The Nature of Emotions

Bradstreet’s loves her husband more than words can express and she uses diction and imagery in her poem to make it clear. “My love is such that rivers cannot quench” (Bradstreet 425) this is such a strong sentence that emphasis the love for her loving husband. A never ending love that nothing in this world could ever come to compare. She causes us to want to love as passionately as they both love each other. Giving us an image of the river not quenching because the rivers cannot cope with her love.

Hardy initially uses similes to illustrate the bleak landscape, referring to the “sun [as] white” and leaves as “grey”, to emphasise his sorrowful opinion of love. Specific diction of bleak words strongly communicates his message of love being hopeless and sorrowful. He also uses personification of “starving sod”, to allude that the earth is frozen and desiring nutrients which it lacks. This creates an undesirable setting and mood of despair and sorrow expressing how he perceives love. In contrast, Browning orientates an inviting, cheerful setting through the use of similes. The scene is vibrant with “little waves that leap” and “warm sea-scented beach[es]”, allowing the reader to perceive it as joyful. This illustrates how he regards love as an uplifting experience, which brings people together. He structures his poem with no stanzas, allowing for the reader to follow the radiant journey of love. In contrast, Hardy includes stanzas allowing him to express his message though new topics. They consist of the bleak setting, his former partners eyes, her bitter smile and his message of how all love disappoints. He includes an enclosed rhyme scheme, presenting the entrapment of love, expressing no freedom and joy in relationships. In opposition, Browning uses anaphora of “and” to express how the speaker’s mind is not in the moment, looking ahead to the future where they reunite with their lover. It is evident that Hardy conveys his message of love as sorrowful and full of despair, in contrast Browning message reveals love as gracious and

Robert Browning uses descriptive details to portray a theme of how darkness rises from warmth and happiness by showing us on how a man’s love for someone makes him turn to savagery. The narrator of the poem has very deep feelings for his lover, but he only thinks of himself and he never wants the girl to leave his side so he does the unthinkable. In the times that the girl was not home or was not with the narrator then there was coldness and darkness, but when she was with the man then the house would “blaze up, and all the cottage warm”. She created hope and the narrator needed that constantly, so he realized that his love was too strong to put on hold everyday when she would leave. The fact that the narrator had to watch his lover leave everyday

Through the use of poetic devices such as repetition or alliteration, the author originally describes what love is not capable of providing and defines love as unnecessary but by the end of the poem, the author reveals that love has some value.

The attitude of heartbreak and betrayal of the speaker caused by the woman is used to contrast the connotations of the words chosen to build on the irony. He describes the situation as "trustless"(6) and "grievous"(11) due to the anguish this woman causes. The speaker employs such words to make clear the influence that she has over his emotional state. The undertone of the poem, created by rhetoric, is pessimistic as well as resentful which contributes to the speaker's attitude towards the woman. The negative emotions of the how he feels contrasts to the emotions that this woman causes by describing "the gleams which on your face do grow" (4) and her "blazing eyes"(14). Through the use of positively connotated rhetoric when describing the physical beauty of the woman, the attitude of the speaker is established to indicate his conflicting mental state. The speaker creates images through the use of emotionally charged words to compare himself and how he feels about the woman to visual images of his

Poetry, by its formal definition, describes intense literary work that expresses feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. In poems such as “The Light Comes Brighter”, “Gold Glade”, and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, poets used certain literary devices--such as imagery, personification, symbolism, and rhyme scheme--in order to develop an abstract but simultaneous concrete idea of their internal thoughts and emotions. In “Gold Glade”, Robert Penn Warren portrayed a vivid memory of a young boy’s adventurous spirit. The Gold Glade, originally depicted as a simple artifact within the wilderness, symbolized the dream and passion held dearly by the identifiable character within his boyhood. T.S Eliot 's “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” followed an insecure man as he reflected upon his most extensive regret: having little power and confidence when it came to making decisions and dating. T.S Eliot conspicuously introduced a complex interpretation of a simple concept and sentiment. In Theodore Roethke’s “The Light Comes Brighter”, a familiar sense of clarity showed the upcoming change in seasons. By shifting into a new season as the poem proceeded, Roethke helped convey his thoughts and stance on the influence of nature in human culture. His peculiar word choice brought forth a new and interesting perspective on the effect caused by the environment’s cycle. Through all four poems, the discussion of human emotion tested the apprehension and

After that line, automatically the image of fiery ringlets develops in the mind of the reader making it a good example of imagery in this poem. Meeting at Night is quite different from Lips My Lips Have Kissed because the speakers lantern is shining on the little wave, hence making them be fiery. Another notable thing in the poem is colors; colors create images when Browning mentions colors like black, yellow and grey in the first stanza. Fire in the poem symbolizes passion as well as love. The author of this poem does not only use imagery and symbolism, just like in the poem Lips My Lips Have Kissed, Browning also employed rhyme scheme in his poem. Meeting at Night has a rhyme scheme of abccba abccba.

