Poem Essay

India Williams Mrs. Holzmeister English 1102 February 8, 2010 The Theme of fuck in Helen Farries Magic of Love and John Frederick Nims Love metrical composition The word Love is a distant feeling that potentiometer be one of the most exciting things individual will ever experience. Its a feeling of warm, personal intricate affection that one has for another person or thing. In Helen Farries song Magic of Love she is very straightforward about how love shambles someone feel It can comfort and bless/ it can bring gaiety (601). But in John Frederick Nims poem Love Poem he uses metaphors to talk about love and you have to pay rigorous attention to what he is saying.The theme of these ii poems is love and the opposing views of the creators views of love. Helen Farries gains the image of love being magical. Love can make people feel good make you feel bubbly and on the whole warm inside, like the sun, it can warm your hearts (601). She goes on to create an image that love i s a gift, one that you can give and receive, Its a gift you can give every daylight that you cognise/ And when given, it comes back to you (601). In John Frederick Nims poem he creates the picture of a clumsy person, My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases (601), but people still fulfill her beauty.Even though she is very clumsy he loves her anyway. In the premier(prenominal) stanza of the poem you start to believe that maybe this poem isnt talking about love because of how he describes her as a bull in china and a bur in linen (601). Just when you think the poem isnt about love, he changes directions and give her some praise, The refugee shy at the door/ You make at home deftly you becalm/ The drunk clambering on his undulant floor (601). He loves her in spite of her flaws. In Magical Love, Farries uses informal style.She uses plain, common, everyday kind of language that we on the whole can understand. There are no riddles to try to decipher or to understand t he meaning When love lights the way, there is joy in the day (601). In Nims Love Poem he uses formal diction. With formal diction the poem comes across, as it should. He is seen as almost arrogant. He can do no wrong but his lovely lady has a lot of flaws but nonetheless he loves her in spite of them. He uses metaphors, In traffic of wit expertly maneuver/ And keep us, all devotion, at your knees (602) to get his point across.In both of these poems the common dirt is Love. One-poem talks directly about how magical love makes you feel, and the other indirectly talks about love. They both say the same thing in two different ways. All the ups and down makes love between two people very beautiful. Works Cited Farries, Helen. Magic of Love. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Micheal Meyer. eighth ed. capital of Massachusetts Bedford/ St. Martins, 2009. 601. Nims, John Frederick, Love Poem. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Micheal Meyer. 8th ed. Bos ton Bedford/ St. Martins 2009. 601-602.