Porphyria’s lover is a poem which is very much the same as the beggar woman written by William king is all about a beggar woman and a Gentleman. The Gentleman decided to lure the beggar woman into the forest in order to seduce her. The beggar woman went willingly but it becomes obvious from their conversation that she has an illegitimate child tied to her back. We presume that the gentleman is his father and he has taken to responsibility for the 'bastard´ child. The gentleman suggests that they make love but the beggar woman fears for the child’s safety. The gentleman 'desperate´ to seduce the begger woman offers to have the child tied to his back; this had obviously been the beggar woman’s plan. She had out witted him and ran off leaving him with the child tied to his back. This is also a surprise because the beggar woman who is quite low in role has outwitted a Gentleman who is seen to be high in the public eye.
This is why both the poems are alike because they both throw a surprise. This makes the poems more interesting and makes you want to read on because you wonder what other twists and turns, it can throw at you. This also builds up tension, and makes the poems more interesting by having different endings.
More poems that are alike are ‘How do I love thee’ and ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’. ‘How do I love thee’ is written by Elizabeth Barret Browning and is simply about how someone loves someone else so much and deeply there trying to think how much they love one another. The poem tries to compare how they love each other ‘I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight’. The poem constantly compares everyday things to love (basically lots of similes). ‘I love thee with the passion’ and the poem also says that there love will just grow stronger ‘shall but love thee better after death’.
‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ Is a poem written by William Shakespeare and is simply trying to compare the beauty of a hot summer’s day to someone who he was deeply in love too. Shakespeare uses clever text to compare the two ‘Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ and he also tries to explain that her summer never ends. The poem rhymes e.g. (see, thee) this makes the poem more readable and the poem therefore is more flowing. Also the poem uses lots of good similes to create effect and give the poem some depth.
The way that the two poems are extremely similar is that they both have the same language and poetic devices. They also have the same type of text in them which makes reading them sound very similar and makes you think about love in the same way. They both use similes to present the way they feel about the love and present this in the text. Similarities also are they both end in a positive note e.g. ‘so long lives this, and this gives life to thee’ also ‘shall but love thee better after death’.
Two more poems that are the same ‘Cousin Kate’ and ‘My last Duchess’. They are similar because they are both have something to do with being used and manipulated into a false love. In ‘Cousin Kate’ it says ‘Your love was writ in sand’ as if to say the love will get washed away after a little time. Like on the beach where you write something and it gets completely phased out by the waves. In ‘My last Duchess’ we can also tell the love is fake by ‘The curtain I have drawn for you’ the lord who used his last duchess is saying he has drawn a curtain for her so she can never look back or in to their past relationship. This gives us an impression that the lord is a cold hearted bitter man who just uses girls with no heart to love them with. Both poems use similes to show how love is making them feel, and react. Also they use the same text e.g. ‘thou’, they talk about their feeling e.g. ‘I sit and howl at dusk’. This gives the reader an impression that they are reflecting a lot in the poem and looking back on their past lovers and emotions.
