Poetry is a writing style that is used to an expression of feels and ideas. It has some has a patterned rhythm to it, and others are free verse. Poems are used to tell a story, tell history, feelings, convey meanings, what the narrative sees, and more. Poems have nature of elements in them like in songs and also have a meaning that author what to share in their works. All poems have its differences and similarities to them. For example Edgar Allan Poe 's poem "Annabel Lee" and Mary Sidney Wroth 's "In this Strange Labyrinth." I am going to compare and contrast these two poems. A first glance both are excellent poems but are real differences with a little similarity. When analysis a person work it starts by who is the author and what style they
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The labyrinth is a symbol as a maze of love and life. It also implies that it is the myth of Theseus and Minotaur in the title and the comparison found throughout the poem. The Labyrinth is where the Minotaur lives, and death was the result to everybody who enters the maze. The sonnet tells a story of a woman 's struggle to make choices regarding love and also revolutionizes the topic of an abusive romance. At the beginning of the poem, it hints at the meaning life and the unpredictability of it. The speaker is fighting with the choices she makes and can not rest because of it. She tries to find it in the best way: "Go forward, or stand still, or back retire;/ I must these doubts endure without allay. Or help, but travail finds for my best hire" (Wroth 10-11). She has numerous choices, but every last one of them is confusing and leaves her feeling …show more content…
Even the authors were similar in wanted to write like the other writers in their period. They have broken the traditional style. Their poems were about love in the sense of it confuse and wanted it. Everybody intends to be in love and feel it for someone else. Poe wrote about love as an intense emotion that even young people felt and did not want to give up so the speaker in his poem. Would image Annabel is still with him and he can not move on from her. Worth 's poem is similar like will the used of the labyrinth, that the speaker is a trap in this relationship because love she has for him. Poe 's work is mainly about not stop being in love with someone even death. About the people who would life alone and die in a few months or years after the person that they love die. They die to reconnect with that person. Both poems speaker are the opposite sex; Poe 's is a man, and Wroth 's is a woman. In his poem "Annabel Lee," Poe comprehends the use of symbolism, imagery, and rhyme, which communicate an obsession of love with a death woman. Wroth 's uses the poem 's title and its association with the myth, symbolism, and structure to deliver her message about the tortures of love. They are different in the delivery in but similar sharing the dark side of
The labyrinth is a symbol as a maze of love and life. It also implies that it is the myth of Theseus and Minotaur in the title and the comparison found throughout the poem. The Labyrinth is where the Minotaur lives, and death was the result to everybody who enters the maze. The sonnet tells a story of a woman 's struggle to make choices regarding love and also revolutionizes the topic of an abusive romance. At the beginning of the poem, it hints at the meaning life and the unpredictability of it. The speaker is fighting with the choices she makes and can not rest because of it. She tries to find it in the best way: "Go forward, or stand still, or back retire;/ I must these doubts endure without allay. Or help, but travail finds for my best hire" (Wroth 10-11). She has numerous choices, but every last one of them is confusing and leaves her feeling …show more content…
Even the authors were similar in wanted to write like the other writers in their period. They have broken the traditional style. Their poems were about love in the sense of it confuse and wanted it. Everybody intends to be in love and feel it for someone else. Poe wrote about love as an intense emotion that even young people felt and did not want to give up so the speaker in his poem. Would image Annabel is still with him and he can not move on from her. Worth 's poem is similar like will the used of the labyrinth, that the speaker is a trap in this relationship because love she has for him. Poe 's work is mainly about not stop being in love with someone even death. About the people who would life alone and die in a few months or years after the person that they love die. They die to reconnect with that person. Both poems speaker are the opposite sex; Poe 's is a man, and Wroth 's is a woman. In his poem "Annabel Lee," Poe comprehends the use of symbolism, imagery, and rhyme, which communicate an obsession of love with a death woman. Wroth 's uses the poem 's title and its association with the myth, symbolism, and structure to deliver her message about the tortures of love. They are different in the delivery in but similar sharing the dark side of