Comparative Poetry: Love After Love And The Fist

Since the beginning of human existence love has earned a meaning of pure bliss and wild passion between two people that cannot be broken. Through out time the meaning of love has had its slight shifts but for the most part, maintains a positive value. In the poem “Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields,” the author, Susan Griffin expresses that this long lost concept of love is often concealed by the madness of everyday life and reality. In the poem, Griffin uses many literary elements to help convey the importance of true love. The usage of imagery, symbolism, and other literary techniques really help communicate Griffins’ meaning

One way in which the poets present their ideas about the pain of love is through their use of imagery with their poems. For example, they both use metaphors about being ‘wounded’. Fenton’s line ‘I’m one of your talking wounded’ adopts a pun which relates to the expression ‘walking wounded’, used by soldiers to imply

To experience feelings of delight and bliss individuals must also face difficult times to help them better recognize and appreciate their future happiness. Without experiencing sadness and heartbreak people would be significantly less appreciative of their future lovers and self. To fully feel what love is, you must have experienced loss because without feeling how painful the flip side of situation is there would be no way of feeling anything at all, which would drive everyone to be completely numb. Throughout the following poems “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”, “The Flea”, and Thomas Hardy’s “Neutral Tones” the authors all share their experiences about love, with a major emphasis on

“Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims is an excellent of example of an author using many types of literary terms to emphasize his theme of a love that is imperfect yet filled with acceptance. In, this poem Nims uses assonance, metaphor, and imagery to support his theme of “Imperfect, yet realistic love”.

Hughes interprets a dysfunctional couple by using juxtaposition, metaphors, and explicit imagery. This poem’s effect could be that readers question that Hughes could possibly be still in love with Plath and wants one of his last works to showcase to the world he still loves her (Egeland). Although Plath wrote about her romantic feelings about Hughes, Hughes is more truthful and positive (“Lovesong”). The relevance of this poem is that couples are still like this today and times do not change the way couples treat each

emotion into words. In T.S. Eliot’s, “The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” he starts off the poem by giving an introduction into the characters world. Although love is an emotion that can’t easily be explained, it is some sort of other growing emotions; whether it’d be sadness or happiness. Through the authors use of metaphors, tone, and imagery for the narration of Prufrock, he’s giving the reader an inside look into Prufrock’s shy, and insecure personality.

Love is not always an easy adventure to take part in. As a result, thousands of poems and sonnets have been written about love bonds that are either praised and happily blessed or love bonds that undergo struggle and pain to cling on to their forbidden love. Gwendolyn Brooks sonnet "A Lovely Love," explores the emotions and thoughts between two lovers who are striving for their natural human right to love while delicately revealing society 's crime in vilifying a couples right to love. Gwendolyn Brooks uses several examples of imagery and metaphors to convey a dark and hopeless mood that emphasizes the hardships that the two lovers must endure to prevail their love that society has condemned.

Unlike other forms of literature, poetry can be so complex that everyone who reads it may see something different. Two poets who are world renowned for their ability to transform reader’s perceptions with the mere use of words, are TS Eliot and Walt Whitman. “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” by TS Eliot, tells the story of a man who is in love and contemplating confessing his emotions, but his debilitating fear of rejection stops him from going through with it. This poem skews the reader’s expectations of a love song and takes a critical perspective of love while showing all the damaging emotions that come with it. “Song of myself”, by Walt Whitman provokes a different emotion, one of joy and self-discovery. This poem focuses more on the soul and how it relates to the body. “Song of myself” and “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” both explore the common theme of how the different perceptions of the soul and body can affect the way the speaker views themselves, others, and the world around them.

I have chosen to compare and contrast three "love" poems with three "lust" poems from our text, An Introduction to Poetry (9th edition, Kennedy and Gioia, Longman Publishing). I feel that poems about true love often incorporate themes of duration, unity and longevity; all lasting sentiments. Conversely, poems of a lusty nature convey the sentiment that the feeling is transitory, and must be pounced on immediately (before we get a chance to think about it too much).

Exploring Different Types of Love in Three Poems: A Woman to Her Lover, When We Two Parted and First Love

The theme of love is a universal, timeless issue that has always been discussed and forever will be. People are searching for the true meaning of love and how it is different from person to person and from race to race. Everyone is amazed by how love can make people experience so many emotions and how love can bring sadness and happiness and confusion. ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ By John Keats and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ by Robert Browning for example both share the common theme of love, both lovers had to depart their loved ones whether due to societal pressures or due to the fact that the lover is from a different world. However the idea of women having power

Derek Wallcott’s poem “Love after Love” is an ode to the self. He assures the reader, a lost “you” in distress, that at a future moment you will come to "greet yourself arriving /at your own door, in your own mirror /and each will smile at the other's welcome, ". Wallcott’s poem about self-discovering, and coming to love oneself helps the reader understand the importance in accepting and authentically being ourselves. "Love after Love" represents the times in life where we feel lost and have to learn, accept and embrace who we

In this compare and contrast essay I will compare four poems in detail and mention two in the passing to find similarities and differences. The poems and sonnets I have chosen to compare are ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning and Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

My visual display has revealed multiple themes extracted from the two poems. The center of the picture is a head, with half face and half skull; the face represents the appearance, while the skull represents one’s true self. In both of the poems, “identity” has been an underlying common theme. The poem Love That Love emphasizes on how one reconnects and rediscovers his or her own lost self. During the journey of life, one may face obstacles and lose determination, but as one begins to accept his or her identity, one will stop looking for love in the outside but find it breeds from the inside. The title refers to two different kinds of love, one “after” the other: the first love is what people usually seek for from others, and the second one

Phillip Larkin provides ambiguous and misleading views of love, presented in his poems. His references to ‘old fashioned’ love and ‘real life’ creates a dark interpretation, which is written in a purposely confusing way. Therefore the reader is forced to contemplate the different feelings of love after the reading of his poems, and has to read carefully to understand the full meanings and ideas in Larkin’s poems. Sylvia Plath also revolves some of her poems around love. However the style in which she writes, differs to Larkin’s angry approach. Plath uses a more passionate, upset and visceral tone (coming from strong emotions and not from logic or reason). Also her choice of structure is more disorganized than Larkin suggesting that Larkin is