Different Love

Different Love.

A sense of love, romance, passion, spirit, and sexuality has been a crucial aspect of literature expressed by a great number of authors in their work. Every writer has expressed his feelings and perceptions towards love and romance in different ways via distinguishing writing techniques. The poems "Leda and a Swan", by William Yeats and, "Tonight I can Write" by Pablo Neruda are two love related poetries, but have been demonstrated in different styles, clearly reflecting the thoughts and experiences of the respective authors. This paper aims to compare style of two authors to analyze, which work sets best example of true love story and which one has shown bitter reality about love and infatuation.

The poem "Leda and a Swan" by Yeats is an interesting poetry narrates about Greek methodology, while "Tonight I Can Write" reflects American-Spanish era. Although, theme of both the poems is similar and revolves around love, sexuality and pain, but it is noticeable "Leda and a Swan" demonstrates romance between a woman and a divine. Though, "Tonight I Can Write" illustrates broken relationship of the author and his sorrow feelings. Yeats has beautifully talked about the Greek legend in which the great god Zeus turned himself in an attractive swan for raping the Queen of Sparta. In both poems, sexuality has explicitly been presented in very shocking manner, but still both the works have gained popularity and attention of mass audience. However, the way Yeats has illustrated rape story of Leda by swan is quite aggressive and seems violent.

As he quoted, "A sudden blow: the great wings beating still/Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed/By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,/He holds her helpless breast upon his breast (Yeats 525)."

The author has used dissonance to illustrate an unpleasant event and ambiguity techniques to add richness through phrases like beating wings and staggering girl and thighs caressed, the author did so to show the severity and intensity of the incident experienced by the victim (<http://www.enotes.com/leda-swan/>). While, Neruda's style of romance expression has been attributed by sobriety and economy illustrative presentation (<http://www.enotes.com/tonight-can/>). In the poem, he is analogically comparing his emotional pain and love memories with dark night, endless sky and standing stars. As he has written, "Tonight I can write the saddest lines./Write, for example, 'The night is starry/and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'/The night wind revolves in the sky and sings" (Neruda 585).

Even though, both poems are presenting love and romance with a tyranny love separation and sorrows experienced by story characters, but it is noteworthy that love and romance pain in both works has been displayed through different