carol ann duffy valentine essay

Poems use lots of different ways to express personal relationships. The authors of these poems can use language, tone, structure and many other ways to convey personal relationships. The poem Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy uses many of these aspects. The main idea of this poem is to compare an onion to the love a woman has for her lover. The poem Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare also uses language, tone, structure and imagery. This poem however uses them in a different way. This poem is about how a man loves

The strong theme of love and commitment runs through the three poems we have been studying in class. Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 is a love poem, beautifully written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1845 and is one of a series of 44 sonnets, which Barrett Browning wrote in secret about the instance love she felt for her husband-to-be Robert Browning a poet himself. She called the series Sonnets From the Portuguese. The poem opens with a rhetorical question asking how she

(11) Duffy opens out her mind directly to the audience by ‘trying to be truthful’ and so does Macbeth in his soliloquy in act 1, scene 7. In Porphyria’s Lover, the man was morally blinded by love, like Macbeth was and both their love for their partners caused

Examine Shakespeare’s presentation of commitment within a love relationship in Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare wrote over 400 plays during his life during the Elizabethan era, of which one of his more famous plays is Romeo and Juliet. People from all classes went to watch his plays at the Globe theatre where seating was available to suit the various classes. His plays examined several issues that occurred to Elizabethan society, at a time when loyalty, religion and family were paramount.

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