LITERARY ANALYSES

LITERARY ANALYSIS OF THE NEW REMORSE BY OSCAR WILDE

The sin was mine; I did not understand.
So now is music prisoned in her cave,
Save where some ebbing desultory wave
Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.
And in the withered hollow of this land
Hath Summer dug herself so deep a grave,
That hardly can the leaden willow crave
One silver blossom from keen Winter's hand.

But who is this who cometh by the shore?
(Nay, love, look up and wonder!) Who is this
Who cometh in dyed garments from the South?
It is thy new-found Lord, and he shall kiss
The yet unravished roses of thy mouth,
And I shall weep and worship, as before.

The poem The New Remorse written by the Irish author Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was published in 1892 in the magazine Spirit Lamp of Oxford. The poem illustrates a dramatic and melancholic story of love; it is a descrptive poem plenty of allusions to a stormy relationship the characters of the writing held. Here, it is possible to observe a dismal and mournful mood spread throughout the lines.

The characters provide the perception of having been in love some time ago and whose relation has been hindered and interrupted by an outsider with the same importance as the lovers. Some aspects of the poem suggest a coastal environment with which the author uses proper characteristics of the sea by implementing figurative language to do a description of the sorrowful feelings emerging from the wounded character; this character seems to have been betrayed by a women who is waiting for her new lover near to the ocean. The male character also expresses terrible emotions compared to those given by death in order to portray what he is feeling caused by heartbreak. Finally, the story insinuates that the lady does betray the main character leaving him tearful and devastated.

LITERARY ANALYSIS OF I SAW THEE WEEP BY LORD BYRON

I saw thee weep - the big bright tear
Came o'er that eye of blue;
And then methought it did appear
A violet dropping dew.

I saw thee smile - the sapphire's blaze
Beside thee ceased to shine;
It could not match the living rays
That filled that glance of thine.

As clouds from yonder sun receive
A deep and mellow dye,
Which scarce the shade of coming eve
Can banish from the sky,

Those smiles unto the moodiest mind
Their own pure joy impart;
Their sunshine leaves a glow behind
That lightens o'er the heart.

            The poem I saw thee weep written by Lord Byron (1788-1824) in 1815 textually pictures two facets of a character providing a magnificent description of the beauty in each side. In addition, the story is involved in a fresh setting in which the telling takes place and makes the reader evoke imaginarily nature.

On the one hand, the author creates a metaphor to compare a retained tear, as the drops of dew are held in a plant of violent in order to reveal the sad side of the character; the color of the eyes are also mentioned which provides an insight about the admiration for the character. In this part, it is highlighted the beauty even in the darkest and saddest moods of a character.

On the other hand, the atmosphere depicts the end of winter paving the way to spring as shown in the second stanza. The three remaining stanzas firstly present a drawing of the facet of happiness and rejoicing using imagery to symbolize how the sky and all the elements appearing on it can be compared with the character’s beauty, and emphasize in the smile of the character that is the most highlighted part of this side of the character’s mood. The glance is described as a distinguishable part of the personality as well.

The author intends to clearly manifest that such beauty can surely go beyond death and suggests that is eternal, unforgettable and can provide fortune for those who are lucky to contemplate that smile and face.

  

TRANSLATION OF THE POEM “AMOR ETERNO” BY GUSTAVO ADOLFO BÉCQUER

Amor eterno

Podrá nublarse el sol eternamente;
Podrá secarse en un instante el mar;

Podrá romperse el eje de la tierra
Como un débil cristal.

¡Todo sucederá! Podrá la muerte
Cubrirme con su fúnebre crespón;
Pero jamás en mí podrá apagarse
La llama de tu amor.

Eternal Love

The face of the sun may darken forever,

The oceans may run dry in an instant.

The axis spinning our planet may shatter

Like so much brittle crystal.

Yes, all of that shall happen! At the end, death

May cover me with her funeral shroud;

But none of it will reach within my soul and snuff

The bright flame of your love.

LITERARY ANALYSIS OF ETERNAL LOVE BY GUSTAVO ADOLFO BÉCQUER

            The poem Eternal Love was written by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, one of the most important authors of Romanticism. His most distinguishable work is entitled “Rimas” which this poem belongs to. The theme of the poem is love, endless love, love beyond death. It is a monologue, a unilateral declaration of love from the artist to the woman he loves. Even though the theme of love is wide, in this poem the author exclusively concentrates his attention on his own feeling and serves himself from using literary devices to highlight the qualities of his emotions.

            The author describes the love as something divine. He pretends to render the story somehow tragic, as if he could not live without it, as if it would be indispensable, essential. He states that it does not matter what happens, he will never be set apart from the love for his loved one not even if the sky darkens or if it eternally rains or if he dies.

With regards to the literary resources, it is present an anaphora in the first three lines where the word “may” is repeated creating a parallelism because the phrases have similar structures; additionally, personification is used to attribute characteristics to death as in “At the end, death may cover me with her funeral shroud”. As a conclusion, it is worth to claim that the poem is divided into two main parts: the first is the first and second stanzas in which some events unlikely to happen could happen and the second part is the third stanza in which the author clarifies that the previous situation will undoubtedly occur but without hindering his pure love.

LITERARY ANALYSIS OF I FEAR THY KISSES BY PERCY SHELLEY

I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden;
Thou needest not fear mine;
My spirit is too deeply laden
Ever to burden thine.
I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion;
Thou needest not fear mine;
Innocent is the heart’s devotion
With which I worship thine.

                This poem was written by the English poet Percy Shelley (1792-1822) in 1820 and posthumously published in 1824. The writing refers to a temerarious love since the character fears to harm his beloved maiden feeling himself as a lost person.

            In the first stanza, it can be observed from the letters that the character attempts to eschew that his beloved lady falls in the dark sides where he is because he textually traces his tempestuous emotions. The poem encompasses an environment surrounded by stormy concerns which impede the successful growth of the love.

            In the last stanza, the character faces strong aspects as reason and personality are but still claims to his woman to stay by his side. Besides, he describes how much he adores her and expresses the immensity of his love.

From my point of view, this is a clear exposition of feelings that someone has when he or she considers himself or herself as a bad person who will only cause damage, harm and unhappiness to the beloved person and plus that love exceeds any mind and reason until it extremely hurts.