When You Are Old Comparison

Love is such a weird feeling, it can be happy, it can be sad, it can be an extremely hard work. Everyone has experienced love, and it is a typical emotion that people express under writings. The two poems “To E” by Sara Teasdale and “When You Are Old” by W.B. Yeats both show that love is to learn how to appreciate the one you like; by using warm, peaceful dictions that give the reader a positive, happy mood, both authors expressed their feelings to their loved ones, however, Teasdale uses more personification , while Yeats uses more hyperbole. Different directions create different images in the reader's brain. For example, in “To E”, the author says, “Then like the sun your sweetness overcame / My shy and shadowy mood…” () Teasdale is using dictions like “the sun” or “sweetness” to describe that the one she likes is like sunlight, warm, lively, that can even enliven her bad mood. This is important because of the positive connotations that give a heavier flavor of love from the deep of the speaker's heart. While in “When You Are Old”, Yeats states “But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face” The author uses words like “pilgrim soul” to describe how pure and beautiful the speaker think she is. This matters because it creates a soft, quiet mood for the readers when we read the …show more content…
Yeats have well-used literary devices through their writings. The personification Teasdale uses, the hyperbole Yeats creates, and the positive dictions and connotations both poets applies, all made the poems flow lightly with the sweetness of love. In our own writings, it is also important to use literary devices, when we think about love ones, there are way more good things out from the poems we can say, just like that, the boring text can have some spices that make it colorful and appealing