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Unseen Poetry A* Essay- It has been said that Rossetti's poem is conventional and celebratory, whereas Millay's poem offers a very different view of love. Compare and contrast the presentation of love in the following poems in the light of this comm$3.98
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Unseen Poetry A* Essay- It has been said that Rossetti's poem is conventional and celebratory, whereas Millay's poem offers a very different view of love. Compare and contrast the presentation of love in the following poems in the light of this comm
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Unseen poetry essay written about A Birthday by Rossetti and Love is not all, (Sonnet XXX) by Millay- A* Grade. Both poems proceed the essay on this document. It is recommended to print and annotate the poems, with the question focus in mind, before reading the example essay. This will allow you to...
It has been said that Rossetti’s poem is conventional and celebratory, whereas
Millay’s poem offers a very different view of love.
Compare and contrast the presentation of love in the following poems in light of this
comment
A Birthday
Christina Rossetti (1857)
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Love is not all, (Sonnet XXX)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1931)
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
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