Both poems generally give a positive overview of love; both poets suggest that love is never ending and can battle through bad situations. Shakespeare’s sonnet takes the form of argument, talking about the unchanging and eternal qualities of love whilst Browning’s sonnet is like a direct poem to her husband discussing the nature of her love for him. Shakespeare starts the poem with the imperative “let me not to the marriage of true minds” which sets the tone and exploration of true love. Browning also starts with the imperative “how do I love thee? Let me count the ways!” She starts the poem with how suggesting that we can say that we love someone but we can never define the nature of true love.
Their relationship is very traditional and conventional like the sonnet. Likewise, it also shows that even through the dramatic wedding scenes and accusations, Hero and Claudio still did eventually get married in the end. This emphasizes how even throughout these circumstances their true love preserves as in the sonnet 116 it says, “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks.” Shakespeare seems to allude that a
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.
In Wild Oats It explains that a person, over the course of time, comes to realise that his greatest desires of love, are unattainable, and second best things will have to suffice. The central purpose of this poem is to show that love is one of these great desires and despite flashes of promise it contains scarcely anything that is more than fragmentary. Larkin reveals this through tone and diction. Both poets seem to focus a lot on the physical side of love where lust and desire are involved however Abse makes it sound more sensual and even spiritual when he speaks of Eros in his poem. Larkin portrays this sense of objectification in his poem with regards to woman as he describes a woman as a ‘bosomy English rose’ and then follows on to call her ‘beautiful’ throughout the poem portraying the sexual lust involved with love.
‘Sonnet 29’ and ‘First Love’ both meditate upon love, however ‘Sonnet 29’ chooses to reflect on the transience of love and how it leaves you vulnerable, whereas ‘First Love’ cogitates about how love is uncontrollable and everlasting. Both poems are quite pensive but share completely different views. ‘Sonnet 29’ starts with the anaphora of “Pity me not…”. This makes it seem as if the poet, Edna St Vincent Millay, is being defensive as she becomes frustrated and reveals her annoyance, hinting that she may be feeling vulnerable and feeling insecure which links back to the poems theme of love leaving you alone and uncertain. This notion is reflected upon in ‘First Love’, where John Clare uses the oxymoron, “silent voice”.
The diction of soul implies that the love she has for her husband is genuine. Browning builds further on the spiritual realm of her love which gives the reader an impression that the love for her husband is so huge that it rises above the world: “when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and Ideal Grace” Shakespeare however, goes on to further on his exploration of love indicating that love is and “ever fixed mark” perhaps meaning that love is forever. He then uses personification to further build on his idea that love can endure everything saying that love “looks on tempests and is never
Love is how you make another person feel when you are in their presence. Many people show or express their love for someone in many and different ways. To me love is in the actions not the words. The true meaning of love like what is the meaning of life is one of the questions that will remain unsolved forever, but right now love is a great thing that should be treasured forever and valued as a important part in your life, because it will effect all relationships, romantic or not. Love has not changed at all over the course of history and this makes it the most important emotion anyone could ever have.
While Sappho has a very loving and passionate tone, such as when she says "he is a god in my eyes" ("he is more than a hero" Line 1), Catullus has a more accusing and pleading tone, which is shown when he says "yet now she does not want you" ("Wretched Catullus, Leave off Playing the Fool" Line 9). Another example of Catullus' accusing tone is when he calls his lover "oh wicked thing" (Line 15) as he is upset at her and is calling her names. Despite the fact that Catullus and Sappho have many similar ways of writing, they use contrasting methods of getting the same idea across, such as the tone of the
He likes being in love, but he does not like the thought of love and finds it confusing. He is talking about love when he says, “Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel that feel no love in this" (1.3.184-187). Romeo is talking in paradoxes; he does this to emphasize that love is confusing.
Sonnet 43 • Direct address makes the poem personal • Assonance “depth and breadth • Enjambment “every day’s / most” • Anaphoric “I love thee” • In sonnet 43 the language used is quite religious and there are no puns however there are connotations, the sonnet it implying that love will last forever and love is better after death. There are no double meanings in sonnet 43 • The poem would be spoken in the tone of love and compassion, the tone and the mood would be happy and joyful • A love poem in the form of a sonnet. • It expresses the poet’s intense love for her husband-to-be. So intense is her love for him, she says, that it rises to the spiritual level (lines 3 and 4). She loves him freely, without coercion; she loves him purely, without expectation of personal gain.