Wendy Copes Bloody Men is about love frustrated. The poet shows this by what she has written in the first line.
“Bloody men are like bloody buses”
The poem is made up of three verses of 4 lines. In the first section the imagery used by the poet shows how she feels that men are like buses; big and lazy.
“Bloody men are like bloody buses”
In the next 3 lines the poet writes about how she and any other women has to wait forever for a partner to turn up and when one does two or three others appear as well and make it hard for her to choose.
“You wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear”
In the next verse the poet writes about how the buses are flashing their indicators. This imagery makes us think of the man asking her out perhaps sharing off or attracting attention to their individual qualities.
“You look at them flashing their indicators offering you a ride”
In the last two lines of the second quatrain the poet writes about a person who does not have much time to decide where they are going to go on the bus.
“You’re trying to read the destinations you haven’t much time to decide.”
In the third and last quatrain the poet writes about how if you choose the wrong bus there is no way of going back to the first stop and picking another bus instead of the other one you picked first time, and if you jump off you’ll be left watching other people and your own life go by.
“If you make a mistake, there is no turning back. Jump off, and you’ll stand there and gaze while the cars and taxis and lorries go by and the minutes, the hours, the days.”
The tone of the poem is frustration, the perspective of the poet is of someone who has came against this situation of two or three men turning up at the same time and that she had trouble in picking the right one.
Twelve songs by Auden is about love lost. In the poem there four verses which all have four lines. The first section’s imagery is that of the poet trying to tell the people around him to show some respect for his friends death and to mourn the death of this person also to stop time and stop doing what they’re doing.
“ Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone bring out the coffin, let the mourners come”
The imagery in the second verse is showing he is unhappy and that the poet wants everybody to know the person is dead to come and mourn.
“Let airplanes circle mourning overhead. Scribbling on the sky the message he is dead. Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves let the traffic policeman wear black cotton gloves.”
In the third verse the poet try’s to say how the person who died is there whole world and that there is nothing better than this person.
“He was my north, my south, my east and west my working week and Sunday rest. My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song I thought that love would last forever: in was wrong.”
In the final verse the poet writes about how everything is meaningless without this person and everything should be destroyed.
“The stars are not wanted now put out everyone pack up the moon and dismantle the sun pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood for nothing now can come to any good.”
In Auden’s poem each line has 10 syllables the rhyme scheme is very straight foreword. The perspective of the poet is that of great grief he tells of the pain felt when a loved one dies.
All these poems are about love, love lost, love frustrated and love found. Each poem has a different way of expressing this. The imagery in sonnet from the Portuguese shows how many ways of live there is. Bloody Men shows how much the poet is frustrated with men. In twelve songs the poet is showing how sad he is because of someone he loves has died. All these poets have a different point of view of love.
