Comparison of Love Poetry
In the following essay I will be examining 3 poems of affection, of which I will inclusively talk about the themes of the love and also describe the views that have been used. The poems I am going to unravel to you are When We Two Parted by Lord Byron, A Woman To Her Lover by Christina Walsh and finally Villegiature by Edith Nesbit.
Love can mean different things to different people. There are also different types of love such as un-conditional love between a parent and a child or un-required love which is when you love someone and the feelings are not reciprocated.
Firstly a woman to her lover is a poem that is written by a female writer called Christina Walsh. This poem is about a woman that is expressing her feelings about her lover openly as you read on through the poem she reveals more about her life and what she demands from her husband. For example: in the first paragraph she talks about how women are slaves but she then goes on to say that she would reject her lover if that’s the case. I know this as she says “To make me a bondslave, then says, no servant will I be, if that be what you ask o lover I refuse you”! Since the poem is written in the 1900’s you straight away know that she is a strong and demanding women at the time as women were treated as slaves and did not have rights.
Secondly I will make clear the second poem which is Villegiature. Straight away people ask what is Villegiature? Well it’s a French word meaning holiday retreat or getaway. Edith Nesbit was the author of this poem and she was a person with strong political views, who had a sense of independency. She published her work with a fake name which is Edith Nesbit because she was married between 1858-1924, you can see straight away why she had a fake name and how she was treated by (husband) her man. I personally think that this poem is unique compared to ordinary love poems even though it’s a sonnet (4 stanza’s 4 lines each mainly about love and feelings of love), the poem starts off with there being a lost mate. “Your ghost last night climbed uninvited.” As the poem goes on she expresses her feelings by talking of romance but in the last stanza she realizes why she had left him and how boring he was. So basically this love poem is about a break up of two people in the style of romantic poetry. Typical romance alliteration is used like “solid self” used to emphasis the love and emotion used.