... to think that the debate about love has been going on for so long without ever having been settled. One thing that I found most intriguing was the fact that the poems both incorporated the use of references to the Greek gods. Obviously the stories of the Greeks and Romans had a lasting influence upon the culture of the poets, as the poets ... in our own. Either way, whether love is a manipulative force or a consuming passion, the most obvious parallel that I drew was that it was powerful. None of the characters in the poems were able to escape it. I enjoyed both poems, and they both pro...

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... unrequited affections, of couples torn apart and the loss of dear ones, love has been a theme that pops up frequently in poetry. Both poems Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare and Cold in the Earth by Emily Bronte deal with the concept of ever lasting "true love". A sonnet is a 14 line poem divided into quatrains, ... ...

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... in so many ways that it would take several papers to fully explain the similarities. The best way of understanding the similarities in the poems is to understand the similarities of the religions. When comparing anything dealing with religions of different countries, the likenesses as well as the differences ... father god is called Zeus. Although the poetry of both countries is strikingly similar, there are several differences in the religions and thus the poems themselves that are worth mentioning. These differences, as with the likenesses, are common in many religions besides the Gree...

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... and the boy takes advantage of her. She also becomes pregnant and tears up her comics that had "cheated" and lied to her. The girls in both the poems lose their virginity and become pregnant, the narrator in "Cousin Kate" was a "cottage maiden", showing the reader that she was a female virgin. The narrator in ... not bound to a rule. In some stanzas, the second and forth lines rhyme, but in others, the first, third and fourth lines rhyme. The setting of the poems also shows the reader the time the poem was set. "Cousin Kate" lived in a cottage and worked "among the rye". "The Seduction" ...

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... xix. To His Mistress Going to Bed" with Herbert's "Prayer", in which you discuss the texts as artifacts of the Renaissance. The two poems mentioned in the title above are not only seen as artifacts of the Renaissance. The metaphysical, poets John Donne and George Herbert can also be ... held the charm and ability to be recognized in the higher structures of society, he dedicated his life to God, in a humble yet proud manner, and his poems (in The Temple), reflect this remarkably unique character. "Prayer (1)" by George Herbert (C.A Patrides, 1976, pg 70) gives the reader Herbert's feeli...

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... With different forms of love come different reactions to those feelings. Just as there are different forms of love; there are different types of love poems. Poems may be the most romantic of writings, or are typically viewed as such. Don Paterson's "Letter to the Twins " and R.S. Thomas' "All Right ... " are two different types of love poems. Both poems are thematic; both poems have a theme surrounding an inflected word. Don Paterson wrote the love poem "Letter to the Twins. " In "Letter to the Twins, " Paterson ... love a person can feel. Although, the types of aforementioned love can ...

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... back from what we see and look at it from a more objective place. Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh have captured these two phenomenon through the writings of their contrasting poems "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Marlowe and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Raleigh. For the half of the world that is guided by their dreams and ... . The more realistic answer from the Nymph in Raleigh's work satisfactorily characterizes the other half of the population that is more grounded and levelheaded. Though the structure of the two poems is virtually identical, they both il...

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... in love is a whole other subject. To fall in love: to become enamored of or sexually attracted to another is the Webster's definition. In John Donne's poems this seems to be the case. In "The Flea," Donne expresses his wish to bed his beloved in a subtle way. He mixes spirituality and sex into one ... is not just that, that brings electricity in "The Ecstasy." While sex is a big part, two souls and the connection between them is sometimes stronger. While both these poems deal with love, "The Broken Heart" deals with the loss of a love. The breaking of a heart has a greater affect in many ...

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... one is On My First Son by Ben Jonson . The next one, poem two, is called Unending Love by Rabindranath Tagore. Both poems are well written love poems that have similar subjects (love) but differ dramatically because of their structures, meaning, and literary devices. Poem one depicts the saddest part of ... and renew throughout the poem to provide emphasis on each word. These words show the everlastingness that can be found in love. There is a lot of imagery in both poems as well. In On My First Son imagery lies in the words "my sin", "lent to me", "just day", "lose all father", "flesh's...

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... allowing the impetuousness of the speaker to flood through the form, almost without pause to rhyme, giving the reader a hint to the persona's intention to convey a warning. While both poems are written using similar formats, the sensations created by the rhythm of each dramatize the different ends of the spectrum of marriage. Bradstreet's simple and straightforward approach gives an easy ... that persons of this stature rarely had the luxury of marrying for love. The portrayal of marriage in both poems dramatizes both ends of the spectrum. At first glance, no similarities are found betw...

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... that Victorian respectability hides the importance of sexuality in the love relationship in a dark cupboard. As several critics have convincingly argued, Rossetti's poems on love and marriage challenge the patriarchal ideology of her time and suggest that she was engaged in a harsh analysis of the Victorian ... regards to women's sexual choice. So far as poetry of Christina Rossetti is concerned, the sexual repression upon women has been highlighted in her poems including "Goblin Market" and "A Triad". In Victorian society women were looked as being devoid of passions or desires. ... vict...

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... Then the dreaded thing happened . . . I looked at my first reading assignment for this course and it was poetry. Not only was it poetry but one of the poems actually was named "Poetry" (Moore 146). So needless to say, I am thinking what have I got my self into and how am I going to make it through ... or even worse write it. The poem "Poetry" (Moore 146) began to answer my question what is poetry. In the beginning of the poem she describes how poems should balance the figurative and the literal world in order to help the reader's understanding. It is also stated that a poem must not beco...

