How do woman write about men in three of the poems we have studied
I have chosen three poems out of four; they are Easter Monday, Valentine and Remember.
Valentine is a love poem. It was written by Carol Ann Duffy in the 1990´s. It is a very unusual poem, when you hear its title you think it is going to be very romantic, about gifts, chocolates, kisses etc. But when you read a bit you see that it is very different. Remember is another love poem, it was written by an 18 year old girl, Christina Rossetti. It is about a woman who sees the future as very ugly and hasn’t got any expectancy for the future. Easter Monday was written by Eleanor Farjeon it is also a love poem. It is based on a man who fights in the war and he doesn’t receive three letters from his girlfriend because he goes over the top and dies.
These three poems portray men very strongly, and in their poems we can see how much love the poets feel towards them. For example here is an extract from Remember “And afterwards remember do not grieve” Here we can see that she wants him to remember her but if that is going to make him unhappy, it is better that he forgets her. It shows all the love that she feels towards him and she doesn’t want him to suffer. Easter Monday and Remember poems are about woman that have lost there love, they all talk about the same thing, how much they that men that they have lost. Although Valentine is about a man that it is still there. These three poems are all in the first person, this makes them more real and direct, and the reader will feel more involved: