How The Different Aspects Of Essay Example
How The Different Aspects Of Essay Example

How The Different Aspects Of Essay Example

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When we read the five poems we gather that the poems all have different aspects of the theme of relationships. The poems I have chosen are 'The Laboratory by Ancien Ri?? gime, The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy, Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare, Remember by Christina Rossetti, The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found by William Blake and lastly On My First Sonne by Ben Jonson'.

These poems written before all have similarities within it comes down to the themes of relationships however they all have different aspects, views, feelings and the theme of relationships may vary.Overall in this essay we are looking at the themes of relationships and see what the different aspects the poets have explored over a period of time which overall have a striking resembl

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Various methods are used to explore the theme of relationships in 'The laboratory by Robert browning' and 'The man he killed by Thomas Hardy' are comparatively similar.The laboratory made in the 1842 era, has a distinct subject, a person who kills (or is about to kill) her rival in the presence of her lover - who appears to be connected to the speaker in some way - perhaps her husband or an ex-lover who has spurned her for the rival who is soon to die. It is in the form of a monologue, and the silent listener is important. He is an expert in poisons who sells his services to a wealthy woman.

The language used refers to an older form of rule or government - suggesting that the speaker comes from a pas

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age 'Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly' shows the past tense language. We do not know for certain that the speaker is female - but this is suggested by the things, listed in the fifth stanza, in which she will carry her poison 'an earring, a casket/A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket', and by her offering a kiss to the man providing her with the poison, when he has finished his work. The poem recalls the saying that 'Hell has no fury like a woman scorned'.Browning explores the jealousy and vengefulness of someone disappointed in love. We can say that the poem 'The Laboratory' relies on the feeling of hate and this is backed up by the fact that the author has explored the relationship of enemies/nemesis there is a sense where the woman would also like a bit of revenge. Maybe due to jealousy, due to the fact that she may have hate within herself or the fact she likes to see people suffer, however all these points show the theme of relationship and in this case is bitter hate within in this character.

It would show the reader that the female speaker is plotting a very mysterious and sly death, nonetheless, just as brutal as 'pure death' 'Not that I bid you spare her the pain; let death be felt and the proof remain' this shows that her plotting of death does not bother her, which in most cases do to other people as you would say it would bother their 'conscience' but for this narrator it does not feel that way. Similarly 'The man he killed by Thomas Hardy' explores

the theme of enemies. This poem was written at the time of the Boer War, but there is nothing in it that refers to any particular conflict - it could refer to almost any war.The poem appears as one half of a conversation. The speaker tells about how he killed another man in battle, and reflects on how much he and his victim had in common, and how little reason they had to fight each other. Superficially a simple, uncomplicated piece, this is, in fact, a very skilful poem heavily loaded with irony and making interesting use of colloquialism.

The title is slightly odd, as Hardy uses the third-person pronoun 'He', though the poem is narrated in the first person. The 'He' of the title (the 'I' of the poem) is the soldier who tries to explain and perhaps justify his killing of another man in battle.In the first stanza the narrator establishes the common ground between himself and his victim; in more favourable circumstances they could have shared hospitality together. This idea is in striking contrast to that in the second stanza; the circumstances in which the men did meet. 'Ranged as infantry' suggests that the men are not natural foes but have been 'ranged', that is set against each other.

The phrase 'I shot at him as he at me and killed him in his place' indicates the similarity of their situations however it shows that it was a battle of survival.In The third stanza the narrator gives his reason for shooting the supposed enemy which contrasts to the laboratory he justifies his reasons for the murder committed. The conversational style of the

poem enables Hardy to repeat the word 'because', implying hesitation, and therefore doubt, on the part of the narrator. He cannot at first easily think of a reason.

When he does so, the assertion 'because he was my foe' is utterly unconvincing however this would effectively cause the audience to sympathise 'Hardy' as they would feel that the murder he had committed was not his fault as he was situated in a 'quaint and curious war'.The speaker has already made clear the sense in which the men were foes; an artificial hate created by others. , 'The man he killed' conveys across the different variety of themes which helps to develop the narrative of the poem as well as interpreting across implied meanings found hidden along the lines of the poem. The theme of friendship is presented through the lines, 'We should have sat us down to wet' and 'Right many a nipperkin'.

