Firstly, the structure of the two poems represent the anarchy of love: its unpredictable nature and lasting devastation. Neither of them have a rhyme scheme, nor set line lengths, albeit in “Love After Love” the stanza length decreases, as if something is coming to an end and, the stanza length stays the same throughout “Havisham”, possibly to …show more content…
Eliciting a life of solitude and sorrow, she shut herself away and remained within the wedding decorations, wearing a “once white, now yellow” wedding dress, in the same way the poem refers to “the dress yellowing”. On the contrary, “Love After Love” is rather ambiguous, Derek Walcott uses direct address to relate to the readers’ own experiences, “You will greet yourself arriving”, this poem isn’t written about himself, instead he is talking to the audience about moving on and living your own life. This difference in address shows a contrast in character of the two personas, Carol Ann Duffy (written as Miss Havisham) is shown as a self-orientated character, caught up in past events; whereas, Walcott speaks from his experiences to alleviate other people in similar