Sunday, February 2, 2014

Poetry Comparison and Analysis

Poetry Analysis 


The two poems I compared was "Love is not all" by Edna St. Vincent Millay and "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Bryon. She Walks in Beauty romaticizes the beauty that is pure love and the notion that love can flourish through all odds and overcome any hardships. It focuses on the need for love as we transition through society and the potential it can take in our lives. In contrast " Love is not all" by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a poem on the idea that love is not everything and that its simply a phase of life. She focuses on the fact that love can be very painful and that we should trade in love for something better or something less painful at the least. The poems use contrasting attitudes to illustrate the lust of beauty within love and the personality it takes within vs the ideology and romanticization of love and the pain it can truly have.

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