The second poem is called A Birthday. This poem is about a woman who is excited about here lover coming to her again. I think this poem is called A Birthday because birthdays are a symbol of happiness, love and celebration. The poem starts with the woman describing her heart she says its like a “singing bird”, a “apple-tree” and a “rainbow shell” I think she describes her heart as a “rainbow shell” because people think that a rainbow is nice to look at and that they are very beautiful things and this is what she thinks of her heart. She seems very happy that her love is coming to her; she says the word “dove” as in the bird, which is normally a symbol of peace she finishes with some simple words “ the birthday of my life is come, my love is come to me” I think this means that it is her birthday a very special day and a very special person is coming “her love”.
The third poem is called Villegiature. This poem is about a woman who is trying to remember her lover in every detail but in the end she remembers why she broke up with him in the first place. She starts by describing her window what is around/outside it she says “White-curtained shone, and softly lighted: so by the pear-tree to my room your ghost last night climbed uninvited” I think she is saying that there was a faint light shining thought her white curtains and her lovers ghost “or what seems to be a ghost” climbs through her window. She then describes what he looks like “your solid self, long leagues away, deep in dull books, had hardly missed me” she then goes on to say that he climbed up through the window to kiss her. “I listened to you till the dawn, and half forgot I did not love you” she is saying here that she has been listening to him for so long that she can barely remember that she doesn’t love him. In the last verse she describes how she feels after her lover disappears she says “ Oh, dear! What pretty things you said, what pearls of song you threaded for me! I did not-till your ghost had fled-remember how you always bore me!” as u can see she had forgotten how she felt until her lover left and after this encounter with him she remembers that she does not love him!
The next poem is A Woman To Her Lover; this poem is about a woman telling her lover how she should be treated. The poem starts by saying that if all her husband wants her to do is bare his children and be a servant to him till the end of her life she refuses!! In the second verse she says if you want me to be an angel and nothing more I refuse!! In the thirds verse she says that if he only wants her for her body and for sexual pleasure then again she refuses. In the last verse she says the if he wants her to be hes "comrade,friend and mate to live and work, to love and to die ith you" then she acepts.
The last poem is called My Last Duchess. This poem is about a man telling his "friend" about his last duchess, describing her to him in alot of detail this conversation starts when the painting of his last duchess is shown to his "friend". He describes her as a good woman as if she has been murdered though he carrys on it sounds like hes feelin sorry 4 her but in the end of it we have found out that he had her kill and she will not be his last.
I think that all these poems are good i think they do show traditional love at its near best. The best poem i think is first love because i like the way that the writer uses sertain words to describe how the man is feeling.