However the feeling of hate can be portrayed as in any war there is a sense of hate of the enemy and it is a natural cause.Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat, if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown' this shows the total opposite of the feeling of hate, it shows that whatever or how old 'quaint' war you would always treat a person to a drink at a bar even if he was an enemy. This shows the factors that narrators sense of killing a man is not at all brutal or evil on the subject he actual may be opposed to killing but we do not find out, but the

feeling of it is shown due to the use of colloquialism which the audience would understand in a ironic way.However the 'The man he killed by Thomas Hardy' and 'The laboratory by Robert browning' have similar references in ways of bringing someone's death and their views on what justifies the fact they are or have committed murder. Noting the historical background all these poems are written during the pre-1914 era as we already know. Most of the poems are before and after the Elizabethan era where tradition of poetry was and still is influent on people.

Most poems or sonnets are mostly revolved around romance about loved ones or effectively any type of feeling or relationship can be expressed through a poem or sonnet which may inevitably have had huge success during those times. As we are trying to study how pre-1914 poets have explored the different aspects of the themes of relationships over a period time we can learn through the poems that the feeling of love in all poems is blatant however there are other themes for example sense of loss, wanting, revenge, remembering are in the poems and we get sense of this just reading the poems I have named above.Poetry was a source of entertainment that was written about every day issues it similar today's poetry as it gives better views for people as many people on society may have experienced it. In this case we are talking about relationships and I think that relationships was the most common and hard-hitting subject to capitalize on at that time. Remember by Christina Rossetti is a poem which capitalizes on relationships during that era.

Remember is a poem about an awkward love affair, one in which the speaker, presumably the poet herself, confesses that she may not be as passionately in love with her suitor as he is with her.The poem capitalizes on relationships by the way Rossetti expresses herself in the poem which shows how relationships were in the poem which is similar in our society but how it was in those days as people were more expressive. 'You tell me of our future that you planned' this quote shows that the narrator must have been in a good relationship and it shows how future plans are going to made which connects to what we face in relationships today. The poem is more of mourning of a break-up but it does strongly give's the way how similar relationships are today.Over the historical and social context as I have said capitalizes on relationships and Most of the poems are before and after the Elizabethan era where a tradition of poetry was and still is influent on people. The language that the poets have used plays a major role in exploring the different aspects of relationships, all the poems and sonnets are all in early modern English most of it being archaic language.

On my first sonne by Ben Jonson is good poem which shows the aspect of the language used.By the title you can see the archaic language used 'on my first sonne' Sonne was used during the early modern England and is now spelt as 'son'. Johnson uses archaic language to show his deep love for his son in this poem and it is made clear from the

first line, the line 'Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy' tell the reader that writer had reached the end of his life with his son, but its made clear that his son has gone forever as Johnson decides to use farewell as the opening word of his poem.By doing this he builds sympathy on the reader; this sympathy builds up as the poem progresses.

But then the immense storyline is dropped upon the reader when Ben Johnson says 'Seven yeeres thou wert lent to me' this immediately builds up the sorrow as such a young child has been taken away from him. Ben Johnson shows a lot of attachment towards his son yet his relationship towards his son changes. It seems that over time his relationship has changed he sees it as his son was lent to him and now needs to be returned in other sense God wants him back, 'wert lent to me, and I thee pay'.He sees the boy's life also in terms of a loan, which he has had to repay, after seven years, on the day set for this 'the just day'. This metaphor expresses the idea that all people really belong to God and are permitted to spend time in this world. However the narrator does mourn the loss and this expressed by the word 'Lament'.

On my first sonne travels through the spiritual side of life and the way he expresses this is not by saying religious or spiritual words he implies it 'Exacted by thy fate, on the just day', 'Seven yeeres thou wert lent to me' this shows the implements he makes.Also in

Of my first sonne he expresses his passion and love for his son with the use of words and language 'To have so sonne scap'd worlds, and fleshes rage' the words fleshes rage show the implantation of passion his rage of the death of his son is hard which it goes to show and this makes the reader feel more sympathetic towards the narrator as his passion and love for his son was pure. However the language does go deeper, Jonson looks at the contradiction that we 'lament' (mourn) something we should really envy - escaping the hardships of life and the misery of ageing.The writer suggests that his best piece of poetry (the best thing he has ever made, that is) is his son this shown buy 'Ben. Jonson his best piece of peotrie'. Remembering his sin of loving too much 'My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy', he now expresses the hope or wish that from now on, whatever he loves, he will not love it 'too much' 'For whose sake, hence-forth, all his vowes be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

