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

Comparing Poems First discern, Amen and Porphyrias LoverFirst love is a poem describing when a part falls in love for the firsttime.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 all(prenominal) second he gazed at her, the more mesmerisingshe became.Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart awaycomplete.In a way, I think that the poet is trying to convince us that love iscapable at first sight. He uses clever words and phrasing to make surewe be 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 turned 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 uneasyfeelings etc. I also think hes done a good job.In the second stanza, it explains what happened after he looked away.He set forth it as he could not see anything, as the love had coveredhis eyes. He also explains how the blood suddenly rushes back into hisface.And then my blood speed to my face and I took my sight away. Thetrees and bushed round the place 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 heartbegan to sing.I could not see a single thing, words from my heart did start theyspoke as chords do from the string and blood burnt around my heart.In the live 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 asromantic. It is written in a diverse style, with different wording. Each verse 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 so a love that shes lost.Reading the first stanza three times made me realise the poem is about