Comparing Poems First Love, Amen and Porphyrias Lover :: English Literature

Comparing Poems introductory Love, Amen and Porphyrias LoverFirst love is a numbers describing when a valet falls in love for the originaltime.This poem is very well worded, with similes and adjectives. Itdescribes how love takes over everything your mind, your body, yoursoul. It hits you like a bullet, and stops you dead.I neer was stuck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet.The poet describes at the beginning how he first noticed the womansbeauty, and how at each second he gazed at her, the more mesmerisingshe became.Her breast it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my boldness outsidecomplete.In a way, I think that the poet is trying to convince us that love iscapable at first sight. He uses clever spoken communication and phrasing to make surewe are convinced.Still in the first stanza, he describes how the sighed of this womanfroze him in his tracks. His muscles tensed, and his face lost colour.My face glowering pale as deadly pale, my legs refused to walk away.Love drew him to a stop. In a way, thats what I think the poet istrying to do. Hes trying to draw a picture of the uncomfortablefeelings and so forth I also think hes done a good job.In the second stanza, it explains what happened after he looked away.He draw it as he could not see anything, as the love had coverhis eyes. He also explains how the transmission line suddenly rushes back into hisface.And then my blood rushed to my face and I took my sight away. Thetrees and bushed round the clothe seemed midnight at noonday.In the second half of the second stanza, he talks of the joy heexperienced from this sudden rush of love. He makes it that his core groupbegan to sing.I could not see a single thing, words from my heart did start theyspoke as chords do from the string and blood burned-over around my heart.In the last stanza, he talks about how he left his heart with her onthat last day, and it never returned.Amen can be compared to First Love as more confusing and not asr omantic. It is written in a different style, with different wording.Each meter starts with a question It is over. What is over? It isfinished. What is finished? It suffices. What suffices?It is hard to say whether this poem is about love itself, or her lovefor something, or even a love that shes lost.Reading the first stanza three times do me realise the poem is about