Each poem uses either diction, tone, mood, metaphors, and allusions to express the authors purpose and meaning about how they want readers to understand the depth of the poem due to the authors ability to, in each poem, express their feelings towards the theme of love based on all these different devices and tones they utilize.

To the Romantics, the imagination was important. It was the core and foundation of everything they thought about, believed in, and even they way they perceived God itself. The leaders of the Romantic Movement were undoubtedly Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his close friend, William Wordsworth. Both were poets, and both wrote about the imagination. Wordsworth usually wrote about those close to nature, and therefore, in the minds of the Romantics, deeper into the imagination than the ordinary man. Coleridge, however, was to write about the supernatural, how nature extended past the depth of the rational mind.

Tacit love is never bluntly expressed, and the poem illustrates it through actions and sacrifice. The speaker narrates as his father "made [b]anked fires blaze" each morning and "polished my good shoes" (Hayden). Working extremely hard, the father is doing

Incorporated in the poem “Change Upon Change” is various amounts of diction and distinct tone to help represent the poem. Browning uses an immense amount of diction in the poem to allow readers to capture the fractured love during the seasons. The words used in the poem are recognizable, but Browning uses them in a different way. “Ah, sweet, be free to praise and go! / It was thy love proved false and frail.” (Browning 17-20). Diction such as “false” and “frail” are usually not recognized with the topic of love. Love is usually interpreted as beautiful, strong, and real. Though never the opposite, except for this situation written in the poem. These words are specifically used to finalize the broken love that can never be reformed, and the

Module 12.1, “The Nature of Emotions” starts by explaining that defining the term emotion is very difficult because of all the aspect that could possibly together or separately be involved in an emotion. These aspects involved in an emotion include physiological effects, cognition, and behaviors. Next, the chapter answers one of my few question by explaining the methods for measuring emotions. Self-report, the most often used method, involves the participants answering questions about their emotions. I believe self-report would deliver the most bias results. For example, someone who experiences anger numerous times throughout the week would rate a feeling of anger at 3. While someone who doesn’t get angry very often would rate, hypothetically

There are certain themes and ideas which appear over and over again in literature, no matter what the genre or form. Poems which were written centuries apart can echo similar ideas about life and humanity. Love is one such theme which presents itself repeatedly as seen in the poetry of William Shakespeare and that of Robert Burns. Each poem, though written more than two hundred years apart, explains what it feels like for the poet to feel love for the singular object of their affection. The poem "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" by Shakespeare and Burns' "A Red, Red Rose" share common images and themes with the intention of instilling in the reader the impression of their love and in explaining the depth of their emotion for the beloved as well as the respective poets ideas about the very nature of love and how it can be both passionately fulfilling and devastating.

How does William Wordsworth's poetry fit into the literary tradition of Romanticism? Q. How does William Wordsworth's poetry fit into the literary tradition of Romanticism? A. Romantic poetry was an artistic movement of the late 18th and early 19th century. It dealt with nature, human imagination, childhood and the ability to recall emotional memories of both happiness and sadness.

In stanza four, Robert Frost alliterates “winter wind”, not only does this emphasise the description of the wind’s character as frigid, distant and bleak but it also shows the incompatibility of the flower and the wind – as flowers may be susceptible to the wind’s power. (13). “Little of love could know” is also located in the same stanza and is used to further amplify how inexperienced the wind was with love (16). In stanza five, giving the "sash a shake" stresses the winds' desperation to capture the attention of the flower by manipulating the surrounding landscape (18). The next line in this stanza also has alliteration – “witness all within” (19). The upcoming portion of the poem appears to be retold by the witnesses who have seen what had unfolded between the two lovers and what had become of their love story. Displaying the personalities and actions of the two lovers allow the reader to have a clear understanding of the relationship between the two and why it resulted in them separating. Robert Frost not only achieves to entice his readers and make them inquire about the significance of the aspects of the poem, but he draws their attention to the little things that were responsible for the ending and beginning of the lovers’ relationship. By allowing the reader to second-hand experience these complications in a relationship, they can make note of the trust required in a relationship and ensure that they do not fall into unfortunate circumstance as these