They both explore the theme of love or rather painful love. the poet revels the link between the two poems’s through a verity of techniques which is done very effectively but also shows the difference between the obsessive love in “Havisham” and the possessive love of “Valentine”. The pain of love is evident from the beginning in both poems. “Carol Ann Duffy” uses the tone in the first couple of stanzas to show the unorthodox nature of the love. “Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain.
When one hears or sees the word, “lust”, he or she is quick to assume that the story will be based on intense and emotionless sexual relationships between characters. In the short story by Minot, the title “Lust” is a word that deals with more than just the sexual experiences, but the emotional experiences, changes and
In Christina Rossetti’s poem “Cousin Kate”, there is a theme of commitment. It is mainly about how one man shows his loyalty towards two women, “Cousin Kate” and the speaker. The lord shows no commitment towards the speaker and uses her for his own sexual pleasure. “He wore me like a silken knot,” in this quote the verb “wore” is comparing the speaker to something that can be used. Also the simile “like a silken knot,” the use of this simile is comparing her to something soft and fragile, therefore there is a theme of possessiveness and this shows that lower class women in the Elizabethan era were easily manipulated by higher class men.
‘Larkin rarely presents women in a positive light.’ In the light of this statement compare the ways in which Larkin and Abse write about women in their poems. In your response, you must include detailed critical discussion of at least two of Larkin’s poems. I agree with the statement ‘Larkin rarely presents women in a positive light’ as in his poems ‘Sunny Prestatyn’ and ‘Wild Oats’ it is recognizable that he portrays women as sex objects. In contrary, Abse feels a more personal and passionate connection towards women which is demonstrated through the poems ‘Two Photographs’ and ‘Blond Boys.’ Both poets explore their attraction to woman. Conversely Larkin presents his fascination over women to be a sexual one in which he also degrades them.
Philip Larkin and Dannie Abse have very different and contrasting attitudes to relationships. On the whole, Larkin presents the concepts of love and marriage as very superficial and meaningless, whereas Abse appears to be less such nihilistic and more open and positive about such topics. Throughout Wild Oats, Philip Larkin uses various literary techniques, such as imagery, structure and symbolism to convey certain aspects of love and the passing of time. Larkin's poetry often relates to the social and cultural views upon love and marriage in his time. In Wild Oats It explains that a person, over the course of time, comes to realise that his greatest desires of love, are unattainable, and second best things will have to suffice.
She certainly did not “pass in silence without matching wits”(292) with Swift. She gives him a taste of his own medicine. While Montagu’s retort was humorous and insulting, she seemed to miss the point that Swift was trying to portray. She merely counterattacked him for writing such a disgraceful poem. It went right over her head that Swift was trying to say that everyone has at least a few less-than-winsome qualities or that the reason he used a female character was only to emphasize this fact, to show that, while men may put women on pedestals, that does not
06/14/2012 YASH PANCHAL Love and Seduction “My Last Duchess” by Browning and “To His Coy Mistress” by Marvell are examples of two men searching for the right words to express their emotions towards a woman. The speakers in both poems are talking about love and seduction. Even though they both are written in two different centuries, both pieces have remarkable similarities as well as some of the common expected differences. “To His Coy Mistress” values women and their love they give, while “My Last Duchess” totally humiliates the role of women in society. “My Last Duchess" and "To His Coy Mistress" shows the act of the men in these two poems.
But are the women of today really any different? Women today are very similar in many ways. First of all, women today are also very open with their sexuality and aren’t afraid to smoke and drink in public like the flappers were. Women go out just as much as men and it’s not uncommon for women to talk about her sexual life openly. It was the same for the flappers of the twenties.
Like when Tara, Kristen and Keesha were looking at the magazines, Keesha didn’t understand why skin and bones were attractive to Kristen. Kessha also didn’t understand why Tara could never walk with her to or from school, Keesha just thought that her friends were weird until their conditions got out of hand and she got worried about them. *Donna’s influence on Tara was surprisingly good. Considering that Donna is more of a “wild child” and Tara is a “goody-good” I think they balance each other out. While Donna was smoking, stealing or having sex Tara was getting “lost in her mind”.
In this way I feel that I was very similar to Lois Stalvey in her novel The Education of a WASP. Just like Stalvey I “had not yet been tested [in regards to racism]” and “Black voices of complaint were only heard in the South” (Stalvey 2). Since there was almost no racial diversity, many people just ignored the racism in my town. By ignoring racism it was like it almost didn’t exist because it didn’t seem to affect anyone. This is very similar to Stalvey because she also didn’t believe racism was still prevalent because it did not seem to affect anyone close to her.