The Parting And Love's Last Lesson Comparison

The deceased are often remembered in either the best of themselves or the worst. Family and friends usually look back and reminisce on the most striking qualities held by their lost loved ones. Death is a shocking and confusing period for those affected by it and the whirlwind of emotions, such as the various stages of grief, catch many by surprise. Born in 1908, Theodore Roethke was an American poet who was deemed one of the most proficient and leading poets of his generation. In his poem, “Elegy for Jane”, Roethke uses a variety of poetic devices to express the different themes of love, happiness, and grief. His use of imagery, symbolism, persona, tone and word choice, contribute to the deeper meaning of the poem, assisting in the expression of the speaker’s feelings for Jane and of how, Jane, herself felt.

Written since the beginning of time, poems continue to express the thoughts of the average person through the symbolic words of poets like John Clare and William Shakespeare. Poets such as these often used rhetorical devices when writing to emphasize or temporarily fill the void they often felt within themselves. Authors often used their works to exaggerate death, true love, unrequited love, memorializing, and other themes that tailored to the needs of the audience in each of their time periods. “The Secret” by Clare and an excerpt from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: Act 2 Scene 2 have many similarities and differences in relation to each author’s use of figurative language and both play’s shared theme of unrequited love.

In all honesty, “When We Two Parted” is an exquisite piece of literature with a broad use of figurative language that Byron formulated. Anguish and sorrow develops the devastating theme portrayed throughout the piece. Symbolism is evidently used to enhance the poem; however, the symbols are also used to tie the theme together. Conclusively, the imagery sculpts the poem effortlessly and contributes by delivering life to the poem. All in all, one grows to understand the meaning of a breakup by living through the eyes of the

Poetry written in the sixteenth century is not very different from modern-day poetry. Poets seem to continue to craft work based upon love and heartbreak more than any other topic. In Georgia Giscoigne’s 1573 poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her”, the speaker comes off as distraught over a girl, but actually has a more conflicting attitude towards her. The speaker feels desire towards this girl, but his desirer comes off as ambivalent at times. He shows indecisiveness about his feelings towards her, and at times comes off as regretful towards his past with her. Gascoigne presents a desiring, ambivalent, yet regretful attitude through his choice of title, diction, and use of metaphors.

Imagine ink like darkness for the rest of your life, never to see the light again. Imagine never hearing the words of love oozing out of your beloved’s mouth and wrapping your body with warming comfort. Imagine never feeling the gentle touch of a man or woman ever again. Imagine slumber but for eternity where your organs decay and you are no more than a mere frame of bones. Imagine death. Byron states, “all tragedies end in death” and I agree wholeheartedly. In prolonging unhappiness of life there is still peace that one’s life is still whole and that they are alive, however in death there is no light at the end of the tunnel, it is just pure darkness. Vivacious, colorful and musical, Moulin Rouge and dreary, dark and full of betrayal Shakespeare’s King Lear, though very contrasting texts have one thing in common, they both end in death. This essay shows the similarities between these two texts in order to prove that Byron’s statement “all tragedies end in death” is indeed true.

This essay will be exploring the use of language and imagery in the poem ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy to emphasise certain emotions within the text. This poem refers to the dark side of love and relationships several times, for example; “Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips.” This creates a different atmosphere to the stereotypical love poems, which are known for their mention of red roses and satin hearts. Although the title gives us an impression of a cliché-filled poem, as we continue reading, the poem seems like more of a warning than an encouragement to involve oneself in relationships and commitment,

Elegy for Jane which is one of Roethke’s most famous poems was published in The Waking: Poems 1933-1953 (DiYanni). An elegy is defined as a poem written in memory of a deceased acquaintance (Dictionary.com). Throughout the whole poem there is a mournful and dreary mood being conveyed. Roethke describes the girl in the poem and mentions elements of nature, but neither are described or portrayed as beautiful. The first line Roethke wrote “I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils” is not a very beautiful sounding description, and he mentions a wren and skittery pigeon neither of which are birds of beauty. In the poem the girl dies and the narrator, her teacher, is at her funeral feeling a little misplaced. Roethke

In this essay I will be commenting on the presentation of relationships in two poems. The first poem is ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’, in which the speaker remarks on her life before marriage, where she was adored and worshiped by men, and how it has changed after marriage. ‘My Last Duchess’ is a dramatic monologue in which the speaker comments on his late wife and her character, suggesting that she was unfaithful to him and hinting that he may have murdered her because of this.

The representation of love is greatly influenced by the values of the context given by the composer allowing the same concept to be viewed and treated in a completely differently. This is shown in Scott Fitzgerald's novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poems ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’. Both these texts are characterised by their time period, Gatsby is set during the ‘Roaring Twenties’ shaped by materialism, decadence and the american dream meanwhile EBB is set in the victorian era influenced by romanticism, enlightenment values, courtly love and petrarchan conventions. This contrast of values due to context gives a completely different representation of love in each text. PARAGRAPH 1: IDEALISED LOVE IN GATSBY; LOVE

There are some things that we do know about this poem. It is most often referred to as an elegy because of the mood of mourning and regret. Upon further reading I discovered that this poem is like others of its time period. Many

The shock and catastrophe of the First World War was profound. The elegy was after its original purpose a poem of love and only later modified for poetry of mourning, wherefore it was a poetic form that helped to handle the loss of a person. Before WWI only the individual person was bemoaned and later, after or during WWI, poets started writing elegies to mourn the death of the war’s fallen in general.

Poetry in Elizabethan time was based on courtly love conventions which included conceits and complements. Themes such as the unattainability of the lady, sleeplessness, constancy in love, cruelty of the beloved, renunciation of love, fine passion of the lover versus icy emotions of the beloved, praise of the beloved’s beauty and eternalizing her as being subject of the poem; these all are

Poetry is an art form that has often been highly regarded. It brings together some of the most complex forms of writing in the English language. Two poems that focus on the same topic may sometimes, have completely different views and provide perspectives that may not have been considered by the other. Two of these Poems are Let Me Die A Youngman’s Death by Roger McGough and On Death by Anne Killigrew. The former poem by Roger McGough talks of how the speaker does not wish to die the peaceful death of an elderly person but rather the chaotic death of a young man. In death is nothing at all the speaker proposes that all should be as happy as before his death, and not view it in such a negative and secretive light.

Life,love, and death summon the universe. Religion defines, whether admitted or exiled, it runs through the veins one way or another. Dispersing from end to end, it attaches. Though the waves collide with each other, their sole purpose combines, creating a current that carries one motive. Exploration of the stages in life lead these renowned authors to showcase their style of tone, noted through their prestigious works. Impacting the way humans feel, their words provoke our emotions and perspectives . Formulating the sense of feel, these authors provide coherent poems for human kind in its understandment of life, death, and love. It is undesired yet desired by humans, to experience these moments that keep the cycle running. The negative connotations from the authors whose lives revolve around the peak of death as shown by Emily Dickinson, the unfulfilled truth to life by Matthew Arnold, and the desire of William Shakespeare for more of an equal received love. The tones in the poems “Twas warm—at first—like Us—” by Emily Dickinson, “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold, and “My mistress Eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare emphasize author's purpose to portray the contrasting development of life, death, and love, the most important sequence of human form through religion.

In this essay, I will be focusing on the two elegies, Mid-term Break and Funeral Blues, and how they make use of numerous literary and poetic techniques to convey the grief reflected from the individuals in the poem.