' Jonson's language is much complex and the archaic language is good of his expressing his feelings in a more sympathetic less-mourning way.Sonnet 130 is another poem which is a sonnet that goes deeply into using archaic language, written by Shakespeare it would definitely be a complex method of language used to get his method to attract audience across during that time. Sonnet 130 praises a lady unconventionally by rejecting the usual exaggerations of love poetry (which Shakespeare calls 'false compare') in favour of

a more truthful and modest description. In other word Shakespeare is mocking the looks and beauty of his 'mistress' by showing 'it is what the inside that counts'Shakespeare opens with a bold statement that the eyes of his beloved lady are not like the sun 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun' (where another poet might say they are as bright as, or brighter than, the sun) - and continues in this way to understate her attractions or present them honestly. 'Coral is far more red than her lips' red;', 'if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

' In these quotes he is saying her lips are red, but not as much as coral. Her skin is not white as snow but brown and her hair black.This already shows that they way Shakespeare uses his words are artistic are inventive which gives the sonnet a bit of dynamism. Shakespeare describes the contrast of red and white on a rose that is "damasked" (the term comes from Damascus, in Syria, which was known for decorative arts).

But, he says, he has not seen this damask rose effect in his mistress's cheeks 'I have seen roses damsk'd, red and white'. Her breath, he says, is not as delightful as perfume (a line that may cause us to think about the lack of oral hygiene in Elizabethan England.'Reeks' does not have the modern suggestion of an unpleasant smell, but means more or less to give off an odour - which may or may not be pleasant 'And in perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. '. We

might use the verb 'smells' nowadays, but until quite recent times, this verb referred only to what we do with our noses.

Her voice is less 'pleasing' in its sound than music 'I lover her to speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound'.Although he has never seen a goddess moving 'I grant I never saw a goddess go', Shakespeare suggests that goddesses do not need to tread on the ground - whereas he knows that his beloved does 'tread on the ground', when she moves 'My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. ' Having acknowledged all of her imperfections or limitations, the poet swears that his beloved is, nonetheless, as special as any woman 'belied' by 'false compare' (untrue or lying comparisons) 'And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare'.His language in the sonnet as I have said is inventive and this gives the reader impressions to make an image of the woman talked about. He gives so many adjectives and hyperboles which give dynamism to the sonnet.

The hyperboles used are also inventive and it is shown in maybe the first two or three lines. However the sonnet gives a stern description and the language is similar to on my first sonne with the use of archaic language to express his feelings and hyperboles to give it gave an imaginative account to the audience/reader.Overall language used in pre-1914 poetry seemed to be an important role in exploring relationships as it helped develop thee theme of what the relationship would be. The structure of poems and sonnets are

both different itself.

Sonnets consist of only 14 lines while poems either consist of stanzas or as sonnets lines but are either more or less than sonnets. They played a vital role in exploring the themes of relationships. 'William Shakespeare's' 'Sonnet 130' and 'William Blake's' 'The little boy lost' and 'the little boy found' are primary examples of the way the poems structures show the different aspects of relationships.The sonnet has a twelve line section organized as three quatrains - groups of four lines - with an ABAB rhyme, leading to a concluding rhymed couplet. An example of the rhyming sonnet is the way line five ends with 'white' and line seven ends with 'delight' therefore showing the ABA in the rhyme scheme.

The rhyme scheme is used by Shakespeare to keep the sonnet in a perfect rhythm in an attempt to convey across the interpretations and relationships taking place more clearly to the reader. Shakespeare also uses iambic pentameter in 'Sonnet 130'. Iambic pentameter is a meter in poetry.It refers to a line consisting of five iambic feet.

The word 'pentameter' simply means that there are five feet in the line; iambic pentameter is a line comprising five iambs. An example of the use of iambic pentameter in 'Sonnet 130' is the fact that the first line of the sonnet consists of ten syllables within five stressed and five unstressed. The little boy lost and little boy found by William Blake is a total different aspect in its structure. 'The Little Boy Lost & the Little Boy Found' is a poem of relationship between the father and his son.

