Nissim Ezekiel’s poems are as a rule lucid and are splendidly evocative and satisfyingly sensuous. His poetry reveals more careful craftsmanship‚ a more conscious intellectuality. In quality and integrity they are conversational directness and ease without losing himself in discursiveness. Let us take our Poet‚ lover‚ Birdwatcher where beauty and bareness of statement go together where it weaves the themes of birdwatching‚ wooing and writing poetry together‚ and shows their resemblance: the need
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Examine the treatment of women in Porphyria’s lover It would be easy to assume that women in Victorian England were treated badly. However‚ “Porphyria’s lover” suggests that his idea springs from society’s control of women. At the start of the poem‚ Porphyria has freedom and control but as the piece progresses‚ it is clear that this freedom and control is curtailed by her lover who contains and incarcerates her through death. As a result it can be argued that Browning’s purpose was to warn women
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of the year for lovers. In contrast‚ the first valentine I spent with my present boyfriend three years ago was not really romantic. It has become the most interesting and wonderful anniversary that my boyfriend and I have never forgotten. My boyfriend’s name is Tung. We studied together in high school and had been friend for three years. When we graduated‚ a friend of mine‚ Ngoc Thao‚ told me that she likes him‚ but she was very shy to ask him a date. Consequently‚ I helped her to contact with
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Robert Browning starts the poem Porphyria’s lover by describing a storm using personification‚ he uses words such as ‘sullen’ and ‘spite’ which suggests the weather is bad on purpose‚ the misery of the weather could be reflecting the mood of the speaker‚ we can begin to suss that something bad is going to happen as this is often the stereotypical weather for suspicious behaviour and murder stories. Browning hints that the unnamed speaker may not be mentally stable‚ ‘I listened with heart fit to break’
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Anne Bradstreets is an amazing poet of her time. The poem The Flesh and the Spirit is a struggle between two sisters that can never be separated‚ Flesh and Spirit-body and soul‚ ultimately ending in final peace. Their inflamed arguments are about the ideal values of life and what matters to the human race. Flesh is for riches‚ pleasure‚ and the publics eye. She values earthly items and her fulfillment of her wants. Spirit finds satisfaction is God and the thought of Heaven. Their fight ends up in
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Literature and a respected American critic known especially for work on Romanticism‚ lists three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry: 1. A single person‚ who is clearly not the poet‚ utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem‚ in a specific situation at a critical moment. 2. This person addresses and interacts with one or more people; but we know of the auditors’ presence‚ and what they say or do‚ only from clues in the discourse of the single speaker. 3. The main principle
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can do is use the clues the author leaves behind to make inferences‚ even if those inferences are different from the inferences of others. Robert Browning used the structure and language of his poem “Porphyria’s Lover” to express the hidden depths of the speaker’s mind while still leaving
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My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover Robert Browning wrote the two poems‚ Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess. In each poem‚ the speakers seem mentally disturbed. Also‚ both speakers had relationships with "strong" women who‚ despite apparently loving them‚ they each ended up killing. Strangely enough‚ both men seem to be much happier after they have committed these murders. The murders in these poems deal with power based on gender. The females have the power and the men do not. The men feel
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Theme of Valentine by John Fuller The poem Valentine by John Fuller depicts a man’s unrequited but intense love and passionate desires for a lady in the first person. First of all‚ by “unrequited‚” I mean that even though the man confided his profound love for the lady in the poem‚ the lady does not seem to feel for him in the same way. Secondly‚ by “intense‚” I mean that his love for this lady is so strong and great that he cannot help observing her body closely‚ continuously complimenting her on her
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People can change for the better‚ but it’s their choice. Jimmy Valentine was one of the best in the safe-cracking business. When one of his jobs was in Elmore‚ Jimmy went not knowing that the trip would change his life. When Jimmy arrived‚ he saw a woman with the name of Annabel and instantly fell in love. Since that day‚ he has dropped all connections to safe-cracking and he started a new‚ successful life. Jimmy Valentine is living a moral life because he risked his identity for Agatha’s life‚
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