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
Comparison between two Romantic poems
Comparison between two Romantic poems The two poems we have studied this term are 'To Autumn' and ' To a Skylark'. They use all the tools a writer can use like similes, metaphors, personification and juxtaposition to create I think, some of the best pieces of poetry I have read to this date. They are both crammed full of information and in both, the poets are in awe of what they are describing. This is a very nice touch as it makes you feel closer to the poem and therefore you can relate to the feelings that the poets are feeling as they write these poems. They also use large amounts of imagery and to great effect to describe their subject matter and this in turn makes nature seem more uplifted, greater than we know. Both poems are very compelling and full of description of the joys of nature. In both of these poems the main subject matter is nature and in both poems the poets romanticise nature to make it seem higher and greater than we can ever know. In both the poets give a little twist to their subject matter. Keats does this by making autumn seem a more homely season, not the season which you would normally associate with rain and falling leaves, instead he paints a totally different picture by showing the growing fruits of Autumn, the ripening fruits and the warmth that Autumn fills you with. This is also what Shelley does in "To a Skylark" as he gives the bird
Love poems
Poems The four seventeenth century "love poems" I will be comparing are "To His Coy Mistress", "Shall I Compare Thee...?" and "My Mistress' Eyes", along with "The Flea". All the four poems are based on the subject of "love". Each poem touches on a different aspect of love although they all have a lot in common. Two of the poems were written by William Shakespeare: "Shall I Compare Thee...?" along with "My Mistress' Eyes". They are also both sonnets. "To His Coy Mistress" is written by Andrew Marvell, and "The Flea" by John Donne. Andrew Marvell's and John Donne's poems are made up of three stanzas, each airing a different argument. I will analyse the four poems also their purpose, the nature of their representation of love, the form of the poem and the techniques used by the poets. I will also include my opinion on which poem I enjoyed the most, together with some comments on modern day attitudes. The first poem I will be looking at is "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. The poem is made up of three strands of argument: flattery, fear, and passion. Everything in the poem is trying to persuade the woman to sleep with the man; he only has sex on his mind. We read the poem through the eyes of the poet and by doing this Marvell gives us a look into his mind and what he is thinking. This technique brings the reader into the poem. This verse depends on the 'if' and 'had
Compare the ways in which London is Portrayed by William Wordsworth and William Blake
Compare the ways in which London is portrayed by William Blake and William Wordsworth The poets William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850, and William Blake, who lived from 1757 to 1827, are both vividly known for their portrayals of London through their poems. William Wordsworth is known partly for his views on London, which are shown through his poem: "Composed upon Westminster Bridge"; Blake, however, lived a much less orthodox life and was largely unrecognised throughout his life, yet he too produced a wide array of poems which expressed his view on the city such as: "London" and "Holy Thursday". Both poets wrote during the Romantic Era that is also known as Romanticism; this era encouraged poets to write referring to the natural world and the specific aspects, which it presented, writers were forced to focus on conveying a clear sense of feeling through their literature. The poem "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" was written by William Wordsworth on September 3rd, 1803 and is a highly controversial poem in which he is seen expressing his views on London. It is clear from the outset and the title the mood in which Wordsworth is writing, "Composed" in the title contains a double meaning: to show that it has been written on Westminster Bridge, and the other meaning shows the "Composed" mood in which he was whilst writing and while he was looking over London; from this it is clear
A comparison and contrast of 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell and 'Ending' by Gavin Ewart
A comparison and contrast of 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell and 'Ending' by Gavin Ewart 'To His Coy Mistress' was written by a poet called Andrew Marvell who was born on the 31st March 1621. He was a Cambridge-educated priest, poet and a Member of Parliament. The poem was written in the year 1652. The theme of the poem is love and its passionate beginnings. The genre of the poem is 'carpe diem' which is Latin for 'seize the day' or 'get the most out of life'. Carpe diem was used effectively by Horace; therefore this poem is quasi-Horatian. The theme is basically love and physical seduction which occurs at the beginning of a relationship. The poem shows how men seduced women typically in the seventeenth century. The title of the poem suggests that the woman is generally shy, a little withdrawn and maybe secretly wanting to get involved with the man. The form of the poem is lyric. There are three sections to the poem, marked by indents at the verses. The poem's context is time-period. The form is quite suitable to the theme because it shows in three sections how the man seduces the woman. In the first section, he is flattering and complimenting her. The second section is dark, pressuring and the mood gets much more sombre at the mention of death behind them. The third section is more upbeat and rushed because he's saying to her 'now I've explained everything to
Sonnet Essay
Compare how the poets have used the sonnet's form to express a variety of ideas and emotion. You should consider (a) form and content (b) language (c) context, in al least 5/6 sonnets from the collection you have studied I n both types of sonnets, Shakespearean and Petrarchan, there are different ideas expressed by the poets but the actual sonnets have similarities and differences. These poets are mainly focused on the elements of death, love, religion and the passage of time and how these themes affected themselves and their lives. These sonnets were extremely popular from the 16th to the 19th century, especially during Shakespeare's time, but, in our modern world, the sonnets have lost some of their popularity. The word 'sonnet' derives from the Italian word 'sonneto' which translates into English to 'a little song' as sonnets are only fourteen lines long. Shakespeare has developed his own style of sonnet - after the traditional style of Petrarchan - and adapted the sonnet style and created sonnets for his own purpose. This Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnet consists of 3 quatrains and concludes with a couplet. A regular Petrarchan sonnet consists of one octet and one sestet. The utilization of the sonnet form or structure allows the poet to express one fundamental idea and the deployment of imagery assists the poets to demonstrate his/her thoughts. Some sonnets
