Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Poems - Coggle Diagram
Poems
-
A Complaint
-
Likely about his changing friendship with samual taylor coleridge, another famouse Romantic poet
Written in 1807 by William Wordsworth, a key poet of the Romantic movement
Key literary techniques
Metaphor of water as love - words worth compares his past love/friendship to a "fountain" suggesting flowing abundant motion.
-
Neutral tones
Context
-
-
-
The tital Neutral Tones, suggests emptiness lack of emotion and lifeness setting the poems mood
-
Sonnet 43
Context
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43 ("How do I love thee?Let me count the ways.") is one of the most famous love poems
in English literature. It comes from her collection Sonnets from the Portuguese, which she wrote for her husband, the poet
-
Key figurative devices
-
Simile and Metaphor: Love is compared to everyday things, such as "the level of everyday’s most quiet need," showing thatove is natural and necessary.
Religious Imagery: The poet compares her love to spiritual
faith and describes it as pure and infinite.
-
-
Valentine
Context
unconventional love poem that rejects traditional romantic clichés. Instead of comparing love to roses or chocolates, the speaker uses an onion as a metaphor for love, showing its complexity, intensity, and even pain
Valentine challenges traditional ideas of love, making it a fresh and thought-provoking poem. It explores love as something deep and intense rather than just sweet and romantic.
Figurative Devices
Extended Metaphor: The onion represents love—its layers symbolize depth, its strong scent lingers like memories, and it can cause pain.
Rejection of Cliché: The poem rejects traditional symbols of love
(roses, chocolates) in favor of something more truthful.
Imagery: Words like "tears," "grief," and "fierce kiss" create
strong, emotional images.
Direct Address: The speaker talks directly to their partner, making
the poem feel personal.
-