Up-hill and Looking Back and Afterwards Essay -- Christina Rossetti Th

Up-hill and looking for Back and AfterwardsThe poems I am going to analyse and equate be Remember, Up-hilland Looking Back by Christina Rossetti and Afterwards by Thomas venturous. These poems reflect on the understructure of loss and how it affects thepoets when they reflect on it. The poems withal show the poetspreoccupation of death. In these poems, the poets improvement the themeof death using various antithetical techniques and lingual devices.Christina Rossetti is a passionate and powerful poet the majority ofher poetry has contained the themes of either hit the hay or death, and inmany cases both. Even in the poems which she wrote for children, thesethemes ar prominent. Hardy too was very close to nature. In his poemthere are vivid descriptions of objects and the element of nature isalmost always present.The titles of these poems all go on a hint about what the poem isabout. Remember tells us that the poet wants to be remembered forsomething. oft one and only(a) i s remembered after her death because the pain ofloss keeps bringing sanction her memories. In the poem Rossetti does askher lover to remember her and demands that he should solely rememberme. Up-hill tells us that that the poet is probably going on a move around. This journey is the journey of life, which Rossetti isinquiring about in her poem. Looking back shows us that the poet isreflecting on something. Again, one always looks back on life whenhe is near his death to moderate what he has done and evaluate his life.Afterwards is also a title which could push to the theme of death.Hardy wants to know what will happen afterwards when he is dead. Hewants to be remembered not for his fame but for his closeness tonature and for the person ... ...ill on the other hand showshow heaven will be - a ass of comfort after a journey which takethe whole great day. Looking Back is meant to convey that death is atime of evaluation of ones life. nonpareil should look back along lifestrodden way and meditate on the mistakes and hardships of life. InAfterwards Hardy says that death is a time of evaluation from othersand that you should be remembered for what you are and not because youare famous or have achieved something. He also hopes that he will beremembered for his familiarity with nature and how he could do bitty for it even though he tried.I feel that all the poems efficaciously convey the theme of loss. Allpoems have a different approach but the basic idea is clear death isinevitable. However, the poets have different views on death and itseffect on them and those close to them.