The Poor Singing Dame By Mary Robine Analysis

The Romantic Period lasted from 1785-1832. During this time, the Democratic Revolution in France launched, which was the French Revolution. This revolution caused and shaped the Romantic period to be political, social, and economic with all three drastic changes. During the Romantic Period, many authors wrote poems, with a lot of emotion of love, passion and strong messages that we can now relate with in this livelihood. The two works I selected to work with caught my attention because both poems showed a lot of suspense and were similar in various ways. The first poem I choose is “The Poor Singing Dame” by Mary Robinson while the second Poem is by an unknown author “The Daemon Lover”. Both authors illustrated Gothic elements with great …show more content…
In the poem, “The Poor Singing Dame”, the lord could not stand the Dame singing, so he ordered his men to prohibit the woman from singing, but she did not let the lord get the best of her so she continued to sing,” He sent his bold yeoman with threats to prevent her, and still would she carol her sweet roundelay”. However, the lord did not let the Dame let his power seem less, so the lord got in control and send her away to prison “Who bore her, all trembling, to prison away!” While the Dame was in prison, she became depressed and died of depression,” Three weeks did she languish, then died broken- hearted, Poor Dame”. The Lord did not kill her with his own hands but with his power. The poem ended with sorrow, the lord was buried, but no one displays any sadness of his death,” and the tomb of rich marble, no soft tear displaying”, but for the Dame there were actually people that cared for the Dame and cried for her death. The similarity of the poem, “The Poor Singing Dame” and the “The Daemon-lover” is the woman that left her family behind. Once she stepped into the boat she realized she had made a huge mistake, her former lover did not keep his word as he had promised, and the woman began to weep as he said, “O hold your tongue of your weeping”. Her former lover was evil just as the lord was evil to the Dame. This poem also ends with death, but not only did the former lover kills the woman with his hands he sank her in the …show more content…
We live in a world that has stopped caring for itself as well as loving. Each individual began to see other people’s lives thinking what the other individual that would make them happy, but it is sad because in this world one can only live happily once one starts believing in oneself. In my opinion, this is what each individual lacks in this world. People lack to notice happiness needs to be found within oneself, not in someone else’s wealth, not in one’s wealth, because money does not buy happiness. For example, the lord lived in misery and could not comprehend why the Dame was so happy if she lived in poverty. This caused the lord to hate the Dame only because he lived wealthier and was not happy therefore the Dame to be so happy the lord killed her. This is another strong message in one of the poems, killing another individuals happiness will not make one happy, but it will just cause more misery in one’s