The poem has two faces, the

first 2 stanzas represent the regret of the lost boy and last 2 stanzas represent the felicity of the son returning home with the help of god. The titles more or less tell the reader what the poems are about. In the first, a father leaves behind his tearful child in the dark. In the second, as the child cries, God appears, kisses the child and restores him to his mother who has been crying and looking for the boy. The poems are very short - each has only two stanzas consisting of 8 lines in both stanzas and the pair together has 16 lines.There is a rhyming scheme in both poems, for example in the little boy lost there is a rhyming scheme in the second stanza 'dew' and 'flew'.

In the little boy lost there is a rhyming scheme in both stanza's 'Light' and 'White' in the first stanza and 'brought' and 'sought' in the second. The little boy lost and little boy found is a short story in two parts and its structure is not as complex as others. Blake's narratives, simply as stories, are very nai?? ve and childlike. But they tell of profound and universal experiences or ideas.We worry about children who really get lost, and any young child has fears (perhaps made stronger by parents' warnings) of being lost or separated from mother or father. The two poems thus form a narrative in two parts - being lost and being found.

It also contrasts the way that human parents fail with God's power and love in caring for children. With this poet, we can never quite be sure how

far these things are intentional and how far they are simply suggested by the need for a rhyme but it is wiser to suppose that Blake means exactly what he says in the poems.The structure is an important factor and is the foundation of a poem or sonnet. Without structure you do not have a strong poem or sonnet to provide and in our case we are looking at the themes of relationships and the structure helps us with this as it gives the audience the opportunity to guess what the poem or sonnet will be about..

. All six of the poems share one common characteristic and that is the fact that there is some sort of a relationship taking place within the poems. . 'The laboratory' presents forward an enemy like relationship between the female speaker and her enemies.

The Laboratory' relies on the feeling of hate and this is backed up by the fact that the author has explored the relationship of enemies/nemesis. Similarly to 'The man he killed' explores the theme of enemies; however the monologue explores the theme of 'if he was not my enemy what would have been? ' 'Sonnet 130' shows a peculiar love/lust relationship between 'Shakespeare' and his 'mistress'; 'My mistresses' eyes are nothing like the son'. Remember by Christina rosette is poem Remember' which portrays an ambivalence relationship between Rossetti and possibly her husband; 'You tell me of our future'.On my first Sonne forms the construction of tragic and dramatic father-son relationship between 'Jonson' and his lost son; 'Farewell, thou child of my right hand'. The little boy Lost and little boy Found is the last poem. The

title more or less tells the reader what the poems are about.

In the first, a father leaves behind his tearful child in the dark. In the second, as the child cries, God appears, kisses the child and restores him to his mother who has been crying and looking for the boy.Although, the relationships constructed in the six poems are of different aspects, they all determine how the theme of relationships was constructed in pre-1914 poetry and how it has altered in our modern era. However, the poems also differ in some ways through the structure and layout and sometimes through language of the six pieces of poetry. Browning's 'The laboratory' and Hardy's 'The man he killed' are monologues where the poetry is written in context from either theirs or a persons point view.Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 130' and Rosetti's 'Remember' are sonnets.

The little boy lost, the little boy found and on my first sonne are normal poems. However the little boy lost and little boy found are two separate parts but have the same meaning in both; a mini story. All poems capitalize on the factor of relationships and the way the poets have explored these relationships are just how society was during these times and they have just responded to what is going on within that era and over a period of time.In conclusion the points that I have made are all relevant to how the poets have explored the themes of relationships over a period of time.

The choice of topic in each poem is used to make the poems more sophisticated and authentic. The points that I have also made are important

in the factors the words that poets use are dominant which has such an effect that in my opinion it describes the poems all together.My personal observation of this is that in the Elizabethan era times the relationships were a dominant factor in both society and it is more expressive today and in my opinion I thin k many people do relate their own personal relationship during those times as again relationships was at its peak. Overall I think that pomes written are influencing and inspiring, as they give so much more in to understating relationships and the way these poets express it has influenced many for years and still continues on today.

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