Love Poems
Have the love poems, you have read given you a better insight into the
emotion of love?
The subject of ‘Love Poetry’ has given rise to some of the most
beautiful and fascinating poetry. The poets illustrate their feelings,
or the feelings of the people concerned with them through the use of
figurative language. A love poem is not necessarily a poem about
romantic love, about romance, marriage and commitment; it could be
something else entirely. It seems to be Universal. Timeless. Yet, it's
also very individual, filtered by our own lives and expectations. Love
can be a different thing for each one of us. Not all love poems deal
with happy positive sides of love but there is also the negative sides
such as pain, sadness and loss. Through these poems ‘When We Two
Parted’, ‘Remember’, ‘First Love’, ‘How Do I Love Thee?’, ‘A Woman To
Her Lover’, and ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ we become familiar with the
different emotions associated with love.
Christina Rossetti’s ‘Remember’ is a poignant poem written in the 19th
century about loss of love. Rossetti lived in the 19th century where
people were often preoccupied with the idea of death and perhaps this
is what influenced Rossetti. Rossetti shows the cruel hand of fate can
interweave in love.’ Remember’, the title doesn’t reveal much about
the poem but as we read the first line ‘Remember me’, we know that the
poem is written in first person and when she says ‘I am gone away’
‘into the silent land’, we come to know that she is going to die. This
arouses our sympathy for her. Love has been disrupted by death.
‘of our future that you planned:’ this relation is strong and is
experienced. She wants her husband to remember her even when she is
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this we get a pretty clear idea of the Duke.
In conclusion I would say that love can be of many types and it can
lead to so many positive sides and negative sides. Love can also be
interrupted by death, jealousy. From Christina Walsh’s poem ‘A Woman
To Her Lover’, I have learnt that love should not only be service,
worship, physical desires, but there is more to it. Love should be
from the heart and not from the mind unlike John Clare ‘First Love’. I
have also noticed that love has a spiritual and physical meaning. It
is also divine as to Christina Walsh and Elizabeth Browning. Through
‘First Love’ I would be aware of the beauty of women around the world
but not let loose of my self and if failed not to give up all hopes
like John Clare. The emotions love in these poems has given me a
different insight on love.
The poem “First Poem for You” by Kim Addonizio is a sonnet written by a woman contemplating on the permanence of her lover’s tattoos. The sonnet focuses on the speaker’s perspective of her lover’s tattoos as she appears to regard them with fascination and aversion. Upon closer analysis, it could be said that the speaker’s contemplation of her lover’s tattoos is a reflection of her perspective of their relationship. By comparing the permanence of her lover’s tattoos to the fleeting nature of relationships, the speaker addresses the uncertainty of their relationship and her desire for the relationship to become permanent.
These two poems are meant to be a love letters written by a man to a
The three sources I have selected are all based on females. They are all of change and transformation. Two of my selections, "The Friday Everything Changed" by Anne Hart, and "Women and World War II " By Dr. Sharon, are about women’s rites of passage. The third choice, "The sun is Burning Gases (Loss of a Good Friend)" by Cathleen McFarland is about a girl growing up.
On the other side, “Love Poem” is very different from the previous poem. This seven stanza poem is based on a man describing the imperfections of his lover. In this, the speaker uses stylistic devices, such as alliteration and personification to impact more on reader, for example as the speaker shows “your lipstick ginning on our coat,”(17) ...
There is perhaps no correct answers to the phenomena of love. It exists in many strata. It is
In both of the selections, the author includes the ways in which they love the person they are talking about. In “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”, the author explains, “I love thee with the passion put to use” (Browning 9). This quote can be paraphrased to mean “I love you passionately”. In “Beloved, my Beloved, when I think”, the author says,”No moment at thy voice...but, link by link, / Went counting all my chains” (Browning 5-6). This quote can mean “ When i would think of my love, it would hold me back”, this quote shows the love that the author has for their past loved one. The quotes both show a love relationship, the difference is, is that in “Beloved, my Beloved, when I think”, the poem does not take a direct approach to say “I love you”, instead, the author tells about how much they miss their loved one.
As the poem continues on, the evening is spent. talking about anything but love. The final topic of discussion goes much deeper. than just love. They end up talking about how the world is sometimes so. unpredictable and dark. But they have to both rise above that and always be true and faithful to one another. & nbsp; The "Dover Beach," by Matthew Arnold, is a love poem, but is mostly about the beach.
“There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.” (Fitzgerald). Love has a diverse meaning for each individual. Whether an individual loves a spouse; friend, family, animal or object, the love may never be the same. Various individuals throughout the course of history have experienced love or have been a giver of the four types of love, as C.S Lewis has mentioned.
...to help express the theme of the poems by illustrating the role the subject matter played in the life of the persona during their grieving period. Furthermore, metaphors helped communicate the thoughts and feelings of the personas by providing the reader with insight into the relationships and emotions covert in the poem. All in all, the poetic devices incorporated in each individual poetic composition played vital roles in the emotional and dramatic impact of these poems. And who knows, the immaculate use of these fundamental literary devices could be the key to successful love poems all around the world.
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When we first started the poetry unit, I felt that I would hate reading and creating poetry. When I heard we had to read poetry I was very disappointed. Every other year we did poetry units, I hated it. I hated every part of it. I dreaded reading poetry and answering the questions. I mostly felt this way because I am a factual person. I always have to have one right answer. I do not like when there are more than one answer choices that are correct. Poetry always has more than one interpretation.This year, however, hearing poetry and writing my own poetry has changed my opinion on poetry. Although I still hate answering questions on the poems I love to listen to poetry and write my own poetry. But, even when you read the poems that I write they are very straightforward and there are usually no other ways to interpret it.
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