Pre-1914 Century Poetry Coursework Essay - 1672 Words

Pre-1914 Century Poetry Coursework In this piece of coursework I will be comparing love songs from six different poems by different authors. I will do ‘First Love’ by John Clare, ‘How Do I Love Thee?’ by Elizabeth Barret Browning, ‘A Birthday’ and ‘Remember’ both by Christina Rossetti, ‘When We Two Parted’ by Lord Byron and ‘Villegiature’ by Edith Nesbit. All these poems that I am going to be comparing are all written before the 20th century, in the early 1700’s and 1800’s era. Love is a strange but a wonderful and powerful emotion. There are many different types of love, such as the love between parent and child, close friends, and the love between husband and wife. Throughout history, love has been expressed in many†¦show more content†¦All six of these poems are trying to send out a message of how they have experienced love but in a different sort of way, for example ‘First Love’ is about a person loving someone for the first time but in this poem it can also be to do with his back ground he might be a worker on a farm and his first love is the owners daughter he is restricted due to something holding him back. How ever in the poem ‘Remember’ it is a sad song about a loss of a lover and that one of the lovers is reminding the other one to keep on thinking and remembering about me because I wont be back. The poem ‘How do I love thee?’ this is a sign of confused love, Elizabeth Browning is not sure how to express her to love to her lover and counts the ways in which she can â€Å"let me count the ways.† She also compares her love a lots of different things, â€Å"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height† she is comparing her love to no limits. These are a sign of abstract love things which are specific objects. All the poets are trying to express their love in a shape of poetry which all have different feelings and ideas about love. All these songs were written before the 20th century and use old style language, in all of the poems there use old English with words ‘thee’, ‘ail’ and ‘vair’. The ways in which these six poems are set out are formal straight to theShow MoreRelatedStatement of Purpose23848 Words   |  96 Pages(245). Identify graduate programs that specialize in your area or areas of interest. Remember, your statement should mention a specific program and perhaps even target a subdivision or an area within that program—not American literature but the 19th century American novel with an emphasis in American Realism and Naturalism. Learn about the professors in the program and familiarize yourself with their research; in other words, read some of their scholarly works—reviews, articles, monographs, and books