“Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone” by W. H. Auden

In conclusion, the poem points the inevitable cycle of natural and emotional events and the power that love has to go beyond that cycle. This is why the speaker assures that the way he has loved is something that

As I try not to stereotype men, in today’s society being an emotional man makes you less of one but, in the eyes of love, the man in this poem does not seem to care. With morality taking control, the poem “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps” tells a man what should be seen of love, the making of it and how children should be made rather than a mistake or unwanted. Many men do not appreciate the genuine love of a woman and children, nor do we see respect given to them or the idea of settling down and being “long-married”. Few men seem to see the blessing of making love and what it is for rather than just the physical pleasure. Although the author doesn’t give too much thought into letting the reader know that the characters are in an outside world, he does include the universal baseball player to place a reminder that in fact they are in a world, even if it’s in a world of their own.

The central purpose and the theme of the anthology is to represent the effects of living an unfulfilled life. At the time of writing this report, the bulk of the poetry has been completed and so far, the narrative of the poems in their entirety, as well as each individual poem, fulfil this purpose.

In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Love is not all” is a sonnet with the traditional octave and set in fourteen line style. The focus of the poem is to address the personal message addressing the question of the depth importance and nature of love. The first six lines of the sonnet are a negative meaning for what love is not and what it cannot do. The Sixth line of the poem is a clipped irony bringing the reader to the harsh reality that one without love is soon to possibly live on while making friends with death.

Natasha Saunder’s “Love is All Around”, a short twelve line poem with a three two line stanza, that has heavy significant meaning behind it despite the length. This poem tells a story about how Love can be found anywhere and everywhere and how the love that other’s can give you can be an uplifting powerful feeling. The first word in the poem is “love”, the main focus and theme of the poem in itself. The author uses this word as it’s first in order to capture the attention of her audience and connect the main focus within the rest of the poem.

True love is desired by the majority of people, constantly portrayed in the media, and the subject of a limitless number of literary works. Yet that does not mean it is effortlessly obtained. Where true love can be found, so can sacrifice. The notion that love requires sacrifice has influenced numerous poems over the years, including the poems “Oranges” by Gary Soto, “Forever” by musician Ben Harper, and Shakespeare’s “Sonnet #130.” While these poems focus on different forms of sacrifices, they are similar in the way that they are all in the name of love.

In a silent night, the poet awakens to unexpected thundering noise and screams of fire. As her house become engulfed by flame, she begins to give thanks to God for only taking what she does not want. She looked at the places that are unforgettable for her. The house will lie in silence there will be no guests and no dinner will be eaten under the same roof again. She said to her house goodbye. She knew that she is going to be in a finer place which is the heaven. It will be luxuriously furnished and it will be her gift from God. She gives farewell to her money and she passed with the fact that her hope and treasure will lie above.

At first read, Blake and Rossetti’s fascination with the unity of conflicting emotion and their tendency to describe human experiences in contradictory terms might be perplexing. However, there is a reason behind what seems to be madness in the poetry of these writers. The poetry of Blake and Rossetti leads itself to the assertion that the human experience is teeming with both joy and agony. Whether someone lives their life in a state of joy or woe does not depend on whether their experience is positive or negative, because the human experience is both. Rather, someone’s happiness or sadness through their life depends on whether they choose to orient their focus to the happiness and joy that exists in the universe or the negative pain that is just as abundant. Though happiness and sadness take many different forms in the poetry, in each form, they are as abundant as they are co-dependent.

The poem argues that love is not only a sickness, but also as a form of enslavement.

In the last few lines, the poet reflects back on himself and takes a step back to look at the whole picture rather than just focusing on his desires. It quotes, “Of the wide world I stand alone, and think/Till love and fame to nothingness do sink” and this shows that what he desires is all worthless in the end because he is going to die at one point so it is somewhat like an existential crisis of his. The poet’s attitude throughout the poem is desperate because he desires fame and romance of his own before his death comes. He wants to be a very famous writer and a playboy but cannot achieve all those feats right now because he is very certain he is going to die before he does anything. The shift begins in the last few lines that begins with “Of reflecting love” and ends with “nothingness do sink.” Before the shift, the author mostly talked about his desires, but it all changes when he realizes that his desires do not matter in the big picture of life. He thinks about his life choices and now understand the true meaning of life which is he should just live out his life without stressing himself of the small things in life that do not work out in the long

It is human nature to interpret and reinterpret life and find meaning of one’s place in the world. Without such knowledge, or belief for that matter, any possibility of humanity is lost. Hence, humans are plagued with the necessity to interpret themselves and their connections to their surroundings—both human and physical. Because one’s connections and contexts for interpretation are endless in some sense, humans are inherently a divided self—the culmination of all given interpretations they make for themselves and interpretations from others. In addition, this totality of interpretations through the lens selves as being what is around you, it follows that poetic-rhetorical language is necessary in discussion of the divided self.

Pastoral poetry is a lyric poem that idealizes nature while criticizing urban life.These two pastoral poems are example of the contrast between the easygoing countryside and the hustle bustle of a city. In the famous pastoral poetry, “The Passionate Shepherd to his love,” the Shepherd happily describes the beautiful natural image of a perfect life. He wholeheartedly believes that love is always joyful and nothing can ruin the serenity. This poem is criticized for its deluded perspective by the Nymph in a taunting way. She mocks his fantasy life that has everlasting flowers, melodious birds and finest wool gown. The Nymph’s view on her ideal love is infinite, nonmaterialistic and realistic which contradicts the Shepherd’s view on ideal love—youthful, acquisitive, and blinding; these incompatible views tear a relationship into pieces especially when the problem is addressed in a cynical tone.

The astonishing level of agony presented in a person when losing a loved one is described in the poem, “Stop All of the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone” by W.H. Auden. In this poem, the poet describes the pain of ending an intense sensation of love when one of the partners passes away. The inability to cope once one’s love has ended provokes the feeling that life has ended due to the thought of not being able to live alone. This is found in the poem when Auden states, “For nothing now can ever come to any good” (Auden, 16). The author’s use of figures of speech, imagery, and diction allow her audience to understand the speaker’s true emotions over its’ overwhelming grieving period.

The ending offers a perspective about towards what our love should be transmitted. The poet implies that we should always love God, as he is our master, who keeps an eye on us, seeing what we are doing and what kind of persons are we, in order that He will know if he will prepare a place for us in His kingdom. But, loving God, and not loving your neighbour, as many are doing does not love God at all. God created us according to His face and His affinity. Acting as we do not love others is a real prove that we do not love God, Who has put a part of Him in every one of us.

Famed street artist, Banksy, once said “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”, demonstrating that people who stand out help and inspire more than those who conform and do their own thing. Art is not limited to the fine arts, but literature, music, self-expression, and even discoveries of science, math, and technology. Those who dare to create and express their emotions live the fullest lives, aiding those in need of inspiration, are the best people, similar to the ideas expressed in “A Psalm of Life” by William Longfellow. The poem also adds the importance of art’s relationship with short lives to push it’s romantic ideas. The poem deals with the ideas of separating oneself from the tightly bound rules and expectations of the society they live in. “A Psalm of Life” is romantic due to relationship between art and death expressed through the symbolism and theme.