The 13th century poem 'Better than Meeting' and the 1967 song 'Somebody to Love' by Jefferson Airplane could both be construed to be about praising monogamy and loyalty as the best way to go about relationships. Both works were made at a time where it was common to see one person with multiple lovers, what with religious polygamy in medieval India and the free love of late 60's hippie-strung San Francisco, but it could be argued that these works strike against that culture through various arguments. For instance, in 'Somebody to Love' has lines such as "When the garden flowers, baby, are dead, yes and your mind, your mind, is so full of red". I believe the garden flowers in this verse are in reference to the grove of potential love interests someone thinks they have. If they try to focus on all of them they would have to strain their energy to cultivate all of them instead of growing just one flower that could blossom into a beautiful thing; the garden would die if the love is spread thin, but focusing on one allows you to at least enjoy its beauty. A similar thing is said by Mahadeviyakka in 'Better than Meeting', where she says "Better than meeting and mating all the time is the pleasure of mating once", implying that if one goes all around town …show more content…
This is shown by the verse "Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his, yeah, but in your head I'm afraid you don't know where it is". The person wanting to take the singer off her feet may look as pretty as her own lover, inside they're probably just some horny bastard trying to get their rocks off, but in the end the singer keeps her loyalty to her lover. This expresses loyalty to her lover, while Mahadeviyakka expresses loyalty to her lover in the 2nd stanza: “When he's away I cannot wait to get a glimpse of
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where and Why" is an effective short poem, which feeds on the dissonance between the ideal of love and its reality, heartbreak. In William Shakespeare's "Let Me Not to The Marriage of True Minds," the effectiveness is weakened by its idealiality and metaphysical stereotype. In contrast to Millay, Shakespeare paints a genuine portrait of what love should be but unfortunately never really is. This factor is what makes his poem difficult to relate to, thus weakening the effect on the reader. These poems were published quite far apart from each other, three-hundred and fourteen years to be exact, which might explain the shift in idealism. Though both circumnavigate the concept of love, the effect left within both writers based on personal affairs dramatically differentiates the personas of both speakers.
... as they present pure fantasy, and the lovers have one foot in each world; they experience desperation in the face of harsh realities, but meanwhile they learn and change as a result of their fantastical dreams. The allusions used in each world illustrate the differences between them and bring them together simultaneously. All of the myths and legends referenced have similar themes and origins, but each is interpreted differently by the speaker; the lovers speak of mythological figures much like themselves, the mechanicals attempt to do the same with little success, and the fairies reference gods and goddess who toy with the fates of mortal lovers. Such striking similarities echo the ever-present theme that in love, we are all the same. Whether we fancy a donkey, a meddling fairy, or a friendly Athenian, in love there is beauty, hilarity, and irrationality in excess.
Love as a hunt makes aides in understanding his assertion that he knows where love hides. In this passage of the poem Wyatt writes “HOSO list to hunt, I know where is and hind!”(Wyatt 75). Shakespeare thinks of love as something that two people share and that it is unbreakable and it can be seen in these lines, “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom” (Sonnet 481). Even though both poets do not speak of love and relationships the same terms, one speaks of love in terms of a committed relationship and the other speaks of love as the pursuit of something you cannot have because it belongs to someone
“Men come together in cities in order to live, but they remain together in order to live the good life (193).”
He compares his love to a "vegetable," which means that it would not stray, but would grow "vaster than empires," and would do so more slowly (ll. 11-12). He claims that he would happily spend a hundred years praising her eyes, and gazing at her forehead. When that is over, he would spend two hundred years on each breast, and spend "thirty thousand to the rest" (l. 16). He then crowns this romantic hyperbole with the statement, "[f]or, lady, you deserve this state, /Nor would I love at a lower rate" (ll. 19-20). These statements serve to support one of the major themes of the poem:
At the start, the first stanza of the poem is full of flattery. This is the appeal to pathos. The speaker is using the mistress's emotions and vanity to gain her attention. By complimenting her on her beauty and the kind of love she deserves, he's getting her attention. In this first stanza, the speaker claims to agree with the mistress - he says he knows waiting for love provides the best relationships. It feels quasi-Rogerian, as the man is giving credit to the woman's claim, he's trying to see her point of view, he's seemingly compliant. He appears to know what she wants and how she should be loved. This is the appeal to ethos. The speaker seems to understand how relationships work, how much time they can take, and the effort that should be put forth. The woman, if only reading stanza one, would think her and the speaker are in total agreement.
When a comparison is made between There is a Garden in Her Face by Thomas Campion and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare, the difference between lustful adoration and true love becomes evident. Both poems involve descriptions of a beloved lady seen through the eyes of the speaker, but the speaker in Campion's poem discusses the woman's beautiful perfections, while the speaker in Shakespeare's poem shows that it is the woman's faults which make her beautiful.
In the short stories and songs that we have gone over, they have all been saying the same age of fifteen. In the song “Fifteen” by Taylor Swift, and the song “100 Years” by Five for Fighting’s their songs have to do with the wisdom gained through the long journey of life. The statement that they are trying to make is that when you are fifteen you are experiencing things for the first time. Such as, your first kiss or your first dance. Throughout these special events in your life you are learning from them and gaining knowledge throughout the event. The songwriters are revealing that when you are fifteen, you are gullible so when someone says “I love you” you are going to believe them. This would result in hearts being broken and allows you
“This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” Romeo and Juliet Act 2 scene 1
The poem "Love And Friendship" written by Emily Bronte In the year 1839, focuses on how love and friendship are both important to humans in every part of their life,most importantly when it comes to their emotions. Bronte uses imagery, simile, metaphor, and symbolism in her poem "Love and Friendship" to show I believe from reading this poem is her message, which is love may come and go, but friendship will always be here to make an individual 's life worth living.
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) ...
John Donne and William Shakespeare shared similar ideas to depict the theme of love in “Sonnet 18” and “The Good-Morrow”. Both Donne and Shakespeare used the concept of eternal love in their poems, but with slightly different perspectives. John Donne establishes the idea of eternal love by saying that his lover’s bodily fluids mixed with his create the perfect match. In other words, through coitus, they become a whole perfect person free from death. “Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.”
Where “The Red, Red Rose,” would be that of new love freshly formed with all the excitement and dreams of the future. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 depicts that of love still there but tainted by age and reality. There we in music “A Rose is a Rose”, telling of a mother’s words of wisdom to her daughter where finding love, is not loose who she is; and “Black Bird”, about a love yet to fly due to being forbidden. Both show symbolic were we can communicate over felling or perceptions about society, love, and
Music can move a person in incredible ways, whether by healing, inspiring, saddening, or even angering. But when a song touches in a positive way it imprints a lasting memory of itself in the heart and soul. That might explain why some of the most classic and popular songs through the centuries are love songs. The creative ocean of love lyrics and melodies is probably as vast as a Universe and among the shining stars are two humbling songs that will continue to move the emotions. "Somewhere out there" and "Dreaming of you" are two musical creations that have planted a lasting impression in many people’s heart.
Back in the Age of Enlightenment people felt marriage depended more on the basis of survival, they would tolerate unhappiness for the sake of living; however, for the romantics love was the necessary foundation for marriage as they held unconventional views about taking vows, not for the purposes of obtaining security from material things like money and land. For the romantics love was passionate and out of control, some even felt that spontaneous desire for someone was enough reason to believe they were in love and took it so far as to have wild passionate love affairs one after the other even if they were married.