an and Romantic poems are written in this manner, they seem to be more difficult for the audience to grasp, however; the use of these words made the poems very easy to classify in periods.The reader can infer that as opposed to all the rest of the poetry, the theme of “Sorcery” seems to be more straightforward. For example, after reading the lines “there are some people i know whose beauty is a crime…who make you so crazy that you don’t know whether to throw yourself at them or kill them,” the reader knows right away that the theme of the poem is that outstanding beauty in an individual can never be overlooked. In contrast, the lines “Nought cared this body for wind or weather” and “When Youth and I lived in’t together,” in the poem “Youth and Age” make it hard for the audience to figure out or analyze its theme. To the reader, it seems as thought the message is hidden. The speaker means the older you get, the weaker you are physically.In “A Child’s Laughter,” the poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne, uses images of sound to explain the lines “All the winds on earth may bring All sweet sounds together” and “Sweeter far than all things heard.” By this, the speaker is stating that no other harmonious sound in the world is as pleasing as the sound of laughing children. In contrast, Jessica Hagedorn in her poem, “Sorcery,” does not use images of nature, but decides to use images of vision instead. The speaker states, “they most likely be walking down the street when you least expect it trying to look ordinary…” Because of this quotation, the reader can visualize a good looking indidvidual standing out in the crowd. One speaker is expressing his or her love of children and the other is expressing lust of the flesh, thus; the type of imagery used by each poet helps in implementing the poe...
