How Do The Poets Convey Their Opinions and Feelings of Nature in the poems To Autumn and Beeny Cliff?
How Do The Poets Convey Their Opinions and Feelings of Nature? Both Beeny Cliff written by Thomas Hardy and To Autumn written by John Keats are poems that express strong opinions on nature by using a variety of methods in the language including personification. In order to communicate their feelings to the audience, both poets take 2 different approaches from one another and in this essay I aim to illustrate them both. The first poem, Beeny Cliff, is a very poignant poem that expresses Hardy's memories of a love affair which is never to be recaptured. Thomas Hardy met his first wife, Emma Gifford, while he was working as an architect on St. Juliot's church, just outside Boscastle on the North Cornwall Coast. They were married in 1874 and she died in 1912. Hardy wrote several poems about their first meeting and about their marriage, and most of these poems were written in the years immediately after her death. Using a variety of language devices, Hardy presents the poem in a wishful tone as if to express how much he misses his wife and wants her back. It is a vignette and gives us a snapshot of a descriptive seen over a very short period of time. However, with this aside, the main way Hardy expresses his love for Emma is by using nature to represent her. Firstly, the title, Beeny Cliff, is good use of imagery as it is very visual and allows the reader to use their
Attitudes towards women, and their role in American Musical Theatre.
Katherine Pengelly 12·3 AS Music Coursework 2003 Attitudes towards women, and their role in American Musical Theatre. For my essay, I am going to look at the attitudes towards women, both from men and other women, and the significant role that that women had in telling the stories in American musical theatre. Showboat was the first musical of its kind. Up to this point, musicals consisted of songs and dances, with often feeble storylines based around the big stars. Showboat had a real story, adapted from a novel, and both the singing and dancing told the story. At the beginning of Showboat, after we have been introduced to the main characters, we hear the main female characters attitude towards men and love. 'Fish got to swim, birds got to fly, I got to love one man till I die. Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.' Julie seems like a surrogate mother to Magnolia, giving her advice, as we see Magnolia's relationship with her own mother is very strained. Parthy doesn't want her daughter to have anything to do with the stage or Ravenal, the two things her daughter is most passionate about. Julie, on the other hand, just offers Magnolia advice and listens to her. We see Magnolia and Parthy's differences highlighted by the composer's use of the perfect fourth to show Magnolias closeness with the river, and the augmented fourth or tritone to show Parthy's distance from
Love poem comparisons
What different views of love are shown in the poetry you have read? The speakers in the poetry studied show love in very different ways and their attitudes frequently contrast with the popular attitudes towards relationships of the time period. The poems that I will be focusing on are; 'How do I love thee?' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'A woman to her lover' by Christina Walsh and 'When we two parted' by Lord Byron. All these poems were written in the Victorian era and are also known as part of the pre-1914 poetry. During the Victorian period, poetry was seen as the most acceptable form of writing. I will be placing the poems in context of the Victorian era. As well as analysing the language and the meaning of the poem, I will also explore the form and structure of each poem. In the Victorian era there were different attitudes towards women's rights compared with today. Prostitution was frowned upon, women used to cover up their bodies well and had no voting rights. Having an affair with another man meant the woman would be an outcaste to society much more than the man, even if it were the opposite situation. Many women in marriages would have been unhappy because if they didn't love their husband they could only get a divorce if their husband chose to do it and all their property would lie under their husband's name. A woman's reputation was her most precious asset
compare A Women To Her Lover by Christina Walsh, How Do I Love Thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning, When We Two Parted by Lord Byron, Remember by Christina Rossetti, and Villegiature by Edith Nesbit
Comparative Essay I will compare A Women to Her Lover by Christina Walsh, How Do I Love Thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning, When We Two Parted by Lord Byron, Remember by Christina Rossetti and Villegiature by Edith Nesbit. In the poems I have chosen four are written by women and one by a man and I think that this is a representative romantic poetry. This was in a certain time when the women of the upper class were removed from work. The only man I have chosen, which is Lord Byron, has written not a very Romantic poem, you can see this In two of the other poems I have chosen Villigiature and A Woman To Her Lover. I think that Remember and How Do I Love Thee? Are representatives of the Romantic movement because they stimulate many aspects of the theme of love and the poets do this by showing their love through the poems and I think that A Women to Her Lover, When We Two Parted and Villegiature do not represent the Romantic movement because they write very bitter words in their poems which could hardly be romantic. The first two I will compare is A Women to her lover is about a women who is fighting with her lover telling him that she is not a slave and she will not sit in the house all day looking after his children. She does not want him to expect her to be "a wingless angel who can do no wrong", i.e. the 'perfect wife'. At the end of the poem she says "But lover, if you
. How do the poets convey their attitudes toward love and loss in the poems ' a woman to her lover' 'first love' 'remember' and ' when we two parted'?
