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A 4 page paper which examines the theme of grief and loss in “On My First Son” by Ben Jonson, “When I Consider How My Light is Spent” by John Milton, and “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich. No additional sources cited.
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subject matter of grief or loss is a very powerful subject for poetry and thus for poets. The following paper compares and contrasts how three poems deal with the theme
of grief and loss. The poems examined are "On My First Son" by Ben Jonson, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" by John Milton, and "Aunt Jennifers Tigers"
by Adrienne Rich. Poetry: Loss and Grief Out of the three poems under examination only Ben Jonsons really seems to be addressing the immediate loss of a loved one.
Richs poem is about the life and eventual loss of th narrators aunt and Miltons poem is about loss within the narrator as they look back upon their life. In
these respects it is clear that the levels of grief and loss are all quite different in the poems and none deals with exactly the same subject matter or same
perspective. Jonsons narrator uses the poem to rationalize an understanding of the death of a young child. The narrator, who is obviously the poet himself, claims that it is
perhaps better that the boy died young before he had to suffer in life, as so many people do: "Will man lament the state he should envy?/ To have so
soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the narrator may well wish he could join
his young son. Yet, he also hopes that he can always keep within himself a beleif that this was the most precious thing in his life, relying on the gift
that was this son to help him through a future without the boy: "Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say, Here doth lie/ Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry./
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