Furthermore, elements of superficial love are also in The Millers Tale, as Absolon loves Alisoun due to her “goddess corpus”. Both poems therefore illustrate superficial love as men become captivated with women due to them having physical beauty. However, additionally this could be interpreted as not being superficial love and demonstrates how society in the past had different values which made women desirable. Furthermore, feminine beauty within the two poems is compared to nature portraying a stereotypical type of love. The Knights Tale compares Emelye to flowers frequently as she is “fressher than the may with floures newe”.
In the poem “To Helen” the author used beauty as a form of diction to show his fascination towards the character. In the beginning of the poem the author used the word “beauty” to describe how the speaker saw Helen. The author as well used the word “Psyche” towards the ending of the poem to emphasize Helen’s beauty since “Psyche” means beautiful princess dear to god. The purpose was to emphasize and show the speakers’ admiration and obsession towards Helen. The tone in this poem is peaceful and graceful for when the author says ”Thy Naiad airs have brought me home” signifies that Helen’s beauty is peaceful and gentle and her air can just take him home.
He admires her attitude when she baths herself by “the tall black cliff where the water runs cold” he relates her attitude to his connection to power. The length of lines varies and this could be to make the structure look as though it mimics a river and to indicate its destructive power. He describes his sleepy head lady as “golden”, the comparison to gold make her to be seen as something considered being precious, beautiful and valuable. This could also reflect her characteristic to be with superior quality to the River God. Soon as the poem progresses, we discover a darker aspect to both of the poetic voice’s personality.
I will prove this is true in the following paragraphs Shakespeare uses a large variety of metaphors and similes. A metaphor found in Sonnet 116,” Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks” is a symbol of outer beauty that changes with time. Sonnet 138 shows a similar image, “When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies,” paints the picture of love in a similar way. Both the poems are depicting a love that has been through good and bad that have developed over time. For instance beauty fading with time and also trust fading.
"Thoughts on My Sickbed" opens with Dorothy Wordsworth eloquently expressing her own sense of mortality. A lyric poem utilizing the ballad stanza -- a quatrain in which only the second and fourth lines rhyme -- it has a beauty and natural grace of flowing lines and many references to the beauty and healing properties of Nature. To Dorothy, Nature has "mothering," "nurturing," and "healing" (i.e., feminine) characteristics, as she writes: And has the remnant of my life Been pilfered of this sunny Spring? And have its own prelusive sounds Touched in my heart no echoing string? Ah, say not so--the hidden life, Couchant within this feeble frame, Hath been enriched by kindred gifts, That undesired, unsought-for, came The above stanzas additionally exemplify Dorothy's concept of the aesthetics of the Romantic Period -- a continuation and further exploration of the earlier Age of Sensibility -- which are shown by Dorothy's lines: No!--then I never felt a bliss That might with that compare Which, piercing to my couch of rest, Came on the vernal air.
Barter Explication This poem is about admiring all that life has to give you. Teasdale uses formal language in this poem. I feel that there is a clear speaker and it is Teasdale sending us a message in her poem telling us to enjoy life for the loveliness. Teasdale used imagery and personification in the first stanza to give nature human like qualities, “Soaring fire that sways and sings.” The first two stanzas have a calm and peaceful mood but in the third stanza the mood shifts to persuasive or assertive where the speaker tells us to “spend all you have for loveliness”. In the first stanza the speaker gives examples of “beautiful and splendid things” and goes on to refer to them in the last line of the first stanza “Children’s faces looking up holding wonder in a cup”.
It was not difficult at all to know what was going on without having to read and reread the poem. Like for instance the first two lines “The first time I walked / With a girl, I was twelve” (as cited in Clugston, 2010, section 11.1) seems like adolescent language. I think it was very constructed because the tone of the speaker allowed the reader to connect with the adolescent being in love. Through the experiences of a poet can a reader exhibit the power of emotion. With a few elements like symbolism, tone, and imagery allowed me engage in a truly interesting poem about young love.
In ‘Sonnet 130’ Shakespeare describes his mistress’s eyes as ‘nothing like the sun’, this goes against the normal conventions of a traditional sonnet. This is because in a traditional sonnet the poet would praise the woman that he loved by telling us that her eyes do shine like the sun. He would use the word ‘sun’ to emphasise how important she is to him because everything revolves around the ‘sun’, so this would imply that his life revolves around her. Traditional sonnets were written by men to women who were unobtainable; the women were usually married or engaged. However in ‘Sonnet 130’ the word ‘mistress’ tells us that Shakespeare is married and is having an affair with the woman who he is writing the sonnet to.
However in this poem she cannot find a happier memory and recalls a dream instead, “I dreamed once long ago, that we walked among day-bright flowers.” Her use of positive imagery such as the “day-bright flowers” lightens the mood and achieves the same effect of the memories in The Violets, as she stops thinking of death and causes the reader to forget the unhappy nature of the initial memory and be emotionally moved by the warmth of the following memory where she is “secure in my father’s arms.” In her poems The Violets, Father and Child and At Mornington Gwen Harwood demonstrates through her use of memories, her loss of innocence, the love for her parents and how quickly time moves. Her memories also serve to engage the reader and make us feel her sense of happiness, sorrow and
He is saying that the sun is better looking than her eyes. Almost the entire poem says bad things about his mistress but at the end, in lines 13 & 14 “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare” he contradicts himself by saying that he is in love with her no matter how insignificant she is. These are all good examples to show why this poem is an anti-love poem, even though at the end of it he says he loves her no matter what she looks like or how ugly she is. This shows many exaggerations the author used to make the poem