Poets Essay Examples Page 6

Sonnets 43 and 29 are written by two women whose experiences in life have led to them having extremely different beliefs about love, and different attitudes towards it and how the concept of love has affected them personally. Sonnet 29 is written by a poet to whom love has only brought pain, and it has a…

“The Mother” by George Mackay Brown although a fairly short poem manages to in seven short stanzas creates a very concise affectionate portrait of the poet’s own mother. A number of things make this poem as effective as it is but a large portion of that magic captured in the poem comes from effective word…

John Donne’s ‘s poem loves diet is an excellent example of his use of metaphysical conceit. The title of the poem itself is rather intriguing. At the first glance the title seems to suggest a diet of love prescribed to a person in an attempt to better his life, however as one reads the entire…

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…

As you may already have known, the date 1914 relates back to the beginning of the First World War. Therefore, the poetry in this essay will be from the years preceding the war. Before World War One, all poetry had a tight structure and used the traditional verse forms. Pre 1914 poets also had the…

There are endless ways in which love can be portrayed and occur. There are numerous types of love, whether it physical, emotional or romantic love. I intend to expand upon and highlight the various ways in which love an loss is portrayed in 5 selected poems: John Clare’s ‘First Love’, John Keats ‘La Belle Dame…

The poems I have chosen to analyse are written from a male and a female perspectives in the 18th and 19th centuries. All the poems describe the aspects of love and loss. Each poet is influenced by sad or happy events in their lives. Some poets share their joy and happiness, while others experience separation….

The first poem I will be analysing is Love Is… by Adrian Henri. The poem has an AAA,BBB,CCC,DDD,EEE rhyme scheme and the structure is three lines then a fourth which are the words ‘love is’ which could mean that Adrian Henri is trying to say that love is just love or that love is just…

Love means the affection for someone and a strong liking of them. ‘Love is all you need’ is a quote from a famous love song, which shows that without a love, you cannot get through life and succeed. Out of the three love poems that I shall be writing about only ‘First Love’ by Clare…

The two poets I will be comparing are William Wordsworth and R.S. Thomas. Both of these poets wrote in the theme of scenic areas, people and landscape but had very different views. William Wandsworth was a romanticist meaning that he saw beauty in everything. R.S. Thomas was a realist meaning that he wrote more realistically…