"Male and Female Poets Have Very Different Ways Of Expressing Their Attitudes To Love And Relationships".

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Mohammed Ayaz Razaq 11/6                                         English Coursework

Pre 1914 Poetry

English Literature Coursework Essay

“Male and Female Poets Have Very Different Ways Of Expressing Their Attitudes To Love And Relationships”

In this essay I will discuss the attitudes of the poets by deeming what the poem is describing, thus coming to the judgement of whether the comment is true or not.

         I will talk about three poems by three male poets and three poems by three female poets. Firstly I will discuss the poems by the male poets and then the other three poems and hopefully I will have made a decision about the comment.

        The first poem I will discuss is “When We Two Parted” by Lord Byron. Byron starts his poem with a describing his relationship with his ex wife or ex lover. In the next paragraph he describes how he felt about their relationship, he uses the word “chill” to say that he had a cold feeling about their relationship and that he really didn’t love her. He then makes nasty comments about their relationship and her; he uses the following phrases

“thy vows are all broken, and light is thy fame”,

he is basically saying that it’s her fault that the relationship didn’t work.

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        In the third paragraph he states that every time he hears her name it reminds him of funeral bells, this is shown when says

                “they name thee before me, a knell to mine ear”

this shows that he thinks that it’s her fault and that he never really loved her or that he is over her. He also uses the word “rue”, which means regret; this shows that regrets ever knowing her.

        In the last paragraph he is accusing her of everything, he says

        “In silence I grieve, that thy heart could forget, thy spirit deceive”

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