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A Comparison between Three Pre-1900 Poems and How They Portray the Theme of Love.
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Pre-1900 Love Poetry Coursework RevisionCentral.co.uk A Comparison between Three Pre-1900 Poems and How They Portray the Theme of Love This essay is going to explore how three poems portray love in different ways. The first poem is "First Love" and it was written by John Clare. He had a poor background and therefore had no hope of marrying the daughter of a rich man. He tries to convey this situation in this poem and so, love comes across as being a very frustrating and almost unpleasant emotion. "First Love" has a regular rhyme scheme of four rhyming couplets in each of its three stanzas. "Shall I compare thee...?" is the second poem to be studied and it is one of Shakespeare's Sonnets. It portrays a very positive side of love, with an overall theme of it being eternal. Shakespeare wrote many sonnets like this, all containing fourteen lines with ten syllables in each. The...
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