... 43 and 18, written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Shakespeare respectively, through a range of metaphors, alliteration and repetition. While Browning's poem is traditionally and conventionally a poem about love and admiration, Shakespeare rejoices the beauty of his lover beauty through time. A stark contrast can be observed as both poems focus on different elements of life, namely nature and religion ... , unlike nature that experiences "Rough winds." In both the sonnets, different elements of life have been approached to demonstrate the multifaceted comparisons that can be ma...

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... quot;C" sound emphasizes how fragile the clod is making us feel pity on the clod and despise the pebble. He sings that "love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care". The negative words, "not/ nor", indicates that you have to deny ... things to experience love; this consists of backbreaking work and sacrifice. The personification of love can be linked to human nature as it is full of contradictions. The use of wordplay is identified throughout the poem: ... clod is turned into something negative by the pebble. "Heaven in Hell´s despair" reveals the conflicting emotio...

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... extra mile for her husband. Selfless, caring, and self giving are just a few words to describe her. Browning's attitude gives me hope on love. When I stopped believing in love because of a broken heart, it was hard to start over. However, I met someone that pulls out my heart strings and knows me better ... to me. The same energy I give out should be express to me. However, it doesn't concern Browning if she do not get an "I love you" back.The love and mindset she has for her husband is genuine, that shows courage and faithfulness. In addition, this poems brings out the romantic side of...

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... condemned the artist for the unnecessary used of imagery in this particular poem. Nonetheless, Paterson is making a bold statement concerning the physicality of love and the acts included. Although the poet has been condemned for the unnecessary imagery of the sexual act occurring between two, presumably, consenting adults ... details the feeling of looking upon another whom you have a great desire to be with, yet they look away displaying little desire make an effort to love back. "No colour. No ruffling of the brow's surface betrays your feelings. " Thomas refers to how a person will a...

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... was written in the explanation from BBC. If Elizabeth Barrett Browning would have not suffered those trials and tribulations, she would not have written such a beautiful love sonnet because of the hard times, she learned to appreciate the little things in life. Browning goes into very specific detail about the ways she loves Robert ... was also not afraid to speak her mind about whom and what she loved. Shaw agrees by saying, "But to show what the wonderful depth of a woman's love is, and to reach what seems the absolute fullness of human expression, we have the following triumphant song...

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... heat, but the beloved is always mild and "more temperate." Summer is personified as the "eye of heaven" with its "gold complexion." The love that is spoken about is compared to everlasting nature. By doing this, the speaker is, at the same time, trying to preserve the beauty of his ... the poem. "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." As much as Sonnet 18 attempts to give life to love through nature, Sonnet 116 is an attempt to define love by telling of both what it is and what it is not. While Shakespeare uses nature in this sonnet quite sparingly, its ... poem is much the s...

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... desperately yearns for a greater understanding of this divine mystery. Although the author realizes that he can never truly describe love to the fullest, he still attempts to show the importance that love plays in his life by using metaphors and other forms of imagery in his poetry. For instance the author says ... order. Furthermore, in one of the poems the author converses with love. Such as when the author asks love, "Tell me truly, who are you?" Love answers, "I am life eternal, I multiply the lovely life." The author has a divine understanding of love stating that it is all that matt...

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... hold the die uncast / Free to come as free to go." She also references sunlight, but here she differs from Browning in that it is a remembrance of another time, another love: "I, so cold, may once have seen / Sunlight, once have felt the sun." Her poem ends with the sad observation, "If I promised, I believe / I should fret to break the chain," which does ... serenity and devotion making this one of Browning's most beloved poems. She chooses words that impart honesty, reverence, sincerity, and passion: "I love thee freely I love thee purely, I love thee with the passion put to use," whi...

