Comparing the poems Neutral Tones and Absence Essay

The poem, “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, has a dark and eerie tone. This poem is so sullen and creepy because the narrator’s wife, Annabel Lee, was killed by the heinous, chilling winds that were dispatched by the angels. Her husband, who became a widower, wrote the poem beside Annabel Lee, who was dead in her tomb. This has a very dark and glum toon, which causes the reader to jump into a somber mood. The text states in a dreadful and shocking tone “that the wind came out of the cloud by night/chilling and killing my Annabel Lee” (Poe 25-26). The poem “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)” by E E Cummings, is a very powerful poem about love. It is mainly about a man who knows that his life is complete because he has his love by his side. Cummings uses passionate and warm hearted words to make the reader incorporate and feel an emotional mood towards the poem. In a spiritual and loving tone it states that “i want, no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)” (Cummings 6-7). Each one of the poems are unique in their own way, but both have completely divergent feelings and tones to them. “Annabel Lee” has a dark, gloomy, and cold tone that makes the reader feel a sense of loneliness. Poe sets a sorrowful and mournful

It shows how sad and full of sorrow he was and how he was crushed by her death. It says he could not endure the loneliness anymore, this is when he starts hallucinating over her death. She was the love of his life and he could not bare to lose her

All times, the disappearance of cherishable beings brings people unbearable agony. Eventually, they cry, and then suffer more heartache, yet the attitudes when confronting a farewell vary dynamically within individuals. In Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”, both speakers experience a painful loss. However, while Thomas strongly opposes the undeniable fact of his father’s death process, Bishop reluctantly accepts the departure of her beloved. The two speakers react differently to recover from the ineluctable sadness, to regain inner peace. In the end, the poems’ comparison concludes losing valued relations is distressingly unavoidable, and that there is no ideal way to cope with losses. Therefore,

Charlotte Dymond and John Lomas, are two poems which share several techniques. They also, however are different in many ways. This essay will explore their similarities and their differences and explain reasons why the two ballads are different or similar.

To start off with, the two speakers both have incredibly negative and destructive ways of viewing the world. The speaker of Neutral Tones views the world as though it is devoid of life and glee. He makes references throughout the poem that suggest this. “And the sun was white, as though chidden of God” (2) is a perfect instance of how the speaker in Neutral Tones views the world. The sun is usually the source of all light and warmth in the world. The speaker does not see the sun in this way. Since he sees the

James Niigaanwewidan Sinclair’s poem Dancing in a mall discloses the plethora of excitement involved in participating in the “Idle no more” movement. The upbeat tempo manifests the enthusiasm conveyed by those involved in the crusade against the government of Canada’s mistreatment of reserve lands. As the movement gains support, the energy grows with it, demonstrating that the participants in this cause will not cease until the essence of their protest is fully embodied. The narrator of Dancing in a Mall communicates his passion for his indigenous culture and the “Idle no more” movement through symbolism, referring to Native folklore and by using repetition to convey his enthusiasm for the cause.

First, one similarity the novel and poem both share examples of the initial pain after a loved one has passed away.

The tone of the speaker was very sad, cold and lonely for misses his father. Evidence that support that he misses his father can be found in the poem. The second and the third stanza reflects how he feels about the weather and I think he meant the fall season in which he uses a cold tone “the garden is bare now. The ground is cold, brown and old”, he clearly just mentioning the negative sounding around fall. A lonely tone also found in the last few stanzas, when he mentioned that his food is almost cooked “White rice steaming, almost done. Sweet green peas fried in onions. Shrimp braised in sesame oil and garlic. And my own loneliness. What more could I, a young man, want.”. The part where he said, “And my own

The author uses mood to really get the message out there, so people can feel what the victims felt everyday. "I am not an artist But my mind has painted a painting of you " this element contributes to the poem because it makes the author feel like he wasn’t enough to be able to do anything to help those people that suffered everyday. He had a view that by telling everyone about the horrible pain that they went through people would remember that and that way they can honor those people. I would recommend this poem to everyone that wants to know what they had to go through and why they never said

