While both poems are different, they share the use of symbolism. Each poem uses symbols in different portions of the poems. In Lassell’s poem, one example is the scar on the narrator’s eyebrow. This scar symbolizes how all the narrator has left of his brother is the memories they shared. The narrator remembers how he received the scar when he sees his dying brother stares space with his lover staring at him, “Wonder what they see there.
In spite of this, throughout the play it is evident that Hamlet truly loved Ophelia and that she was important to him through the letters he sent her, how he responds to her when they are alone, his reaction to her betrayal, and his declaration of love at her funeral. In the play, Hamlet sends letters to Ophelia revealing his true feelings about her. “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love” (Act 2. Scene 2. Shakespeare).
But in line 3, the author wrote that, “I take my curses back”(line4) and “I am sorry for that evil wish” (line 7). The author feels sorry of parents and wants to apologize to them, but his parents died. He never has the chance to talk to them any more. It shows the tone of regret in this poem. Besides, the tone of the other poem “Seed-Merchant’s Son” is also anger at the beginning.
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.
The speaker says “Then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty. Through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her. 2. Read Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare now. It is located on page 73 of your Journeys anthology.
He uses persuasion at the start of the poem, but then starts charming his mistress by saying he’ll love her once they have sexual intercourse. One of the most obvious similarities between both poems are that they both have a male narrator. Both poems are also similar as they both contain lines about death. In Sonnet 116, Shakespeare is saying that if its true love what someone is going through then they shall love someone even until they die. “but bears it out even to the edge of doom” He is really saying, that no matter what happens through life, you shall love that person unconditionally even when they die.
Poetry Compare and Contrast Love and Madness True love is the theme in the poem “Porphyria’s Lover,” by Robert Browning, and “Annabel Lee,” written by Edger Allen Poe. They were written in the same time period both having romantic notions, and share the same dramatic monologue style. Both are similar poems in their deranged views of love. However, the manner in which their beautiful lovers die and how they felt after their death, differ greatly. The men in both poems truly loved their women in the beginning, but by the end they had become obsessive, drove themselves to insanity, and slept next to the dead bodies of their lovers.
White Room Jack Bruce and Pete Brown Explore how the poets have used a range of language techniques to convey a negative image. Without love and affection many will succumb to grief and regret. In the poem “White Room” by lyricists Jack Bruce and Pete Brown, a man shares his emotions towards a lost love and the sadness and depression caused by separation. The disorderly structure of the poem which is expressed in the jumbled imagery and stop-start stanza's, has been used to create a negative image of emotional difficulties and an unstable relationship experienced through heart break. As well as using metaphor, free verse, transferred empathy, refrain and litotes, the lyricists have used imagery to create a mental image of darkness and grief.
‘Rain’ written by Edward Thomas is a deeply moving poem, with its strong undertones of death and creating a sense of sympathy. This particular sonnet was written in times of war, where Edward himself was battling. He was surrounded in an atmosphere of solitude and dieing soldiers, thus he reflects on this idea of the ‘end of life’ as he too feels he is to be victim of this tragic ending soon. Even though ‘Rain’ could relate to perhaps any soldiers situation, we assume that the persona in the poem is Thomas himself, giving the poem a personal viewpoint, allowing readers to relate to the poem and its protagonist better. Thomas uses a variety of language devices to invoke an emotional reaction from his readers and further pursue in epitomizing his interpretation of death.
Compare the ways in which Donne and Auden present death in ‘Death be not proud’ and ‘Funeral Blues’ Donne and Auden’s poems have some similarities and some differences. They are both poems about death, and in both poems they are talking about the negatives death has but Death be not proud is addressing death and Funeral Blues is addressing the reader. They both use imperatives in similar ways aswell. Both poems are taking negatively about death but portray their feelings very differently. Donne’s attitude in ‘Death be no proud’ is aggressive whereas Auden’s is sad and distraught.