How have emotional voices in Romeo and Juliet and The Laboratory been effectively created by the writers?
How have emotional voices in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘The Laboratory’ been effectively created by the writers? William Shakespeare uses creative linguistic devices and incorporates many relevant themes into his writing. Romeo and Juliet being one of Shakespeare’s most credited plays, uses the themes of love, hatred, conflict and anger. Shakespeare successfully portrays strong emotions in his play by the use of these themes and different poetic devices. Similarly Robert Browning conveys strong feeling such as hatred, betrayal and love in his poem ‘The Laboratory. In this essay I will be exploring and explaining the emotional voices that are expressed throughout both texts. Love is one of the strongest emotions expressed in the play. Shakespeare first used light and dark imagery during the Capulet ball when Romeo meets Juliet for the first time. He describes her as a “snowy dove trooping with the crows”. The word “dove” suggests she is both beautiful and a figure of peace. Shakespeare represents strong feeling of love and how it is effectively presented through this quote. This is ironic because her family are the Montague’s enemy and the conflict before peace arrives between the two families. The “crows” could represent the Capulet’s who are the Montague’s enemies. It can be said that Romeo uses the word “crows” to contrast Juliet to the
Compare and control the environment portrayed in the poems London and Sonnet
Compare and control the environment portrayed in the poems 'London' and 'Sonnet' 'Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains'. Rousseau. This quote can relate to both of the poems 'London' by William Blake and 'Sonnet' by John Clare. The poet William Blake greatly admired the French philosopher, Rousseau, and he has made it particularly evident in his poem 'London'. However the ideas portrayed in John Clare's 'Sonnet' contradict Rousseau's statement. Both of these poems describe environments and landscapes, creating contrasting images through the poets' use of descriptive language which is both vivid and imaginative. In the poem 'London', Blake describes a journey around the city of London and offers the readers a view of the terrible conditions that the inhabitants of the city have to face. Some of the topics explored in the poem are: restrictive laws of property, child labour and prostitution. The poem begins by criticizing the laws which relate to ownership. By saying the 'charter'd Thames' Blake is referring to the fact that every aspect of life is owned in London, even the river which is often a symbol of freedom, and an emblem of the power of nature in other poems. Blake also criticizes religion and all of its failures. In his life he rejected religion for various reasons and one of the main ones was the failure of the Church for not helping the children in
Comparing Metaphysical Poems: Donne and Marvell
Name: Laura Caldwell Teacher: S.T St. Julie's Catholic High School Centre #: 34358 Date: Jul '10 Pre-1914 Poetry Essay Question: Compare and contrast 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell with 'The Flea' by John Donne in relation to the following question: 'From your reading of the two poems, to what extent do you feel that they are truly Metaphysical?' Both of these poems are Metaphysical in many ways. The term 'Metaphysical' refers to matters that are literally 'beyond the physical' - this is things such as God, heaven and hell, the soul and the meaning of life. They looked past visible life to discover the concealed beauty beneath. Much of their work contained an underlying Neoplatonist philosophy; they took the view that everything was an imperfect copy of something perfect, so in a way they shared that perfection and became beautiful. The Metaphysical poets were a group of British poets around the 1600s, who shared a similar way of investigating metaphysical concerns. These poets, however, did not label themselves as Metaphysical - most of them didn't even know each other. The writer Samuel Johnson gave them this title a lot later on, in his book 'Life of Cowley', where he recognised their style through subtle and sophisticated arguments, strange similes and metaphors, and their use of wit. Two notable poets from this group are Andrew Marvell and John
How do poets discuss love and attraction throughout literary history?
How do poets discuss love and attraction throughout literary history? Throughout literary history poets have presented love and attraction in a variety of ways. For example one such form that love is traditionally associated with, is the sonnet. Shakespeare is an example who uses the sonnet form often, one such sonnet is Sonnet 130. Another more untraditional form is through a political statement that Christina Walsh decides to use in A Woman to Her Lover, or the powerful imagery presented as feelings in Robert Browning's The Laboratory. A woman to her lover is a poem that voices out the change in attitude of many women in the nineteenth century, that women should be treated as equals to men. Although she seems to be quite angry in the first stanzas, the poem does not take on a cynical theme unlike The Laboratory, in which the poem takes on a very cynical theme of the jealousy which could be involved in love. This is shown when it states, "What a drop! She's not little, no minion like me--that's why she ensnared him: this never will free". This suggests that the woman may be mad that her husband is having an affair. The laboratory's theme does not bear any resemblance to Sonnet 130's as Sonnet 130 seems to go with the theme "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Sonnet 130 has a more similar theme to a woman to her lover as they both talk about non-physical love. The tone
Compare the two poems First Love and Shall I compare Thee to a Summers day
Poetry Comparison "First Love" and "Shall I compare thee to a Summers day" are two poems written before the 1900's by John Clare and William Shakespeare. The poems share similar language and imagery mainly about love but vary in structure. The poems allow the reader to see Clare's experience as he has lost his heart and Shakespeare's emphasis that his love's beauty is immortal. The two poems both comprise of love and physical relationships and are both written in the first person to portray a personal view intended for the reader to see the effects of being in love and how you see a person differently when you are in love. The poem by Clare is a love lyric written in the first person about a woman in contrast to Shakespeare's which is written also in the first person but addresses his love where she is apostrophised. This creates a more powerful and effective approach to the reader as Shakespeare intelligently conveys his love as exasperating and uncontrollable. Clare uses the symptoms of love and relates to recognizable or understandable feelings to cleverly interact with the reader's reactions by describing "blood" and "sight" as blushing and rendered. Combined with the lost sense of time in lines 11 and 12 Clare produces the idea of great sadness and ache to the reader and gains sympathy by doing this. Shakespeare on the other hand chooses to rely heavily upon the
Compare and contrast these pre 1914 poems about women and sex.
Compare and contrast these pre 1914 poems about women and sex. Centre number: 34639 Andrew Marvell's poem 'To his Coy Mistress' and 'The Beggar Women', written by William King, are both poems written around the seventeenth century and they reflect the roles of women at the time. As it was a patriarchal society, women were considered to be less important than men and this comes through in both of the poems. Although they differ in many ways and vary in their styles of writing, both are trying to get across the same message. Andrew Marvell wrote the poem 'To his Coy Mistress' and it is true to the standards of women during this period of time. Marvell was also a politician so his natural talent for arguing comes through in the text. The narrator of it is the man in the poem and, although the readers do not know his name, a lot of information about him can be found in the poem. He is of a higher social class because he is obviously well educated. He knows a lot of facts about other countries, and his language suggests that he is quite posh and higher up in society. The woman who he is talking to has no voice, because in the period of time that this poem was written, it was a patriarchal society and men ruled women. Marvell made it so the woman did not speak so it indicated towards her being easily persuaded, and also she would have been brought up not to show her feelings.