Compare the ways in which the poems "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Flea" seduce
Compare the ways Marvell and Donne use their poems to seduce The two poems, "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Flea" were both written with one thing in mind: seduction. The poems were later labelled as Metaphysical poems, which is a term used for poems that were written in a certain period, usually to seduce, and contained unusual metaphors. The 17th century was a highly religious period, as well as a time when the rich decided to travel around the earth discovering new and unseen land, which gave ground to myths and legends. Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" uses a syllogistic argument as well as using the "carpe diem" theme. The thesis is the first section of the poem, in which Marvell drowns the woman in flattery, telling her all the time he would spend idolising her if only they had enough time. The second section of the poem sees Marvell reminding the lady that the time they have is too short to even considering doing all this, the antithesis. This leads to the conclusion that they must make love to one another now, as their time is too precious to waste. The syllogistic argument is similar to the theme of "carpe diem". Marvell tells her all the things they could do, although they can't as time casts it's restraints over them, so they must "seize the day" and have sex there and then. Marvell introduces the poem with the rather controversial line, "Had we but world enough,
Compare and contrast the way in which Marvell and Donne deal with the theme of Love. John Donne and Andrew Marvell were both notable English poets of the seventeenth century
Compare and contrast the way in which Marvell and Donne deal with the theme of Love. John Donne and Andrew Marvell were both notable English poets of the seventeenth century. Donne's poem, "To His Coy Mistress" and Marvell's, "The Flea", both demonstrate the witty and satirical prose that the poets are both famous for. John Donne was in influential clergyman born into a strict London catholic home. Educated at Cambridge, Donne converted to Anglicanism and won great favour with King James 1. Andrew Marvell, also educated at Cambridge, was elected a Member of Parliament for his hometown of Hull and favoured the Roundheads during the English Civil War. Later, he changed his alliance to the Royalist side and became an influential member of king Charles II court. The poems, "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Flea" are both love poems that demonstrated the mocking of the idea of Courtly love. In the Elizabethan and the Stuart times, the idea of courtly love and chivalry were very popular and when wooing ones love, the rules of courtly love and chivalry must be observed. The conventions of courtly love are that a knight of noble blood would adore and worship a young noblewoman from afar, seeking to protect her honour and win her favour by valorous deeds. He typically falls ill with love-sickness, while the woman chastely or scornfully rejects or refuses his advances in public, but
Pre 1914 Poetry Coursework
Analyse the ways in which different pre - 1914 poets explored the different aspects of the theme of relationships over a period of time. In this essay, I will be writing about how the relationships between the men and the women are. My main focus is on the relationships of love in all the poems from the pre - 1914 poem clusters. All five poems comprises of including love and the mutual relationship between both the sexes. The themes used throughout the poems are associated with love, jealousy and wealth. These are the three main causes of destruction of one's life. It can pressurize you to do anything. For example, in "My Last Duchess" the duke kills the duchess for personal gains and the cause of her death was the duke's jealousy of the duchess talking with other men joyfully. Also, in 'The Highway Man' they show how the wife sacrifices her life to save her husband's life, this is because of their relationship of marriage, romance and love. When we read the five poems, we gather that the poems all have different motifs of the relationships in the poems. The authors use language techniques to deliver the impact and emphasis of the poem to the reader such as by using ellipses to create dramatic effects, repetition to render emphasis on the word and imagery to produce a vivid image for the reader to visualize the story. They all differ from each other in many ways. All the
A Comparison of how "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Flea" Present and Develop the Poets' Arguments
A Comparison of how "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Flea" Present and Develop the Poets' Arguments The poems "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell and "The Flea" by John Donne are both written with the same idea in mind, for the authors to get their 'women' or mistresses to be less shy with them. This was a common idea of which poems were based in Marvell's and Donne's time due to when a pretty woman was to find herself interacting with a man, it was conventional for her to be shy or unwilling, or at least for a small time at first. With this in mind it is easy to see that both poems include the idea of "carpe diem", this means "seize the day", in other words make use of the time we have and do not let it go to waste. This was common in the poems written by the metaphysical poets, which both Donne and Marvell were included in. The most obvious comparison of arguments is what the persona is trying to get from his mistress, it is clear that all that the persona has on his mind in "The Flea" is sexual intercourse, yet in "To His Coy Mistress" the persona is more interested in love in general not just sex. These arguments set an almost funny theme of the personas persuading their mistress's. There is also a sense of desperation in "The Flea" because the persona knows that if the flea is squashed that his chances of having sex with his mistress are also squashed. As well as the