Compare Carol Ann Duffy's "Valentine" to Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress".
Compare Carol Ann Duffy's "Valentine" to Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" In this essay, I am going to write about two poems. They are, "To His Coy Mistress" and "Valentine". They are similar in the way that they are both based on aspects of love although they talk about the love in a totally different way. The first poem is about a young man trying to convince his reluctant girlfriend, "His Coy Mistress" to have sex with him; it uses a heavily different style than "Valentine". Marvel, the author of 'To His Coy Mistress", uses different techniques and methods to woo his mistress and convince to have sex with him. In the second poem, Carol Ann Duffy describes the unusual present exchanged between her and her lover for Valentines Day, but in a way that explores the nature of the relationship between two people. The writer used an onion to describe the promise of a joyful future which can be found between the layers of the onion it can be seen in another light but is also telling you that true love and passionate love can be painful; the onion is an extended metaphor for love. In the second poem, I thought that an effective description was the first two lines: "Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime." It uses irregular sentence length; the writer uses a fundamental combination of strong ideals and complex intellectual ideas to bring
Discuss the ways in which Poets make use of form and language to present their views on love and marriage.
Rina Bhudia 10E Miss Powers Eng Coursewk English Coursework Discuss the ways in which Poets make use of form and language to present their views on love and marriage. In this essay I will be comparing 'A Woman to her lover' by Christina Walsh, and 'Remember' by Christina Rossetti. These two poems were written in the patriarchal pre twentieth century. I will also be talking about 'My last Duchess' by Robert Browning, and 'How do I love thee?' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. These four poets have different views on marriage and love, they differ in the tone of language they speak in, and what they speak about. The poem ' A Woman To Her Lover' By Christina Walsh is a bold poem; Walsh gets straight to making her points on love and marriage. She wants to be her husband's friend and partner not his slave 'That I shall be your comrade, friend and mate'. She starts her first stanza with three rhetorical questions, 'Do you come to me to bend to your will' 'To make me of your bond slave' 'To bear you children, wearing out my life'. She seems as if she is having an argument, as she ends the first and second stanza with exclamation marks. She also uses Imagery 'Do you want to vanquish me?' it is like a battle is taking place. Walsh repeats ' I refuse you' twice. In a way it seems like Christina Walsh is being a little stubborn,
Explain the principles that Christians believe should guide their personal relationships.
Marriage Coursework Question 1 Explain the principles that Christians believe should guide their personal relationships. Love: Luke 10:27 God commands us to love our neighbours as ourselves. Primarily our relationships with people must be used and followed through the word of God. Every other commandment is founded on the love of God and the love for our neighbours. In the New Testament the word agape describes God's sacrificial love for us and Christian love for each other. Love is perhaps the most important aspect of God's character as highlighted in the following passages of the bible. Matthew 3:17, John 3:16 and John 13:35. Love is important in relationships because it is needed for making major life decisions, such as marriage or having a child. People today throw the word love around without understanding what it means and that is that love is a genuine caring commitment for one another. Love has no hidden meaning. This means that people who have that genuine caring attitude are those have experienced love from God. Without love in a relationship, people will not obey God's commandments and they will break many other important principles, such as honesty and faithfulness. This is because they are all based on love. Prayer: 2 Thessalonians 1:17 God commands us to pray without ceasing and to pray for one another, because the prayer of a righteous man availeth much
Compare what McAuley and Patten suggest about love in The Seduction and Wound Cream
Monday 1st October 2012 Compare what McAuley and Patten suggest about love in “The Seduction” and “Wound Cream” Both poets use metaphors to suggest that being in love can cause pain. In “The Seduction”, McAuley says love can lead to hurtful feelings and problems which will stay for you forever, while in “Wound Cream”, Patten implies the desire for love can cause problems. McAuley uses a metaphor to describe the young girl’s emotions which is like a “septic wound”. This infers the hurt of the young girl is strong and a “wound” will always leave a “scar” and cause pain. The “scar” for the young girl is the baby that she will have, which she’ll have full responsibility over for the rest of her life – and she is only 15 years old – just like a “wound” leaves a “scar” it is with her forever. The pain for the young girl is the memory of the night where she had sex with the boy who let her down by leaving her. She also feels heartbroken because her dream was to have a “fairytale” relationship. Her “scar” which is her baby is a constant reminder of her perfect relationship that she wanted but now it’s over. She won’t have that fantasy anymore because now she has a child with no partner, which is not how the media portrays relationships to be. These stories and magazines influence young girls telling them they’ll find a
Love Poetry
Have the love poems, you have read given you a better insight into the emotion of love? The subject of 'Love Poetry' has given rise to some of the most beautiful and fascinating poetry. The poets illustrate their feelings, or the feelings of the people concerned with them through the use of figurative language. A love poem is not necessarily a poem about romantic love, about romance, marriage and commitment; it could be something else entirely. It seems to be Universal. Timeless. Yet, it's also very individual, filtered by our own lives and expectations. Love can be a different thing for each one of us. Not all love poems deal with happy positive sides of love but there is also the negative sides such as pain, sadness and loss. Through these poems 'When We Two Parted', 'Remember', 'First Love', 'How Do I Love Thee?', 'A Woman To Her Lover', and 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' we become familiar with the different emotions associated with love. Christina Rossetti's 'Remember' is a poignant poem written in the 19th century about loss of love. Rossetti lived in the 19th century where people were often preoccupied with the idea of death and perhaps this is what influenced Rossetti. Rossetti shows the cruel hand of fate can interweave in love.' Remember', the title doesn't reveal much about the poem but as we read the first line 'Remember me', we know that the poem is written in first
