Compare and Contrast the representation of London in Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge September 3, 1802" and Blake's "London"
Compare and Contrast the representation on London in Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge September 3, 1802" and Blake's "London" Both Wordsworth and Blake both wrote their poems during industrialization in Britain and particularly and each tackles this issue at different angles. Wordsworth, the more romantic and idealistic poet decides to illustrate London when it as asleep and when industry is also at rest. Thus this poem is full f praise for London and its splendour. Blake however is far more hostile towards London and portrays it as a sickening and foul place which corrupts the young and innocent. The immediate contrast is that Blake describes London when it is night time and some would argue that this is the true London. The speaker in "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" is clearly enchanted with London and it's beauty and uses a hyperbole to emphasis this. He also shapes his language in order to make the reader side with his point of view and an example of this would be in line two. Earth has not anything to show more fair Dull would be of sole who could pass by A sight to touching in its majesty The speaker uses the hyperbole of the opening line in order to state the view of which he will undoubtedly expand upon. The fact that he says that the Earth not man has not anything to show more fair is important as he is focussing on the natural element of
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
Compare and contrast the presentation of seduction in Marvells" To his Coy Mistress" and Donnes "To his mistress going to bed".
The poems To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652) and To His Mistress Going To Bed (1635) which was written by Andrew Marvell and John Donne respectively, was written about a man trying to seduce a woman. In To his coy mistress, the speaker uses flattery, he compliments her natural beauty and body. The speaker compares her to valuable objects in order to make the lady feel special. The speaker also uses the age factor as a method of seduction as the life expectancy in the 1700’s was only 35 years. Similarly, in To his mistress going to bed, he uses flattery and words to make her feel special. Furthermore, both poems try to seduce the lady by not giving her time to think. However, he also uses differents methods to seduce the lady such as, showing empathy towards her and putting forward his male dominance. The speaker of To His Coy Mistress wants to sleep with the lady for passion and love whereas the speaker of To His Mistress Going To Bed wants to sleep with the lady in means of spiritual bonding. In the poem To His Coy Mistress, Marvell uses flattery and compliments to seduce his mistress. Firstly, the speaker refers to his mistress as a ‘ lady’ which, in the 1600s was a respectful term for women of his society. This shows that the speaker recognizes her status. This word is flanked by commas and this is caesura. The caesura causes the reader to pause, this emphasizes the
COMPARISON:Browning's Sonnet 43 and Byron's So, Well Go No More A-Roving
Theme of Love Sonnet 43 and So, We’ll Go No More A-Roving Sonnet 43 is a petrarchan sonnet written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the Victorian age. Through this sonnet she expresses her intense love for her husband, Robert Browning. Her love is shown sensual as well as emotional. It also appears to us that the Elizabeth Browning is reading this poem to her husband who is very sad at the moment. The poem starts with a rhetorical question, “How do I Love thee?” and the theme of love is replete in the poem. The word ‘love’ is used ten times in the sonnet. The sonnet is written with the rhyme scheme A B B A, A B B A, C D C, D C D. It is written in iambic pentameter. She briefly talks about the grief of her husband due to the death of his mother, as well as her own grief of leaving her father while eloping with her husband. She repeats the phrase “I love thee” eight times in the sonnet out of which thrice is one after the other (anaphora or repetition) and this phrase can be given the title of the poem. This sonnet was published under the title ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’. Her love for her husband is eternal, as she will love him even after her death and her love also shows her faith in the Christian ideology in the immortality of the soul. She says that her love for her husband is so deep that it is rendered immeasurable. Her love cannot be weighed and
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
Compare 'My Last Duchess' to the soliloquy in Othello (Act 5 scene 2)