Each of these poems takes a slightly different approach when discussing death while also having showing many similarities in its use of imagery. Both Millay and Thomas use natural imagery devices to showcase how death is a natural part of the cycle of life, while also dealing with the dissonance it causes. Thomas repeatedly uses light and dark imagery as a way to represent the contrast between life and death. Here we can find many instances that show how death is inevitable for all, no matter how bravely or intelligent one lived. While struggling to accept this notion, Thomas urges his father to fight against death by repeating that he should, “rage against the dying of the light.” He uses the visual image of the dying light to convince his father that life is much brighter than death. He is arguing that we should fight through the pains and hardships we my face to live in the light and that each life is precious and we should not let ourselves be overcome by the darkness. Millay also uses natural imagery to point out the divide between life and death. She references the darkness of the grave while juxtaposing this with symbols of life, including roses and lilies. This is used to illustrate the experience of natural life, where we grow like

Love is as strong as death and jealousy as cruel as the grave, this is the notion illustrated in "Mad Girl's Love Song" and "A Funeral in My Brain." The two poems by Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson echo a deep melancholy. They are both the expression of broken-heartedness of women once swept away by love. Both poems compare heartbreak to death by mentioning a funeral and an act of the world falling dead when the lover shuts her eyes (Plath 1-3). While both of them paint a helpless situation of the heart and an insanity of the mind, "Mad Girl's Love Song" appears more intense than "A Funeral in My Brain." In the former, the poet uses the title to expound the intensity of the matter, the poem also goes ahead to involve a man who captured the

Emily dickinson was a young girl in the 1800s who liked to be at home and got homesick very easily. In the two poems that i am comparing she used death for the topic. Both of the poems i am reviewing talk strongly about death and the journey to getting there. While Emily was still a young girl she spoke strongly about death and often seemed suicidal. “Because I Could not Stop for Death’’ and “The Bustle in a House” by Emily Dickinson use mood and symbolism show her point of view on death.

Her love for dashes a creates madness at end or midline. Critics say Emily Dickinsons works are not with her time espeacially for a woman in the 19th century. Edgar Allan Poe was a gothic poet with a unique style which makes his work even better to some. Poe’s poems are characterized by a musical effect of words to the reader’s emotion as in the poem The Raven. Poe’s poems are characterized by a gloomy and threading tone. His poems lean towards tradition while maintaining gothic aspects and evil happenings. Poe’s horror and lack of love themes are believed to have been his personal reflection per the lonely life that he lived. The theme of death is attributed to his sorrows after he lost his parents at a very tender age of three. Poe and Dickinson’s pomes were characterized by traditional writing styles and they all reflected upon the poet’s lonely lives. Both poets exhibited good poetic writing styles with a theme of death and lack of love. The pomes’ excellent writing style resulted in emotional poems. On the contrary, Poe was an excellent gothic poet whose poems are characterized by death, horror and uncertainty. Dickson’s poems are characterized by themes such as death, nature, religion, eternity or love although

In the poems you have studied a recurring theme is that of ‘loss’. This can take many forms: death; identity; hope or loss of innocence

Although the theme of both the poems is same, its meaning illustrates the contrasting story to the reader. “Because I could not stop for death” takes the readers on the journey of the poet’s death. According to Patricia Engle, “She juggles temporal with eternal, corporal with spiritual, and life with death deftly, in mercurial shifts between micro and macro views of the worlds around her, within her, and beyond her.” (2) The poem reminds the readers about the ultimate reality of death. Because death is a purpose of uncertainty for everyone while she is excited and relieved taking it as a seasonal activity. “I had put away/ My labor & my leisure too, /For His civility” (6-8), further she says death is “Kind” and Dickinson “could not stop for death.” The poem “Nothing But Death” talks more about graves and dead souls. Pablo denotes “death” into “bones” & “coffins.” He sees all the dead things around him, “with women that have dead hair/with bakers as white as angels” (17), “the colors of damp violet” (33). The melancholy and darkness are carried all throughout the poem. The poet uses “darkness” three times in one line to express how much he fears the graves and dead bodies around him.