...Love Poems “Love” is possibly the most recurrent and controversial subject to be found in the world of poetry. Most of the greatest and highly prestigious poets have given expression to their ideas about love through their verses. This is, in fact, what makes a poem rich and original. Sharing the same topic, each poet is able to convey a different perspective of its implications. Each poet describes love in his own way and expresses his feelings and conceptions of love in a totally creative and innovative manner. “What is love?” “How does love affect a person’s life? How important are feelings? These are questions with endless answers and many writers have found their own way of responding them. Having said that, I will proceed to describe, compare and contrast three poems written by three different authors which share the same theme: Love. These are “Since Feeling is First”, by E.E. Cummings; “When you are old”, by William Butler Yeats; and “Sometimes with One I Love”, by Walt Whitman. “Since Feeling is First” is a poem that deals with the importance of love and feelings over any other value in life. The narrator is concerned with placing the heart over the mind and states that feelings are more significant than wisdom. He claims that people should rely on their emotions to conduct their life instead of following the logic and order of things in a rational fashion. This idea is developed in the following lines: “Since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax...
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...enhance my soul} Take me into a spiritual side of being mortal Queen of ten thousand moons Daughter to the distant yet rising star Find the passion in the beginning,middle,end Love is not boastful it is kind to the touch. I love my essence before the making of mentality Shed the ignorance and stand tall my queen Your licorice smile graces my entity eternally My mental clock is ticking for your love Find me in the corner’s of being free Private,professional,personal Complete as if our time on earth became the last instant The content of my freedom begins with U All ingredients roled up into one special person U make me the gem in the spectrum of light I am remembering love from my present Since I’ve grown to admire her gesture My heart beats like the thunder and lighting Sensual eyes captivate my spirit in purity Her gypsy eyes penetrate me deeply My queen visions a intensity in me periodically The sands of time flow like the ocean with secrets This is the day of making her my ace boon coon We are boo loving at heavens end eternally She’s my franchise player I fell in love with today,tomorrow,yesterday Her shadow is found by day and rests by evening The flame intensifies me feverishly in darkness The kisss from the concrete makes me more curioius So in the shade of making love to her mentally ,physically ,emotionally Come be the benevolent source of my peace of mind Baby girl you are my...
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...The Gateway between Poetry Sappho of Lesbos and Egyptian Love Poems share similarities but also have quite a few differences as well. Their themes and poetic styles in their works of poetry align in some ways, yet differ in others. They both have a sense of eroticism and passion within their works of poetry as well. Love songs or love poems are found in many cultures. Most of the love poems deal with intense emotion and a lust for life. Being able to analyze the roots of their existence can help to understand the context of the poetry all together. When we look at the history of Egyptian love poems they seem to parallel a lot with other near eastern traditions. Writing was quite significant in the Egyptian society as a means to convey cultural...
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...made sense of love 3 3. Girl, boy and society 4 4. 3 Themes of love prevalent in Love Songs 5 5. Conclusion 6 6. Work cited 7 1. Introduction During the time of ancient Egypt's New Kingdom, love songs were recorded and later discovered by excavators. The importances of these songs are that they contradicted the perception which Egyptologists had of the ancient Egyptians. No longer were the ancient Egyptians viewed as being a dull society, focused on death and the afterlife, but rather a society with a love for living through loving love itself (Fowler 1994:xiv). Thus, in this essay, through analyzing the Ramesside love songs, I shall explore this different view of the ancient Egyptians and attempt to understand what the concept of love truly meant to them. In going about this, I shall firstly look at how sense was made of the concept love and then look at love from the perspective of girls, boys and society. Furthermore, I shall address three themes regarding the concept of love, prevalent in the love songs and finally, conclude through drawing on my findings throughout my essay. 2. How they made sense of love When looking at ancient Egyptian religion, art and practices, two themes is consistent, this is the use of metaphors and similes. These were the methods used by the ancient Egyptians to not only explain their experiences, but also to validate them (Kaplan 2004:9). Similarly, metaphors and similes are regularly used in love songs to explain...
