GCSE English Coursework (Love Poems) Essay

Love is a common stereotypical subject for poets, which has been used for many centuries. The poems we have been examine contain a collection of emotions all based around the theme of love.John Clare used the impact of your get-go Love to create the public opinion of the effect being deathly ill. He creates images such as,Are flowers the winters choice? Is loves bed always snow?This shows me that although he really loves her, he cant have her and he is thinking that flowers dont stay forever when it turns winter and she doesnt love him.Also he says things equalMy legs refused to walk outdoor(a).This shows me that he is so astonished of what he is seeing, he cant look away and she is so beautiful he thinks he could have her.In comparison to this John Clare in like manner states that,My exhibit turned pale as deadly pale.Which also suggests that John Clares first experience of his First Love being some sort of illness.John Clare also creates the signature of your true love bein g forever blossomed as he says things likeHer face it bloomed like a sweet flower.Suggesting to us that the poet clearly states he loves her as he equivalences her to a flower and the symbolisms behind flowers are usually warmness and romance. The fact that she is a Sweet Flower emphasises her living beauty as being a perfect flower.John Clare proves to me that this woman, to him, is his dream woman as he states,Stole my heart away complete.This clearly shows me that the moment he set eyes on her, he gave his heart to her forever and when he power saw her he never wanted to be with anyone else ever again.At the climax of the poem it turns into a very sad ending, John Clare states that,My heart has left its domicile place and can return no more.And this makes me feel very sorry for John Clare as his first love experience is marked clearly to me as being something very sad and upsetting.In comparison to first love is Shall I Compare Thee? by William Shakespeare which is another cl assic example of love rhyme as it was usually used to show your emotions through songs or poems.Shall I Compare Thee? is a sonnet which reflects the mood of the poet. Its rhythm is iambic pentameter, having ten syllables to separately line.The structure of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet at the end,In the first quatrain Shakespeare presents a question and an answer to the reader, then in the second, he continues to compare this someone to a summers daylight, and not saying a summers day is not continuously beautiful.In the third quatrain it has a turning point with the word but, saying this person is described as superior to not only a summers day but to life-time itself.Finally in the ending couplet he talks about how this person immortally will last, through the ages in the poems lines.He uses personification in the line,And often is his gold complexion dimd.He shows me that he is attempting to compare another attribute of this person with something compared with summe r.It also uses a metaphor in the line,Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines.This shows me that even though he said that this person is beautiful sometimes they can be too beautiful.In the line,But thy eternal sommer shall not fadeShows me that a persons beauty will last for so many years after, and we are still reading it today.Porphyrias Lover is linked to My Last Duchess they are both written by Robert Browning and he connects them by his use of possessive words such as Mine and I. He sets off the background of a really bad, stormy night, which Vexes the lake which brings the poem to life as it makes the wind seem alive with anger, but this sets off questions in my head saying, why would Porphyria want to travel through stormy weather but to see an authoritative man?There is also the Gliding entrance of Porphyria as the strain changes from a gloomy, dark cottage to a warming feeling as she relights the fire and performs an erotic display of taking her wet, outer clothing o ff. The writers use of the words Withdrew and Let fall made the scene sound like a sexual tease.Porphyria comes up to the writer in this poem and offers him her bare shoulder He tells us that he does not peach to her. Instead, he says, she begins to tell him how she has come over to him in really bad weather just to be with him. He realizes that she Worships him and wants to preserve the moment forever so he strangles her, thinking that doing this she can stay with him forever and never leave him, but in doing this it makes me shudder as he says,I warily oped her lids again, laughed the blue eyes without a stain.This is making me feel like he is sort of playing with the dead body and making my original predicament of him as being a psychopath true.Then Robert Browning goes on to say,About her neck, her cheek once more, blushed bright beneath my burning kiss.This shows me that even though she is dead he thinks she can still feel love and passion and when he kisses her she still love s him.The writer in this poem is portrayed as a calculating villain who just stays in a passive stance as he Debates what to do, Being like this totally changes the atmosphere of the poem as the writer states,I found a thing to do, and with all her hair, in one long yellow string I smart three times her little throat around and strangles her.From this it doesnt sound like porphyria put up much of a struggle and when he said,That moment she was mine, mine, fair, perfectly pure and goodThis makes him sound like the grim reaper as he states that she is his and his alone.Robert Browning ends the poem in a unmatched way by saying that God agrees with what he has done because he hasnt said a word, this shows me that he acts like a crazy person as he thinks killing someone, God wouldnt care less and wouldnt say anything about it.My Last Duchess has a similar contrast of an egotistic nature as the duke portrays himself as a sycophant as he is back stabbing her by saying things about her, even though she is dead, to a person of a much lower class to him.By stating,Since none puts by the curtain that I have drawn for you, but I.Puts his face in a state of control this also links to when he says,Willt you please sit and look at her?Even though it has a question mark when you say it out loud you realise it sounds more like an order given to the servant.When he says,She ranked my gift of a nine-hundred years old name, with anybodys gift.This shows me that he is saying a nine-hundred year old title of the duchess made her think that she is very lucky and he is amazing, but when the duke sees her receiving cherries from a man of a lower class she had the same expression as she wasToo easily impressed she liked whateer, she looked on, and her looks went everywhere.As he belief that she was cheating on him and she loved every man that gave her a present but in actual fact she was being nice to everyone, even to those of a lower class to her.In this poem the duke is a boas ter, he likes to drop famous names of people into the subject to make him sound really important, like when he says,Fra Pandolf by design, for never read, strangers like you.As he drops a famous artists name into the conversation, he also shows yet another strong arrogant word as he says You like being something not worthwhile to speak to, or something that has come off the street as he speaks to this servant like a piece of dirt.After reading these poems, I have looked at the different qualities of Love and how it can effect people and their actions and how there is a fine line between love and hate, and in love, hate is just as strong.