Compare the characterisations in My Last Duchess and Othello’s Soliloquy in Act 5 Scene 2, lines 1-22. How are the contrasts presented and used here to create drama and meaning; how might different audiences respond to such ideas? In both the soliloquy in Othello and in ‘My Last Duchess’ we see a dominance in the male character and a certain power within this over the women mentioned. Throughout the soliloquy Othello is addressing a sleeping Desdemona and the fact that she is in this setting (the bed chamber) and in such a situation gives him another level of power over her as she is faced with a certain vulnerability and lack of control over the events to come, while it also suggests an innocence in Desdemona’s character contrasting greatly with Othello’s. Similarly in ‘My Last Duchess’ we get arguably a larger sense of male dominance in the poem, with Browning using language and form to show this. The metaphor ‘Notice Neptune though, Taming a sea-horse’ suggests that the Duke is very much like Neptune in controlling the Duchess and has the arrogance that Neptune has while she is being controlled. It could possibly also be a metaphor for his future wife, much like the Duchess she will need to be controlled and obedient, and ultimately treat him like a God, which again links with the Neptune metaphor further. A further way Browning presents the Duke as a
Comparing Blessing with Nothing's Changed
Joshua Martin Poems from different cultures Compare 'Nothing's Changed' with 'Blessing'. Consider what each poem suggests about people and places. In this essay, I shall be exploring what the poems "Blessing" and "Nothing's Changed" suggest about people and places. Imtiaz Dharker is a British-Pakistani poet who wrote 'Blessing'. Dharker writes about the issues she has faced being a Pakistani in Scotland and also the guilt she feels when she sees the suffering of people in her homeland. In 'Nothing's Changed' she explores the issue of water deficiency within a village just outside of Bombay. The other poem I shall be exploring is 'Nothing's Changed' wrote by South African poet Tatamkhula Afrika. Afrika lived in South Africa which followed a policy of apartheid; black and white people were segregated on the belief that blacks were inferior. Afrika later in his life re-identified himself as African. "Nothing's Changed" was wrote shortly after apartheid. The poem maintains throughout a high sense of bitterness and anger from Afrika. In both poems there is a degree of setting and tone, established in the immediate sentences. 'Nothing's Changed' presents a wasteland like setting. Special attention is placed on the inequalities of the floor, such as the 'hard stones' and the 'cans, trodden on'. Through the use of punctuation, especially commas, and also elongated language
Compare the ways in which the poets present people in Night of the Scorpion and Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful people in a Mercedes.
Compare the ways in which the poets present people in Night of the Scorpion and Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful people in a Mercedes. In Night of the Scorpion, the title is in some ways deceptive. It leads us to believe we are in for a frightening and dramatic tale with a scorpion taking centre stage. In fact, the poem is not about the scorpion at all, but about the reactions of different people to its sting. The poem starts off in the first person when Ezekiel describes an event that really happened. However, he does not give his own feelings or reactions: we realise he is merely the narrator even though it is his mother who is being stung. Most of the poem is in the third person, as Ezekiel reports on what other people do and say. He does not portray the scorpion as a villain: it was driven to shelter 'beneath a sack of rice' after ten hours of rain and that it was only protecting itself from the rain. It probably stung the mother instinctively as a warning to her when she approached its hiding place, rather than harming her on purpose. Having delivered the sting and scared off by the people indoors, 'he risked the rain again'. The title of Two Scavengers shows us straight away that the poem will be about the contrasts between two pairs of people. 'Scavengers' is an offensive term for the garbage men because it suggests that they live off the rubbish of others -
Comparing 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell & 'Cousin Kate' by Christina Rossetti
Comparing 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell & 'Cousin Kate' by Christina Rossetti Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) was a British writer. He was a poet during the Renaissance period. He was one of the metaphysical poets, known for his works like 'To His Coy Mistress'. He was an assistant to John Milton and a Member of Parliament. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was a British writer. She was one of the greatest Victorian poets. She lived a reclusive life and was educated at home. She was part of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the Victorian Period. She had a very strong Christian Faith and this was shown several times in some of her poems. To His Coy Mistress is a lyrical and metaphysical poem. It's a poem that expresses a thought, an idea or an emotion. It is also characterised by a striking use of wit, irony and wordplay. This is a Carpe Diem poem. We know this because all throughout the poem Andrew Marvell talks about time. In the first stanza he says to his coy mistress that if they had all the time in the world then she could carry on refusing his proposal for as long as she wanted. In the second stanza that time is passing by quickly and that soon they will be old and she would have lost her beauty. In the last stanza he comes to a conclusion and tells his coy mistress that they should seize the moment
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