Essay about Use of Poetic Devices in Two Love Poems

By analyzing the use of symbolism, personifications, irony and foreshadowing by the two authors, it will become evident that their protagonists share similarities when dealing with the recurring theme of the tragedy of unrequited love.

I also felt that the poems were appealing and insightful because of the differences they had in common and how the use of different symbolic objects can transmit a similar message. For example, at first, I did not comprehend the connection between the titles

Line 2. Her love is as real as the three dimensions of all physical things.

Love is the most common theme that most poets write about; moreover, poets interpret and write different kind of love poems. There are poems that are about a person’s first love, a poem about the fate of two lovers, a poem about a strong everlasting love, and more. The poems In Muted Tone by Paul Verlaine, Fate by Carolyn Wells, and I Wish I Could Remember That First Day by Christina Rossetti are well connected to one another because they all have the same theme: Love. Although these three poems have different kind of love, the main focus of each poem is the love each speaker has towards someone: their first love, a person from their past, and the person they are with at the moment.

felt and what he saw, 'All went lame; all blind' it makes it stand out

For example, the author wrote in the poem that “she wants to hear wine pouring/she wants to taste change.” This is imagery because I believe she wants to change her life, and become a fancier person. I really thought that the imagery part of the poem “Sunday Greens” was the most helpful in finding the theme because in Stanza 1, saying “you want to taste change” and “hear wine pouring” is telling us she really wants a better life. Also, the imagery is important because it describes every single detail which could help you know what’s going on. In addition, the poem shifts from a girl wanting to change her life because every day she only cooks the common boring food everybody eats. Then, it shifts to her remembering her mother’s life. In my opinion, the theme of the poem helped me find the theme because when the poem shifted from the girl to her mother’s life, it revealed to me that the girl didn’t want the same miserable life her mother had. I also believe that the shift was the second most important part of the poem because the element helped me understand everything the girl is going through. These were the two main elements that helped me find the theme of the

is saying, and Frosts personal pain that he is suffering from that he ingrains into this poem. The

No poetry can be indistinguishable because poetry relies on the writer’s, perceptions and feelings behind the poetry. In the poem “Morning song” by Sylvia Plath and “Time for Renewal” by Anchal Grover are two very different poems, but very similar way of tones In the poems, not only the themes and structure are different, but also the point of view the poem has written in, are very diverse. However, they used very similar characteristics and punctuation to describe the concept of the poem. In both poems, the themes are different, but they are slightly alike from the meaning behind it. Plath’s poem is about a love, where they talk about her feeling she experiences during her maternity and how she feels about formation as a woman to

period as all they could do was to stay at home. The phrase, 'doll to

With the literary devices he uses, he may actually be talking about the loss of someone he very much loved, appreciated and admired. Although not everyone can necessarily relate to this theme, it still applies to the prevailed use of literary devices to display a theme. The theme presented will resurface in more of his poems, we will also further discuss this theme used in another one of Whitman’s poems later on. Striking again, Robert Frost isn’t only known for using symbolism in The Road Not Taken, but also in plenty of other poems. In the second poem we will be dissecting today, symbolism plays big part in the composition.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, the poet of “Spring and Fall”, uses imagery, diction, and alliteration to create a depressed tone. In “The Oven Bird”, the poet Robert Frost uses metaphor and anaphora to create a reflective tone. Both use their devices to underline the idea of nature's death as a depiction of something much deeper and convey the theme that as time goes on, we have the option to focus on what's coming, or we can live in the moment. In the “Spring and Fall”, Hopkins uses diction, imagery, and alliteration to create a depressed tone and convey the meaning.

3. Diction and Imagery: Create categories of diction that can form imagery patterns—the same six images appear in each stanza but are arranged in a different order. Within the pattern you can see the meaning—the theme—of the poem. Interpret the grid you develop.

When sorely press’d by Sith-like enemy, I think on thee, and soon have no regret. To know I have thy love doth set me free, Thou art a feast that doth mine hunger whet.

Imagery is a key in any poem to appeal to the senses of the reader. Henley uses imagery to help

Yearning for the love of another is not an original subject for poetry. However, this age-old theme is expressed through the style of Petrarchan love in the poems Love, that doth reign and live within my thought and Astrophil and Stella 1. Love, that doth reign and live within my thought, was written by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in the mid-sixteenth century (Greenblatt and Logan 386). Sidney wrote his series of sonnets entitled Astrophil and Stella in 1580, describing his relationship with Penelope Devereux (Greenblatt and Logan 491). Henry Howard in his writing of Love, that doth reign and live within my thought and Sir Philip Sidney in his writing of Astrophil and Stella 1 collectively express Petrarchan concepts in their poems. Petrarch was a fourteenth-century poet whose writings were heavily influenced by the tradition of courtly love, however; Petrarch altered the ideal of courtly love by removing the fulfilled meeting of the two lovers leaving the man with an infinitely unfulfilled love. Henry Howard’s and Sir Philip Sidney’s situations are similar in that they are both dealing with a vexing situation that is constructed around their feelings and expressions of love for a woman. Both poets express these notions in their writings through their similar uses of meter, situation, and Petrarchan structure.