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... that she is a human being capable of making mistakes. The main theme in the poem "Suzanne Takes You Down" is the theme of courtly love. The courtly love relationship was typically not between husband and wife. Courtly love was based on an ideal relationship that was not able to exist in real life. The relationship between Suzanne and Jesus has many of the ... characteristics common to any courtly love relationship. First of all, the man is usually drawn to the woman's appearance. In "Suzanne Takes You Down", Suzanne has definitely caught the attention of the main character with her ......

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... line of the long neck lovely, dropping (since song's notes slide that way) To young breasts firm in the bouncing light Which shimmers that blueshadowed sidefall of hair. (46) Once love has arrived, there are overstated claims about the greatness of it and how wonderful life is now. It's as if a hole that was missing in someone's life has now been ... filled by love. The second type of love poem is a negative love poem. These too often follow a similar pattern. It begins with suspicion. Has she been unfaithful? Where was she last night? The lover has various degrees of ... over the year...

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... philosophy ideas about alchemy, astronomy and physical science. One theme Donne repeatedly explored was that of love. He identified two types of love the poem A Valediction Forbidding Mourning explores both of these representations. The first type of love is that of true love. This is the type of love that the persona of the poem believes he shares with his female partner Donne represents this ... mixing of two substances that cannot be taken apart. This demonstrates the depth if this love, the true love. The metaphors pf earthquakes and celestial spheres add to the responders understan...

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... changes or leaves, "the marriage of true minds" is perfect and unchanging and does not "admit impediments. This first quatrain also insists that if love is mortal, changing or impermanent then it cannot be "true" It praises people who enter a strong relationship based on trust and understanding and who ... finds alteration". The following quatrain begins with a declamatory "O no", the narrator makes an almost legalistic argument for the eternal passion of love. The sonnet's major metaphor compares love to a priceless lighthouse that can withstand any storm, or like the Northern star guide...

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... works and elaborate elegies. Christopher Marlowe is considered to be the first great English dramatist before Shakespeare. He wrote the poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" in which the character expresses his true affection through his loving words, actions he will take, and complete dedication. Sir Walter Raleigh was a good friend ... poem has six stanzas that have four lines each. The use of the four-line stanza directly illustrates the deep desire of the shepherd to his love by repetitiously calling to the one he loves. As in the Nymph's reply her continual denial to the shephe...

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... writes is unrecognizably queer, but it is all emphatically amusing. One cannot pretend to follow the drift of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," however every aspect woven together reveals the direct message. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a lovely piece of poetry written to describe a young man's attempt to ... literature to death. At the conclusion of the poem, it is distinct that the lady has exhaustively lost interest in her engagement. Through the "Love Song," one might get the impression that all first dates go bad. However, the theme of this poem is that finding a p...

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... enter into a relationship based on trust and understanding. Keats poem on the other hand emphasizes love as pure and innocent. Even though these two poems portray love in different ways they both capture love as being beautiful and eternal. In the first four lines Shakespeare reveals that love is constant and strong, and will not "alter when it alteration finds". The following lines Shakespeare ... edge of doom." In the final lines, Shakespeare declares that, if he is mistaken about the constant, unmovable nature of perfect love, then he must take back all his writings on love, he adds ...

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... feel are all on opposite sides of the spectrum. For instance, in "Strawberries," the protagonist focuses on his own experiences and retells his encounter with love from his point of view. He says, "There were never strawberries/ like the ones we had/ that sultry afternoon," which of course, is his own interpretation. He reminisces his experience ... their women. In "Strawberries" one can automatically assume that the author is young by the way he uses "strawberries" "dipped" "in sugar" as a simile for love. He exaggerates how "There were never strawberries/ like the ones" him and his l...

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... refers to Father Time as a symbol for the passing of youth and life. Finally in the last couplet of the sonnet, Shakespeare asserts he is so sure that love is constant by saying "If this be error and upon me proved / I never writ, nor no man ever loved" (13-14). John Donne's "A ... (5-6). The speaker of the poem is going away but he says "Though I must go, endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion" (22-23). Their love is strong and will not die because they are separated. Donne uses a metaphor that their division is like an earthquake, "Moving of the earth brings harms and fears ... (...