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... Husband" and William Shakespeare's "Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" and John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning". These poems tell of love and the depths of love the speakers has for their beloved even if the love is not given back in return. Ann Bradstreet's poem & ... better after death."(l. 13-14). Shakespeare's "Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" is more dramatic and gets to the point than the poems of Browning and Bradstreet, which have a more fairytale type of love. I read this poem a few times before realizing that the poet is speaking of the ... to people ...

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... by Dante and villain by Marie, disdain for adultery remains as one commonality of two widely different perspectives of romantic love. Petrarch's Quest for True Love and Spiritual Fulfillment The poems contained within The Canzoniere are spellbinding tales of love. The object of this love is Laura, the ideal woman according to the author, Francesco Petrarch. Petrarch expresses his desire ... Without Laura, the sense of optimism would have been lost. Spirituality plays an integral role in The Canzoniere. While the poems occasionally stray from love and spirituality, these two topics provid...

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... , and began attempting to write verse drama for the stage (Everett 1). In 1845 Robert was doing some reading when he ran across a few poems that grabbed his attention. Browning was so intrigued by the poetry he had just read he set out to meet the author, Elizabeth Barrett. Soon ... Elizabeth's domineering father (Everett 1). Robert and Elizabeth had one son, Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning (Ian Lancashire 2). The difficulty and obscurity of Robert's first poems turned the critics against the young poet which led to Elizabeth being much more famous than Robert (Everett 1). After Elizab...

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... house was built on a cliff overlooking the tempestuous Pacific Ocean (p 20). "Here I Love You" is one of twenty poems written in 1924, from Neruda's second collection titled "Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada" (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair). This collection triggered Neruda's poetic career to sky rocket and to become one of the most surrealist ... poets of the 20th century. With the publication of Twenty Love Poems, at 20, Neruda became a national celebrity, and was given a diplomatic post by the government; a recognition of his position in Chilean culture. Ins...

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Compare the ways in which poets have used different forms to express a variety of ideas about love. These love poems were all written by men and women expressing a variety of their ideal towards love. The poems are "The beggar woman", "To his coy mistress", "My last duchess", "How do I love thee?" and "Remember". These poets described love in various ways in connection with ... with her. "Time's winged chariot hurrying near." This points out that they don't have much time; he is getting fed up with the relationship as time is whiling away. The poems by male poets have a very different attitud...

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... " is seen as art in itself. This also helps to show that great poetry like Donne's transcends time and place. Both poems are unique in their own ways but both have themes that will always be relevant, Love and Religion. The poems have a universality that seems to live on throughout time. They transcend time and place, b speaking to us vividly and directly ... about universal, human experiences. Donne has melded his erudition, poetic skill and his emotions into what some call "unrealistic" (John Dryden late 1600's) poems, but for the better part of three hundred years, people have evaluat...

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Discuss Representations of Love In One or More Poems Read in Class Many different poets throughout history have represented love, perhaps the most common subject matter chosen in poetry, in many different ways, and many of these ideas certainly ... he later contradicts himself by declaring that the grave's a fine and private place'. This shows a far less nave, and infinitely more shallow, interpretation of love than he describes at the poems beginning. In many ways I see this as this as more of a representation of lust rather than love, disguised under layers of affectionate terms. He ends t...

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... of his fruitless yearnings for Maud Gonne. He proposed to her three times but each time she bluntly refused, claiming that his unrequited love was the source of his brilliant poems. Throughout their long association, Yeats and Maud shared a common spiritual connection. At several stages of their friendship they considered themselves spiritually married, meaning that they met each other through astral ... . During Yeats" association with Maud, each had several different relationships. One of Yeats" affairs with Olivia Shakespear was tainted by his love for Maud. He wrote in one of his poe...

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... to have two men in her life. Of course the husband was never supposed to find out about his wife's love of another man, but in nearly all of the poems and lais the beloved was a married woman and the lover a married man. King Equitan, in the famous lai, by Marie de France, of the same name, falls in love with ... women vulnerable to an extent. The idea of not being in love with the person but of being "in love with love- can certainly be applied to a lot of the poems and feelings present in the 13th through 17th centuries. Women were seen as the objects of love for their beauty not for ...

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... a very lewd poem where the meaning could be missed completely. I would not have expected a poem to be so straight-forward and bold about its sexual meaning. Roethke has written many poems about love including the two written of here. "My Papa's Waltz" talks of a committed and all weathering love between a father and a child. Even with the possible darker meaning of the ... Papa's Waltz" is about a son's loving commitment to his father while "I Knew A Woman" is about a man's attraction and relationship with a younger woman. The two types of love discussed in these poems are universal. Ro...

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... nineteenth century. The Romantic poets put strong emphasis on the natural world and celebrated beauty and simplicity. It is for this reason that the child was a common theme in their poems. One of Wordsworth's major ideas, radical at the time, was that human beings move at the moment of birth from a perfect idealized "other world" to this imperfect world, characterized by ... coal chamber for a few minutes, she seems to enjoy it and goes back in of her own accord a few days later. This also relates back to Wordsworth's ideas in his poems. His idea is that children have a "visionary glea...

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... greatest writer and poet of the English language. His literature works written over 400 years ago, have survived the challenge of time, so much so that Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems are still considered to this day an integral facet within the study of culture, society and language. Due to the depth and conceptuality of Shakespeare's plays, directors such as Baz ... ...

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... the reader whether or not they agree, making Paterson's statement true to form for both reader and poet. Shakespeare has used this type of unconventional writing in many of his poems, further supporting the argument that this is his interpretation of the sonnet. In his poem "Sonnet 130" he demonstrates a clear manipulation of the idea of love, mocking the unrealistic comparisons ... ...

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