This poem offers probably the best example of first love for several people as it shows a wide range of differences because you are very nervous.
‘First Love’ contains probably 2 metaphors but summarises the whole poem – ‘My face turned pale as deadly pale’. Line 5. This shows us that he’s face went from bad to worse. This shows that he has gone from nervous to a more worse nervous.
This poem also includes only one simile but describes the woman’s face perfectly – ‘Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower’. This is what gives a good effect on the reader because it shortens words down pretty easily and allows you to understand it much simpler. As if you would to read it just ‘Her face bloomed’ it would not give a good description of what her face does look like.
I think ‘First Love’ is a great poem because it is very truthful (trust me on this one) and it has a wide range of good vocabulary which gets me very much into the poem. It uses a great simile to again break down words and the metaphor explains to how much nervous this guy is. The sentence ‘and blood burnt round my heart’, line 16, shows us that the man is probably so nervous he is starting to get really hot. This also shows us how nervous he is and what we might feel for first love. So overall the poem is very interesting and enjoyable so I’d say it is fantastic.
My Last Duchess
‘My Last Duchess’ is basically about an honest but self-centred man who killed his trustworthy wife because of her being too easily impressed. Generally she basically gives the same smile to other people like her fiancée. So he got someone to draw a picture of her so she would still look as if she were alive – ‘that’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive’. He explains basically whatever any one does such as giving a gift or if you had skill in speech she would easily get attracted and be amazed with the speed of light.
Unfortunately ‘My Last Duchess’ doesn’t contain any metaphors but the poem itself is tremendous. The rhyming words are excellent and the words nearly all rhyme together. The poem is great again because it gets your brain thinking to what has happened especially if the language is old English. I also recognise some assonances (long vowel sounds), which give the reader a big effect. Although the assonances are subtle it gives the poem a sad emotional feeling. Here is an example – ‘E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose never to stoop’. The poem is a bit hard to understand because there are no similes, which again, shortens down words to make it extremely simpler. There also isn’t any metaphor to make the poem interesting.
My last duchess gives you a good ‘brain thinking’ time and allows you to try figure out what has happened yourself. The poem overall though was a bit too frustrating as it had a huge amount of complex words what most people my age wouldn’t understand. But I’d say that if the words weren’t much too complex the poem would be great because it uses great assonances and is enjoyable when you know what the writer is talking about.
Remember
‘Remember’ is about a dear faithful woman who probably wrote a death letter to someone very loyal to her, maybe her husband, explaining where she has gone and telling him he should not be sad while remembering her. He should be forgetting her and being very pleased. She describes to him where she has gone in a speech what doesn’t make you feel as awkward as much as if normal.
‘Remember’ has a great deal of rhymes which very much suits the poem in a fashionably way. Some rhymes go in a order where you might not notice it but really makes an effect. Remember doesn’t use similes or metaphors and it does sound like a normal story or letter what just rhymes. ‘Remember’ doesn’t use similes because as you can see it doesn’t need it. Like there is no need for comparing any words. As explained the poem is like a story so no need for metaphors or similes.
‘Remember’ is a incredible poem because again it is truthful as you can see it – ‘better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad’. Line 13-14
I enjoy that phrase as it is used at the end and is literally true. This is what makes the poem effective. Also another reason why this poem is effective because it gives a great feeling of sorrow because she has died and explaining to the man that he should forget and smile but don’t remember her and be sad. There is no need to comment on metaphors or similes because it has been explained above. Overall I think the poem is brilliant as it shows our sorrow inside our pitiful bodies.
