Compare the poems ‘Laboratory’ and ‘Havisham’ poems english anthology coursework - page 1
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By George1660 on 27/05/2009
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
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Compare the poems ‘Laboratory’ and ‘Havisham’
I am going to compare the different styles used by the poets in the poems ‘Laboratory’ and ‘Havisham’.
The poem ‘Laboratory’ is all about revenge. A woman has gone to a lab to ask the man for some poison to kill her husband’s lover. In the making and planning of the event to kill her husband’s lover she becomes very involved and wants to take an interest in her victims death. ‘Better sit thus, and observe thy strange things, than go where men wait me and dance at the Kings’, this is a sign of madness she would rather stay and watch the making of the poison than go and have fun.
‘Havisham’ is about a woman who has been stood up at the altar. She has been driven mad by this event and while she did love him she wants him dead. Both poems show the sense of madness after an event happening in their lives. In ‘Havisham’ we see this in line 5, ‘whole days in bed cawing Noooo at the wall’. She is clearly in distress and her mind isn’t in its usual state.
The tone of ‘Laboratory’ is one of anger, revenge, bitterness and heartbreak. We can see this when the she uses words of pain and suffering, ‘Brand, burn up, bite into its grace- He is sure to remember her dying face’. This implies that she wants the death to be painful, ‘burn up’- meaning hot scorching pain. She also wants revenge to both her husband’s lover and to her husband. ‘He is sure to remember her dying face’. He wants him to suffer by remembering the moments and look on her face as she dies.
Similarly the tone in ‘Havisham’ is much the same. Both women want to get back at their lovers for what they have done. So the tone is of revenge, heartbreak, anger and hatred. She clearly states her feelings towards her lover very early on in the poem, ‘Not a day since then I haven’t wished him dead’. This conveys that she is not afraid to let her feelings known, she is very expressive in the way she said it, very clear and to the point. This means that she is in great hatred and repulsion of the man. Revenge is also clearly stated later on in the poem as well, ‘Give me a male corpse for a long
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