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.
The structure of the poem demonstrates the positive setting in the beginning, which then decreases to a negative setting towards the end. For example ‘It was roses, roses, all the way’ in the first stanza, and ‘For they fling, whoever has a mind, Stones at me for my year’s misdeeds’, towards the end. The poem also goes from past tense to the present; this shows how easily Browning disregarded the time. Also, the stanzas takes the reader chronologically through the highs and lows of the past year, towards the end, the patriot is looking forward to heaven. Browning also uses the form of the poem to create an captivating narrative.
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.
He is saying that the sun is better looking than her eyes. Almost the entire poem says bad things about his mistress but at the end, in lines 13 & 14 “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare” he contradicts himself by saying that he is in love with her no matter how insignificant she is. These are all good examples to show why this poem is an anti-love poem, even though at the end of it he says he loves her no matter what she looks like or how ugly she is. This shows many exaggerations the author used to make the poem
I will prove this is true in the following paragraphs Shakespeare uses a large variety of metaphors and similes. A metaphor found in Sonnet 116,” Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks” is a symbol of outer beauty that changes with time. Sonnet 138 shows a similar image, “When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies,” paints the picture of love in a similar way. Both the poems are depicting a love that has been through good and bad that have developed over time. For instance beauty fading with time and also trust fading.
Summary of Looking at the Worst: Wallace Steven’s The Rock Helen Vendler in the text: Looking at the Worst: Wallace Steven’s The Rock, considers how the three premises, which Stevens examined in his late work, affected him on an emotional level, and how they changed his creative structure and style. In the first premise Stevens ponders stasis as a final state of reality, which can be seen in the poem The Plain Sense of Things. From a sunny start, it slowly changes toward the final stasis, but it is not something unknown. In the poem Stevens is simply returning to the state of things that was before. Stevens’s style has changed from his earlier poems, from using adjectives to intensify nouns to nondescript facts and numerous repetitions which symbolize the return to the former stasis.
Comparative Essay In her poems Ariel, Whiteness I Remember and Daddy, Sylvia Plath explores a variety of issues and conveys various themes in some very interesting ways. And while some of the themes and tones used throughout the poem are similar, others are very starkly contrasted. I will explore these two opposing degrees in the following essay. One theme consistent throughout all three poems is despondency. Whilst poems like Ariel begin with release, and Daddy ends with hopefulness, wholly their content is rather dejected and joyless.
Nothing gold can stay. Nothing gold can stay by Robert Frost The poem “Nothing gold can stay” by Robert Frost published in 1923 encompasses the melancholic paradox existence of certain elements in nature that are impermanent but too desirable to have to leave. It was first published in The Yale Review and was the catalyst for Frost’s positive reception among critics which got him the Pulitzer prize. The poem is divided up into 8 lines, and consists of 6 syllables in every verse with the exception of verses 3 and 8. The poem starts with a description of the blooming nature of spring and its golden colour.
TENNYSON’S FROM MAUD; A MONODRAMA NOTES AND WORKSHEET PART II (lines – 194 to 213) Maud is written in a number of sections and a variety of poetic forms, but from the point of view and in the voice of a single speaker, which help us to distinguish Maud from Tennyson’s other poems. Maud is a Monodrama, a dramatic piece for one speaker. Maud is among Tennyson's personal favourites, yet is often received unfavourably. This article highlights what is good, or at least worthy of further analysis, within it. The narrative of the poem concerns an unnamed lover.
Use the poems we read in class as your models to follow when you write your own. Remember, this is a "write-like" poem, so you should try to write like the authors of the poems below. Your poem should pose a question/situation/problem, a turning point, and a resolution - just like the sonnets did that we read in class. Sonnet 18 Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime