William Kings The Beggar Woman and To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell are both poems written in the 17th century. The Beggar Woman is a narrative poem and To His Coy Mistress a three pronged argument
A Comparison of 'The Beggar Woman' by William King and 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell William King's 'The Beggar Woman' and 'To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell are both poems written in the 17th century. 'The Beggar Woman' is a narrative poem and 'To His Coy Mistress' a three pronged argument and both have similar morals to their stories. Both of the stories are about gentlemen who want to have sex with other women but they try to court the women in different ways, because of class. Neither gentleman are suggesting a relationship or commitment. Both the poems were written in the 17th century when society was very different to how it is today; women had no rights, status or independence. Society was male dominated and so all laws and acts favoured the males. This shows in both these poems where the gentlemen are controlling and dominant where as the women are passive but resistant. The woman in 'To his Coy Mistress' would stand to lose a lot if she consented to his desires. In both the poems the gentlemen are off wealth and high class this is shown in 'The Beggar Woman' when the gentleman is on a horse hunting, 'He let his company the hare pursue' this is an upper class activity. The wealth and upper class of the gentleman in 'To His Coy Mistress' is shown by his language when he talks about bird of prey which are associated with upper class 'like amorous birds
GCSE classic poetry
GCSE Classic Poetry Compare the ways that William Blake and William Wordsworth present London in their poems "London" and "Composed upon Westminster Bridge". The two poems "London" and "composed upon Westminster Bridge" give very different views of London. For example Blake gives the impression that London is a depressing, miserable, woeful place filled with sadness and corruption. Whereas, Wordsworth shows London in a very different light. He sees London as a peaceful place in the morning, filled with serenity and beauty. Blake shows many images in his poem. He shows the corruption within the church in the lines: "how every chimney sweeper's cry, every blackening church appals". This shows he thinks that the church should open its eyes to the poverty and hardship in the chimney sweepers lives and he shows that they are only children when he says that they cry. This shows the corrupted innocence of his view of London. Blake shows that he thinks that all of London is controlled by the crown. He shows this in the lines: "I wander thro each chartered street, near where the chartered Thames does flow". He thinks that its not just the streets that are controlled by the crown but the Thames is too. The Thames represents freedom because of its free flowing water, but it is not free because the waterways are owned by the crown. Blake shows that he thinks the people of London
seamus heany poetry
"Seamus heany" I am studying two poems they are from different a culture in Ireland. The two poems were written by a man called Seamus heany, he grew up in a farm in Ireland during the war and his dad and granddad were both farmers. But he didn't follow in their foot steps. "Digging" is a poem written by a man called Seamus heany in Ireland. It was written in the time of war. It is about his dad as a farmer and how much he admired him; it starts by a sense that triggers a memory e.g. a smell, noise, taste. It is all a memory that he loved, he reminisces about the past. "Follower" is also a poem written by "Seamus heany". This poem describes how his father ploughs through the field with his horse. How he tugs on the reins and is leading the hoarse by clicking his tongue. He writes about when he was small, his dad lets him rise on the horse when he just followed behind. He wanted to grow up and plough, he says his dad" closes one eye, stiffens his arm" this means to close one eye to see the furrow and stiffens his arm to push the plough. But all he did is follow in his dad's shadow. At the end Seamus says" I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, now his dad is the one who stumble and is behind him and wont go away", because he is old and is deteriorating , he compared him with his dad. Follower is four short lined stanzas. It has rhyming sentences every two lines. It has
Poetry Analysis - Comparing Ozymandias to Khubla Khan
Comparing 'Ozymandias' by Shelley and 'Kubla Khan' by Coleridge. Both poems describe rulers although it is easy to distinguish that their reigns were contrasting in method, and severity. Some suggestions of their differences are portrayed in appearance. Ozymandias bears a 'sneer of cold command' hinting that his chief concerns involved ordering his inferiors, and seizing power. A 'frown' and 'wrinkled lip' give the impression of a cruel and despised dictator, and reveal his age. So in a way, Ozymandias lives on in his statue and has become 'ancient' with the civilisation. Kubla however is not extensively described, possibly suggesting that his physical existence was unimportant -as unlike the self-centred depiction of Ozymandias - Khubla lived through his wonderful creations rather than his personal greatness. The works of each king depict their personalities somewhat. Kubla decrees a 'dome of pleasure', which in my opinion demonstrates confidence in his rule (where the image in 'Ozymandias' is one of paranoia, shown by his conflict with 'ye mighty') and has a more relaxed aura about him. A semantic field of movement insinuates an action of constantly progressing. This word chain includes 'ceaseless', 'swift', 'flung', 'vaulted' and 'flail'. The use of language here coincides with the depiction of the 'river Alph' upon which Kubla's kingdom lies. My view is that a
GCSE English Spec B - War Poetry
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Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy. Both Dover Beach and The Voice have some similarities. Both author talks about past and what they experienced in their past.
