The Comparison of "Man Alone" and " The Definition of Love" by Sarah Hoffeditz

The Comparison of "Man Alone" and " The Definition of Love" by Sarah Hoffeditz https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c en-us 2017-02-23 15:54:08 UTC 2023-04-10 19:59:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Man Alone 3567 https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/155790549 By: Louise Bogan

It is yourself you seek

In a long rage,

Scanning through light and darkness

Mirrors, the page,

Where should reflected be

Those eyes and that thick hair,

That passionate look, that laughter.

You should appear

Within the book, or doubled,

Freed, in the silvered glass;

Into all other bodies

Yourself should pass.

The glass does not dissolve;

Like walls the mirrors stand;

The printed page gives back

Words by another hand.

And your infatuate eye

Meets not itself below;

Strangers lie in your arms

As I lie now.

]]> 2017-02-23 15:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/155790549 The Definition of Love 3567 https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/155791215 By: Andrew Marvell
My love is of a birth as rare

As ’tis for object strange and high;

It was begotten by Despair

Upon Impossibility.

Magnanimous Despair alone

Could show me so divine a thing

Where feeble Hope could ne’er have flown,

But vainly flapp’d its tinsel wing.

And yet I quickly might arrive

Where my extended soul is fixt,

But Fate does iron wedges drive,

And always crowds itself betwixt.

For Fate with jealous eye does see

Two perfect loves, nor lets them close;

Their union would her ruin be,

And her tyrannic pow’r depose.

And therefore her decrees of steel

Us as the distant poles have plac’d,

(Though love’s whole world on us doth wheel)

Not by themselves to be embrac’d;

Unless the giddy heaven fall,

And earth some new convulsion tear;

And, us to join, the world should all

Be cramp’d into a planisphere.

As lines, so loves oblique may well

Themselves in every angle greet;

But ours so truly parallel,

Though infinite, can never meet.

Therefore the love which us doth bind,

But Fate so enviously debars,

Is the conjunction of the mind,

And opposition of the stars.

]]> 2017-02-23 16:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/155791215 The speaker 3567 https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/155792021 Both of us believed that the speaker was displayed as a man. This man in both poems seemed to have a negative experience with love. One lost his woman to another man and the other was because it was fate that he lost her.
For example, In the "Man Alone"
"And your infatuate eye" This tells us that the lover was in love with the man, but has lost interest in him and began to go off with other men. Meaning they could never be together. In the poem " The Definition of Love"
" Two perfect loves, nor lets them close;
Their union would her ruin be," This shows that the speaker may have had her once, but fate didn't allow them to be together. ]]> 2017-02-23 16:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/155792021 Tone 3530 https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/155793331 The pessimistic tone the speaker conveys towards love. In both poems love has not worked out for either speaker. Either due to the world and fate not allowing them to be together or the speaker's lover not allowing them to work out. They have been both wronged by love and do believe it is very important, but they are fearful of it.

"Man Alone"
"It is yourself you seek

In a long rage,

Scanning through light and darkness

Mirrors, the page,"
This stanza describes his love for this woman as going through light and darkness trying to discover the happy parts of his love even though it is cased over by darkness. He seems very unsure and like his love will not work out, being very pessimistic hopes towards her.

"Definition of Love"
"My love is of a birth as rare

As ’tis for object strange and high;

It was begotten by Despair

Upon Impossibility. "

In the very first stanza the speaker is already pessimistic about love. He even goes to say his love is impossible. He does not believe he will ever find a love as great and perfect as this one because the world is against them being together.

]]> 2017-02-23 16:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/155793331 Personification 3567 https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/155797552 Both of these poems are personified.
The "Man Alone" is personified through the mirror. The mirror signifies the beauty and yet that the mirror stands in the way. How the man can see that she isn't in love with him, but he has this wall which traps him. Keeping him with ever truly being with this woman.

"The Definition of Love"

Hope and fate are personified as if they are human and that they have an upper hand over this man's love for this woman. He personifies that hope and fate have physical power over him and his love. " But Fate does iron wedges drive," Shows us that "Fate" titled as being a name or as if as a person. ]]> 2017-02-23 16:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/155797552 Diction 3530 https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/156048718 Both poems have a very negative diction used to describe their feelings towards their love lives. One of the poems, "Man Alone," uses negative diction to show his unhappiness and remorse against his lover who is unfaithful. In "Definition of Love," the speaker uses the negative diction to show his despair towards never being with his love, because of the forces against him. Both poems use negative diction to describe the forces keeping them for being happy with their loves, whether it is the world or others.

"Definition of Love"
" Despair, Impossibility, iron wedges drive, "

The author uses the words "Despair" and "Impossibility" to describe he is not hopeful of finding his true love. "Despair" and "Impossibility" are very strong words that are unwavering. It makes his fate seem destined to happen and nothing can change.

"Man Alone"
"It is yourself you seek

In a long rage"

"Long" and "Rage" describe the narrator's feelings towards his lover and their situation. "Rage" is also a string word that describes how angry he is. I believe the author chose this, because it is a step up from angry. Rage seems more of a verb in the sentence it is used in, showing an actual action. Using "long" shows it is not a short downfall in their relationship but one that can not be fixed and may be forever.

]]> 2017-02-24 15:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/156048718 3567 https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/156051643 2017-02-24 15:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/156051643 Theme 3530 https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/156306884 The theme in both, "Man Alone" and "Definition of Love" is that love is very hard and many things can stand in the way of you and your lover's happiness. Whether it is your lover's downfalls and "infatuate eye" for others or if "Fate" will not allow the two lovers together. They both explore things bigger than just ones love for another, and the power of putting keeping them apart.]]> 2017-02-27 03:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/3567/kjk0t232k69c/wish/156306884