Firstly, Donne's poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of images. The poem offers elaborate parallels between apparently dissimilar things, “Then as th’ earth’s inward narrow crooked lanes, Do purge sea water’s fretful salt away,” (Donne, Lines 6-7) Donne's poem expresses a wide variety of emotions and attitudes, as if Donne himself were trying to define his experience of love through his poetry. Although, “The Triple Fool” gives a limited view of Donne’s attitude towards love, Donne treats the poem as a part of experience, giving insight into the complex range of experiences concerning love and grief, “I thought, if I could draw my pains through rhyme's vexation, I should them allay.” (Donne, Lines 8-9) Overall, the imagery in “The Triple Fool,” contributes to Donne’s sorrowful diction of love and grief. Moreover, Donne explains that poetry is for love and grief, and not for pleasing things, but songs make love and grief even worse. The first verse of the poem states that he is two times a fool, a fool for loving, and a fool for admitting it, “I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.” (Donne, Lines 1-3) Donne follows to say that he would still not be wise, even if “she” (Donne, Line 5) returned his love.
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.
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.
The syntax of the poem is structured into a series of dependent clauses forming incomplete thoughts such as “And absent yet enjoys the bloody day”, and is common throughout the work. More than likely, Wilmot portrays these incomplete clauses in order to indicate the central theme of the speakers’ ultimately unfulfilling life of pleasure. Comparisons are necessary in this poem in order to format a sense of good and bad coinciding together. To make these comparisons, Wilmot’s fills his poems with similes such as “As some brave admiral, in former war”, and “As from black clouds when lightning breaks away”. These comparisons add a sense of non-linearity and complexity to the poem.
For ATP, in the first couplet, the speaker is angry at his friend; in the second, at his foe. This difference immediately makes the simple poem less simple. As we continue on reading the couplets are beautifully rhyme, meter and show the importance of the purpose which is tolerance and forgiveness. In TMVTL rhyme is not respect and it too sentimental. The central idea is there but not coherent.
This is further carried on in the next line where the poet uses the sibilance of “so sweet and so sudden” to reinforce his unbearable surge of emotion. On the contrary, ‘Sonnet 29’ also uses sibilance, but for a completely different purpose. The sibilance of “man’s desire is hushed so soon” creates a hissing sound, making the tone slightly bitter and angry as the poet talks about how love will leave you vulnerable. This is thoroughly different compared to ‘First Love’s lyrical, melodic feel as Clare talks about the gentle nature of love. ‘First Love’ also portrays love as something innocent.
Among the list of themes he addresses is that of loneliness, particularly in his poems Alone and The Raven. These poems certainly travel down the road less travelled and examine topics that can only be beautified by poetry. Using an array of poetic techniques, Poe breaks free of the constraints of conventional writing and finds ‘the mystical’ in the world that surrounded him. Oscar Wilde believed that poetry was inspired by the mystical richness of the world in which he existed. Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry certainly lives up to Wilde’s standards by taking his experience with the dance of life and intertwining it into his work which essentially took readers through a journey of the mystical.
People thought that Brown’s irony was sharp, his ideas were exciting, and he was not only and protestor of his time but one of the first times. Brown’s Work protested the classical folklore in the way it was written. “He infused his poetry with genuine characteristic flavor by adopting his medium geniality and optimism” was James Johnson reaction to his
I think, the poet uses this passage to put forward his view that being good and moral are more just ways to live one's life. This can be seen in the lines: ''Then he who had harrowed the hearts of men with pain and affliction in former times and had given offense also to God found that his bodily powers failed him''. In my opinion, this one sentence characterises this ideology. The fact that despite all of Grendel's supposed power and cunning, he suffers greatly as a result of his malevolent actions. To further solidify this ideology, Grendel's adversary Beowulf, a man who lived his life in an antithetical way to Grendel, survives the encounter.
As for When We Two Parted, a poem by Lord Byron, (George Gordon Byron) published in 1813, is a poem of a heart break, conveying strong feelings and emotion simplistically, but full of meaningful vocabulary. What the first three poems share in common, is that the theme of love is described visually and they all share negative and positive language. However, there are aspects of the poems that differentiate each poem. Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 are almost opposites of each other, and have the same number of lines; fourteen; both written in the Tudor time and Porphyria’s Lover is a dramatic monologue, written in the Victorian period. The poems overall are about love, though they are explored in different ways; which is shown via the poets attitudes towards their lovers.