Dover Beach was written by Matthew Arnold shorlty after a visit he and his wife made to the Dover region of southeastern England, the setting of the poem, in 1851. Same year, they were married. The main theme of his poem is "Challenges to the validity of long-standing theological and moral precepts have shaken the faith of people in God and religion". Matthew Arnold was religious man, lamented the dying of the light of faith, as symbolized by the light he sees in Dover Beach. The poem interprets that there was a time when faith in God was strong and comforting. This faith wrapped itself around us, protecting us from doubt and despair, as the sea wraps itself around the continents and islands of the world. Now, however, the sea of faith has become a sea of doubt. Science challenges the precepts of theology and religion; human misery makes people feel abandoned, lonely. People place their faith in material things. And also in last stanza it says Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.. neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace,
The poem Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spencer links to Romeo and Juliets ideas about love as it is about death and love
English The poem “Sonnet LXXV” by Edmund Spencer links to Romeo and Juliet’s ideas about love as it is about death and love, which is the tragedy in Romeo and Juliet, although this poem uses death as a positive thing, saying that death will immortalize you and that even if you die, your love will live on. The use of tidal imagery is an extended metaphor for life; it shows that life is like the tide, ebbing and flowing and that it is as inconsistent as the tide. The line “But the waves came and washed it away” shows is symbolic of how love can be taken away by life. The woman that this poem features argues that this is the case and eventually she will die and her name will be erased. The use of juxtaposition in the line “A mortal thing to immortalise” emphasizes the impossibility of the writer’s task. This poem is a sonnet and follows the traditional sonnet patterns, it is written in 3 quatrains with an alternative rhyming pattern, followed by a rhyming couplet. It is 14 lines long. The writer uses a monosyllabic line “But came the tide and made my pains his prey” to emphasize the first quatrain, which is the set up for the poem. This, coupled with the personification of the tide, makes the extended metaphor for the tide very prominent. One of the key themes in this poem is death, which is also a theme in Romeo and Juliet; this links this poem to the
London 1802 by William Wordsworth Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats and To a Skylark by Percy Shelley all spoke of a change in either their state of mind or in their hopes and dreams
Chris Siebert st hour A lot of Romantic era poets wrote about change, the change from misery to happiness. Many wrote about there sadness and problems they had but then spoke of what could help them become happier such as another person, an object, nature or even just song. “London 1802” by William Wordsworth “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats and “To a Skylark” by Percy Shelley all spoke of a change in either there state of mind or in there hopes and dreams. In London 1802 Wordsworth writes about a John Milton and his importance in the role to help change England. The speaker cries out for Milton to come back and help him change the wrong and sadness in England. He thinks that Milton can “give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.” (line 8) And compared his voice to be as pure as the sea. Milton could write and speak of change and people would listen to him. Wordsworth did not see these traits in people in England at the time. He believed Milton a powerful enough man to change the problems and people in England. Wordsworth wanted Milton to change England from bad to good for everyone to live together happily. Similar to Wordsworth’s “London 1802” Percy Shelley’s “To a Skylark” saw hope for better in another. Except in “To a Skylark” it was from a bird and its song not a man and his words. Shelley describes the birds’
Comparing 'When we two parted' and 'On my first sonne'
Comparing 'When we two parted' and 'On my first sonne' The two stories are very similar because they have both lost someone. 'On my first sonne' is about a father who has lost his son when he was only 7 years old. 'When we two parted' is about two lovers having an affair and she is being gossiped about. The rhyming scheme in 'On my first sonne' is quite different to the one in 'When we two parted' as in my first sonne he doesn't finish the poem this could show that he is distraught about losing his son. In when we two parted where the rhyming scheme is as it is supposed to be e.g. a,b,a,b,a,b. There is a quote in my first sonne which says 'Seven years thou wert lent to me' This is saying that God only let him borrow his son for seven years only to be taken back. In when we two parted it is about an affair which turns wrong so the woman starts to be gossiped about in the town .She feels like an outcast as in those times it was bad enough to have sex while you was unmarried, and she has done it while she is unmarried and having an affair. While in my first sonne the first line tells us that Johnson considered him to be the child of his 'right hand', signifying the importance of the role that the child would have played had he grown older. In line 5 Johnson pours out his grief in the phrase 'O, could I loose all father', wishing that he did not have to take on the role of a
Compare the attitudes of men and women to love and relationshipsin these two 17th Century poems. Both poems To His Coy Mistress and The Beggar Woman
Lauren Fernandez Compare the attitudes of men and women to love and relationships in these two 17th Century poems. Both poems To His Coy Mistress and The Beggar Woman were written during the 17th Century, a time in which there were clear status / class divides in society, very different to how things are today. Women had no status and didnt really have many rights or even much independance. Men were definitly the dominant sex practically ruling but thats just the way things were in the 17th Century. Laws would revolve around men in order allow them to have the benefits in life, men were clearly of a much higher status. The two poets Andrew Marvell and William King both focus on the attitudes of men and women towards love, sex and relationships in general. William King particularly focuses on highlighting the social class issues of the 17th Century. During the 17th century attitudes towards sex and relationships were a little stricter than the veiws on sex and relationships today. Back in the 17th Century it was morally wrong to have sex before marriage (this particularly applied to Christian people), the same as having children before marriage. There was a very negative attitude towards prostitutes, no different from today. However prostitutes and people sleeping with prostitutes were looked down on, particularly by people of a high class or status. Each poem shows how the