He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven A RedRed Rose Lucy Poems
In this assignment I will compare and contrast three poems based on thetheme of love. I will look at 'He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven' by W.BYeats, Robert Burns' 'A Red,Red Rose' and the 'Lucy Poems' byWordsworth. I will focus on each poet's tradition and culture, the poet's useof language and the similarities and differences between each poem. I willconclude the assignment with my personal response. 'He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven' was written by W.B Yeats. William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in 1865. He abandoned hispainting career after only three years to pursue a writing career with lyricsand plays. He eventually developed his own individual style and his workwas known for being particularly 'Irish'. He went on writing for the rest ofhis life, and eventually died in 1948. In the poem 'He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven' W.B Yeatsexpresses his love for Maud Gonne. Gonne was an extreme Nationalist whorejected W.B Yeats and eventually married Major John MacBride in 1903. After this period there is a noticeable change in Yeats' poetry, perhapsbecause he realised his dreams of a life with Maud could never become a In 'He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven' the tone
He has made himself vulnerable byspreading all his dreams and desires before Maud, and now she must decideif she will return his love and make his wildest dreams come true, or trampleand tear his cloths and shatter his dreams. Suddenly Lucy nolonger seems hidden away or forgotten because she will always beremembered by him, in his mind she is untouchable. The only person who deserves such wealth as theheavens, is Maud. In Wordworth's poem the more I read the better myunderstanding of it, the more powerful it became and the more I couldempathise with it. He looked to nature, the English countryside for inspirationand many of his most famous poems involve nature. Itwas heart wrenching to imagine Yeats spreading his dreams beneath her feetand knowing that, in the end, she rejected him. None of the poems use complex, elaborate,difficult, language but instead, plain language that is easily understood by all,Burns' poem also contains some Scots dialect. Lucy lived and died unknown toanyone. In the first line Burns compares his love to a 'Red, Red Rose' using asimile. He addresses it directly as if it were alive. Wordsworth had a new, modern approachtowards poetry which in his time was unheard of, he felt poetry should beabout emotions and feelings, it shouldn't be inhibited or stifled by politics orcity social life. In both Wordsworth's andYeats' poem the love was unreturned. Inthe following line Yeats writes: "But I, being poor, have only my dreams. The most striking thing about 'A Red, Red Rose' by Robert Burns isthe ScotS dialect used. "This evokes a personal response from the reader.
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