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Love is portrayed as a strong emotion in both an optimistic and pessimistic way in nearly all pre-1914 love poetry. When love is presented as pessimistic, for example Keats’ ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ or Lord Byron’s ‘When We Two Parted’ it is usually with a harsh tone of rue and lament, whereas when love…
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Thomas Hardy
‘Tony Kytes the Arch- Deceiver’ was written in the 1890’s and was set in Dorset. Rural life then was very hard and marriage was extremely important for the woman in Britain because, they needed a husband to support them as it was very difficult to get a decent job that paid a sufficient wage for…
Poetry
Literary tradition in love poems before and after 1900 is easily identifiable. It is preset in both, pre and post. To help me with my hypothesis, I will use examples from the two pre 1900 poems, ‘To His Coy Mistress’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. I will also use the two post 1900 poems, ‘Howling For Love’…
Poetry
The poems ‘A Woman To Her Lover’, by Christina Walsh, and ‘When We Two Parted’, by Lord Byron, both deal with the subject of love. However each poem portrays a completely different view of love, confronting and challenging the issues raised. Both poets endeavour to leave a lasting impression on the reader and a particular…
Poetry
It has been portrayed through music, film and books with almost every story ever written having some sort of love story held within. However, one of the most prominent ways love has been portrayed for thousands of years is through poetry. I will be looking at two pre 1900 poems to explore this theme of…
Poetry
“A Woman to Her Lover” by Christina Walsh, “Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelly, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” by John Keats, “A Birthday” and “Remember” both by Christina Rossetti are five poems dealing with the common theme of love. How do the poets manage to express their ideas concerning love? “A Birthday” and “Remember”…
Poetry
Red roses. Chocolates. Paper hearts. All of these things are usually linked to Valentine’s Day, and love in general. Metaphysical poets used to compare their love to such things, in order to charm women. It was known as using a “conceit”, often used in a very insincere way. The Metaphysicals intentions were not always honourable…
Poetry
Christina Rosseti and Alfred Lord Tennyson, both notorious poets of the Victorian era (1830-1901) were heir to the poets Romantic era, which employed an interest in personal experience, everyday things, ordinary language, the Gothic, and the medieval as a basis for their poetry. The Victorian era carried from the Romantics distrust of religion, scepticism and…
Poetry
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Voice” is a short, four-stanza poem with an alternating rhythm scheme, the first and third, and second and fourth line of each stanza rhyming. The subject if the poem is a man remembering his lost love. As he walks around the places he went with her, remembering her, he imagines that…
My Last Duchess
Poetry
Both ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ are poems which were written by the poet Robert Browning who was one of the great poets of the Victorian age. Both of these poems were written during the years 1812 – 1889. I feel that the era in which they were created in is extremely important, as…
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