I am going to study three love poems. The first one is called First Lov

I am going to study three love poems. The first one is called First Love by John Clare How does poet’s writing before 1900 use language to write about different types of love? Consider three love poems, two of which must be by the same poet. In this piece of coursework I am going to study three love poems. The first one is called â€Å"First Love† by John Clare; this poem is a very simple, sweet poem about a mans first love of his life. The second is called â€Å"My Last Duchess† by Robert Browning; this poem is about the Duke telling his servant about his last wife, this poem is a poem about obsessive love. The third poem is called â€Å"Porphyria’s Lover† also by Robert Browning; this poem is about a man being suspicious enough to murder his love with her hair. This poem is a psychotic poem. Throughout this coursework I will be investigating the poem’s vocabulary, structure and imagery. Firstly, I am going to explore the poems vocabulary. The vocabulary in â€Å"First Love† by John Clare is very simplistic and sweet, much like what you would find in a valentines card. The nouns found in this poem, like ‘flower’ is just one example of the simplicity that this poem has in it. Even simple adjectives have been included in this poem; there are more words to describe other than â€Å"pale†, more complex words could have been used. Clare could have used words like bloodless or cadaverous which are more complex but mean the same as pale. Although the vocabulary in â€Å"First Love† is very simple the vocabulary in â€Å"My Last Duchess† is a lot more obsessive. In the poem Clare put forward that no one else has seen the portrait â€Å"strangers never read that painted countenance† plus he had a very negative view over the entire positive th... ...bulary, structure and imagery. The vocabulary in â€Å"First Love† is very simplistic and sweet, whereas the vocabulary in â€Å"My Last Duchess† is a lot more obsessive and in â€Å"Porphyria’s lover† the vocabulary is possessive. The sentence structure in â€Å"First Love† is very short and simple but in â€Å"My Last Duchess† the structure shows the obsessive and jealous love given. Whereas in â€Å"Porphyria’s Lover† the sentence structure shows a psychopathic and menacing love. The imagery in â€Å"First Love† is saying simple and innocent love but in â€Å"Porphyria’s Lover the imagery is saying paranoid and psychopathic love. There is not much imagery to comment on in â€Å"My Last Duchess†. I prefer â€Å"Porphyria’s Lover† to â€Å"First Love† and â€Å"My Last Duchess† because it is possessive and enjoyable because it has lots of use of imagery which makes it interesting to read though and investigate.