comparing Havisham and Laboratory

There are also many differences between these two poems, Havisham is a women who wishes her lover was dead “Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead” “a red balloon bursting” use of alliteration, this red balloon is his heart she also uses violent imagery “ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with.” But Havisham only fantasizes about killing him; in the Laboratory she makes a poison to get rid of any competition so she can get revenge on her lover “grind away, moisten and mash up thy paste, pound at thy powder – I am not in haste!” she also fantasizes of what she could do “had I but all of them, thee and thy treasures, what a wild crowd of invisible pleasures!” but she then actually goes through with the poisoning, this has a huge effect on the reader a sense of shock, she hates him so much for leaving her she has become a total control freak making sure that her lover never loves anyone else and she will do absolutely anything to make sure of this.

After Havisham was ditched at her wedding she never recovered this led to her sitting in her chair in her wedding dress not doing anything or going anywhere just sitting there wasting away, smelling and putting her self down “Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days in bed cawing nooooo at the wall;” this is good use of onomatopoeia and gives the reader a view of what she was like and what the smell was like.

Whereas in the laboratory her lover leaving her made her annoyed, angry and is set upon to get revenge for leaving her, she doesn’t drown in sorrow she makes sure that he gets what he deserves.