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Comparing Two Poems. Comparing Two Poems The comparison between two poems are
best analyzed through the form and meaning of the pieces. ...
Comparing Two Poems. Comparing Two Poems The comparison between two poems are
best analyzed through the form and meaning of the pieces. ...
comparing two poems. For this assignment I have decided to work on two
poems. The first one being ‘There is a garden in her face ...
comparing two poems. For this assignment I have decided to work on two
poems. The first one being ‘There is a garden in her face ...
Comparing The Two Poems: When We Two Parted And La Belle Dame Sans Mer. GCSE
English coursework: comparison of poems. There are many ...
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For this assignment I have decided to work on two poems. The first one being ‘There is a garden in her face by Thomas Campion and the second ‘She walks in beauty’ by George Gordon and Lord Byron. I will be deconstructing both poems and commenting on them with reference to the techniques used by the author when writing them.
The first poem by Campion has a Sesta Rima form, meaning a six line stanza composed of a quatrain and a couplet and rhymed a-b-a-b-c-c. It is clearly a love poem. One, where the author writes about a woman and convinces us that the woman is perfect. The author describes the woman’s beautiful features, which according to him is full of perfection. However despite the fact that the poems revolves around physical, outward appearance, it focuses more specifically on the woman’s facial beauty.
It is probable that the author is in love with the woman which he describes in the poem. However, it is important to note that if he thinks he loves the woman then his love is artificial because from the poem it seems that he is only in love with the woman’s outward appearance and not really what she is inside or as a person.
The author describes the woman’s beauty with reference to elements of nature like flowers, fruits and pearl. So basically what he is doing is comparing her beauty to nature. Since nature is pure then the woman’s beauty is also natural and pure.
This poem uses metaphor to bring the combination between the woman’s beauty and nature. The title of the poems and the first verse in the poem illustrates how this is done. ‘There is a garden in her face’
Similes like ‘her brows like bended bows do stand’ are also used in the poem to show us how the author makes a comparison between two clearly different things, in that case the woman’s brows and bended bows. To him the two looks similar.
The second poem by George Gordon and Lord Byron ‘she walks...
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