3: Compare and contrast the two poems below:

LOVE'S INCONSISTENCY

I find no peace, and all my war is done;

I fear and hope, I burn and freeze likewise

I fly above the wind, yet cannot rise;

And nought I have, yet all the world I seize on;

That looseth, nor locketh, holdeth me in prison, And holds

me not, yet can I scape no wise:

Nor lets me live, nor die, at my devise,

And yet of death it giveth none occasion.

Without eyes I see, and without tongue I plain;

I wish to perish, yet I ask for health;

I love another, and yet I hate myself;

I feed in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain;

Lo, thus displeaseth me both death and life,

And my delight is causer of my grief.

Petrarch

After great pain a formal feeling comes-

The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;

The stiff Heart questions-was it He that bore?

And yesterday-or centuries before?

The feet mechanical go round

A wooden way

Of ground or air or ought

Regardless grown,

A quartz contentment like a stone.

This is the hour of lead

Remembered if outlived

As freezing persons recollect

The snow-

First chill, then stupor, then

The letting go

Emily Dickinson