After reading 'How Do I Love Thee?', I felt that the author's wholehearted feelings are palpable. The use of rhetoric elements convey the message so clearly that
we can almost 'see' and 'hear' the poet's feelings for her beloved. Even if it is not easy to put such an intense and abstract topic into words, the author succeeded to make it 'concrete'. Although the poem is
written in Old English, the message is crystal clear, since most of the expressions employed that are still used in English.
The colour
this poem suggests to me is
light pink, as the love she describes seems spiritual and profound, rather than only passional.
The images this evokes are: Two people holding hands, hugging or keeping a dialogue and a person in front of a fireplace, thinking melancholically. In the glog, I included the picture of a mountain and the sky above, since it represents that love can be infinite as the sky. Such an image also evokes the idea of heaven -life after death. A hand with a lot of words written on it and a notebook suggest the idea of love expressed via the written word.
I feel the videos of the beautiful songs 'And I Will Always Love You' by Whitney Houston and 'Love you Till the End', soundtrack of the film 'PS I Love You' suit this poem perfectly.
I feel the videos of the beautiful songs 'And I Will Always Love You' by Whitney Houston and 'Love you Till the End', soundtrack of the film 'PS I Love You' suit this poem perfectly.
As regards the prose fiction works we dealt with, H.D.I.L.T. reminds me of 'The Lagoon', since the Browning's poem represents Arsat's love both for his brother
–in some lines- and for his wife –in some others. Arsat keeps on lamenting the fact that he had abandoned his brother, but he does not seem sorry to protect Diamelen on the same night. When both these dear people pass away, he feels in the sunset of his life.
Beautiful is the first word that comes to mind. You have created a poster where everything stands in perfect harmony: colour, music, images and animation.
ReplyDeleteIt would be worth pursuing some of the uses of figurative language that you mention, eg "I love thee with a passion put to use/In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith./I love thee with a love I seemed to lose/With my lost saints"
We refer to the author as Barrett Browning to tell her apart from her husband Robert Browning.
NB: the poem is NOT written in Old English (that's Beowulf ) but uses Renaissance pronouns, thus creating a Biblical tone.