English Poems

Examine carefully the methods that your chosen poets have used to convey their feelings of love and loss.

The poems I examined are the following:

First love by John Clare

How Do I Love Thee? By Elizabeth Barret Browning

A Birthday by Christina Rossetti

When We Two Parted by Lord Byron

Remember by Christina Rossetti

Villegiature by Edith Nesbit

A Woman to Her Lover by Christina Walsh

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats

The six poems i have chosen to examine are underlined above. I will look at the methods used by my chosen poets of how they convey their feelings. Firstly the type of love the poets use for example looking at First Love by John Clare he creates the sense of the physical impact of love and relates to the experience of love and loss. The first stanza he uses sibilance alliteration on the 's "so sudden and so sweet." He uses his heart as a symbol that she has his love but that it will not be returned "And stole my heart away completely." He uses nouns which create a physical image such as "face" and "my legs refused to walk away" use of personification. The first stanza shows how the woman is in control of their relationship and where it goes. She can very much mould him to what she wants "My life and all seemed to turn to clay" his life revolved around the love he had for this woman. Again in the second stanza he uses the visual image of how love has its affect "and then my blood rushed to my face" he shows how