Love is one of the biggest topics in popular culture for a reason; no-one can describe it and everyone has different understanding and reflections of it. Poets have infinite opportunity to create and describe their experiences with persons of interest if they label their emotions as love or a previous experience as a “love story”.The lack of knowledge and facts that can be provided to truly explain and describe what love is, is what makes love such a popular topic for poets. Writing poetry with a theme of love leaves poets without writing boundaries, they can create their own ambience and vision throughout the texts they create with no stereotypes or popular belief about love to constrict their freedom of writing. Reading poetry influenced …show more content…
It can have several representations. Love can be used to explain one’s personal attachment to an object or a being. Love’s main portrayal in poetry discusses of immense affection towards another, such as searching for a significant other. This is because this is the most desired and popular form of love. The reason affection towards someone is as popular as it is, is due to it being the simplest form of love possible. Stereotypes have helped shape the stigma that links love to happiness. Writers explore this stereotype of love relating to happiness and tend to take a side of the ever going argument, does love truly relate to happiness? ‘One Crowded Hour’ Augie March writes “I thought I had found my golden September in the middle of that purple June / But one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin” (L12-13). Augie March speaks affirmatively of linking love to happiness . Augie uses colour symbolism by using “Golden September” to represent perfect love, as golden is associated with winning and getting the best outcome possible. Assuming Augie March is referencing Spring when talking about September, Spring is known to be a season of happiness and well-being. “Purple June” purple being a restrained, gloomy and dark colour. Assuming Augie March is referring to Winter when talking about
The Poets' Treatment of Love in I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke, The Thickness of Ice by Liz Loxley and How do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love is said to be one of the most desired things in life. People long for it, search for it, and crave it. It can come in the form of partners, friends, or just simply family. To some, love is something of a necessity in life, where some would rather turn a cold shoulder to it. Love can be the mixture of passion, need, lust, loyalty, and blood. Love can be extraordinary and breathtaking. Love being held so high can also be dangerous. Love can drive people to numerous mad things with it dangerously so full of craze and passion.
Love has the power to do anything. Love can heal and love can hurt. Love is something that is indescribable and difficult to understand. Love is a feeling that cannot be accurately expressed by a word. In the poem “The Rain” by Robert Creeley, the experience of love is painted and explored through a metaphor. The speaker in the poem compares love to rain and he explains how he wants love to be like rain. Love is a beautiful concept and through the abstract comparison to rain a person is assisted in developing a concrete understanding of what love is. True beauty is illuminated by true love and vice versa. In other words, the beauty of love and all that it entails is something true.
The following three poems “To His Coy Mistress';, by Marvell, “The Good Morrow';, by Donne, and “Sonnet 116';, by Shakespeare all tackle the theme of love. Although they are all written about the same subject, they show remarkably different approaches. Two are written from the narrator to his lover to persuade her into commitment into a sexual or loving relationship. The third gives a neutral definition of true love.
Poetry is defined as a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. When most people think about poetry, love poems come to mind. Love is unique to individuals in meaning. Though love does not have a concrete definition, through the works of poets love has substance and meaning that can be identified.
Love is such an abstract concept for the human mind to figure out. Along with the love of a mother for her child, there are many types of sensual love or brotherly love; friendship is frequently described as a type of love, as well. This abstraction can also be distorted and made to fit into categories that would normally be associated with negativity and abuse not "love." Think of why a woman will continually go back to an abusive spouse with the irrational reason that "he loves me." If he loved you, he wouldn't beat you…Would he? In a poem, the confusion seems only to extend, as writers will describe a beautiful event that is tainted by a bad experience or emotion. In this manner, word choice plays a primary role in determining the actual meaning of the poem. Clare Rossini, in her poem entitled "Final Love Note" and Louise Gluck, in her poem "Mock Orange," both use carefully chosen language to portray different aspects of the concept that we, in individual and often irrational ways, use to explain "love." These particular writers use words of love and hate to explain extremely passionate feelings toward their personal relationships-and nature, an elm tree, and a Mock Orange bush, to be exact.
