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Unseen Poetry A* Essay- It has been said that Dyer’s poem is a ‘simple poem of grief and devotion’ whereas Dunn’s poem is about ‘the complexity of conflicting emotions’ Compare and contrast the presentation of love in the following poems in light of this

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Unseen poetry essay written about The Kaleidoscope by Dunn and My Dearest Dust by Dyer- A* Grade. Both poems proceed the essay on this document. It is recommended to print and annotate the poems, with the question focus in mind, before reading the example essay. This will allow you to practice look...

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It has been said that Dyer’s poem is a ‘simple poem of grief and devotion’ whereas
Dunn’s poem is about ‘the complexity of conflicting emotions’
Compare and contrast the presentation of love in the following poems in light of this
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My Dearest Dust
Catherine Dyer (1641)

My dearest dust, could not thy hasty day
Afford thy drowzy patience leave to stay
One hower longer: so that we might either
Sate up, or gone to bedd together?
But since thy finisht labor hath possest
Thy weary limbs with early rest,
Enjoy it sweetly: and thy widdowe bride
Shall soone repose her by thy slumbring side.
Whose business, now, is only to prepare
My nightly dress, and call to prayre:
Mine eyes wax heavy and ye day growes old.
The dew falls thick, my beloved growes cold.
Draw, draw ye closed curtaynes: and make room:
My dear, my dearest dust; I come, I come.

Notes:
Epitaph on monument erected in 1641 by Lady Catherine Dyer to her husband Sir William
Dyer in Colmworth Church, Bedfordshire.

The Kaleidoscope
Douglas Dunn (1985)

To climb these stairs again, bearing a tray,
Might be to find you pillowed with your books,
Your inventories listing gowns and frocks
As if preparing for a holiday.
Or, turning from the landing, I might find
My presence watched through your kaleidoscope,
A symmetry of husbands, each redesigned
In lovely forms of foresight, prayer and hope.
I climb these stairs a dozen times a day
And, by the open door, wait, looking in
At where you died. My hands become a tray
Offering me, my flesh, my soul, my skin.
Grief wrongs us so. I stand, and wait, and cry
For the absurd forgiveness, not knowing why.

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