In the poem Marrysong, Dennis Scott presents an unconventional relationship between the speaker and his wife, a woman so complicated and fluctuating that he has to persevere hard in order to “learn” her constantly changing moods, something that he inevitably cannot do. However, in Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare successfully presents a conventional love between the speaker and his partner, who’s beauty and love from the speaker is endless and timeless.
In Marrysong, Scott compares the speaker’s wife to nature to highlight his wife’s fluctuating personality and her instantaneous mood swings. The use of “without seasons, shifted” suggests the unpredictable mood of the wife as seasons implies a sense of regularity as there are 4 distinct seasons in a year. However, by mentioning “shifted” without these seasons, this connotes to her constantly changing moods and personality and the speaker is perplexed as he “never quite learned her”. The sense of being lost is further emphasized when he says “Roads disappeared” as roads and maps are associated with guidance and direction. In addition, the poet uses “walled anger” and “cool water laughing” where “walled” implies a sense of confinement and restriction but is contrasted with “water” as water is free-flowing and is not restricted. Due to the contrast of “anger” and “laughing”, when these …show more content…
In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare shows the speaker’s joy of being deeply in love with his partner and that all beauty will perish except for his partner by using the shimmering summer to compare his partner to. However, in Marrysong, Scott uses nature to present the speaker as being bewildered, annoyed and confused of his wife but also his wife, as a complex but a strong character as she is uncontrollable leading the speaker to only accept her diverse and changing “geography”, showing true
In Marrysong, Scott compares the speaker’s wife to nature to highlight his wife’s fluctuating personality and her instantaneous mood swings. The use of “without seasons, shifted” suggests the unpredictable mood of the wife as seasons implies a sense of regularity as there are 4 distinct seasons in a year. However, by mentioning “shifted” without these seasons, this connotes to her constantly changing moods and personality and the speaker is perplexed as he “never quite learned her”. The sense of being lost is further emphasized when he says “Roads disappeared” as roads and maps are associated with guidance and direction. In addition, the poet uses “walled anger” and “cool water laughing” where “walled” implies a sense of confinement and restriction but is contrasted with “water” as water is free-flowing and is not restricted. Due to the contrast of “anger” and “laughing”, when these …show more content…
In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare shows the speaker’s joy of being deeply in love with his partner and that all beauty will perish except for his partner by using the shimmering summer to compare his partner to. However, in Marrysong, Scott uses nature to present the speaker as being bewildered, annoyed and confused of his wife but also his wife, as a complex but a strong character as she is uncontrollable leading the speaker to only accept her diverse and changing “geography”, showing true