and also the loss of a loved one or the disappointment of love when it
Exploring Love Attitudes in Poetry Introduction: The poems that I have chosen are: 'To his coy mistress' by Andrew Marvell. ' Sonnets 18 by William Shakespeare, and 'To the virgins, to make much of time' by Robert Herrick. All the above poems are poems about the subject of love. Each poem is very passionate and complex in nature when you initially read it for the first time and consequently they have stood the test of time and lasted hundreds of years. This portrays a conclusion to what some poets say because they express how the poems will last forever.
Love is the one thing that we all seek in any and all of it's forms, it will color all relationships and interactions that we will have throughout our lives. Love can console, bolster and destroy entire societies, or build entire empires, depending on how we see, focus on and work through conditions of love, the human
What is love? American Heritage Dictionary prime definition of love is as follows: “A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.” Followers of the Lord can project the belief that their mighty God is love. A seventeen year old female does not even comprehend all the variables that come with love to gather a proper definition of love. In the novel, The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway the theme of love is a central topic with different viewpoints, all of which are not the typical overly romanticise form; Hemingway does not include a happily ever after or a fairy tale wedding. Instead Hemingway raises the question of “what is love” but also the question of “does love have
Love is defined as “an intense feeling of deep affection” or “a person or thing that one cares for deeply. ” Frank Sinatra, a famous American singer, once acclaimed, “A simple ‘I love you’ is worth more than money”. Sometimes love doesn’t need to be said because it is felt. Some people feel love through nature, their friends, family, books, or even God. From this novel the reader can point out many distinct genre’s of love. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, she says her novel is a “simple love story. ” Many may begin see imagine this as traditional love and romance as in the love between a happily married couple;
Comparing the Way in Which the Poets of Funeral Blues and First Love Portray Their Experiences of Love
Then later he questions himself what is love, then he wants a kiss.This poem is a comparison to my topic and in many different ways, such as expressing the main characters love to the girl that he loves. One comparison is in line 2 and this is really saying that the girl that he loves has a true love coming for her and that the true love is him. Another example that the poem compares to my topic about love is in line 5 when it says journeys end in lovers meeting. This can relate to love because love can be a person meeting up with someone for the first time and fall in love instantly. In line 5 “Journeys end in lovers meeting”, this can be when the character meets with his loved one in the journey he went through will end because once they meet with each other they will fall in love. The contrast in this poem is that love is between two people, who have a strong feeling with each other. In this case, it’s really just the guy who is saying that he's the true love, he's the one in love, and there's no evidence of what the girl wants or how she feels. This poem is written in literally because the poem is straightforward and understandable. But also the poem is positive because of the character and the one he loves not to get into
Love has been expressed since the beginning of time; since Adam and Eve. Each culture expresses its love in its own special way. Though out history, though, it’s aspect has always been the same. Love has been a major characteristic of literature also. One of the most famous works in literary history is, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. This story deals with the love of a man and a woman who’s families have been sworn enemies. There love surpassed the hatred in which the families endured for generations. In the end they both ended up killing their selves, for one could not live without the other. This story is a perfect example of true love.
Ingenious concepts, sticking conceits, heated arguments, sublime paradoxes and far‐fetched imagery are just a few features of Metaphysical poetry. Poetry that enables its audience to take a journey with the poet throughout life’s battles, luxuries and treasures, is simply a phenomenon. Today, we are very lucky to have the luxury of many metaphysical poems; however, today we will be exploring just two. These being A Valediction Forbidding Mourning and To His Coy Mistress. Both poems possess different themes and features that will be compared and contrasted throughout, however, are connected through the discourse of love. The four letter word with so much meaning, but what really is love? Can a definite meaning be placed upon or it, or is it perhaps a matter of opinion?