I agree with A. Vivaldi's analysis of Philips criticizing women's roles in society and in marriage through her poems. As the women's roles were quite constricting on the Restoration woman, it is quite natural that Philips would write poems about women turning to each other for comfort and in friendship, such as Philip's "To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship" and "Friendship's Mystery, To my dearest Lucasia". In reading these poems, many critics have argued whether or not these poems from Philips, her pseudonym "Orinda", express a deep, romantic love towards her friend Anne Owen, whose pseudonym was "Lucasia" and whether or not they were actually lovers. However the case may be if they were lovers or just dear friends, Philips shows deep affection for her fellow friend by mimicking the structure and language of love poems and focusing on the feelings of love instead of the body. …show more content…
In "To my Excellent Friendship," Philips, as her character Orinda, says that she has found a soulmate in Lucasia, saying, "but never had Orina found a soul till she found thine; which now inspires, cures and supplies, and guides my darkened
The primal nature and nightmares. The gothic elements and architecture and darkness. There is a part in the book which is missing in the film, when Theodora and Eleanor are outside during the night and suddenly they start fleeing from a children’s picnic. Eleanor does not know why thery are fleeing but Eleanor follows Theo in a fearful and horror
“A Communication which the Author had to London, Before She made Her Will” features Isabella Whitney’s reasons for leaving London (and in doing so vocalizes her frustrations with the city). The poem acts as a preface to Whitney’s “The Manner of Her Will..”, which was written as a satire that involved bequeathing parts of London she does not own to Londoners. It is arguable to say that these works contained a certain degree of autobiographical material because she lived among the common people. Isabella Whitney pioneered her field of women poets. While a lot of her practices (familiar allusions, exaggerations, ballad metre) were common for contemporary male authors of the mid-sixteenth century, as a woman she was setting a new precedent. “A Communication…” is successful for several reasons: it plays on the complaint genre and in doing so personifies London as a poor lover, it skillfully uses language, and it follows with Whitney’s credit motif (autobiographical in nature).
Within Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,” she explains that young love, although fantastic, fades with maturity, but reminiscing upon those memories causes the heart to ache. Millay beings her poem by illustrating the numerous “love” encounters of the character being depicted. Millay states, “what lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain under my head till morning,” (lines 1-3). The author flashes back to the past life of the
Travelling across the ocean to New England, Anne Bradstreet looked to America as a safe place to practice her puritan religion (Eberwein 4). She wrote many poems about her family and experiences, incorporating her faith and personal struggles into her works. A hundred years later, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped from her homeland in Africa and brought to America, where she became a devout Christian and a renowned poet (James). Both women received an education above other women of their time leading to their literary accomplishments. The purpose of this paper is to determine the similarities and differences between Anne Bradstreet’s and Phillis Wheatley’s poems’ content, in terms of their themes and language by answering the following questions.
her when it came to writing her poems. This being one of many reasons why people loved
For Lanyer, female friendship is an act of admiration and support between women. In “The Description of Cookham,” she honors Margaret Clifford, the Countess of Cumberland, through the celebration and lamentation of her royal estate. The Countess and Anne Clifford run the estate, and Lanyer resides there with them. At Cookham, Lanyer has “obtained Grace” from both
During the period of 600 BCE to 600 CE there was much political unrest throughout the world. This essay will analyze the reason for collapse of once powerful ancient empires by scrutinizing the rulers who led them. By looking at the circumstances of a fallen empire, a person can asses that the neglect of government officials, stressed with vast war expenses, who levy high taxes that lead to peasant uprisings, is the circular chain of events that will always eventually crumble a weak empire. And as specific as they may seem, these crises developed many a time.
The heavy emphasis in Wheatley’s work cannot bypass realism of her background. She wrote literature capturing a Christian religious audience, but many of her poems were also various techniques of literature in her strategy of writing. Phillis’ readers compelled her beliefs.
she expresses great love and a great sense of loss, but she does it in
Love can be quite a difficult topic to write about, expressing one’s intimate and innermost emotions requires a great level of dedication and honesty. If done correctly, the outcome is truly stunning. John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and Katherine Philips’s “To Mrs. M.A. at Parting” are two masterpieces of this genre. These poems depict the concept of true love so meticulously that the reader cannot help but envy the relationships presented. Perhaps the reason that these works are so effective is due to the fact that they are incredibly similar to each other. Although some differences are present when it comes to structure and gender concerns, the poems share the same theme of love on a spiritual level and show many parallels in meaning.
In this essay we will look into her life through three of her poems in
As Woolf closed, she said, “do not look for Judith Shakespeare in Sir Sidney Lee’s Life of a Poet.” She died young and never was able to write a word; however, Woolf believes “Judith Shakespeare” lives on in today’s society. She believes Judith is a representation of women alive and not alive who were not able to speak or write their minds. She created Judith to show that even when great writers die, even if they never physically wrote words on paper, they still live
Laertes displays more concern for their name and reputation tarnishing rather than Ophelia’s feelings. Like Ophelia, When Lucy acted very much like her friend Mina, who acted like a “good Victorian women” and suppresses her urge for sexuality and “anticipate dependence and submission when they are joined with the masculine.”(Howes 109)
The entirety of Alfred Tennyson’s “Enoch Arden” is framed around three pivotal characters: Annie Lee, Philip Ray, and the title character, Enoch Arden. The poem operates through a love triangle which persists until Enoch’s death. In the excerpt at hand, Enoch is forced to hear of his failed marriage with Annie Lee, who remarried after years of believing her husband had died at sea. Miriam Lane not only informs Enoch that Annie has remarried, but that she has married Philip Ray, has allowed him to take care of her and Enoch’s children, and has borne him a child. Tennyson’s utilization of a love triangle as a prominent plot device likely suggests that Miriam’s news incites feelings of heartbreak in Enoch—he has lost both his wife and his
Woolf supports this claim by focusing on the anonymous writer named “Anon” (anonymous), that we as readers have seen so many times in literature. Could this “Anon” have been a woman, this “Anon” that has written so many poems and ballads? From Woolf’s point of view, “whatever she had written would have been twisted and deformed, issuing from a strained and morbid imagination” (54). She does not reach a conclusion as to the lack of women writers before the 18th century, she can only make assumptions on the time period and enlighten her audience to make sure that women are able to express their creativity without any constraints issued by society.