Compare and Contrast Robert Frost's "The Silken Tent" and Lady Gregory's "Broken Vows"

Date Submitted: 05/26/2003 15:46:46
Category: / Literature
Length: 3 pages (935 words)
Frost drowns in Lady Gregory's tears Love is a universal phenomenon and nobody seems to love it more than the poets. Perhaps that explains why there have been millions of poems written about hundreds of types of love. Robert Frost's "The Silken Tent" and Lady Gregory's "Broken Vows" are two among the millions of love poems. Despite being written on the same subject, Frost's "The Silken Tent" shows the love between a girl and her …
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…the girl comes to her senses and realizes the significance of her family and their love. On the other hand, Lady Gregory does not use rhymes or connotations or alliterations but uses personification to show the loss and despair of a sad and unhappy girl. Both the poems use easy-to-read languages but Lady Gregory's "Broken Vows" doesn't follow a traditional pattern, and is a sad poem from the very start, unlike Frost's "The Silken Tent."
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