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

empennagevass Poems First Love, Amen and Porphyrias LoverFirst hunch is a poem describing when a man falls in love for the firsttime.This poem is real 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 sharp and so sweet.The poet describes at the beginning how he first noticed the fair sexsbeauty, and how at each second he gazed at her, the more mesmerisingshe became.Her feel it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my tit awaycomplete.In a way, I think that the poet is attempt to impel us that love iscapable at first sight. He uses knowing wrangling 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 turned pale as deadly pale, my legs refused to walk away.Love force him to a sto p. In a way, thats what I think the poet istrying to do. Hes trying to draw a picture of the ill-fittingfeelings etc. I also think hes through a good job.In the second stanza, it explains what happened after he looked away.He described it as he could not see anything, as the love had coveredhis eyes. He also explains how the line of products suddenly rushes back into hisface.And hence my blood rushed to my face and I took my sight away. Thetrees and bushed lash out 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 last stanza, he talks most 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 different style, with different wording. for each one verse starts with a question It is over. What is over? It isfinished. What is finished? It suffices. What suffices?It is hard to place whether this poem is about love itself, or her lovefor something, or hitherto a love that shes lost.Reading the first stanza three times made me realise the poem is about