The poet uses similes to create an emphasis on certain ideas of belonging in the text.…
In this essay I will be commenting on the presentation of relationships in two poems. The first poem is ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’, in which the speaker remarks on her life before marriage, where she was adored and worshiped by men, and how it has changed after marriage. ‘My Last Duchess’ is a dramatic monologue in which the speaker comments on his late wife and her character, suggesting that she was unfaithful to him and hinting that he may have murdered her because of this.…
Both poems use metaphors to describe the speaker’s feelings towards the other person in the relationship, for example in Quickdraw “And this is love, high noon, calamity, hard liquor in the old Last Chance saloon.” Then in Praise Song for My Mother “You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming.”…
People often dream of finding the perfect soul mate…a special someone with similar hopes and goals for their future. They dream of someone to share the good and bad times with them. They dream of a person that will love them unconditionally until death parts them. And although I seriously doubt anyone has ever said the sacred marriage vows to another while believing the union would not last forever, the high divorce rate shows that more and more, marriages are failing and separation is highly probable. It’s not clear why some marriages are successful and why some fail, but after reading the two poems, “Most Like an Arch This Marriage” and “Conjoined”, it’s crystal clear to me that marriage can indeed be either dream come true, or a living nightmare. In fact, it’s also quite possible for one partner to be happy in a marriage and the other one to be completely miserable. In this analysis, I plan on comparing the two poems, their similarities as well as their differences and how the poets used various writing techniques to illustrate their ideas on the marriage theme they have written about.…
The Symbolism in both poems various significantly due to the different relationships in each poem and the different emotions the reader feels.…
How is conflict in relationships presented in Les Grands Seigneurs and one other poem from your collection? (Medusa)…
Compare how the poets present love in “Nettles” and in one other poem from the Relationships cluster.…
life. “The Moon” is a dramatic poem about a man that expresses his amorous feelings towards a…
In “The Dream of the Rood”, the unknown poet uses lines 125-156 to develop the theme of triumph achieved by Christ as a warrior king, bringing the dreamer to realize there is hope for a better life after death. The poet develops these notions by the use of heroic diction, symbolism, and irony. These lines are significant to the text as a whole because they allow the dreamer to summarize the sermon of salvation that the rood has preached. They also mark the change of reaction given by the dreamer from hopeless to hopeful.…
The poem starts out with a sentence that catches the reader’s attention, “Whatever the difference, it all began.” This is implying that something new is about to start and make a positive impact for the speaker’s life. I know the impact is going to be positive from the next line when he says, “face-to-face like lovers”. The use of the simile at the end of the second line shows how passionate the speaker is towards his ”four-day-old” son. Imagery is used in the third line when the child’s “smile dawned on him”, it portrays his smile which lit up his face causing his father to pitch back with the exact same smile. This is also ironic as normally the child would copy the adult, not the other way round.…
In the poem “After The Wedding,” by Faith Shearin, simile and imagery work together to show the overall themes of love and what comes with it. The majority of the similes used in the poem involve imagery. They paint a vivid picture of the poem in the reader’s mind and make it much easier for the reader to follow along with the poem. The imagery used in this poem shows everything in love and a relationship from the time two people fall in love to death.…
I think this poem is the conflict between two lovers, one is based on material and things of value while the other is about feelings and things that are true and have real value.…
Oliver utilizes several literary techniques, like figurative language and structure, to further develop the strong connection between nature and life. Oliver writes: Figurative language can give shape to the difficult and the painful. It can make visible and ‘felt’ that which is invisible and ‘unfeelable.’ Imagery, more than anything else, can take us out of our own existence and let us stand in the condition of another instance, or another life. It can make the subject of the poem, whatever it is, as intimate as honey---or ashes---in the mouth (Oliver).…
The poets use different styles and techniques in writing poems. They employ varying styles of writing poems that include the styles of literature such as symbolism. This has necessitated the use of the natural landscape to pass the ideas for which the poem was intended. When the natural landscape is used in poetry, it necessitates a creation of the mind through imagination. The reader of the poem will be in a position of deriving the meaning of the poem from what he reads. This has been demonstrated by J. Hollander in his poem the ‘Swan and Shadow’. Hollander starts his poem with a description of the Dusk above the water hang the loud flies. This will give the reader a figurative image of what the poet meant because it relates to what is found in nature. The natural physical landscape is also used by the poets because it can be easily related with and therefore it is used as a simile. The similes are literary techniques used when we want to relate something with another item with similar attributes.…
'Compare and Contrast' Poetry Analysis'Silver' and 'The Moon'Five blind men, all possessing accurate but different portrayals of an elephant, show the new dimension one possess from looking at things from different perspectives. Supervising the activities on Earth, the only natural satellite on the Water Planet is perceived differently amongst the Homo sapiens roaming on it. Silver by Walter de la Mare and The Moon by P.B. Shelley are two insights on the character of the moon. Despite Silver and The Moon both powerfully describing the nature of the moon, the two poems depicts distinct images.…