A Triolet, Impacted with Love and Loss In Robert Bridges’ poem “Triolet” (1876), he expresses a love that was new and unexpected. Then in the last few lines an unexpected turn approaches, that thought of love that was good and new has now turned to anguish. In his poem Bridges shows the readers how familiar love can be, but also how diverse it also can be. He captures how easy it may be to fall in love, and yet hard to keep from losing it. Though the title of the poem does not define the theme of the poem Bridges does a beautiful job using “Triolet” for the title of his poem. The Victorian Bridges’ does this by expressing to his readers that this style of poem not only can a very passionate message, can be said in very few words with the same amount of depth and connection. He does this by using key elements such as diction, tone, sound and rhythm. Bridges main goal in this poem is to demonstrate abundant amounts of emotion and depth to grasp his readers, while maintaining a light and simple verse. A triolet is an old French style poem. Some of the earliest triolets were written by Poet Patrick Carey unfortunately he did not live a long life (1623-1657). A triolet is a stanza or short poem of only eight lines with only two rhymes used throughout the poem. Bridges reintroduces triolets back to the English …show more content…
As he explains his sudden love, which vanquishes to become a sore disaster, he uses words that do not have any devotion of anger or carelessness throughout the poem. But while reading this poem you actually feel the love and the loss as well. One may feel these emotions by the sudden change from the beginning of the poem to the last lines of it by bridges showing certainty of love to then not being so certain anymore. Which Bridges desired to do while writing his poetry, he wants the reader to feel intact with the words and the spiral of vibes as he gets while
The informal language and intimacy of the poem are two techniques the poet uses to convey his message to his audience. He speaks openly and simply, as if he is talking to a close friend. The language is full of slang, two-word sentences, and rambling thoughts; all of which are aspects of conversations between two people who know each other well. The fact that none of the lines ryhme adds to the idea of an ordinary conversation, because most people do not speak in verse. The tone of the poem is rambling and gives the impression that the speaker is thinking and jumping from one thought to the next very quickly. His outside actions of touching the wall and looking at all the names are causing him to react internally. He is remembering the past and is attempting to suppress the emotions that are rising within him.
At the beginning of the poem, the speaker starts by telling the reader the place, time and activity he is doing, stating that he saw something that he will always remember. His description of his view is explained through simile for example “Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets of their branches” (Updike), captivating the reader’s attention
Gwen Harwood’s 1963 poem “Triste Triste” re-encounters upon memories of freedom, which are displayed through acts of sexual interaction and affection. As the poem conveys elements of sexual intimacy between two individuals, it emphasises the importance of the human relationship, and the spiritual sensations that have been drawn by this affection. The poem begins by expressing the
The poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S Eliot is a wonderful piece of modernist writing filled with dramatic monologue where the rhyming scheme of this poem is not random, however a bit irregular coupled with some free verse style. This poem speaks out about loneliness and isolation. It begins with the readers not knowing if the Prufrock is taking along a companion on his journey or is he taking along his readers, to support this claim, “Let us go then, you and I.” (Eliot 368)
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Love is one of the main sources that move the world, and poetry is not an exception, this shows completely the feelings of someone. In “Litany” written by Billy Collins, “Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims, “Song” by John Donne, “Love” by Matthew Dickman and “Last Night” by Sharon Olds navigate around the same theme. Nevertheless, they differ in formats and figurative language that would be compared. For this reason, the rhetoric figures used in the poems will conduct us to understand the insights thought of the authors and the arguments they want to support.
Relationships between two people can have a strong bond and through poetry can have an everlasting life. The relationship can be between a mother and a child, a man and a woman, or of one person reaching out to their love. No matter what kind of relationship there is, the bond between the two people is shown through literary devices to enhance the romantic impression upon the reader. Through Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham,” Ben Jonson’s “To Celia,” and William Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” relationships are viewed as a powerful bond, an everlasting love, and even a romantic hymn.
I first came across “Spring and Fall”—as I did a similar poem, Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Say”—through two teen movies of the 1980’s. The Frost poem was featured in Copola’s adaptation of the popular S.E. Hinton young adult novel, The Outsiders, and Hopkins’ in Vision Quest, a forgettable movie about a young man searching to find himself by taking on the unbeatable state champion in a wrestling match. (Our hero beats him!) In both films, the themes of the pains and triumphs of growing up are presented in familiar formulas, and the poems lend a sense of gravity to that theme. In any case, lots of my friends in high school, who never would have read poetry otherwise, knew these poems and could recognize them, having heard them in a movie. (The same can be said of my generation in terms of another Victorian poem in our reading, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” recited in class memorably by Alfalfa in one of the “Our Gang” comedies.) That said, hearing these poems in contexts outside of an academic setting really made them stick with me, and I’d like to use this paper as an opportunity to examine precisely what lends “Spring and Fall” in particular its haunting power.
In conclusion, biographical information of two poets, the symbols in three poems, the settings in three poems, and the shared theme have been discussed. “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Meeting at Night” by Robert Browning, and “Parting at Morning” by Robert Browning have been thoroughly researched.
Both poems represent the despairs and failures of the love they hone for their beloved, with brings a touch of sadness to the poems. From this the reader can feel almost sympathetic to the unrequited lovers, and gain an understanding of the perils and repercussions of love.
Authors use poetry to creatively present attitudes and opinions. “A Man’s Requirements,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” are two poems with distinct attitudes about love that contain different literary approaches. In both of the poems, love is addressed from a different perspective, producing the difference in expectation and presentation, but both suggest the women are subservient in the relationships.
In the poem “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall, a mother attempted to protect her daughter by sending her to church. However, in the end, the child has her entire life stolen from her. The dramatic situation in the poem is portrayed and developed through Randall’s use of descriptive imagery, dialogue, irony, and a tonal shift.
Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh both create speakers who disagree about the nature of romantic love. The titles of the twin poems, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” by Marlowe, and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” by Raleigh, show that they are two sides of a rhetorical exchange. The poems’ structures are identical; each of the shepherd’s optimistic requests has a corresponding refusal from the nymph. Although the word choice and meters are similar in the two poems, the shepherd uses an optimistic tone while the nymph uses a pessimistic one. While both speakers are addressing the concept of love, their distinct uses of diction and imagery underscore how the shepherd’s optimism conflicts with the nymph’s skepticism.
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By using references of her grief or her losses, Browning creates a more realistic view of her love suggesting that her love is sincere as it comes from a grieved person, which differs to the positive and idealistic feelings portray in the first octave. The poet then talks about her fondness of her love, revealing that her she lives for her love “ I love thee with the breath, / smiles, tears, of all my life;” (line 12-13), the asyndetic listings of the verbs ‘breath’, ‘smiles’ and ‘tears’, implying that her love can stem from different emotions she feels such as happiness and sadness, suggesting to her beloved that her love comes from good and sad points of her life.