EXPLORE THE MESSAGES THAT THE FIVE POEMS YOU HAVE STUDIED GIVE ABOUT LOVE AND LOSS.

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EXPLORE THE MESSAGES THAT THE FIVE POEMS YOU HAVE STUDIED GIVE ABOUT LOVE AND LOSS.

Jon Clare’s poem ‘First love’, Lord Byron’s poem ‘When We Two Parted’, ‘A Woman To Her Lover’ by Christina Walsh, ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning, ‘Villegiature’ by Edith Nesbitt are the five poems that I have chosen to study.

Love poetry is that which is true to that of the poet’s real emotions. It’s a way a expressing your emotions without actually talking to anyone.

Jon Clare’s poem ‘First love’ is a very powerful and physical poem. The idea of love is put forward throughout the poem and the message seems to get stronger and stronger. The boy in the poem has almost been overcome by a powerful wave of physical feelings. Clare is constantly trying to make the poem even more intense as every line passes.

I could not see a single thing,

Words from my eyes did not start;”

Clare only talks about the way the boy reacts and not so much about his emotions inside. He is so astonished that the girl of his dreams is before him, that his attention wouldn’t dare wander anywhere else, for all he knows there is an empty vacuum of clouded nothing around him.

 The trees and bushes round the place, seemed midnight at noonday,”  

This is certainly showing the reader how the boy reacts physically. However, this could also be looked upon as a showing of the mental emotion that he is experiencing. This wonderful sight that he has encountered has taken his breath away, and partially his sight, he is only seeing what he want to see most, the world is none excitant when he looks at her.

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 It is as if someone is punching him continuously forcing all the air out of his lungs. He cannot talk, but only stare; like words are for children at a time like this. For the first time in this poem we have come across an adult scene, it seems that that adult thing to do is to not say anything and savour the moment.

 But there is another way of showing your feelings to someone; mental emotion is another powerful way of getting the message across and Lord Byron’s poem ‘When We Two Parted’, displays this well.

Byron’s poem, ...

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