Love and Never Give All the Heart
Both poets share the attitude that the effects of love are
negative and long lasting, however they convey this using very different rhyme
schemes. Yeats uses a consistent regular rhyme scheme to show that, just as the
rhyme scheme is aabb…throughout, once you are in love, you never really are
able to forget, move on, separate yourself from the other person as they remain
with you in your mind and the memories haunt you.
Neruda on the other hand uses an inconsistent, irregular
rhyme scheme throughout his poem to highlight the turmoil and tumultuous nature
of being in love, unrequited love to be exact.
Yeats also uses a lexical field when he write “deaf and dumb
and blind”, this lexical field connotes injury and suggests the impairment and devastation
to the body that love can bring, even when the actual relationship is over, you
are never able to fully regain yourself.
Neruda hints at the destructive nature of love through the symbol
of “falling objects” which he says symbolise desire and the beginnings of a
relationship. Falling objects inevitably lead to destruction showing that love inevitably
leads to injury and impairment (much like the lexical field used by Yates).
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