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诗歌分析
Today we are going to analyse and compare a poem of Sylvia Plath, name Love Letter, written over the 1960, and a poem of Ted Hughes, Love Song. The main topic of both poems is the same: love, but Plath and Hughes talk about love in a different way.
Firstly, we are going to analyse Love Letter. It is named like this because it is the letter of a woman in love to her lover. It is written in first person, the poem expresses the feelings and experiences of the speaker (If I’m alive now, the I was edad, verse 2). The poem is structured in four stanzas. The first and the fourth stanzas have eight verses, and the second and the fourth stanzas have ten verses.
In the first stanza the speakar tells the reader not only how she feels in that moment, but how she felt before. She feels that before loving him she was dead, and he has brought her to life. She even did not care how she was (Though, like a stone, unbothered by it/ Staying put according to habit, verses 3 and 4), but he has helped to live with happiness (You didn’t just tow me an inch, verse 5; nor leaver me to set my small blad eye/ skyward again, withoout hope, verses 6 and 7).
In the second stanza Plath explains haw she felt, she looked like a dead, between dead people (a snake/ Masked among black rocks as a black rock, verse 9 and 10). The angels tried to wake her up, but they could not convince her (Angels weeping over dull naturees/But didn’t convince me. Those tears froze, verses 16 and 17).
In the third stanza, the speaker suddenly wakes up and sees what she was (Many stones lay/Dense and expressionlessround about, verses 22 and 23). Now she knows the truth because she has met him.
In the fourth stanza, Plath expresses the way that she felt after knowing him. She really feels that she is reborning, he feels like she is growing (My finger length grew lucent as glass./ I started to bud like a March twig:/An arm and a leg, and arm, a leg, verses 30, 31 and 32). She feels very good, like a god (Now I resemble a sort of good, verse 34), all because of his love.
This poem is, as we have said before, a letter from Sylvia Plath to her lover, where she tells him what he has done for her. He has saved her. When Plath says that she was dead before knowing him, she refers to her continuous periods of depression. The angels that she name in the poem could be her family and friends, who wanted her to heal her depression. They wanted, but they couldn’t help her. We could state reading this poem that her lover, Ted Hughes, was the medicine that she needed.
Now we are going to analyse Lovesong. The poem has this title because the poem it is like a song. The poem is structured in six stanzas. The first stanza has seven verses; the second, eight verses; the third twenty-three; the fourth and the fifth, two verses ech one, and the sixth stanza has only one verse. The poem is written in third person, the author is telling the reader something the probably he has not experienced. He narrates the story of two lovers.
In the first stanza, the speaker describes the physical attraction of the lovers (His kisses sucked out her whole past and future ar tried to, verse 2; She bit him she gnawed him she sucked, verse 4). They have a great sexual attraction, and they need each other, in order to feel safe and sure (She wanted him complete inside her/ Safe and sure forever and ever, verses 5 and 6).
In the second stanza, the speaker carries on describing their love, but now he goes deeply in the need of the lovers for being together(Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows, verse 9; He wanted to topple with his arms round her, verse 13). In this stanza we can observe that their love is not only physical attraction, but affection.
In the third stanza Hughes describes, as in all the poem, actions that do not seem as lovely as in the first two stanzas. The author describes here a sort of war (Her laughs were an assassin’s attempts/His looks were bullets daggers of revenge, verse 23 and 24). The violence that we can feel in the text, the violent action that Hughes describes here could be interpreted as the sexual intercourse of the lovers, with the screams at he end of the stanza that could be the climax of the act, the orgasms of the lovers (Their screams stuck in the wall, verse 39).
In the fourth and fith stanzas, the attack that the speaker narrates in the third stanza has finished and the lovers are sleeping. The sexual act has finished and they need to rest. They have shown everything to each other and now they understand perfectly each other (Their heads fell apart into sleep like the the two halves, verse 40; In their dreams their brains took each other hostage, verse 42).
In the final stanza, the author tells the reader the result of everything he has told, everything the lovers have experienced: the lovers has become one (In the morning they wore each other’s face, verse 44). They know each other so perfectly that they could be the other and don’t notice.
If we have to compare both poems, we can observe that they are very different. Firstly, the poem of Sylvia Plath is written in first person, and Hughes wrote his poem in the third person, since his poem is more objective whereas the poem of Plath is more subjetive, she is involved in the text, in the text are her feelings and her experiences. Love Letter is a poem about emotions. Lovesong is a poem about emotions, too, but Love Letter is only about the emotions of the mind and soul Plath, and Lovesong deals with the physical feelings, too, and he expresses the emotions of both lovers, not as the poem of Plath, which tells the emotions of the reader and does not tell the emotions of the lover, she just claims her love for him and that he is her salvation. Hughes does not speak in his poem about salvation, he expresses what the lovers are feeling in that moment, not in the past or in the future.
We could say that the poem of Plath is woman’s poetry, but we will not, because we should take into account that Plath was a woman who suffered continuous depressions, and that maybe Hughes was the solution to her problems, so we should consider her personal life, not her gender. With regards to Lovesong, personally, I say that this poem could be written by anybody who has loved or wanted somebody. It reflects a love relationship between two people.
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