Discovering Themes In Poetry

IntroductionPoetry at its deepest level, communicates unspeakable aspects of hu military man experience. It is mans greatest invention a channel wherein he gains the power to manage words to better express his thoughts and feelings. It has the unique ability to delve profoundly in all topics imaginable, with which language be fixs the media for translation and portrayal, offering an image of a world perceived and delivered through curt and descriptive words.Poets may punt a variety of foots, with all probability that each i may create literary pieces having the equal beginning. Edna St. Vincent Millays What Lips My Lips Have Kissed written on 1923 and Dorothy Parkers Review of the Sex Situation both touched the theme on love. What made each of their works unique and set apart from single a nonher is the poets proscribedlook towards the subject.Similarity of the Poems AnalyzedMillay and Parkers verses both divulge a drab conclusion on love brought about by a series of uns uccessful attempts on relationships. Contrary to what is implicated in Millays What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, the poem does not implicate romance and sum-warming recollections of past relationships. It duologue about a muliebrity constantly falling in and out of love and had come to realize that love is an elusive thing I cannot say what loves devote come and g ane, I scarce bonk that pass sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.The stomach line implies resignation, a phrase which seems to have accepted that there is postal code more for me in this thing called love. Summer passed her by, indicating her chances of finding her bosoms desire had come to pass as well. Further on, the uttermost(a) three lines implies either that she has aged and finding a man who impart want her has become beyond probable or her centre of attention has prominent tired from flinging from one man to another and finding them vanished one by one. Parker on the other hand, seemed to be wary whether love will still bring dangerous to her when she said With this gist and sum of it, What temporal good can come out of it?Knowing that love is an dubious and fleeting feeling, the possibility of loving someone only brings about grief and pain. Love does not serve its purpose when it only breeds grief and unjustifiable loyalty. What other purpose does love serve past given the view? Love, according to the two poets, just seems to come and go and holding on to it and instilling in the consciousness that Love is womans lunar month and sun (Parker) will only be futile and will only cause more sad recollections and nakedness when in the winter stands the solitary(a) tree(Millay).Parker and Millays sad conclusion on love was anchored on mans fleeting emotions. Love, as Parker said, is womans corn liquor and sun yet, man delights in novelty and when woman views man as her lord, count to ten, and man is bored. Despite showing the man how frequently the woman loves him, he seems to be discontented and will grow dig of the relationship. He goes from one relationship to another, unconsciously leaving each woman behind, sad and broken hearted. Parker portrayed man as a soul discontented and never easily satisfied having one woman beside him. This then lead her to questioning whether love can still be good when man, as a partaker of love, is hardly satisfied with one. Millay seemed to have suffered from mans uncanny ability to change heart in a short time, as a matter of fact, she had experienced quite a few of them when she opened her poem thus What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and when and why, I have forgotten, and what implements of war have lain under my head till morning just now in the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again exit deal to me at midnight with a cry.The reader may convey a different image fro m what Millay narrated about her experiences. But the stirring in her heart proved it otherwise. The woman is clearly longing and looking for a consecutive love, yet from all the men she had encountered, she appeared to have been used. It is an under command that she easily responds to men who turn to her at midnight and cry hoping that in each man, there might be one who real loves her and will stay. Millays experience is a bridle of what Parker is saying when she concluded men to be easily bored and glad in novelty.Point of Difference Found in the PoemsWhile both poets shared the same sad acknowledgement on love, the tone of the poem marked the engagement with which each poet conveyed their message to their reader. Millay tells of a woman who constantly fall in and out of love and had come in full realization that not one of them really stayed long for her to rememberI have forgotten, what arms have lain under my head in the morning. In the end, the poem speaks of loneliness and longing, even regret for something that will never be fulfilled loves has come and gonesummer that sang in mesings no more.She likened each of her encounters to seasons and days, signifying her sadness and brief happiness as well as the gnawing loneliness as she discovered that summer ceased to sing to her. She uses strong and descriptive words that truly showed her feelings. The word vanished implied lost forever and with this she felt lonely. Each element of record that Millay used rain, ghosts in the night, midnight with a cry, winter and summer amplified the strength of her longings and regrets.Parker on the one hand, is a woman who had a full grasp of the candor concerning man-woman relationship and the irony that exists between them. Her poems tone is that of sardonic and sarcastic, though, as a woman she still felt wary of what that realization on men implicated. Still, this made her poem less emotional than that of Millay scorn the gravity of the message of her poe m. Her curt portrayal of man and womans difference is to a point laughable yet contemplative it makes one think for a while and comes to examine the validity of the poets claim. pull down her concluding statement became less melodramatic With this gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?While Millays concluding statement I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more,divulged resignation and loneliness, Parkers seemed to challenge her women readers to ponder on the truth of her claim. though the impact of the question is sad in that it shows love as unwieldy and unreliable, it does not invoke a feeling of pity or grief. Her poems tone is light and humorous yet very reflective.ConclusionThe theme love is indeed a very broad topic. It covers vast align of situations conceivable in mans day to day experiences from sad to hatred born from deceitful love forbidden love when one or two people disagr ees with the relationship unrequited love, when only one person experiences the feeling loneliness when one does not find the set one and mockery when one seems to have lost faith in love. It can also be love of parents to child, friend to another and forgiving to animals. Discovering varied themes in poetry is indeed very trying for though it constitutes one value, it is further broken down to specific categories whichever it is that the poet find notional and relevant.