The Comparison of Two Love Poems

The poems “A Blessing” by James Wright and “Predators” by Linda Hogan share many similarities and differences on how people and animals are presented. These poems have many different similarities and differences that you may not know about.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Good morning Ms Linton and students, today I will be informing you on why you must choose these two poems for the poetry speaking contest. The poems I have chosen are ‘The Man from Ironbark’, by Banjo Patterson as well as ‘He Started the Cycling Craze’ by myself. Narratives help the readers enjoy and understand poetry as it is a way the poets can connect to their readers by using storylines that may relate to them or something that they enjoy.

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”.

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.

Although the poem and painting have some distinct differences; they also have some keen similarities. Two of these similarities are the weather that they both have in similar and also the action of the men. For example, they both similarly portray the actions of the men and the weather around them.

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

Both, the poem “Reluctance” by Robert Frost and “Time Does Not Bring Relief” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, revolved around the theme of lost love. Each poet used a similar array of poetic devices to express this theme. Visual imagery was one of the illustrative poetic devices used in the compositions. Another poetic device incorporated by both poets in order to convey the mood of the poems was personification. And by the same token, metaphors were also used to help express the gist of both poems. Ergo, similar poetic devices were used in both poems to communicate the theme of grieving the loss of a loved one.

This puts stress on each word and makes the poem sharper to represent his angered sorrow. The rhyme also helps us to remember the line as rhyme does in nursery rhymes and songs. The rhyming words in When We Two Parted are very strong such as "years" and "tears", however the rhyming words in La Belle Dame Sans Merci only half rhyme such as "loitering" and "sing". Keats does this in the first and last verse and I think he has done this so that those verses stand out from the poem. In When We Two Parted, Byron has used double- syllable words in rhyming such as "broken and spoken", "morning" and "warning". Doing this accentuates these lines so that the poem is stronger. Both poems use rhyme within their structure, however the rhyme is a lot stronger in When We Two Parted as it is such a sharper poem.

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sonnet, “What lips my lips have kissed and where and why,” is about being, physically or mentally jaded, and thinking back to the torrid love of one’s youth. The “ghosts” that haunt her are the many lovers of her past; she’s specifically trying to remember them all. She recalls the passion she experienced and how there was a certain feeling within herself. Millay shows this through her vivid imagery, use of the rain as a literary device and by paralleling herself with a lonely tree.

"How do I Love Thee" is a fourteen lines sonnet written by Elizabeth Barret Browning. In this poem the writer expresses the eternal nature of love and its power to overcome everything, including death. It utilizes a Petrarchan (or Italian) rhyme plot - ABBAABBA CDCDCD. A portion of the rhymes are "inclination rhymes" (otherwise called "off rhymes" or "close rhymes" among different terms) - that is, the words don't rhyme consummately, yet do have a few sounds in like manner. For instance, "ways," "days," and "acclaim" are all impeccable rhymes for each other, while "beauty" is an inclination rhyme for every one of them three. The verb "utilize" is a flawless rhyme for "lose'"and "pick," however in this ballad, "utilize" is a thing that rhymes with "goose" and "Zeus"; it's inclination rhyme for "lose" and "pick." "Breath" and "passing" are impeccable rhymes for each other; "confidence" is an inclination rhyme for those two words.

Jonathan- light skin, dark hair, American; is stubborn, impatient, has a sense of humor, does not believe in fate, a romantic.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I love thee?" This poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is one of many she penned for her husband Robert Browning. Using the basic form of an Italian sonnet with its fourteen lines and strict rhyme scheme - she manages to produce a surprisingly passionate poem.

Two poems that I could easily contrast against one another are Thomas Campion, “There Is A Garden In Her Face” and William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130. The two poems both discuss the topic of the poet's’ love interest; in contrary to one another, Shakespeare’s approach is more realistic, whereas, Campion’s approach may seem more pleasant to hear its ideas are unrealistic. Campion states, “There is a garden in her face,” to describe his love’s immeasurable beauty and glow. Throughout the remainder of his poem, Campion continuously expresses that his beloved has more beauty than those objects created by God in nature such as: flowers, pearls, and angels. Shakespeare expresses his affect for his romantic companion in a way that shows that all though

In the poem "Sonnet 43" Elizabeth Barrett Browning uses the theme of love to express her feelings about her husband, Robert Browning. In this poem she is trying to portray the unreal feeling of love by measuring how much her love means to her. Also, she expresses all the diverse ways of loving someone In "Sonnet 43" she repeats "I love thee" multiple times. This is to enforce her already existing knowledge on the strength of her love, and all she feel is what she love. Also, by repeating it she is enforcing it on her readers that she loves him and it is impossible to change that. Also, she implies no gender in her poem which is good because this poem is not read to one specific gender, it's read to all. When she mentions her childhood's faith,

“The Lamb” and “The Tyger” are contrasting poems. They seem to be opposites of each other, “The Lamb” sends a message of innocence and purity, while “The Tyger” sends a message of evil, fear, and hate. “The Tyger” is definitely a stronger poem, it’s written in questions and progressively gets more and more intense. Both poem uses symbolism and the animal represents a quality. There are references to the Christian figure Jesus, it says in “The Lamb,” “For he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child (14):” However there is no references to any religious figure in “The Tyger.” “The Lamb” is written in a question and answer format. The first stanza was a series of questions that asked who created such innocence. Afterward the first stanza, it’s followed by a stanza of answers and responses to the first stanza. The whole poem is written in a gentle nature that calms the reader and adds assurance to the reader. However contrasting “The Lamb,” “The Tyger” is written very aggressively and makes the reader doubt and question the innocence of the world.