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There are many different ways to express the feelings of someone, but the use poetry has been one of the popular selections. Poems are literature works that are written in meter; verse. Since pieces of art works are done by poets to depict a certain image or emotion that they want to present; romantic poems became very popular throughout centuries. I have two great poets whom I have to share with, William Butler Yeats and Robert Browning, who have common interests in writing romantic poetry. The different usages of romantic poems by them give us an opportunity to have a deeper understanding of poetry. Within their poems, “When You Are Old” and “Life Is a Love”, Yeats and Browning depicted their loves in words perfectly. In Yeats’ poem, everything was humble images of home and hearth, and Love. On the other side, Robert Browning put up all of his love for his past wife into it, there’s nothing but his love to her. From these works, we can clearly see some characteristics of poetry; especially romantic poetry. William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin 1895. His father was a lawyer and a well-known portrait painter. Yeats was educated in London and in Dublin, but he spent his summers in the west of Ireland in the family's summer house at Connaught. At London, poet Arthur Symons awakened Yeats’ interests in poetry. From there and on, Yeats started writing poems with characteristics combined from symbolism, Pre-Raphaelite elements, and Irish myths. After 1910, Yeats' dramatic art took a sharp turn toward a highly poetical, static, and esoteric style. Throughout most of his life he worked on many different poems; some of them consisted of romance feelings or related ones. William died on January 28 1939 in France. In the romantic poem, “When you are old”, an old lady is our main character. First Yeats used detail descriptions of what the character looks like.
Approximate Word count = 1244
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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