Daley-Ward's Poem 'Challenging Love'

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Challenging Love
“Love is powerful and at times painful, and we express this through our words and stories” (Catron, 16). Love influences the lives of many. It brings many emotions that one must go through when experiencing love. Love is a commitment that comes with challenges, but lovers will sacrifice anything for it.
Relationships are a commitment between two people. Love is choosing to be with someone, and persisting with that decision, “It is now and till the end. It is never a/ slither, never a little.” (Daley-Ward, 8). Found in Daley-Ward’s poem, where love was being described, the author uses anaphoras to emphasize that love is a commitment. The repetition of “it is” emphasizes what love means to the author, and highlights the importance of the meaning of love to the reader. Love is a commitment where two people must persevere, “Then while we live, in love let’s so persever/ That when we live no more we may live ever” (Bradstreet,11). Bradstreet describes a love in which two people are in a committed relationship, found toward the end of the poem …show more content…

Chopin describes how sacrifices must be made in order to contain a relationship, “Beside being a respectable woman she was a very sensible one; and she knew that there are some battles in life which a human being must fight alone.” The character sacrificed her temptation to tell her husband of her thoughts, towards the end of the story. Chopin uses metaphors to illustrate her temptations, calling them a “battle” that must be fought. The author uses the metaphor to describe the temptations of the character, and how resisting them is a sacrifice. Shakespeare suggests that if love is strong enough, lovers will sacrifice anything, “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo/ Deny thy father refuse thy name;.” Shown in the beginning of the excerpt, Juliet is telling Romeo what she would sacrifice her family name in order to be with him.

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