NAME OF CANDIDATE: JOHN RUSH LIM RENDOR TITLE OF ASSIGNMENT: HOW DO THE POETS CONVEY THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARDS LOVE AND LOSS IN THE POEMS: 'A WOMAN TO HER LOVER' 'FIRST LOVE' 'REMEMBER' AND 'WHEN WE TWO PARTED'? PURPOSE OF TASK: CONVEY THE POETS ATTITUDES TOWARDS LOVE AND LOSS IN THESE POEMS. DATE OF SUBMISSION: 17/ MAY / 2003 STIMULUS MATERIAL: TRACKS/TRACKS 2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: FIRST DRAFT Q. How do the poets convey their attitudes toward love and loss in the poems ' a woman to her lover' 'first love' 'remember' and ' when we two parted'? The poem ' a woman to her lover' was written by Christina Walsh. The poem starts of with a question, 'do you come to me to bend me to your will?' throughout the poem, the basic atmosphere of loss is evident. Within the first stanza itself there is marital imagery relating to the sense of power and dominance. ' in drudgery and silence', she tries to portray how she is helpless to protest, she begins the poem with this relationship, the dominance of man over woman, 'to make of me a bondslave' in this stanza she is explaining one of the types of relationships between a man and woman. She also gives out a feeling that if the relationship were as what she described she would be wasting her life, and tries to give out women's point of view to these types of situations. She seems quite certain of what she wants in life and this does
Compare how the poets explore their ideas about love in the following Italian sonnets: "How do I love thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and "Remember" by Christina Rossetti.
Compare how the poets explore their ideas about love in the following Italian sonnets: "How do I love thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and "Remember" by Christina Rossetti. The two poems are both in the Italian sonnet form, which for many years has provided a tight structure in which poets can explore their ideas. The two poems have both similarities and differences. "How do I love thee" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, explores the ideas of the greatness of love, yet "Remember" by Christina Rossetti explores the ideas of love, loss and grief altogether. Both these poems are from the 19th century, though are still widely read and used for different occasions today. Though both these poems, for the majority, talk about love in a different way from each other, they still show some similarities. They both have a very prominent use of the Italian sonnet form. The first poem "How do I love thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning shares good use of the sonnet form. She has clearly defined contrast between the octet and sestet. The poems opens with dramatic effects of a rhetorical question, "How do I love thee?" This sets the theme of the poem in keeping with the traditional sonnet (love). The whole poem has the use of sonnet form. Firstly she uses a clear contrast, the first line of the sestet "...The passion put to use" is very different imagery from the octet. The
Compare and Contrast 'The Sick Equation' by Brian Patten and 'Long Distance' by Tony Harrison.
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Compare and contrast the way the poets of the 'Love and Loss' anthology have responded to the ideology of the Romantic Movement
The poems in our Romantic Poetry anthology refer to different types of love. But they are joined by a common theme of 'Love and Loss'. Compare and contrast various poems and comment on the ways in which these poets have responded to the ideology of 'The Romantic Movement' of the Nineteenth century. I am studying three poems from the Romantic Movement anthology 'Love and Loss'. They are 'A Birthday' and 'Remember' by Christina Rossetti, and 'My last Duchess' by Robert Browning. The Romantic Movement was the start of a creative revolution. Romanticism is the term used to describe a movement in European literature, art and music. In England the movement was led poets such as Keats, Byron and Wordsworth. The principal theme of the movement was that reason and logic could not explain every thing. The Romantics listened to the individual conscience rather than the demands of society. They reacted against the intellectuals of the Classic period and against the 'rigidity' of the social structures. Common themes found in the Romantic include Nature. You can find reference to nature in almost all Romantic poems. Some writers use it as a refuge; as a way to escape modern life and the social demands that are associated with it. Others involve nature in their poetry because they believed nature had healing powers, whilst some believed that nature was just a divine work of art from
Discuss the author's depiction of the love of Carlo for Francesco
Discuss the author's depiction of the love of Carlo for Francesco Carlo finds his ideal of homosexual love described in Plato's 'Symposium', which is ironic to Carlo as he says, because he is invading Greece, Plato's homeland, at the time. This fact also reminds us of the way homosexuality can be seen differently in different times and places. In ancient Greece males married females but had male lovers too. 'The Symposium' by Plato states that "an army should be made up of lovers and their loves" in order to make them fight more effectively. Carlo reveals that "[he] would be ennobled by this love" this shows that ironically Carlo's love for Francesco is destined to be 'Platonic' as he is inexperienced and physically unrealised and that he believes in the fact that "love alone" will be enough to give him the encouragement to fight. But, Carlo also shows that his great endurance for gaining "esteem and honour" is a "wild idea, romantic and implausible," however, "it worked." It also shown that his great need for love and becoming "an inspired hero" led to nothing but "incalculable grief." This hints to the reader to anticipate tragedy. Carlo's attention to Francesco is also based upon another 'Platonic' idea, the attraction of the lover to someone who complements, makes up for some kind of lack in oneself. Carlo makes many comparisons between himself and Francesco mainly in
How does the Merchant subvert the courtly love code?
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