Comparing Havisham And Valentine

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

The Presentation of Miss Havisham in Chapter 8 and in Chapter 49 of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The poem the ‘The Anniversary’ By John Donne, is a metaphysical poem about the sun itself growing older each year, this process reminds Donne that him and his lover are closer to their end. The second poem is called ‘One Flesh’, and is written by Elizabeth Jennings. In the course of this poem Jennings explores the relationship and separateness of her now elderly parents. There are multiple contrasting factors between these two poems, considering they are both written from different time periods and view love in sharply differing perspective.

An imagine Charles Dickens has left in my mind is Miss. Havisham. I see this faceless, all bone, yellow skinned lady wearing one shoe and a wedding dress. Miss. Havisham was originally described on page 47 and she was described as a weary, wore down woman and I was having fun imagining this peculiar lady. I see her like Maleficent, because she was written as very boney, again on page 47. I just imagine her cheekbones being very prominent, like Maleficent. I also see her like looking kind of deranged because on page 47 Dickens wrote; "She uttered the word with a eager look, and with a weird smile". I think the weird smile part is what lead me to believe she looks deranged. I can't see her face, but I can see her features like; sunken eyes, that

As if a ghost flew by, the woman was no longer her former self. She shielded herself with the snow, almost vanishing out of existence with no trace left behind. The woman was strange according to Charles Dickens. Yet only a few years later the white woman would inspire the character Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham is from a book called Great Expectations, the book was written by Charles Dickens during the Victorian era. In addition the book has many intriguing characters with their own intricate backstories. Character like Miss Havisham, Pip, and Magwitch. Each one of them are imprisoned by previous actions accompaned with mistakes.

The fire at Miss Havishmans house is symbolic of her life dwindling away. It also shows Miss Havishman repent how she treated pip earlier in his life. Some others think it was a suicide attempt of Miss Havishman because of how she treated Pip and Estella. I don't think it was {{not}} a suicide attempt but to get pip and Estella to sort of apologize for how she taught Estella to treat men and how bad she treated pip in which she does.

When Dickens writes " iron bars" it makes me imagine of a cell with many great and rustily iron bars. Therefore this shows the reader that Miss Havisham has retreated from the world and rots in her peculiar world. Furthermore, It could also mean that Miss Havisham locks herself in the satis house to avert contact with men. Alternatively, Dickens might want to show that Miss Havisham has given up on

Throughout “Love Should Grow up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields” Susan Griffin provokes her readers to ponder why they consistently enslave themselves with the burden of daily monotony, instead of enjoying the simplicity of love. Griffin uses two metaphors in her poem when describing love, as a flower, as well as the iris of an eye. Her comparisons are as compelling as they are forthright. Using her comparisons, Griffin describes love as predictable, expected and routine. Realistically, love most resembles the iris of an eye, rather than a beautiful flower in the field. Throughout her poem, Griffin makes a concise correlation between love and both irises.

A brief look into Miss Havisham’s past clearly displays the spiral effect of her ignorance which accentuates her characterization. In short, her wealth is taken advantage of by her fiancé who ends up

A poem is a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and that often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanza structure. In her poem, “Variations of the Word ‘“love”’,” Margaret Atwood introduces to her audience the word “love” from many different perspectives. Google defines “love” as “an intense feeling of deep affection”, or “having a deep feeling or sexual attachment to (someone).” But “love” is not something that can easily be described. Atwood goes on to present and portray the word through different illustrations, beginning with cliché examples and ending with her own personal scenarios. The author’s tone and metaphorical language effectively conveys her perspective of “love”.

The idea of using an onion to represent your love for someone may be laughed at. However, the onion could metaphorically speaking represent the many layers of love or how love is bitter sweet. Duffy shows how an onion could mean a lot more than invaluable gifts such as ‘a rose or a satin heart’. She shows how these ordinary gifts are just stereotypes or clichés and expresses how she thinks that love should be represented by

I feel that the fire at Miss Havisham was very symbolic. Throughout Great Expecations, Miss Havisham is portrayed as a cold, unloving person. It is referenced throughout the novel the events of her wedding day, and how she was abandoned.

As Miss Havisham told Pip, a young man who fell in love with her daughter Estella, "I'll tell you what love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter-as I did,"().Miss Havisham didn't believe in love anymore after her failed attempt at her own, so she had no respect for the feelings of others. Miss Havisham's personal prison is combined by and strengthened by her neglected home, her refusal to let time pass, and her neglected and confined emotions and these are what keep her in her self-inflicted confinement. She doesn't realize that she isn't going to heal her past by dwelling there.

Havisham ‘Havisham’ by Carol Ann Duffy is a reflection on Miss Havisham’s feelings for her husband who left her at the altar. However, Duffy drops the honorific “Miss” from the title of the poem to highlight that she is simply Havisham — not a maiden, not a wife and not a widow. Consumed by jealousy, anger and regret, Havisham is portrayed as a woman driven mad with loss and the poem is a hymn of pain as she moves in and out of dream and awakening, always remembering the love of her life who betrayed her. The poem begins with a powerful and dramatic opening: “Beloved sweetheart bastard.” This oxymoron shows that Havisham is torn between the love she once had for her fiancé and the hatred she now has for him.