Comparison Of Eros And Robert Bridges

The authors use adjectives, imagery, word choice, and point of view to explain the way Eros is. Both poems depict Eros, the god of love, but Robert Bridge’s represents Eros as a powerful, attractive god, while Anne Stevenson represents him as a slave, who people use to find love. Robert Bridges’ way of depicting Eros is different than Anne Stevenson’s by using different techniques and point of views. Bridges does not let Eros express himself unlike Stevenson. Bridges uses more formal words, meanwhile Stevenson’s writing is colloquial. Bridges depicts Eros as an idol, whom people look up to. Bridges talks about his appearance, instead of his personality. Eros is described as a god with “flesh so fair [but] surely thy body is thy mind” (L. 7-13). People are attracted to his body rather than the way he is and thinks. Most admire his “starry sheen of nakedness” (L.12) than who he is and how he acts. Stevenson shows who Eros is and how he feels about him being a god. Eros is described as a “bully boy...with boxer lips” (L.5-7). Eros is not a perfect person as everyone thinks. Eros is a “slave”(L. 17) who is trapped having to bring out love to the world.

Bridges explains how “none who e’er long’d for thy embrace, hath cared to look upon thy face” (L. 24). Everyone who has seen Eros has not cared to looked beyond his appearance and get to know him. If one got to know him better, they would see Eros would rather have a “battered visage, bruised but hot, than love dissolved in loss or left to rot’” (L.23). Eros thinks it is best to be beaten up than being in love and neglected. Both poems are describing Eros, and different views people have on