They both explore the theme of love or rather painful love. the poet revels the link between the two poems’s through a verity of techniques which is done very effectively but also shows the difference between the obsessive love in “Havisham” and the possessive love of “Valentine”. The pain of love is evident from the beginning in both poems. “Carol Ann Duffy” uses the tone in the first couple of stanzas to show the unorthodox nature of the love. “Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain.
Larkin portrays this sense of objectification in his poem with regards to woman as he describes a woman as a ‘bosomy English rose’ and then follows on to call her ‘beautiful’ throughout the poem portraying the sexual lust involved with love. In Larkin’s poem the male would seem he is not bothered about the unfortunate break up between him and the girl he is dating as he avoids mentioning the facts of how their relationship ended and seemed pleased she returned what is believed to be an engagement ring. Abse on the other hand is describing the atmosphere of Valentines day where he does include a sense of sexual desire however he is still hoping to fall in love as he did once before. The position both characters are in are similar. In
Alonzo Booth III IB English Due: November 8, 2013 Porphyria’s Lover Analysis Robert Browning was a famous English Poet who mastered the use of dramatic verse expecially dramtic monologues. One of his famous pieces was Porphyria’s Lover. Robert Browning use situational irony, personification, imagery, iambic tetrameter, juxtaposition, rhythm, and enjambment to complicate the notion of truth throughout the poem. Robert Browning uses situational irony to depict the love portrayed by Porphyria’s lover but it ends up going awry when he took, “ in one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around and stranged her.” (lines 39- 41) It displays the irony of a person saying a whole lot of good things about that person that they love and cherish but they end up killing them. Browning uses that to throw the readers off from the suspecting romantic love poem or love story to a romantic tragedy that ends up leaving the reader wondering why did the man kill the woman he loved so dearly?
The use of ‘hit’, an active verb, implies that he is attempting to force his obsession on her. Subconsciously Romeo understands that his feelings for Rosaline are not true ‘I, that feel no love in this’ and expresses it through personifying love as ‘tyrannous and rough’ furthering the physical imagery. Romeo’s love for Rosaline is not only the only example of unrequited love in the play. Although seemingly more genuine than Romeo’s love for the ‘fair Rosaline’ it is nonetheless unreciprocated, as is expressed by Juliet in Act 4 Scene 1, ‘o bid me leap, rather than marry Paris’. However, Paris genuinely cares about Juliet, he is sensitive towards her feelings ‘these times of woe afford no time to
How has love been presented in Romeo and Juliet? In this essay I will discuss Shakespeare’s feelings towards love and the different ways that he uses the story of Romeo and Juliet to communicate them to his audience. In Act 1 Scene 4, Mercutio and Benvolio mock Romeo for allowing his love for Rosaline to make him weak. We see this in the quote, ‘If love be rough with you, be rough with love// Prick love for pricking you and beat love down’. This shows Romeo’s friends think he should hate love for making him look weak and stop displaying his unrequited love for Rosaline.
This demonstrates the extent of love Jonson felt for his son, so much in fact that he views it as a “sinne”. This perhaps suggests that with the loss of his son, Jonson has lost his faith. The Laboratory on the hand conveys a completely different feeling. The speaker is deeply angered and bitter about her lover’s affair with another woman. As a result she makes a poison to kill the woman with.
The trickery of love plays a proverbial role in “Much Ado About Nothing”. Beatrice and Benedick, having initially an antagonistic view on marriage, are deceived into loving one another, whilst Claudio deceives himself by allowing Don Pedro to woo Hero for him and by believing Don John the Bastard that Hero had been unfaithful the night before they wed. This portrays young Claudio as passive, flippant and inexperienced. The love between Hero and Claudio begins almost immediately when the young soldier Claudio returns from war, realising that he is deeply in love with Hero and wants to ask her father for permission to marry her. It is evident women in the early 1600’s
The irony of the title is mirrored by the irony that the form that this epic work takes is the sonnet; traditionally (in accord with Dante and Petrarch) a love poem and often presented as a gift. Each sixteen-line sonnet can be read individually as well as seen as part of a whole. Like any upstanding Victorian marriage, the meter is controlled and well mannered. Meredith opts for an ABBA rhyme scheme, with a different set of rhymes for each quatrain. The usual octet-sestet form would be too limiting for the narrative to move freely.
In the play Romeo and Juliet, love was portrayed as romantic or lustful but never guaranteed happiness. Most characters either had a misfortunate love, where the love was both not returned and gone wrong, or the love that was lost in death. The play didn’t portray your typical love story; where by two people meet, fall in love, and see that love through. Instead the love that played out involved death between two star-crossed lovers. They loved each other so much, that they would die for each other.
By comparing the poems ‘My Last Duchess ‘and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, both by Robert Browning the 19th Century Romantic poet, it is possible to explore their dramatic effectiveness and the different methods which are used by Browning to reveal character. In ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, the reader is given an insight into the warped mind of a controlling man who will kill in order to make his love last forever, whilst in ‘My Last Duchess’ the jealousy and the need for domination by the Duke is revealed. Both poems are written in the form of a dramatic monologue; the poem is narrated strikingly, in the first person, by a single character, in these cases a male lover. Browning may have chosen to use this form of writing as it makes the reader more closely involved with the events described in the poem, than they would be if it was written in the third person. It also allows individual readers to experience the powerful emotions described in the poems, letting the reader visualise the proceedings depicted in the poems in their minds eye.