Today, we read Emily Dickinson's poem "Not with a Club the Heart is Broken." Now read this poem by Stephen Crane, and answer this prompt: "What is Crane's tone about love? Compare his view and the view of Dickinson. Which poem do you prefer? Why?" (The deadline to post a response to this blog is midnight Thursday, April 14, 2011.)LOVE WALKED ALONE
Love walked alone.
The rocks cut her tender feet,
And the brambles tore her fair limbs.
There came a companion to her,
But, alas, he was no help
For his name was heart's pain.
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Craine has a tone of emptiness and loneliness throughout his poem. Craine feels that love is something lost and lonely. However, Dickinson finds love to be very real and full of togetherness but it can cause pain like it did onto her in the poem "Not with a Club the Heart is Broken". I prefer Dickinson's opinion on love because she attempted love and got her heart broken whereas Craine finds lone to be empty and lonely. Dickinson allows the opinion of finding love even if the love she found betrayed her. She wrote of heartbreak and he wrote of emptiness and loneliness. Although they are much alike on paper, the feelings behind them are worlds apart.
Throughout the poem, Crane has a tone of loneliness towards love. He makes it seem as though true love is unobtainable without heartache also. In contrast, Emily Dickinson writes of love with a tone of sorrow instead of loneliness because she has actually experienced love. Both authors incorporate pain as a common part of love, but i prefer Crane's poem because the gives a concise definition of what he believes is love.
Crane speaks of love as being a lonely venture, and that it is impossible and futile. (Which I like). On the other hand, Dickinson spoke of her sorrows of having loved and lost. I preferred Crane's primarily because I prefer depressing poems.
In this poem Crane has a tone of sympathy for the loneliness love is forced to endure. Then, on top of these troubles, love's only companion is heart's pain. In Dickinson's poem she talked of how attempting to find love caused her great pain. I prefer Crane's poem because, even though heart's pain was companion to love, it was not necessarily inevitably connected with love.
Crane's poem shows how love is innocent but also lonely. He also describes how down the path of love, there is strife which causes love to be "cut" and "torn". Dickinson has the same view but she has experienced love and has felt great pain because of it. I prefer Crane's poem because his poem shows the true meaning of love and Dickinson's poem only shows heartbreak.
Crane's tone is painful loneliness caused by love. Crane believes love is painful, but no one can live without it. Dickinson would much rather live without love than endure the heartache. I prefer Crane's poem because love will always be there and must always be faced.
The tone of Crane's poem displays love as being lonely and abandoning. Love "cuts her tender feet" and "tears her fair limbs". Dickinson has been heart broken and would prefer living without love, whereas Crane is willing to endure the pain that comes with it. I prefer Crane's poem because it is more straightforward and I agree that love can be painful, but it is worth enduring in the long run.
Crane's poem sugests a tone of longingness. He does this through the description of love walking aimlessly being cut with each step and the reader unable to stop her path. It is as if he conveys that when there is heart break people do not give up on love, but embrace and help it. Unlike Emily's poem in which when heart break occurs love is forever dead and lost. I prefer Crane's poem because it is not as dark or as hard to infer about. His style clearly painted a vivid picture in which I could relate to and enjoy more.
Crane's poem expresses a tone of loneliness. He describes how the path of love is dangerous and painful. Dickinson, on the other hand, writes of love with a tone of despair from being heartbroken. I prefer Dickinson's poem because she attempted love, and it seems like Crane just wrote how love invovles emptiness and loneliness.
Crane's poem has a tone of sadness and loneliness while Dickinson's has a tone of despair and regret. Crane's poem also holds a sense of hope in the possibility of finding love, but that hope is soon destroyed with the sharp pain of heartbreak. I prefer Crane's poem because it is more direct and his purpose and story are more evident and easy to detect.
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