Neoclassical poetry satirizes things that should have larger meanings whose meanings have been lost through the changing times of society. In John Donne’s “The Canonization,” Robert Herrick’s “To Daffodils,” and Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock,” each use their individual styles of writing to incorporate religion into their poems with the use of metaphors and poetic devices to express their particular feelings. In metaphysical poetry, the poet lives in the moment, love is endless, and time means nothing. Metaphysical poets are full of emotion and are able to connect two ridiculous things by using love as a tie between them. In John Donne’s “The Canonization” love is connected with metaphor after metaphor to explain the speakers need to love over everything else.
and then "promised to never what?". It is an intriguing way of structuring the poem. "He'd beg her Returned & promised to never Beat her again" The story between the abusive husband and runaway wife in the poem is seen through the eyes and heard through the voice of their child. By writing the poem through the point of view of the child, you, as the reader, feel yourself caught in between the broken relationship in the same way the child is. This brings a different, yet genius, dimension to the poem.
Comparative Essay- The Manhunt vs. Hour Simon Armitage’s, ‘The Manhunt’ and Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Hour’ both use strong feelings to emphasize their core messages. While each author takes a different perspective on the nature of these feelings, in the end, both poems have an intense feeling of love at their core. Armitage’s ‘The Manhunt’ is about a soldier coming home from the war with various injuries. It is told from the point of view of the wife/girlfriend of the soldier.
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
Relationships often consist of many layers which are strongly depicted by poets. The writers of ‘Manhunt’ and ‘Quickdraw’ present them very effectively. In ‘Manhunt’, the narrator speaks of her relationship with her husband, a soldier who has returned from war with physical scars; whereas, the narrator of ‘Quickdraw’ expresses an intensely painful relationship as a result of her lovers inconsiderable amount of phone calls and texts. Both poets use emotive language to convey the immense pain suffered in their relationships. In ‘Manhunt’, instead of using a cliché representation of a soldier (powerful and well-built), Armitage chooses to characterize the persona’s husband as weak and fragile, “the damaged, porcelain collar-bone”.
Romeo is a great reader of love poetry, and from the beginning we could see that his portrayal of love for Rosaline seemed that he was trying to act out what he had read about. When Juliet first meets him, she says that he ‘kisses by th’ book’, meaning that he kisses by the rules. This shows that Romeo’s kiss is proficient but lacks originality, and this is also reflected upon by his personality. When Romeo meets Juliet, Rosaline instantly vanishes from his mine, and in fact Juliet is far more than just a replacement; Romeo’s love for her is far deeper, more authentic and unique than the clichéd puppy love for Rosaline. Romeo’s love matures in course of the play, from a shallow desire to intense, profound passion.
Some poems are shown from a male perspective, and some aren’t. “Anne Hathaway” is not shown from the male perspective but it in fact shown from the perspective of how she felt as a person when she was with William Shakespeare, this differs this poem from the rest of the poems as most are either a mockery of the love shared between a couple, and the others are about how the husbands didn’t compromise well enough – leading to change and unrequited love. An example of a poem not being the key/highlight of the collection is “Mrs Darwin”. This poem can be interpreted in however way possible – with the most obvious interpretation being a poem about the mockery of Darwin by Mrs Darwin. It doesn’t sum up the love Anne Hathaway showed in the poem that is reflected in all other poems, but just the humour of the relation Darwin had with his wife.
With close attention to elements of Donne`s poems, and the disagreement between Samuel Johnson and T.S. Eliot which you Encountered in your seminars, investigate whether intelligence or feeling is more important in poetry. Metaphysical poets such as Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw display intelligence and wit throughout their poetry, however Johnson found fault with these poets for their overly elaborate conceits and metaphoric distortions. It would be very difficult to suggest that this does not overshadow their feeling. T.S.
He realizes that his mistress is not perfect but despite this he is able to accept her for who she is, and come to love her. Even though throughout the poem he feels the need to comment on all of her imperfections he continues to use “my mistress” signalling that perhaps there is more to it then he hints at. He mocks love in the beginning, but as time goes on he slowly becomes more conformed to the love poems of the time period. The opening line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 is an unexpected simile “My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun”. We might normally expect poets, especially those of Shakespeare's time, to praise the women they love by telling us that their eyes do shine like the sun.
There are some moments of sarcasm and bitterness especially when she tries convincing herself that she is “happy now” despite her very unpleasant reality. The emotions of the bride can be described as depressing because it seems as though she is living in misery because she is more concerned about putting other’s happiness before her own. “Bridal Ballad” touches on a fundamental theme of marriage and the love, loss, and longing for happiness that comes along with it. With the themes of marriage, the concept of love is the first to make an appearance in the poem. It is well known to the readers that the bride’s previous lover died in battle or “fell in the battle down the dell.” It is also quite evident that as she and her forced lover exchange vows, she remembers the breath of her former and true lover, hints the line that says “sighed to him before me, thinking him dead D’Elormie.” The true love towards her dead husband greatly outweighs the phony love for her new partner.