According to American poet, Paul Engle, “Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.” Therefore, poetry is art that can capture a mood. However, in a more technical terms, poetry uses meter, rhythm, and rhetorical strategies to convey a story, and can rhyme but does not have to. Even though this is a broad definition, it is still able to describe the essence of poem. Through this definition, it is evident that Henry Howard's Alas, So All Things Now do Hold Their Peace is better than Henry Howard's A Lover’s Vow, even though both poems are well written.
In the first poem, A Lover’s Vow by Henry Howard, Howard conveys the strength of love between two people. Throughout the poem, Howard uses extreme …show more content…
Throughout the beginning of the poem, the author describes the peaceful world he lives in. Then, the speaker reveals that he is not at peace, like his surroundings. The author says, “ Of my desires, whereat I weep and sing,” and he is describes being tortured by love. This torture causes conflicting emotions, therefore the author must realize the joy and the pain of love. Within the poem the author says, “the cause of my disease,” which is a play on words. This line means both that his love causes his disease and also his dis-ease, or lack of ease. In the last line, “To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.” There is a sexual overtone, because the world thing suggests something explicit, and how the absence of that thing causes pain. Overall, this intelligently exposes the flaws of men when compared with nature because the foolish male is out of synch with the rest of the world. While all of of god's other creations are enjoying peace, the man is tortured, distraught, and left wanting
In the first poem, A Lover’s Vow by Henry Howard, Howard conveys the strength of love between two people. Throughout the poem, Howard uses extreme …show more content…
Throughout the beginning of the poem, the author describes the peaceful world he lives in. Then, the speaker reveals that he is not at peace, like his surroundings. The author says, “ Of my desires, whereat I weep and sing,” and he is describes being tortured by love. This torture causes conflicting emotions, therefore the author must realize the joy and the pain of love. Within the poem the author says, “the cause of my disease,” which is a play on words. This line means both that his love causes his disease and also his dis-ease, or lack of ease. In the last line, “To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.” There is a sexual overtone, because the world thing suggests something explicit, and how the absence of that thing causes pain. Overall, this intelligently exposes the flaws of men when compared with nature because the foolish male is out of synch with the rest of the world. While all of of god's other creations are enjoying peace, the man is tortured, distraught, and left wanting