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.
Just as the novel mentions, “he spoke as if Daisy’s reaction was the only thing that mattered.” (Fitzgerald, 2001: 192) Gatsby is nimble and ambitious in making money, which shows the “sagacity” of modern people, but towards love he gives us the impression of “a naive young man.” The reader may wonder what makes Gatsby great? Gatsby is great because of his loyalty to love. He has the desire to repeat the past, and the desire for money. For Gatsby, Daisy is the soul of his dreams. He believes he can regain Daisy.
The Warrior of the Heart In Edmond Rostand’s play, Cyrano de Bergerac, one personality stands above the rest; the bravery and honor he shows certainly makes him deserving to have such a play named after him. Cyrano de Bergerac resembles the “prince charming” that would grace the pages of any fairy tale story, save for one insecurity: his nose. Although it is taught that outward appearances mean nothing in the face of inner strength and personality, Cyrano finds himself unworthy¾only for sake of his nose¾to be loved by Roxane, the beautiful and intellectual woman of his childhood. It is to be the city of love, as many call Paris, yet Cyrano stands alone, his silent love burning beneath his breast while on the outside, he is the perfect friend to Roxane. In the fantastical world that is Cyrano de Bergerac, there exists the type of hero that has been lost in the modern world.
“I love you now- isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once- but I loved you too. (132)” Tom wins because he is strongest in the summer. He becomes the romantic hero that Gatsby strives for.
| Georgia Press | Memo To: | John Smith | From: | Kaylon Jackson | cc: | Supervisor | Date: | July 20, 2013 | Re: | Publication | | | The purpose of this memo is to address the publication ideas that I have. My idea for this publication comes from the literacy text “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, which by the way is considered to be poetry. The overall quality in this poem consists of everlasting love, pain, sorrow, determination, and strength. The impressive thing about this poem is how Edgar expresses his love for Annabel. In this poem he made it clear that Annabel was the one and only true love of his life, and he wasn’t going to be without her, ever.
Compare the presentation of the poems’ subjects in sonnets 18 and 130. One way Shakespeare presents the subject on the sonnet is the use of nature. Sonnet 18 is all about how the subject is ‘more lovely’ than even the most beautiful of things – ‘a summer’s day’. The subject is compared to nature in a different way, but still in a good light. ‘By chance or by nature’s changing course untrimm’d; / But thy eternal summer shall not fade’, this basically means that summer will come to an end but their beauty will not.
In this sonnet Shakespeare does mention rough times, however, even though sometimes there are rough times in life, love and friendship will conquer all. “Sonnet 116” is about love in its most pure form. This sonnet is praising the joy of lovers who have come together freely, and enter into a relationship based on trust, love and understanding (An Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116.) “Sonnet 116” addresses the meaning of marriage and how it is the most pure thing in the world and if two people are in love then why should they not be married. Much like “Sonnet 18” this sonnet is about love, however, a deeper, purer love.
This notion is reflected upon in ‘First Love’, where John Clare uses the oxymoron, “silent voice”. This depicts a sense of confusion or uncertainty, adding to the ongoing message in ‘First Love’ of true love being out of one’s control emotionally. The theme of being out of control is reiterated in the first line where he says, “I ne’er was struck before that hour”. The harshness of “struck” dramatizes his realization of being in love. 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.
In addition, similarly to Sonnet 18, Juliet’s words suggest that there is something eternal and everlasting about Romeo’s beautiful personality, hence the demand for him to be transformed into a star. Although Shakespeare was writing more than four hundred years ago, modern culture shows a similar idealisation of love and beauty. For example, James Blunt’s famous, best –selling song ‘You’re Beautiful’ , focuses on physical beauty, and also contains the metaphorical line’ I saw an angle’ implying that true beauty can have a spiritual dimension. So both modern culture and Shakespearean poetry share some similarities: idealising beauty in an unrealistic way
1 SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS (PARTIAL LISTING) & ANALYSIS XVIII (18) 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 dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. This is one of the most famous of all the sonnets, justifiably so. But it would be a mistake to take it entirely in isolation, for it links in with so many of the other sonnets through the themes of the descriptive power of verse; the ability of the poet to depict the fair youth adequately, or not; and the immortality conveyed through being hymned in these 'eternal lines'. It is noticeable that here the poet is full of confidence that his verse will live as long as there are people drawing breath upon the earth, whereas later he apologises for his poor wit and his humble lines which are inadequate to encompass all the youth's excellence.