The two poems I have chosen on the theme of love are Porphyrias Lover’ by Robert Browning and Stop All The Clocks by W.H Auden. A Comparison of Two Poems About Love. The two poems I have chosen on the theme of love are ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ by Robert Browning and ‘Stop All The Clocks’ by W.H Auden. ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, a dramatic monologue was written as a piece of entertainment in Victorian times, it would have been acted out to an audience. The narrative of this poem is that Porphyria was seeing someone below her own social class and no one knew about their relationship. She left the party early to go and see him as shown in the lines “When glided in Porphyria ; strait she shut the cold out and the storm” even they both …show more content…
In Porphyria’s Lover the speaker of the poem is in a deep mood of depression, shown in the lines “the rain set early into the night, the sullen wind was soon awake” this describes the characters mood but it also mirrors the weather and sets the scene of the poem, the young man also seems very lonely and depressed, “I listen’d with a heart fit to break” this shows that the man I very heartbroken and he just wants to be loved by her and he wants to be with her forever as shown in the lines “and give herself to me forever”, but he knows that it will never happen, as shown in the lines “made my heart swell, and still it grew while I debated what to do!” Throughout this poem there are several uses of alternate rhymes: “awake” and “lake”, “warm” and “form” and “straight” and “grate”. These words help the poem to flow and to unify it. The poem ‘Stop All The Clocks’ by W.H Auden is a lot shorter and it consists of four equal stanzas and each one consists of four lines. This poem is much shorter and simpler. This helps the reader of the poem to understand the poet’s emotions. Unlike Browning’s poem this poem expresses there feelings of someone who has lost of his loved one, as shown in the lines “for nothing now can ever come to any good”. The poem does not explain what has happened, it tells
Both poems have similar themes and both speakers describe a particular character found in both stories. Both poems have a beautiful woman as its main character and their themes describe the relationship between two lovers. In "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover," Robert Browning conveys two distinct portraits depicting the love shared between two people. The qualities of beauty, selfishness, and jealousy appear in both poems. In both works, the author explores the hidden influence death has upon the relationship shared by two lovers.
going to go back on his word, he doesn't really love her, and he's a
promises his utmost respect and loyalty in an attempt to make her want to leave with him. He
Similarly, the phrase ‘the next moment, you are no longer there’ is perhaps suggesting that he was shocked at seeing her go so suddenly. However, the fact that when she next reappears she is ‘perfectly framed shows us that the joy of seeing her after thinking she has gone for good is a surprise to him. ‘Fragrant survivors of last night’s frost’ shows us that the flowers are strong, which is a suggestion that their love is strong. In the fourth verse the phrase ‘my heart misses a beat at love for you’ shows us that the love was so intense that time seemed to stop too. ‘Knowing a time will come when you are no longer there’ shows us that he is not looking forward to that time and that he knows it is inevitable. ‘Meanwhile let us make sure we clasp each shared moment’ shows us that he wants to make sure they use their time together wisely, and ‘in cupped hands, like water we dare not spill’ shows us they know that their time together is precious.
In the first stanza, the writer uses many techniques to convey the feeling of loss, when he says,
said to her was true she would live with him and be his love. However
The poems I have chosen to write about are ‘They flee from me’ by Sir
This poem is all about time and if we had time this and that could
think is him planning on leaving her I began to think of him as a
only way this is possible is to kill her. This occurs to him after he
The Range of Feelings Associated with Love in Catullus and Lesbia' Poems Of Catullus’s poems, the Lesbia poems are the most memorable, particularly as they contain such a wide range of feelings and emotions. Whilst we do not know what order the poems were written in, it is tempting to arrange them in a progression from constant love, to confusion and despair and finally hatred. Poem 87 appears to be at the beginning of the relationship between Catullus and Lesbia. The symmetry of the couplets beginning “nulla” and ending with “mea est” emphasizes the idea that no one loves Lesbia as much as Catullus.
Again, the author selects a new set of imagery, such as stars, moon, sun, ocean, and wood to remind of the heaven in which the speaker used to live, and then to sweep it off right away. The last statement “For nothing now can ever come to any good” (16) finally reinforces the speaker’s loss and unhappiness. In loneliness, the speaker’s love becomes fiercer and more truthful. It is the fierceness and truthfulness that lead the speaker to the last stair of hopelessness. The end of the poem is also the hopeless end of the speaker’s life because of “nothing …good.”
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.
The poem “How Do I Love Thee”, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed”, by Edna Vincent Millay are both well-known poems that both have themes of love. (LIT, Kirszner & Mandell, Pg. 490). In both poems the poet helps the reader experience a lot of emotion with the use of certain words. There are speakers in both poems. In Mrs. Browning’s poem, the speaker is undefined, leaving open that the speaker could be a he or she. Millay’s poem which is written in first person, the speaker is more defined leading the reader to believe it is a she who is talking about love in the past tense. Both poems are sonnets written with fourteen lines, and written in Italian style. When comparing these poems we will be looking at the use of rhyme scheme and metaphors and how they were used to express emotions in these two sonnet poems.
It doesn´t last long enough for him. His love for her will continue and he doesn´t want her to go.