Firstly, Donne's poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of images. The poem offers elaborate parallels between apparently dissimilar things, “Then as th’ earth’s inward narrow crooked lanes, Do purge sea water’s fretful salt away,” (Donne, Lines 6-7) Donne's poem expresses a wide variety of emotions and attitudes, as if Donne himself were trying to define his experience of love through his poetry. Although, “The Triple Fool” gives a limited view of Donne’s attitude towards love, Donne treats the poem as a part of experience, giving insight into the complex range of experiences concerning love and grief, “I thought, if I could draw my pains through rhyme's vexation, I should them allay.” (Donne, Lines 8-9) Overall, the imagery in “The Triple Fool,” contributes to Donne’s sorrowful diction of love and grief. Moreover, Donne explains that poetry is for love and grief, and not for pleasing things, but songs make love and grief even worse. 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.
“Tell me” is another line that is used throughout the poem. Also, the breaking of the lines into stanzas make this song more poem-like. The next poetic device addressed in the song is alliteration. “Shooting star and scar” (stanza 3, line 1-2) are put together for sound and to help emphasize the message of the song. A simile is also used in Train’s song when it says, “Acts like summer and walks like rain” (Stanza 1, Line 3).
The sonnet presents a theme that provides two paradoxical perspectives, one just as valid as the other. The setting of this sonnet is at a beach where the speaker is writing his lover’s name on the sand. His writing is washed away by the tide so he wrote it again yet his writings still suffered the same fate. In the sonnet, the tide/water is personified as a provider of pain to the speaker. The speaker’s wife steps in telling the speaker that all his actions are in vain since he cannot stop the tide from rushing in.
In the song Lucky by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat, the lyrics describe the feelings between two people who are in love but are separated from one another because of distance. The writer tries to capture the listeners’ attentions by immersing them into the relationship through the successful use of symbolism, repetition imagery. The usage of symbolism allows readers and listeners to read between the lines and to explore deeper into the meaning behind the words of the song. “Ocean”, known as a great body of water carries the most important symbolism in the song. “Across the water across the deep blue ocean” (3) The word “ocean” is used to symbolize the struggles and hardships with long-distance relationships having to be far apart from the one you love.
The Story of Ceyx and Alcyone is one of beauty and tragedy. Ceyx was the king in Thessaly and son of Lucifer, and Ceyx’s wife, Alcyone was the daughter of Aeolus, the King of the Winds. The two loved each other devotedly and were seldom apart. Nevertheless, a time came when Ceyx decided he needed to leave his wife and make a long journey across the sea. Alcyone hysterically sobbed and stressed to her husband to not leave, out of fear that her beloved would never return.
Why So Pale and Wan? A Poem by Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) Why So Pale and Wan? A Poem by Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) Type of Work and Year of Publication ......."Why So Pale and Wan?" is a lyric poem with three five-line stanzas. It appeared as a song in a play that Suckling debuted in London in 1637 and published in 1638.
Each canto consists of one heroic couplet followed by another. The use of flawless iambic pentameter and a perfect AABB rhyme scheme is consistent throughout the poem however, when Pope differs from this meter and rhyme he is emphasizing a word or idea in that line. By doing this Pope effortlessly guides the reader through the poem while allowing them to see how he perceives things. Pope summarizes the poem in the first two lines when he states, “What dire offense from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.” The powerful diction used in the first line gives the reader the idea that something huge and terrible is going to happen. This idea is taken away in the second line when Pope says that trivial things are the cause this horrible event.
Compare how a characters voice is created in “My Last Duchess” and ONE other poem. The characters’ voices in “My Last Duchess” and “The River God” are created in very similar but also different ways. In both poems we can see that the characters are created as quite lonely in, “My Last Duchess” and “The River God”. The writer of “My last Duchess” uses euphemism to display his loneliness to the reader. “This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.” This quote creates a sense of loneliness to the reader seeing as the speaker is saying that “all smiles stopped” implies that the person who smiled is no longer alive but now dead.
Notes - Poem about the poet coping with his loss of a close friend - Implied that his friend died at sea; thus the blaming of sea for troubles - Implied further that the death was an accident due to natural forces; thus he emphasizes the destructive might of the sea - Tone of poem is generally sad and lonely, with the rhythm slow and regular. - These two aspects indicate a sense of resignation, sadness, and loneliness. - Rhyme is present between 2nd and 4th lines of every stanza. First stanza - Talks about how the sea is so intimidating, and how the united sea causes such an overwhelming wave of emotions in him that he is unable to express himself properly. Mentions a hint of fear and describes the sea as violent.
Although both poets are writing purely for entertainment, I take the ideas that they present as their own, and they are very different opinions on love. Marvell’s is raw and passionate he writes in a representative manner, the enjambment used here; ‘If you please, refuse/ Till the conversion of the jews,’ this shows both the chaotic and tumultuous nature of Marvell’s writing and of love. Shakespeare on the other hand writes under the strict formations of a sonnet. this serves his purpose as it allows him to succinctly and rigorously structure his argument about his views on love. It is also reflective of his style of love, as he sees it as a stubborn enduring thing ; Love is not love/ Which alters when it alteration finds.’ Here Shakespeare wants to portray that love transcends human behaviour and is one of the purest aspects of human character.