How do the poems ‘Valentine’ and ‘Sonnet 43’ compare in their portrayal of love? Two poems written approximately 150 years apart, by two extra-ordinary women of their era: ‘Sonnet 43’, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a classic example of a Victorian love poem written as a sonnet, with a flexible rhyming scheme. ‘Valentine’, by Carol Ann Duffy, a controversial expression of modern day free verse; the irregular stanza allowing for the freedom of speech that Browning would not have experienced. Elizabeth Barrett Browning opens her sonnet with a rhetorical question: ‘How do I love thee?’ which she answers with a list to her husband-to-be, expressing how much she loves him. Her father disapproved of Robert Browning and eventually disinherited her; she never saw her father again when she went to Italy.
Whereas ‘Horse Whisperer’ is thirty-four lines long, ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’ is only fifteen long, prompting the thought that maybe the writer of ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’, Dorothy Molloy, was writing a short poem to show how the life of a woman who thinks big of herself has changed greatly over such a short space of time. The writer of ‘Horse Whisperer’ may have written it longer to show how long the gift of Horse Whispering had been around in his family and how it was cruelly snatched away by the industrial revolution. Also, the language in both plays is quite different. In ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’, the woman speaks in an informal tone, using words such as ‘hurdy-gurdy’ and she also uses many medieval terms such as ‘castellated towers’, showing that she is possibly mainly talking about royalty, showing that she thinks a lot of herself and that she is in charge. In ‘Horse Whisperer’, the language is stronger, putting
Close Reading "To the Ladies" by Mary, Lady Chudleigh "To the Ladies" by Mary, Lady Chudleigh Located in our poetry anthology on page 22 and online: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/ladies.html The lines I looked closely at are: "Wife and servant are the same, But only differ in the name: For when the fatal knot is tied, Which nothing, nothing can divide, When she the word Obey has said And man by supreme law has made...(1-6)" In this poem there is a lot of tension between the patriarchal society and the role of women. In line one a wife is metaphorically compared to a servant. Therefore the wife has no say in anything because even though she may be a lady, she is in no position of authority, her only task is to 'serve her husband. This is a very 'male' view of the time period that this poem was written in 1703. Line two continues with the only actual difference between a wife and a servant being the title of 'wife.'
In Hecate’s eyes, she saw poor mortals who went through dark nights, frightened by not been able to see in the dark. She watched them letting moonless nights put down their hope. I need to teach them a lesson she thought and told Selene her idea. “Since I was always on an more mysterious, dark side, why don’t we take turns?” She asked Selene. “Look down there, they are all putted down by darkness, we need to teach them that you need to suffer in order to enjoy.” “But how?” Selene asked.
It is remembered as one of the first American plays written by and for blacks. In her lifetime Grimke was a prominent poet, and her work was included in many key anthologies. But in the years since her death in 1958 she has been ignored by most literary critics, though the few that do consider her writings have valued her as a substantial and surprisingly sophisticated artist from a key time in the history of black American literature. In Grimke’s poem, The Black Finger, she writes about a cypress tree extending like a black finger into the air. This poem stresses hope for the future of blacks.
Her novel `The Awakening' (1899) shocked many people with its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and artistic longings. Collins, Martha Layne (born 1963) Kentucky's first female governor and first woman to chair the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors. Friedan, Betty (born 1921) Born in the U.S., a famous author and known feminist. She wrote the best-seller, "The Feminine Mystique" and challenged traditional roles of women. Cofounder and president of the National Organization for Women (from 1966-1977).
Truth talks about how men assist other women but she is treated differently, Truth frequently resonates “Ain’t I a Woman?” ensuing she is a women, so why is she not treated equally? Truth proceeds... 306 Words | 1 Pages * Aint I a Woman 2 Ain’t I a Woman? Minletrice L. Tarver October 24 2010 Molly Goodson Ain't I a Woman? The speech I chose to do a review on is, Sojourner Truth’s speech: Ain’t I a Woman? This speech was made in 1851 for a women’s convention... 407 Words | 1 Pages * Aint I a Woman, Black Art Responses The poem, “AIN’T I A WOMAN” by Sojourner Truth is a simple worded poem with a strong message in it.
Gwen Hardwood The emotive qualities of Gwen Harwood’s poetry resonate with her readers. She uses her own memories to illustrate love for her family, her loss of innocence and the swiftness of time passing. She demonstrates this in her poems Father and Child, The Violets and At Mornington. The poem The Violets opens with the line “It is dusk and cold,” the time of day symbolising that this persona has reached old age and is metaphorically drawing closer to nightfall or the end of her days. Death is made apparent with the negative adjective “cold.” The flowers she is picking at the beginning of this poem are clearly what stimulate her memory of childhood as they are referenced later in the poem.
Sharon Olds’ Poetry Explained Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco and received education from Stanford and Columbia University. She married a man in the late 1960s and is the mother of a son and daughter. That marriage eventually ended and the painful breakup has influenced her poetry heavily. Olds writes continuously, and only after an extensive amount of time has passed she feels the need to put together poems that comprise a book. She is one of a few poets in the United States whose books of poetry sell in large quantities.
In this stanza he uses the words flame and name, which goes along with the irregular rhyme scheme that happens throughout the poem. In the last stanza, the speaker states “Don’t believe me, please if I say/ that was just my butterfingered way, at thirteen, of asking you if you would marry me.” This part of the poem would elicit skeptical emotions from the reader, as they would not know whether to believe if the speaker is legitimately remorseful. The poet also uses alliteration in that stanza when he says “marry me”, and from its demeanour, it evokes forgiveness from the reader because he wants to let the reader know that he was immature in expressing his love. The alliteration provides