Memoriam” after death of his friend Hallam that died unexpectedly and unpredictably. They were so close friends that Hallam was fiancé of his sister, but after death of his friend he felt so bad, so miserable, he felt alone and he was asking himself about significance of man’s existence, and he started working on the short poem’s “in Memoriam” for 17 years. The poem “in Memoriam” starts from expression how valuable the problem of death of his friend followed by memories of happy past spent. Then he confuses why did Hallam died because he is so good person also his best friend. Furthermore death of his friend gives him way to more general reflections on the meaning of life.
The couple deals with feelings of grief, frustration and anger while trying to cope with the death of their child. Robert Frost wrote the poem “Home Burial” after he and his wife suffered the tragic loss of their son. Through Frost's experience he shows that men and women have different ways of grieving. “Home Burial” illustrates the emotions people feel after such a loss, and how they face those emotions. Throughout “Home Burial” Frost also illustrates the conflict of a married couple’s life and the struggle with grief and with the strain it puts on their marriage.
Plath references the Holocaust in this poem to show how much aggression and betrayal she felt as a result of her father’s death. Her father’s death, her struggle for success, and her failed marriage with poet Ted Hughes, all contributed to Plath’s need to portray her feelings in her poetry. As a confessional poet Plath wrote the poem “Edge”, which truly shows how confessional Plath is. This poem shows the depression that took over her life as she talks about her want for death. Sylvia Plath, writing in the Post-Modern society, created her poetry to represent the time period by supporting women’s liberation, recalling and relating to World War two and the Holocaust, and proving to be one of the many successful confessional poets of the era.
He lost many of his loved ones in several tragic ways and in short periods of time. The death of his son, Elliot, and the death of his mother were both in the same year. This was a strong dose of reality to Robert and an alteration from his accustomed blissful farm life. In many of his poems, Robert Frost presents a strong sense of imagination and dreams which are used to represent the truth of reality. Confirming Robert Frost’s style of using imagination and dreams will be done by proving that he does use imagination and dreams in his poems and then continuing to prove that he uses them to compare to reality.
“The Story of an Hour” describes the series of emotions Louise Mallard is feeling after hearing of the death of her husband, who she believes has died in a railroad disaster. “The Story of an Hour” follows Mrs. Louise Mallard and an hour of her life, during which her husband has died in a railroad accident. Upon receiving the news, she seems to be thrown into a downward spiral of emotions mourning for his death. As she falls deeper into grief, little hints are revealed that her mourning is progressing into the joy of her freedom. Great care was taken to tell Louise Mallard, who has a heart problem, of her husband’s death, Brently Mallard, during a railroad disaster.