Symptom Recital by Dorthy Graves

In this composition I will be comparing and contrasting ii poems from our fuck poem selections. The two poems I will be using argon Symptom Recital by Dorothy Parker and Symptoms of Love by Robert Graves. These are two of the poems I found most interesting within our selections, because in both Symptom Recital and Symptoms of love both authors depict the feelings their speakers copse with love. In these two poems the differences out weight the similarities. The differences in these poems are truly noticeable.In Symptom yarn Dorothy Parker expresses a womans feelings after a bad break up. Parker expresses the anguish and disgust the woman feels about herself, the hatred and the state of mind she is currently in. Parker then uses metaphors to express the womans thoughts of dismay, such as in line eleven and twelve (Im disillusioned, empty-breasted/ for what I think I should be arrested). These lines parker expresses that the woman is thinking grand thoughts of herself and that these thought could be so terrible that if they were brought to the public she would most by all odds be arrested.While in the previous poem we saw that Parker was expressing the ill feelings of a breakup, now in Robert Gravess poem Symptoms of Love is expressing the feelings and emotions individual endures magical spell going through love. Graves depicts the up and down emotions that love gives. The headaches because of how much the speaker cares for the other. How those headaches turn to Jealousy and nightmares. Graves expresses these in metaphors in line one and four through eight. love is a normal migraine/ Symptoms of true love/ are leanness, jealousy/ laggard dawns/ are omens and nightmares-/ listening for a knock). In these lines Graves shows the emotions of relationships and how they all tie together in one big ball. The similarities both these poems share is the fact that both speakers are showing emotions that come with love. Both the emotions the authors show are tu rmoil, whether it is while currently in the relationship like symptom of Love shows or after the relationship which Symptom Recital expresses.Both of these poems both end in a somewhat happy tune, for example in Symptom recital the whole poem is very upsetting but ends on a positive not that one day the speaker will develop love again. While in Symptoms of love the speaker tone is of how problematic it is to be in love but in the end wouldnt do it for anyone other than the person he shares his love with. In evidence both poems were very strong, emotion filled poems of the hardships and enjoyments of love and a relationship.