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. Donne releases his emotions by
This processes may inncur much weeping and sorrow. The next phase is Disorganisation and despair; this phase is where the person grieving becomes more and more disattached with their normal acrivities and becomes apathetic, yet still feeling increased despair inside. The final stage of this modal is know as Reorganisadtion and recovery. This stage is where the grieving person gets back to normality and starts to reorgnise their life. Though they still griev over the deceased, the momories of their death are taken over by positive memories of their life.
Rapture documents ‘The trajectory of a love affair from its giddy beginnings, with poems of almost prelapsarian sensuality, to deep love and then its sorrowful end.’ Often, the poems are full of tumultuous, complex feelings but “free of particularity, of identifying characteristics about the lover” thus Duffy implies these feelings to be universal. They are mixed feelings of despair, grief, vulnerability and hope in the poem ‘Over’. Its one worded title, which is almost ambiguous as it’s not clear whether the over-ness refers to the end of the relationship or the overcoming of the sadness of a broken heart, is brutal and void of emotion so suggestive of the restraining in of grief over ‘the death of love’; perhaps as an attempt to remain controlled and a coping mechanism to ‘endure this hour’. In the poem the reference to the ‘dark hour’ with its religious connotations (perhaps a reflection of Duffy’s on catholic upbringing) is symbolic of how it feels like the end of the world to her because her love affair is ‘over’ and the fact that she has just woken up suggests that she has come to a realization- the ‘touchable dream’ which is at the start of book in ‘You’ now unreachable and the ‘spell’ broken; perhaps the end of the relationship was inevitable, too magical, idealistic and dreamy to last it runs ‘out of time’. Time and its effect on love is a widely explored theme in Duffy’s poem, in ‘Hour’ ‘a single hour… makes love rich’ it seems they is never enough whilst in ‘Over’ the memory of their love becomes only but a blush because time is passing.
Owen conveys the idea that by using music and alcohol to relieve your pain is an outdated method, which we can see through the archaic diction “slake”. Although this is true, by informing us that the narrator’s “heart has beaten”, the past tense shows us that music can no longer have this effect on him which links to Owen’s use of archaic words. At the same time, in the poem ‘On My Songs’, Owen depicts the narrator relieving his pain by reading the language of other poets. Immediately the capitalization of “ unseen Poets” conveys that he is showing respect towards the people who were influential enough to reach new generations even though they were never seen.
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.
The lines “We think…we wish…we forget…then, we arrive…we turn away…we look [for a connection to what is now lost]…we miss” show how mislead ideas can cause people to yearn for what they think will bring satisfaction. What they once had somehow gets lost in translation and they find themselves regretfully yearning not for what could be but for what was. The author uses the Middle Eastern immigrants’ story to outline the all too familiar sequence of emotions that come with unfulfilled expectations. This combination of repetition and allegory make this poem accessible to many different people. It transcends the surface story to touch on a basic human
And so, Hester, I drew thee into my heart, into its innermost chamber, and sought to warm thee by the warmth in which thy presence made there!” (69). Chillingworth’s compassion and desire for love and good, over the cruel and evil atmosphere he later develops, reveals that he was not always wandering down the road of revenge, but was a man of virtue. His spiraling fall into malice and morally self destructive actions only occur after he sets himself down the road to find the other person who wronged him, the man who shares his wife’s sin, and take vengeance upon him. Roger continues his personal decline by betraying his human nature and turning to a more demonic nature. “The physician advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment that, hitherto, had always covered it even from the professional eye.
In the first stanza it describes her in denial, the second, exemplifying her sadness and regret of the whole situation and the third, where she faces her feelings and copes with them. Another very famous sonnet poet is Sir Edmund Spenser.
Emilie Theriault Dr. Dr. Kramer-Hamstra English 100 November 29, 2013 Loosing “The Art of Loosing isn’t hard to master.”(1, Bishop) Everyone deals with loss in different ways. Some people, like in Elizabeth Bishop’s One Art, put a lot of meaning into their personal belongings and get emotionally attached easy that when they are gone it is heart breaking, or like in Edward Baugh’s It Was The Singing people take loss and just let it go or like in John Donne’s Death Be Not Proud people just reject the fact of loosing completely. No matter how big or small when someone looses something it hurts a little inside. Like loosing a watch it could be just a watch found on the street or from a deceased loved one, when the watch is gone there is a feeling of emptiness either from the imprint it had left on the wrist or from knowing that the sentimental value of the watch is now gone. Even places, places that were never really owned, like a city, once gone it is missed, the familiar streets, faces and buildings all things not owned but when gone there is a vast sense of emptiness that will never be able to be filled by anything else because no experience will be the same, not ever.
TONIGHT I CAN WRITE Lines 1–4 The theme of distance is introduced in the opening line. When the speaker informs the reader,"Tonight I can write the saddest lines," he suggests that he could not previously. We later learnthat his overwhelming sorrow over a lost lover has prevented him from writing about their relationship and its demise. The speaker's constant juxtaposition of past and present illustrate hisinability to come to terms with his present isolated state. Neruda's language here, as in the rest of the poem, is simple and to the point, suggesting the sincerity of the speaker's emotions.