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Sunday, June 2, 2019

With close reference to at least 2 poems explore how the poets create E

With close reference to at least 2 poems explore how the poets createa smell of mood and atmosphere.In Porphyrias Lover by Robert Browning and Mariana by AlfredTennyson, the poets use some(prenominal) different literary techniques to create asense of mood and atmosphere. They get hold of their language andvocabulary carefully to make the reader use all of their senses, usingtechniques such as imagery, hoar and rhythm.Porphyrias Lover begins with a description of the rainfall and thesullen wind which makes the mood seem dark and gloomy, though unlikein Mariana, this changes later in the poem. This is shown when heappears to be sulking when Porphyria calls and he does not respond.However, Porphyrias view into the cottage causes the atmosphereto become warmer by lighting the cheerless grate, which again couldmirror her lovers feelings for her in the same way as the setting inMariana reflects the main characters emotions. This change inatmosphere in Porphyrias Lover suggests that s he is the mostimportant thing in his world and his source of happiness. InMariana, the building has locomote into disrepair, as the flowerpotswere thickly crusted with moss and the shed was falling apart, whichis similar to the feelings in her heart. In the same way that there isno one there to count on after the garden, there is no one to loveMariana.The writers use rhythm, rhyme and repetition to give the poemsmovement and structure. For example, in Mariana, Tennyson returns toa similar pattern of louver lines at the end of each verse, which givesthe poem phrasing. In Porphyrias Lover, repetition is not used asmuch, but, as in Mariana there are patterns in the rhyme at the endof each li... ...oftly. The flowing rhythm makesthe mood eerily calm, and this feeling continues right to the end ofthe poem. The opposite effect is created in Mariana, as Tennysonuses punctuation such as commas and semi-colons to create breaks,which gives the poem a slow pulse and almost shows the passa ge of timethat Mariana has to put up with.The last three to quaternity lines of each poem have many similarities. Bothrefer to God, showing the religious thoughts of the time, and, moreimportantly, the two leave the reader wondering what happens next,and leave many questions unanswered.Porphyrias Lover and Mariana are both examples of how poets cancreate depressing and eerie moods and atmosphere using clevervocabulary, imagery, rhyme and rhythm. I think that the poems are bothquite romantic, but are both examples of how too much love can be abad thing.

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