Love Poetry
Compare and contrast the way love is presented in "A Woman to Her Lover" and two other nineteenth century poems we have studied The poem "Villegiature" at first shows stereotypical images of love. Nesbit is talking about escaping from reality by trying to convince herself that she is in love with a man. She describes their relationship in a positive way, almost trying to convince herself as well as the reader. Although nearer the end of the poem she begins to admit to herself that she does not love this man and cannot make herself love him. She tries to convince herself that she is looking back on fond memories but the reality is that the time they had was boring. "A Woman to Her Lover" presents love in another way: it is about the way men see and treat women in the nineteenth century. It is unusual for a woman in this period of time to express her feelings about love and marriage in this way. In the time this poem was written, women were forced to get married to who their parents told them to get married to, they would not have any say in the matter and would not usually go against their parents wishes. Walsh describes three different types of marriages and explains why she would not want any of those kinds of marriages. Unlike the other two poems, "When We Two Parted" was written by a man and so shows a different view about love. This poem is unusual because men
Love Poetry
Poetry Assessment on 'Poetry about Love and Relationships' I am going to be comparing and contrasting Eileen McAuley's 'The Seduction' and Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'. The reason that I have chosen to compare these two poems is because they both have the theme of passion, love and the lack of respect for women, however they portray the theme from different points of views. The main link between them is that they are both about seduction. 'The Seduction' is a contemporary narrative poem set in the 1980's, whilst 'To His Coy Mistress' is a mid seventeenth century lyric poem. Both poems may have similarity in theme; however they also have many differences as well as numerous other similarities. The main difference between the two poems is the fact that they are written in different time periods. Another difference is that both poets tackle the aspect of love differently and this is what sets the two poems apart. Eileen McAuley's 'The Seduction' is set against the bleak surroundings of Merseyside. It is about a teenage girl, who is fed by teenage magazines about love and ends up having an illusion about what love actually is. She meets a boy at a party, where he talks to her about football and ends up talking about the 'Milk Cup'. This shows us that he is self absorbed as he does not ask her about herself. After the party, he leads her 'to the quiet
Romeo and Juliet.
EN110 Becky Castro November 29, 2004 Sullivan I lam "in love" with my boyfriend. My sister, my best friend, and my parents have my "unconditional love." I love my car, my favorite jeans, and my apartment. I love sunny days, music, movies, and books. Anyone could list endless people, objects, and experiences that they love. What is love, exactly? How can it even be possible to place a definition on such a word? Love can mean so many different things, and be looked at in so many different ways. The word love can be used in so many different contexts; perhaps that is why it can be such a wonderful feeling. My boyfriend Ryan and I have been dating almost since the day we laid eyes on each other about three years ago. From the first time I saw him, I knew there would be some kind of future with the two of us. I knew that I was in love with Ryan when I realized that I couldn't stand the thought of being without him. His imperfections suddenly became all of the things that made him so perfect and beautiful to me. When I look into his eyes, I have a sense of safety and security, one that I not only have never felt before, but also that I have never even thought possible. There is nothing I couldn't forgive him for, because I know he would never do something with intent to hurt my feelings. For the first time in my life, I am not scared
Romantic love, physical love, unrequited love, obsessive love… Compare the ways poets have written about love, bringing out different aspects of the theme.
Love and Loss Romantic love, physical love, unrequited love, obsessive love... Compare the ways poets have written about love, bringing out different aspects of the theme. Poets have written about love in many, possibly countless ways, each of them emphasising different aspects of an emotion which is at once both wide and deep. The romantic poets, who were part of a movement, beginning in the late eighteenth century, reacting against the conventions of classicism, saw the emotions and the senses as being more important than the reason and intellect that had been typical attributes of classicism and used their poetry as a means of expressing the power of the human imagination. I have studied many love and loss poems including, "First Love" by John Clare, "When We Two Parted" by Lord Byron and "A Woman To Her Lover" by Christina Walsh. In "First Love" by John Clare, we see two main types of love, obsessive love and physical love. We can see physical love as the poet talks about and describes his lovers face. "Her face it bloomed like a sweet fire", this shows how the poet sees the girl. The poet later says "I never saw a face so sweet". The word "sweet" is repeated a few times in this poem, by which the idea of "sweet" is made stronger, and therefore shows obsessive love. The very personal view of love and its impact on the individual that we see in "First Love" can be
War Photographer
War Photographer Subject and theme: photographer as conscience and recorder of truth. Contrast between "rural England" and scenes of war, between first-hand experience and sanitized version in colour supplements. Photographer moves between two worlds but belongs wholly to neither. Explain last couplet: who are "they" and why do they not care? Idea of duty to telling truth. Structure: conventional stanzas (rhymed iambic lines); each ends with couplet, as if to conclude argument. Poem moves from series of observations to a clear conclusion. Key images: photographer as a priest (darkroom like church, he teaches us how fragile we are, as in Isaiah's "All flesh is grass"). "Fields which don't explode": suggests landmines that do explode under children's feet. Photographer, who can't speak the language, seeking "approval" to record man's death. Ambiguity: "solutions", "ghost", "black-and-white"; bathos: "prick/with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers"; contrast: "he earns his living...they do not care". Back to top Valentine Subject and theme: challenges ideas of "normal" Valentine card or present. First-person speaker addresses lover in second person ("you"). Universal, as sex of lover and beloved is not stated. Structure and form: no clear argument, but a series of observations linked by their common theme. Not written in sentence forms throughout - uses disjointed