Romantic love is an often-embraced theme of both ancient and contemporary literary works. From the tragic, frequently sacrificial and forbidden love of the ancient Greek times to more modern themes, love has always had a place in the written history of our cultures. A contributing factor to this enduring quality of love as a literary subject is its mutability. Due to the fact that so many different facets of the emotion can be depicted in a work, we never tire of reading about it. The various perceptions of love which are portrayed in works of literature always manage to keep our attention. Two major literary works which each illustrate an individual take on love are Christopher Marlow's "Hero and Leander," and Edmund Spenser's "Epithalamion." While Marlowe's work has a logistical tone and seems to view love in a more superficial manner, Spenser's poem is a celebration of love which elevates the beloved to a great height. .
The two main characters in Marlowe's poem are both young people of a superlative nature. Each one possesses beauty which others seem to be in awe of. In the beginning of the work, Hero is described as "Hero the fair," who has lovers committing suicide at her feet when she rejects them. In fact, there is not so much attention focused on her appearance in the poem as there is on the effect that her appearance has on others. Her breath is so sweet that "many would praise the sweet smell as she passed, (21)" and she was so similar to Venus in beauty that "Cupid pined, and looking in her face, was strooken blind. (37)" Leander does not escape the power of her appearance, either. At one point in the poem he recognizes the influence which her physical traits have, stating, "I would my rude words had the influence To lead my thoughts, as thy fair looks do mine. (200)" It is this beauty of Hero's which at first brings the two of them together. At the great feast, Leander and Hero both notice one another and are at once hit with Cupid's arrow.
William Blake and William Wordsworth were two poets from the Romantic period. Both of these poets were very classical in their elucidation of nature. ... The intention of both William Blake and William Wordsworth is to portray their own deeply felt views in their poems. ... Both poets use different symbolism to convey their idea to the reader. ... Wordsworth's poems are in conflict between nature and humanity. ...
The origin of the term "Metaphysical Poets" can be accredited to two main men. ... Johnson went on to describe the far-fetched nature of their comparisons as "a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike". Now the characteristics of metaphysical poetry are not easily defined, but universal similarities between the poets are noticeable. ... Coleridge, an obvious fan of Donne's continues to praise him in his criticism by complimenting Donne's metricity in his poetry and also by going through the poems one by one and stating their s...
A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things that have something in common. ... The man on the rock can be seen and understood as the audience, watching the two fisherman perform their last farewell. ... In the poem, T-Bar, the poet describes the mountain scene by calling it "haemophilic snow." ... The poet illustrates the skiers as a bride and groom. ... They carry information between symbols and the meanings symbols. ...
Comparison of Poems "A Lesson for this Sunday" is a poem which sets the scene for a perfect day which observes two innocent children maiming a harmless butterfly and asks us to draw a conclusion between good and evil. ... This language is extremely different to the other two poems" language, of which I will also analyse. ... The poet projects the origin of sin by using the example of the cat and fish of which can never get on and applying their existence to that of the human race. ... The other two poems have equal sized stanzas and lines which, I believe means in relation to the poem th...
In their poems, the poets created vivid images using simple middle class language, with tasteful descriptions. ... These two poets arose from the same time-period known as the Romantic era. ... These Romantic poets also worked endlessly at creating a certain mood, or atmosphere that lingered through their poems. ... Even though these two poets wrote poetry during the same era, they had many differences in their style, use of diction, and the symbols they used. ... Even though they utilized the basic style of the period, using free expression and simple language, the poets were able to de...
I discovered the similarities in the styles of writing between the two poets by studying a couple of the poems they had written. ... Eliot I noticed that both poets had in common the use of perfect rhymes in some stanzas from their poems. ... The two poets tend to use ellipsis, hyphens, and semicolons. I also noticed that the two poets have dialogue in some stanzas of their poems. ... Alfred Prufrock differentiate in length between the poems Skunk Hour and For the Union Confederate Dead by Robert Lowell, the comparisons in styles of writing clearly out way the differences. ...
It was during the period of the English Civil War when poet Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) wrote his collection of the four, "Mower," poems. ... " Many comparisons can be made between this poem and Christopher Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love'. ... " Both speakers in these two poems are attempting to seduce their lovers through the use of unnatural objects and a lot of the descriptions are focused on superficial elements so arguably that is again saying that Marvell, Marlowe and other poets had no true experience of what an ideal pastoral life is like....
This conflict between science and religion is wonderfully depicted in the poems of those poets who were extremely worried because of the conflict, Matthew Arnold is one of those. ... In Memoriam A.H.H. is a long poem written by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and completed in 1849. ... In section 2 it is shown the difference between human time and natural time in lines 5 and 7 to 8 and in section 22 lines 5-12: And glad at heart from May to May:In section 2 another concept is expressed, the poet immersion in nature. ... Another issue in order to describe the poet's visio...
A proem is a short introduction, in verse, to the matter and meaning of the rest of the poem. Some published editions of the poem do not make a division between The Proem and The Dream. ... This comedic turn shows the difference between the noble, allegorical characters in the story (Alcyone, Juno, Seys) and the realistic, human characters of the poet's world. ... Here Chaucer shows off his knowledge of classical literature, mentioning two major instances of dream-visions among the ancients. ... The knight describes a chess game between himself and Fortune in which Fortune has tricked him...
