Samantha Stephenson Adams English IV AP-1 19 November 2013 Bleeding Love Leona Lewis expresses her rollercoaster of emotions through the poetic structure of her song, Bleeding Love. She portrays love as a painful emotion, which she wanted to detach herself from. We then see a shift in the second stanza in which she begins to find a spark of hope in her appreciating for the emotion of love. Leona uses a combination of poetic devices, including imagery, personification, hyperbole, verbal irony, and purposeful repetition, to depict the shifts between her disappointed emotions and her hopeful emotions. This song focuses on several instances of imagery to allow the reader to relate with and to feel the pain felt by Leona.
However, instead of literally expressing themes of love, both poets seem to explore the effects of love, and the consequences it can have. Firstly, both poems express the emotion of pain, but in different ways, with Nettles looking at how our pain can also be shared by those we love, whereas Quickdraw looks at how love, sometime maybe unrequited or incomplete, can cause us pain. We can see this theme in Nettles through the semantic field of war, shown with Army vocabulary, including words such as ‘spears’, regiments’ and ‘recruits’, used to describe the ‘bed’ of nettles that cause pain to the persona’s child. This use of vocabulary enables the reader to associate the pain and destruction of war with the situation of the poem, taking the pain felt by the persona to the extreme and amplifying the effect it has on the persona. This enables it to have a much greater impact, and helps the poems transition into the consequences of this pain, such as the anger it causes.
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.
Edna St. Vincent Millay and Anne Bradstreet express both similar and different uses of literary elements such as theme, tone and style. This is made evident in the two love poems, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet and “Love is not all” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The authors vividly convey the general idea of love to the audience and readers. Although both poems are similar, there are many differences between these poems as well. In Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” she intensifies the meaning of love by suggesting to the reader that she adores and loves her husband.
The techniques that Sassoon has used in the poems are: imagery, simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering, but it always leads us to think more deeply about life for the following reasons: Firstly, it creates emotion; secondly, it shows us the brutality of war; and finally, hardships faced by soldiers and also by showing about death. Through this it becomes evident that a good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering because it creates emotion. Emotion refers to a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.
Compare how language is used to express an opinion of love in sonnet 116 and another poem (Quickdraw) Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’ and Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Quickdraw’ both talk about the relationship between two people, however they talk about them in very contrasting ways. Sonnet 116 and Quickdraw are written in different forms. Shakespeare’s poem is written in sonnet form with three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. This regular pattern shows that this is what love should be like and is normal. The use of iambic pentameter also stresses key ideas and words whilst the poem can still flow.
Ghazal is a sexually stimulating love poem that hints on powerful imagery and metaphors in an attempt to capture the passion of love. The speaker uses a wide range of arguments, to persuade their loved one, each of which explores different aspects of love. Love is represented as calm and reflective which is clear by the use of natural imagery, ‘grass’ and ‘breeze’ which symbolises natural love. It is clear from reading Ghazal that it contains numerous images of violence and pain, when speaking of an ‘iron fist’, and an ‘arrow.’ This could suggest the violence and passion of the lover’s feelings. Although there is a lot of reference to violent and aggressive behaviour it does not make her hesitant, one could even say she was blinded by her love for him.
Tolstoy is very successful in creating a work of literature that exposes the reader to a variety of feelings that love entails. The constant array of both successful and unsuccessful relations in this dramatic novel can be appropriately evaluated by applying Sternberg’s theory. One of the most devastating and disheartening love affairs in Anna Karenina occurs between Anna and Karenin. Anna is a beautiful, intelligent, and respected woman of high society. She is both spiritual and affectionate, and her
The Lady of Shalott Alfred Lord Tennyson makes the story in “The Lady of Shalott” intriguing through an array of well-crafted and note worthy techniques. The charming and magnificent poem takes the reader through a selection of emotions. In the first of the four part poem, Tennyson uses metonymy and contrast to make the story in the poem captivating, Tennyson also uses foreshadowing to hint at the unavoidable fate of the Lady. In the second part of the stimulating poem, Tennyson uses pun to describe to the reader the dire situation in which the Lady of Shalott has found herself. Later on Tennyson uses catalogue to illustrate the activities in Camelot, in addition, towards the end of the part is where the rising action takes place.
In ‘strange fits’ Wordsworth describes a relationship blossoming, and the feelings associated with that relationship “Strange fits of passion have I known, and I will dare to tell”. The importance of intuition, imagination and emotion over reason. “O mercy! To myself I cried, if Lucy should be dead!” convey a sense of both love as something amazing and something yearned