In both of the poems “ The Blessed Damozel” from Rosetti and “The Raven” From Edgar Allen Poe one can see a common theme. In both poems the principal characters are kind of sad and lonely because they lose the love of their life by death. Apart from this the poems are really different.
In “The Raven”, on a December night the central character is in his bedroom when he hears a sound. He thought the sound was coming from his door, but when he opens the door he doesn’t find anything. Then he begins to think that this could be his lover, Lenora. He begins to be afraid of the idea that his lover could come back for him. When he returns to his room he hears the sound again. This time he thinks it is at his window. When he opens his window a big black raven comes into his room, and perches on the top of his door. When he thinks that this could be his love he gets really scared. He asks the raven to go away. It seems that he is not comfortable with the idea of having his love come back in this way afterall.
This is a difference between both poems. In “The Blessed Damozel” we see that the principal character wants her love back after she looses him. She keeps asking why she cannot be with him. Towards the end of the poem she starts to feel better because she realizes that she doesn’t need to be next to him to feel close to him. She feels that when she dies she will find him and be with him in heaven.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
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