Compare how imagery is used to present feelings and ideas in This Room and Love after Love

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Adam Kemp

Compare how imagery is used to present feelings and ideas in ‘This Room’ and ‘Love after Love’

‘This Room’ and ‘Love after Love’ are both somewhat similar poems that can give the impression that both have a positive and negative side to them and they use a range of images and language to get their points across.

‘This Room’ is at first quite a confusing poem about the importance of happiness. It’s about how the poet is represented as a room and in this room it starts off very hectic and out of control because it starts ‘cracking and breaking through it’s self’. The furniture then begins to rise and the room is then portrayed as a big celebration. It is then realised that all of it was a metaphor to show that the poet’s spirit had escaped her body and she values the freedom she’s got.

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‘Love after Love’ is a poem about self-discovery and the poet is trying to say that there is a time in our lives when we come to realise what we really are  and only at this point can we truly be happy. It is thought that the poet has maybe just ended a relationship and being in love has made him forget who he is. It is also thought that he is trying to say we are better off by ourselves therefore should only care for ourselves which is quite a negative message.

Both of these poets use various techniques ...

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