Love can have many faces in each of these poems we are given a glimpse at these two faces. “To His Coy Mistress “ is a poem about a man trying to persuade a woman into sex as the poem progresses the man becomes more and more desperate. It conveys a face of love that agrees more with lust and carnal desire. While in “Oranges” a poem about a young boy taking out a girl for the first time shows us a different face. This is a face that most of young love, which most of us are familiar with and that is anxious and excited, all wrapped into one. In these poems “To His Coy Mistress” uses tone and symbolism to convey this mans love in the form of lust, while “Oranges” uses these elements to convey the innocent love of the two adolescents.
Tone is used in both of theses poems to help convey the message of love and what kind of love the characters are feeling, while “To His Coy Mistress” tone shifts through the poem starting out complimentary and ends up frantic and almost argumentative. It begins with the speaker telling his mistress how romantic all of this would be, “ we would sit down, and think which way to walk and pass our long loves day”(2/3) he is trying to be chivalrous. Then as the first stanza continues to Praise her and tell her that his love would be long lasting and that his love would grow even if she rejected him. He does this by saying, “ love you ten years before the flood” (8)and continues with “ my vegetable love would grow vaster than empires and more slow”(11/12). To top of the flattery he begins to explain how visually pleasing her features are, in which the speaker assigns years of time to accentuate how much he adores her features and what they are worth to him. To finish the first stanza “for lady you d...
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...as a symbol of his love and that he is giving up something for this girl. In the last stanza the speaker writes about the peeled orange looking like fire in the boys hands, with the speaker using the symbolism of brightness and warmth again the speaker can convey to his readers the intense feelings that these two young people have towards each other. Within these two poems each author is conveying love with the use of symbolism to their readers, although love has different means to both men. Marvell has almost an insatiable thirst for his mistress and her virginity, and he uses symbols like material objects or time to impress and then rush her into a decision. While Soto has a much more innocent message of love in which he uses symbols of weather, colors and some surrounding to get this message to the reader.
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...seful miscommunication between men and women. Lastly, when looking through the imagined perspective of the thoughtless male tricksters, the reader is shown the heartlessness of men. After this reader’s final consideration, the main theme in each of the presented poems is that both authors saw women as victims of a male dominated society.
The poets integrated ?metaphysical conceits? as focal parts of these poems. Along with these, they used effective language as a basis for their convincing arguments, they included subjects of periodical importance (e.g. ?courtship? and ?religion?), and use very clever structures that are manipulated in order to make the poem read in the desired way. The very clear indication of the theme in question was strongly aided by the way in which the personas portrayed the emotions they felt and the way they showed their attitudes towards the subject. Considering all these factors, the poets made critical arguments to the mistresses in order to alter their views, thus changing their minds, on denying the poets the sex that they desired so strongly.
...to help express the theme of the poems by illustrating the role the subject matter played in the life of the persona during their grieving period. Furthermore, metaphors helped communicate the thoughts and feelings of the personas by providing the reader with insight into the relationships and emotions covert in the poem. All in all, the poetic devices incorporated in each individual poetic composition played vital roles in the emotional and dramatic impact of these poems. And who knows, the immaculate use of these fundamental literary devices could be the key to successful love poems all around the world.
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This theme is explored mainly through the use of metaphor. The metaphor Boland uses to describe the nature of love is rather powerful. She states, “love had the feather and muscle of wings.” (line 10) This metaphor describes two aspects of love. Firstly, love is strong which is demonstrated over the course of the poem as we see their love survive the near loss of one of their children. The other aspect illustrated is that love can leave at any time. According to Boland love has the muscle of wings and like a bird with wings it has the freedom to come and go. Boland also uses the personification that love is, “a brother of fire and air.” (line 12) Using the term “brother” draws on the family concept that this piece is centred around. This term also makes it obvious to the reader that the relationship is airtight as there is no closer bond than between brothers. The Earth, air, fire and water were once believed to be the four elements essential to live. This would imply that Boland believes love is so powerful that it is also a necessity of life. The nature of love is a theme explored thoroughly thorough the poem and Boland uses metaphor to outline its
He revolves around her cheeks and mouth, as he has not “seen roses damasked, red and white, / but no such see I in her cheeks” (Shakespeare 5-6). The picture the speaker is painting is one of his mistress having a dull complexion with an undesirable texture. His vivid use of imagery further aids in his satirical mocking of the conventional sonnets falsely comparing women to grand things, which in this case to a soft red rose. In the second quatrain, the speakers tone starts to change as the langue he uses to describe his mistress differs. His language in the second and third quatrain’s is more euphonious when he describes his mistress, indicating that he feels for her, and the flaws that he lists are only skin deep. Following the depiction of her cheeks the speaker goes on listing her flaws, one after the other; he comments how the “breath” (Shakespeare 8) of his “mistress reeks,” (Shakespeare 8) to her her “dun” (Shakespeare 3) breast and her displeasing “damasked” (Shakespeare 5) skin. It seems that the speaker is doing the exact opposite of a conventional love poem as he’s not placing the beauty of a mistress on a pedestal, rather he lowers her in beauty in the eye of reader by describing, in detail, her lack of beauty, aiding in his ridiculing of the conventional love