This Room and Love after Love - Comparative Essay.

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This Room and Love after Love

Comparative Essay

Both of the poems: This Room – Imtiaz Dharker and Love after Love – Derek Walcott feature a path to self discovery, weather being through chaos or just feasting on your life, both are positive poems. Both poems use a central metaphor and feature personal growth, strength and celebration throughout.

        First of all – This Room: it is an in depth poem which uses a lot of personification, imagery and contrasting words, all there to emphasize the freedom and the escapism from dark to light. This poem tells a story and it goes like this: it goes from being confined or needing to escape, then there is a sense of freedom, moving from dark to light. Next, however is a feeling of frenzied excitement, ore and bewilderment. Last but not least is happiness and celebration, however it is detached from the rest of the poem, it is one line on it’s own. Also a lot of metaphors have been used in this poem.

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        Second – Love after Love: The paragraphs flow into each other and the whole layout of the poem is set out to be as it would be if you were having a meal with someone, however that person is you. The poem is about forgetting to love yourself hence the title: ‘Love after Love’ either you should keep the first love for yourself and have a love after that love to give to other people, i.e. your husband / wife, or it means you have two equal loves, one for you and one for someone else. This is saying that ...

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