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Compare and contrast the two poems by Petrarch and Emily Dickinson

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Petrarch Poem:

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.

Emily Dickinson Poem:

  

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