This endurance causes them to suffer under love’s spell because the subject of their affection not only rebuffs love’s advances but also forcing the speakers to desist their lust and desire as well. In both poems, terrorized by the lady’s wrath, love flees his captive bodies in pain to hide and vanish. The two poems share many things in common; yet, the love that conquers in Wyatt’s poem is not the same as that in Surrey’s. In “The Long Love…,” love “harbor(s)” in the speaker’s thought, “keep(s) residence” in his heart and “camp(s)” on his face. It gives the impression that love, in this case, in merely seeking shelter in the speaker’s body.
The truth is though, “it will blind you with tears” and “make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief” as it will take over your whole body, leaving you with nothing but pain if you lose it. Duffy uses single lines to present the traditional gifts, separating them from the rest of the poem, where these gifts do not belong, as they do not present true love and all that comes with it. The poem encourages us to think about the nature of love in new and unexpected ways, this presents a realistic view of love and relationships. Duffy uses powerful, even violent words to present
Paris is often thought of as the city of love and romance. However James Fenton opens his poem with the sentence “Don't talk to me of love.” By starting with a morose tone and a negative imperative it not only shows the narrator is getting over a broken relationship, but it also shows the reader that the narrator finds it a difficult subject to talk about. Fenton then goes on to say “I've had an earful / And I get tearful.” Rather than both words of the rhyming pair coming at the end of lines, “tearful” is in the middle of the second line. The rhymes actually seem to give a lighter atmosphere to the first stanza, even though Fenton is feeling down. He describes himself as “one of your talking wounded,” which of course is a play on the phrase “walking wounded” used to describe people who have only slight injuries.
The first one lined stanza is a very negative start, "Not a red rose or a satin heart". This creates a very negative tone from the very first word, "Not" of the poem. In the fifth stanza there is a repetition of the second line of the poem, "I give you and onion". This repetition creates a frustrated tone, the speaker's partner has still not accepted the unusual gift. This represents the pain of love caused by rejection.
Is there a formula to poetry? Can a person fit words into a certain form and create “art?” Some poets seem to think this, which causes distress for others who believe in true poetry and true art. In her poem, “Poetry,” Marianne Moore expresses her disdain for phony poetry that tries to fit into a set mold and suggests that there is better side to poetry, as long as it is raw and genuine. The poem scorns poetry that is too structured or tries to follow a certain style. Moore jumps right into a negative approach with the words “I too, dislike it; there are thing that are important beyond all this fiddle” (Moore 1-2).
His use of repetition of the word “time” helps to emphasize its importance and how it separates the two lovers. Time is personified and introduced to the reader as an unreliable character, through different poetical devices such as personification, repetition, and juxtaposed imagery. The speaker in the poem blames “Time” for unwanted changes in life, and he repeats the line because he observes that all changes, even those that are unintentional, come with Time “leaves decay, roses grow”. Time ‘knows the price we have to pay’. Perhaps the stiff form of the villanelle makes the speaker seem committed and loyal while Time seems unpredictable.
I believe he was almost trying to prove a point by not looking at Clarissa. He was sulking in his own restless sorrow and wanted her to be the one who asked what was the matter. For then they would be able to discuss the distance that Peter felt between the two. The previous sentences are a critical point in the novel; because it depicts the simple nature of human love. How easily influenced one can be when they are madly in love with someone.
as you may see in other poems, this is not correct if this was to be a love poem. We see this lust rather than love in the way she is said to have “yellow hair” and how she “makes her shoulder bare.” we can sense how there is a frustration as he quite clearly want more than the to be his lover but to be a together, this is a convention of a love poem but the way she acts makes it more of a story of lust. The ABABB rhyme scheme is pleasant like a love poem and gives a rhythmic up beat approach to the relationship; this is the antithesis of the way that the poem unfolds as rather than having the expected denouement that you might get in a normal love story. The use of the present tense is
Another technique that Rossetti uses to create memorable characters is Maude Clare's repetition of 'half'; this illustrates another side to Maude Clare's seemingly arrogant character 'queen'. It conveys that she feels betrayed and rejected by her 'Lord'; 'Here's my half of the golden chain/ You wore about your neck.' Many critics believe that Maude Clare giving back Thomas' gifts along with the repetition of the plural pronoun 'we' reveal a significant factor of Thomas' character; he is fickle. Therefore, throughout the poem
When “Though” is used it is almost like it is natural that the “night was made for loving” and that Byron is going against the will of nature itself if he does not love. Finally, the word “Yet” acts as a final sending off for the wants of Byron, when it is used in the penultimate line of the poem. It carries with it an idea that the good times will never return and it is possibly this word which is burdened with the greatest amount of lamentation in the entire poem. Thus, Byron’s word choice suggests an idea of grief to the reader. Lord Byron has also used cataloguing in the second stanza, by using “And” in three consecutive lines.