Comparing Love after Love and This Room Essay -- Derek Walcott Imtiaz

Comparing bash after jockey and This RoomThe two poems with which I comp ar each other are both poems ofcelebration. Celebration of life, love and your identity. The first isLove after Love by Derek Walcott. This poem is ab bulge out self-discovery.Walcott evokes that we spend years assuming an identity, thateventually discover who we really are - and this is like two contrastingpeople meeting and making friends and sharing a meal unneurotic. Walcottpresents this in terms of the love feast or Eucharist of the Christian perform - Eat...Give wine. Give bread. And it is not clear whetherthis other person is merely benignant or in some way divine, this is alsoan imperative which would suggest that they are divine and so have aright to go for orders. But it could just be advice.The second poem, with which I will be comparing Love after Love isImtiaz Dharkers This room a poem again, about the joys of life andhow it should be enjoyed and absorbed. This is a quite nonplus poem,if w e try to find an explicit and exact interpretation - but its commonplace meaning is clear enough, it suggests that Imtiaz Dharker seesrooms and furniture as possibly throttle or imprisoning one, but whenchange comes, it is as if the room is time out out of itself thisline is obviously a metaphor, which I believed to mean that the roomis liveborn and it is liberating itself.., I think this means that if themere room is doing this, that you should liberate yourself. Shepresents this preferably literally, with a bizarre or surreal vision ofroom, bed and chairs breaking out of the house and rising up - thechairs crashing through clouds suggesting upward motion. Thecrockery, meanwhile, crashes together noisily in celebration. And... ... This Room In the poem our homes and possessions correspondour lives and ambitions in a limiting sense, while change and newopportunities are likened to space, light and empty air, where thereis an opportunity to move and grow. kindred Walcotts Love after Love, itis about change and personal exploitation - but at an earlier point, orperhaps at repeat points in ones life.In my opinion, both poems do an excellent job of encourage a love oflife, and making it seem very attractive and victimisation metaphors for it tomake it seem less serious. This is definitely a good thing. some(prenominal) tellthat you should live your life as you wish and should take rewardof every second of it. To conclude, I believe these poems both hold astrong moral point. Why should you become someone else to satisfy federations needs? The resounding answer from both poems? You shouldnt.