Love Poetry

Love Poetry Coursework By The two poems I have selected to compare and contrast are, “A pink wool knitted dress,” by Ted Hughes and “Sonnet XLIII” (43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The first poem I intend dealing with is, “A pink wool knitted dress.” This poem is not written along conventional lines, e.g. sonnet or in stanzas of four lines. Indeed there are three lines in the first stanza while the fourth stanza could be …

…to be more shallow and perhaps less sincere. Does Hughes love his bride merely because she loves him? While Barrett Browning appears to love her partner for his own sake. I prefer Ted Hughes’ poem, basically because I feel it is more True to life and also the storyline is interesting. Rather than the quasi-religious intensity of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet which I find too overpowering. It is redolent of the early Victorian ethos.