English Comparative Essay.
The collection of texts presented in this essay depicts an underlying theme of love. The texts have been examined and explored in order to note the similarities or differences in various categories. To compare two texts by the length of their stanza would be to diminish the value of its words; indeed a comparison of texts must come from the connotation.
The subject of love is most definitely the most important and prominent theme in the four texts creating a likely similarity however, …show more content…
Yet I feel that I shall stand... by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and The Sunne Rising by John Donne also convey a strong message of love. Conversely, they do not resemble the first two texts without the protruding theme of lust. They instead present a new idea about life and death. The poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning starts by describing a woman's love for a man who is leaving her. However, when reading the last two lines " God for myself, He hears that name of thine, and sees within my eyes the tears of two." it is observed that the lady is asking for God to take her rather than the gentleman. It is also interpreted that while the lady asks for God to take her instead of the man she loves, she is already dead; she cries one tear for him and one for herself.
The Sunne Rising by John Donne, another poem, possesses statements that suggest another type of love, the love of a man for his world. The poem starts of quite light-hearted, "Busy old fool, unruly sun through windows, and through curtains, call on us..." He is talking about the sun, Mother Earth. This is revealed in the line " She's all states and all princes I " But again, in the last few lines of the poem the words resemble death. The death of light over the earth as the sun