Comparing After The Last Dynasty And A Streetcar Named Desire
The Pain and Satisfaction of Love Kunitz was a poet from Massachusetts who wrote many pieces on the loss of his father and the emotions that followed. He lived from 1905 to 2006 and has been cited for many great works. Kunitz was named poet laureate of the year for his work in 2000 and 2001. Williams, a play write from Mississippi, lived from 1911 to 1983. Williams wrote many plays for Broadway and won a Pulitzer Prize. He was plagued with the secret of his homosexuality, which he expressed in some of his characters throughout his career. Despite the authors’ personal differences, both of their works expressed strong emotions. In Kunitz’s poem, After the Last Dynasty, and Williams’ play, A Streetcar Named Desire, two different loves are depicted.
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A Streetcar Named Desire paints the picture of a loving yet typical husband and wife duo in the 1940’s. They came from different classes but they love each other deeply. The husband runs his hold with an iron fist but openly cares for his wife. After slapping his wife, Stanley screams for Stella on the streets with no regard to others hearing him. Their love for each other can be felt on both side. The opposite is true in the poem After the Last Dynasty. Williams writes about a man who loves a woman, but the love is not returned. The poem reads: here is a new note I want to pin on your door, though I am ten years late and you are nowhere: (23)
The speaker finishes by asking his love why she kept him waiting. The reader is drenched in the idea of regret and longing, a much different feeling than A Streetcar Named Desire. Each author explores the idea of love and struggle in their pieces. Tennesse Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire uses a couple, Stanley and Stella, to depict the love between a husband and wife. The love is imperfect, but for the couple it works. Stanley Kunitz, a poet, writes about unrequited love and the pain the man feels in poem, After the Last Dynasty. Despite their very different backgrounds, techniques, and literary formats, each author colorfully conveys the feeling of love and struggle to the reader in these two amours
A Streetcar Named Desire paints the picture of a loving yet typical husband and wife duo in the 1940’s. They came from different classes but they love each other deeply. The husband runs his hold with an iron fist but openly cares for his wife. After slapping his wife, Stanley screams for Stella on the streets with no regard to others hearing him. Their love for each other can be felt on both side. The opposite is true in the poem After the Last Dynasty. Williams writes about a man who loves a woman, but the love is not returned. The poem reads: here is a new note I want to pin on your door, though I am ten years late and you are nowhere: (23)
The speaker finishes by asking his love why she kept him waiting. The reader is drenched in the idea of regret and longing, a much different feeling than A Streetcar Named Desire. Each author explores the idea of love and struggle in their pieces. Tennesse Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire uses a couple, Stanley and Stella, to depict the love between a husband and wife. The love is imperfect, but for the couple it works. Stanley Kunitz, a poet, writes about unrequited love and the pain the man feels in poem, After the Last Dynasty. Despite their very different backgrounds, techniques, and literary formats, each author colorfully conveys the feeling of love and struggle to the reader in these two amours