The poetic device helped express the authors feelings because he compairs beauty and night so you can get a better understanding of where the author is coming from.| She walks in beauty like the night| Emotion:What emotion was the author trying to express?I think the authour was trying to express love and therefore was at peace.| She walks in beauty like the night| Structure:How is the poem organized (lines, stanzas, etc.)? What is unique or interesting about the structure of the poem?Does the poem rhyme?Something that is unique about the poem is that uses words and sayings. Which tells me it has been
T.S. Eliot shows this concept in his poems ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’, in which he uses personification and imagery among other techniques in order to portray how the persona’s lack of relations with others has lead to his social isolation. Oscar Wilde explores a similar concept in an entirely different way in ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’. In this text, the lack of a positive influence in Dorian’s life leads to his moral corruption and in the end, his own demise. Our need for close mutual relationships is also portrayed in the film ‘Gattaca’, in which the main character relies heavily upon his friends for support.
The romantic love of Romeo and Juliet has become very popular and is the ideal example of star-crossed lovers. The love of family honor is what keeps these lovers apart: the feud between the Capulets and Montagues. The purpose of this essay is to provide examples of these two types of love, which will then be compared and contrasted. People should understand Romeo and Juliet, and further study its themes to build up a successful literature pathway. Romantic love is the most basic type, where two people have a mutual connection of love towards each other.
Nevertheless, Elizabeth Barrett Browning advocates that the strength of love can help overcome the obstacles. In contrast, F. Scott Fitzgerald sees the world dissolved in excessive corruption shown through The Great Gatsby as it exemplifies the failure of the American Dream as well as the broken world where love struggles to exist. Love through the two texts is shown to be powerful and necessary for fulfilment. The love presented through the Sonnets from the Portuguese suggests that her life was completely changed as a result of the dominance of love. Prior to this her life was shown as dark and deathly through the personification of the “mystic shape” that moves behind her.
Edgar Allen Poe demonstrates in his written works of “Lenore”, “Annabel Lee”, and “To Helen” an element that seemingly attempts to give the reader exceptional emotional sadness. Poe does this by telling the poem in a point of view where a man tells the story of the death or remembrance of a young love or woman. He also puts a sense of gloom in each of his poems. This allows for the reader to create a mental image if the setting, without him having to directly point it out. As well, the gloominess of his poetry could also be due to his longing effect of sadness that he attempts to express.
Compare how feelings towards another person are presented in “Hour” and “To His Coy Mistress” “Hour” by Carol Ann Duffy and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvel, deal with feelings and emotions towards another person in different ways. In “Hour” the narrator describes an hour spent between her and her lover, and how the feeling of love they share between them is so strong it nearly manages to stop time. Whereas in “To His Coy Mistress” the narrator is telling the woman who he loves that she shouldn’t play hard to get because there isn’t enough time in the world. His feelings of physical passion grow throughout the poem as he tries to persuade her to have sex with him while they are still young and attractive. Form and structure are used effectively in both poems to show feelings and emotions to their lovers.
In Midnight in Paris, Gil undertakes an imaginative journey as a result of his nostalgia. The dissatisfaction of the present drives Gil to the 1920’s- an era of Modernism. Along the journey, he meets individuals that are critical in changing his perspective including the influential writers Fitzgerald and Hemingway, and Adriana, a person of the 1920s with Golden Age thinking of La Belle Époque. The linguistic features depicted by the artists through dialogue gives strong impressions of individualism and hold an epicentre of modernistic beliefs. The characters are essential in setting the backgrounds and morals to the time period so that the viewers are able to gain a better understanding to Gil’s desires and emotions.
The poem In Paris with You contrasts reality with the fantasy of love. The poem explores the consequences of love. For example how difficult it is to fall in love and trust somebody again after bad experiences. The narrator seems to reject all the “Traditional expectations” of love in search of reality and quick, easy affection. This poem takes the reader through the journey of trusting/ being part of a relationship again.
The poem’s theme appears to be about unrequited love and a man wooing his “coy mistress” to sleep with him, but this poem does has a deeper meaning, which is really impressive and therefore is striking. The theme of mortality is highlighted in this poem through word choice and by using imagery which reinforces the idea of death. Words relating to death such as “ ashes” and “grave” are used to emphasise the lack of time that we have and the stark contrast between the slow, idyllic first stanza and the sped up, heavier second stanza shows the difference between the idealistic eternity and the reality that we are all mortal and have to die at some point. Another deeper theme introduced is the idea of “carpe diem” which is shown through the lustier language in the poem, word choice such as “time devour”, and also through the quickened pace of the second stanza. The speaker is not simply asking the “coy mistress” to sleep with him, what he is saying is if there was all the time in the world then life would be ideal but there is not so they have to live for the moment.
"Midway in the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost" is how Dante begins his distinguished poem the Inferno. Dante's aim is to terrify his readers by describing, in great detail, Hell in his poem. He establishes his ethos, logos, and pathos skillfully, provides powerful diction, tone, language and creative syntax to successfully frighten his readers, and the subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and speaker of the poem are facile to find. Dante, from the very beginning of his poem, demonstrates that the main character in the poem, who is Dante himself, is credible and trustworthy by appealing to ethos. The audience is able to feel sympathy with Dante, the character, because he shows many emotions that the readers would also possess if they were in his position.