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... common in some ways and also have their differences. 1Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I 2effuse unreturn'd love, 3But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is 4certain one way or another, 5(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not 6return'd, 7Yet out of that I have written these songs.) ... 1This line of the poem is trying to tell people that love doesn't always bring love and happiness but it can also bring fear in people that they could have between the both of them. 2The main and ... fourth point of this line of the poem is he/she ha...

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... world. Everybody seems to have an idea of what law is, but Auden ventures out to say nobody really knows what law is. In the poem "Law Like Love," Auden uses his literary techniques differently in the two sections of his poem to show the confusion people have about law. In lines 2-34 the reader sees a ... If no one is certain if what the law is then why do people insist on finding other words to describe it with? Law is "a timid similarity" to love. No one can really explain how or why, it is a different concept to everyone. Audens use of syntax brought out the complexity of the conceptio...

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... endured and wanted to tell. The imagery in this poem is strong, and yet can be perceived several ways. I think if someone has felt the pain that love can cause, that maybe their perception of the poem may be different from someone who has never felt the pain that is associated with ... same is felt with his memory of his childhood "where I used to play on the green" pg.56. I thought that this line was another way of saying that "love is blind" I think maybe he was saying that he didn't notice things, like feelings and thoughts, the same as when he was an innocent child, but through exper...

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... a major way in which the poem and the song are different. "Save Yourself" describes someone who got used for someone else's pleasure. "Sex without Love" describes two people who are using each other. I believe that the speakers in these works are very different in their point of view. The speaker in "Sex ... without Love" seems to be someone who is a bit older and may have had this experience in the past. They are also speaking in third person in ... it and is giving them some advice on how not to be used and feel unloved. It is very evident that "Sex without Love" uses a completely diff...

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... English poet Thomas Carew. Whether you refer to his poem as "A Song" or "Ask Me No More," Carew revolutionizes the love poem and redefines beauty in such a way that the recipient of these words could care less about what the poem is called simply because it ... new level of poetic imagery that wasn't quite attainable through the use of conventional similes and other comparative strategies. In his endeavor to redefine beauty in a love poem, Carew plays with a combination of words in each stanza that help to paint a deeper picture that a simple simile would not be able to accomplish. ... ...

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... that can be followed in Donne's work is his exploration of "metaphysical" emotions conveyed by the persona. In view of the fact that love results in the complex range of experiences that need to be articulated, Donne may have expanded his content in some poems in order to express ... all princes I, Nothing else is." Rickey states that "in Donne's world the physical laws of the universe must adhere to the complexities of love and passion". This implies that despite techniques content is fundamental when dealing with different levels of metaphysical sense. Hence it is seen that each ... 's...

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... parents last dying days. So when a parent loses a child, pain and sorrow sweeps over the parent like a giant ocean wave as they passionately grieve. This passionate love for one's child is displayed in the poem On My First Son by Ben Jonson. The significance of the poem's sorrowful grievance tone is exemplified and apparent through ... grieve or envy, then, later refers to his son as his best piece of poetry. His deep loss begins to empathize as the poet vows never to love as strongly, so as never again to feel the pain of such a loss. Jonson's poem also portrays that the father figure ...

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... 's plays reflected mostly on an individual and their well-being. In "Paradise Lost: The Temptation of Eve," John Milton focuses on Eve and her temptation. In the Romantic period, many stories also reflected on individualism. The themes of the plays, sonnets, poems, etc is mainly of one person trying to overcome or to be consumed. In "A Solitary Reaper," page 645, the ... their own way of telling them. Shakespeare made the Shakespearian sonnet to tell his poetry. Poetry of these periods, I believe, did not encounter much change. Within both periods, poetry included love, hate, greed, envy...

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