Compare of the Poets Present Emotions in the Poems In Paris With You and Ghazal

In these poems, the poets use a range of techniques to present feelings and emotion from the point of the speaker. Ghazal is in the style of a traditional Persian love poem, which puts send on powerful imagery and metaphors, in an attempt to summarise the emotion of love, while In capital of France With You is a playful attempt to woo a previous lover in a more informal, colloquial mood. Ghazal, as mentioned before, is written like a love poem. However, one may consider it an example of role reversal- unusually it is written from the point of view of a woman, not a man.Although it is not a sonnet, the form of poem is a Ghazal- this is a type of song, of mystical love poetry we can thus compargon it to a sonnet in the way that love is explored as a theme. It is structured in rhyming couplets- these can be described like poems themselves, as they capture the speakers tough feeling of attachment. These also contain refrain words, which help to drive in the points beingness made, s uch as me, which forms part of the weak rhyme scheme.The love in the poem can be seen in the first stanza- If I am the grass and you the breeze, blow through me/ If I am the rose and you the bird, thence woo me. These examples of natural imagery mean we can see how the idea of the speaker and the person they address being together is beneficial- in fact, drawing from the imagery, we could go shape up and say that the idea is a natural (good) thing. Another emotion present is longing. This is the feeling of desperation to be with the other person talked to.Focusing on the language used, Ghazal makes wide use of metaphors to explore the relationship between the speaker and the person they feel love for. Many of the metaphors are in the form of pairs of items or objects that complement for each one other, reflecting the way in which the speaker sees the relationship. For example, what shape should I take to marry your own, have you- hawk to my shadow, moth to my flame pursue me? s howcases the idea that the speaker is willing to modify to suit the other, in what shape. This could also be a cue to the reader that the writer is perhaps lacking in some confidence..Another example is If you are the rhyme and I the refrain dont hang/ on my lips, come and Ill come too when you cue me using enjambment to keep an eye on the poem flowing like a song. Also, the deuce sides of a relationship are likened to being like the rhyme and refrain, which suggests a sense of the two people being one unit together. This refrain could be the word me because it appears so frequently in comparison, it could be a representation of the lover exhibit inferiority to the one she loves, and desperation. In Paris with You is a poem with a theme of longing also.The speaker is this time a man recounting a relationship he had moved on from. Perhaps this could have been partly due to a certain partiality to drinking alcohol, which we are told about in And I get tearful/when Ive had a drink or two. Im on the rebound shows that it must have been rather long-term, if he is describing a recovery from it. Unlike Ghazal, which is less clear about the outcome, In Paris with You suggests that the relationship is a reality. The poem, unlike Ghazal, is made up of two stanzas of about 5 lines, which deal with the run-up to the situation, and then a longer one in the middle,.It could be argued that this represents a pause for thought, as then the mood, or note of hand, of the poem changes, as in the next two stanzas, the speaker focuses on enjoying the present, such as that crack across the ceiling/ and the hotel walls are peeling/ and Im in Paris with you, which shows that the speaker does not care for the surroundings when he is with the woman he loves. Indeed, this could be described as the summary of the poem, or meaning- us being together is far more important than being in traditional romantic and beautiful locations, such as the Notre Dame (more beautiful than romantic), wh ich he like a shot tells to sod off.In terms of language, the opening is not like Ghazals in the respect that it starts with the negative but, to discourage the person he is talk to from talk(ing) to me of love. This is an opportunity to recognise the colloquial nature of the poem, such as the use of the phrases an earful, and sod off to sodding Notre-Dame. This contrasts heavily with the more formal, overwritten tone present in Ghazal. We can also see this as the speaker makes words to carry on his rhyme scheme, such as wounded/ quarantined, which brings a playful nature.Similarly, the final stanza draws heavily on the phrase in Paris with you, to show the importance of being with the person he wants to be with, and then am I embarrassing you? is used to add to the teasing nature of the tone. Looking to the tone, which we have just looked at, I believe that another emotion brought forward is playfulness, in the way that more orthodox methods of seducing people are turned down i n favour of just being with each other, albeit in a way that uses references to embarrassing ideas about romance, and love poems.In conclusion, the two poems Ghazal and In Paris with You deal with the same topics of love and longing, using techniques such as imagery, contrast, and metaphor carry through these pictures, but the latter feels more like a pastiche to the first in the way that its colloquial and abrupt humorous tone is a juxtaposition to the comparatively formal of the first.