Wilfred Owen and Jessie Pope, War poems comparision
Wilfred Owen and Jessie Pope. Their views of ww1. Over eight and a half million men died in World War 1with just under thirty million other casualties. At he start of the war, in 1914, people were excited to fight the Germans and get back before Christmas. The war lasted longer than expected so propaganda was used to try and recruit men. Jessie Pope's poem "Who's for the Game" tries to get men to join the war comparing it to a game. The war was very brutal and gory. Men died and were left to rot away on the battlefields. Wilfred Owen, a WW1 soldier, experienced the bloodshed battlefields and the muddy, dirty trenches. Through his experiences Owen wrote the two poems "Dulce et Decorum est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth" at the Craiglockhart hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland where he was recovering from shellshock. Owen's poems describe the pain and suffering the soldiers faced in the trenches while Jessie Pope's poem is completely the opposite. Her poems talk about the supposed fun in the war. In this piece of coursework I will be comparing the poets poems and will see how the poets views on the war differ. The 'Great War' occurred from June 1914 to November 1918 and saw millions of lives lost. The time before was the building of empires between the main countries: Britain, Germany and France. Germany wanted to gain more territory and the death of the Arch- Duke Franz Ferdinand
Both Keats and Hopkins present two different outlooks on nature through the theme, tone and imagery of their respective poems. The theme of Keats poem 'to Autumn' is that of the death of summer
Both Keats and Hopkins present two different outlooks on nature through the theme, tone and imagery of their respective poems. The theme of Keats poem 'to Autumn' is that of the death of summer and the rebirth of the spring in which autumn marks a pivoting point. The first stanza shows us the image of summer which progresses to the death of summer in stanza 2. Stanza 3 however presents the idea that Autumn is necessary and marks the rebirth of the year. Hopkins poem however tries to display a vastly different theme. Hopkins religious links are evident in his poems content and reflect how he feels about both nature and god. He views nature as 'Gods Grandeur' and the theme of the poem is focused around the idea that how can people move away from god and miss his splendour. The tone of the poem 'to Autumn' is that of a much darker tone to that of 'Gods Grandeur' and focus on the necessity of Autumn to present the death of Summer. This is shown by the line 'For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells'. Throughout the first stanza the poem refers to an overwhelming sense of fertility and the idea that what ahs been moving fast has slowed and is slowing dying. The second stanza then introduce the personification of autumn, with the lines 'Has not seen Autumn round here lately'. This stanza also introduces the idea of death further, where as it may be seen that Autumn has been
A Parental Ode to my son (Thomas Hood) and Upon my Son Samuel (Anne Bradsheet) comparison
A Parental Ode to my son (Thomas Hood) and Upon my Son Samuel (Anne Bradsheet) are both poems about parental relationships. Compare and contrast how each poet presents the relationship and say which poem you prefer and why. In your answer you should consider: * Treatment of theme, * Use of language and imagery, * Form, * Context. 'A Parental ode to my Son, aged Three Years and Five months,' by Thomas Hood, was written about Hood's own son. The poet contrasts the idealised view of childhood with the reality of his son, John's, misbehaviour. This makes the poem quite humorous and light hearted. 'Upon My Son Samuel on his going for England, November 8, 1657, ' by Anne Bradsheet, is also about her son. However, this poem is more serious as, the poet was a Puritan woman. She was controversial at the time the poem was published as it was a rarity that woman's literature was published. She left England for the New World in 1630 and lived in a Puritan society. Puritans were strong in belief that God controls everything. Bradsheet named her son Samuel after the story of Hannah and Samuel in the bible. Hannah struggled to conceive, like Bradsheet, but God gave her a son. Perhaps, the reasons for Bradsheet's worries as her Son left for England were influenced by the fact that she had made the opposite journey in 1930. She wrote, on her arrival, of the 'half-dying, famine ridden
comparing John Dryden(TM)s The Fire of Lond
Compare two poems from the pre-1914 selection which use strong description and imagery. You should look closely at the language used. For this essay I will be comparing John Dryden's 'The Fire of London' that uses vivid description to portray the effect of the vicious fire on the helpless people of London; with Byron's 'Darkness' which conveys a apocalyptic image of the earth after the volcanic eruption of Tambora (1815). Both of the poems use apocalyptic imagery to convey a sense of doom and destruction as 'A dismal picture of the gen'ral doom' (Dryden) and 'The bright sun was extinguishe'd' (Byron), both of the poems are different as Dryden and Byron describe the destructive events on a different scale with Byron describing the eruption as all of God's creation being crippled by the events, Dryden however depicts only a small portion of the fire in his poem. In the first few lines of 'The Fire of London' Dryden expresses a sense of a ominous danger and uneasiness 'night came, but without darkness or repose' this expresses a sense of uneasiness as there is an inversion which emphasises the fact that things are unbalanced making the reader feel uneasy and suspicious. Dryden also expands on the sense of danger 'A dismal picture of the gen'ral doom', 'when the trumpet blows,' by doing this Dryden conveys the fact that all is not well by using the apocalyptic imagery ('gen'ral