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