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...A love sonnet to Jesus crucified is a dear expression of true and pure love for our savior,Jesus Christ.This sonnet portrays the author's intimate love and relationship with Jesus.The poem was originally written in Spanish and has been translated the best possible into English.Although it is believed that the entire beauty of the poem was unable to be interpreted into a language other than its original dialect,The poem is an ideal masterpiece that can be associated and reflected on during the time of lent.The original author is unknown,but the poem was translated in English by Andrew M. Greenwell.It is notable that the author has a strong connection with God.”A love sonnet to Jesus crucified”speaks for itself,showing a powerful message of gratitude...
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...indescribable by me. I say the stupidity they possessed because in those days the punishments passed and the reasoning for determining guilt was/is insulting to the brilliance of mankind. I don't really have a favorite poem, but if I had to choose one, it would be "I wish I were a Nubian girl." I say that because of the way he described his desires and the mistress. He was intuned to how the Nubian girl and the mistress interacted. However, if he were the Nubian girl I dont believe he would be as enthusiastic because then he would be a girl and the scene itself would feel inappropriate. If he were to ask the Nubian girl how she felt about being that, she may have a difference of opinion. Having to bathe the mistress, having to cater to the mistress, having to feed the mistress, having to clothe the mistress without having the choice of doing so may not be as pleasant as it seems. And if she did enjoy it would that mean she was a man in a previous life only to have come back as a Nubian girl to acheive the purpose he had in mind? Who knows... Anyhow, the poem shows that even though the men showed the greatest of respect for women, in secret they kept a dirty mind. I wish I were her Nubian girl” is actually pretty disturbing. Basically, this short poem is about the poet wanting to be the slave of his beloved (when the...
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...Darwin Quinde Comp.Lit March 1, 2012 An Essay on love Love is a huge feeling that carries many other emotions along with it. The common theme on the poems “Love one another” by Khalil Gibran, “Meeting at night” by Robert Browning and “If you forget me” by Pablo Neruda is that love is more than just being next to the person that we love. In the three poems we see that love is the main theme but it is presents it in a different point of view in each one. In the poem “love one another” by Khalil Gibran the narrator talks about how individuality is important for relationships. The narrator tells the readers that love shouldn’t be rigid and inflexible in the first line of the poem “Don’t make a bond of love” because it could cause the end of a relationship. The tone of voice in this poem is a little persuasive. The narrator is trying to convince us that doing things together is good for a relationship but there should be things that people should do individuality. For instance, “Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone” demonstrates the narrator’s tone of voice and how people need their own time. The author uses imagery to show how love isn’t just about being together but it is also about knowing how to adapt to different situations in life. A perfect example of it is “Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” Which demonstrate that love shouldn’t be rigid and not changing but instead passive and changing. The Narrators...
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...How does Keats present love in his poems? John Keats was born 1795, in London and was often claimed as one of the most important Romantic figures of the nineteenth century. He had many struggles in his life from his mother and brother dying from tuberculosis, to his poetry being constantly rejected and him running out of money. A lot of Keats’s themes were Romantic, such as the beauty of nature, the contrast of fantasy and reality and the relation of beauty to suffering. Though initially all Keats’s poems that present love seems to be portrayed contrastingly, really they’re actually revealed to be quite similar. Through numerous techniques, from the exploration of senses, to form to the different symbols and styles that Keats’s used to intertwining themes used to express the theme of love. However through all of Keats’s poems, he shares a sense of sacrifice and pain that deal with his idea of the eternal and fantasy world and how in exchange for immortality the lovers have to give up their human experiences and intimacy. In the ninth line of ‘Bright Star’ Keats reveals his desire to remain in the moment “Pillow’d upon [his] fair love’s ripening breast”. However in order to remain in this moment Keats has to sacrifice all his humans’ experiences to be immortal. In the final line of ‘Bright Star’ Keats writes “And so live ever—or else swoon to death”. Many have considered ‘Swoon’ to be an little death or an orgasm as towards the end of the poem the pace and rhythm increases...
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...marie claire - Readership Profile Readership Profile 000's Readership All People All Women All Men Grocery Buyers Grocery Buyers with Kids in HH People with Kids in HH 429 381 49 331 127 169 Profile % % 2.3% 4% .5% 2.7% 3.2% 2.5% Mag. 100% 88.6% 11.4% 77% 29.5% 39.3% Pop. 100% 50.6% 49.4% 65.3% 20.6% 35.5% All People 000's Age 14 - 17 years 18 - 24 years 25 - 34 years 35 - 49 years 50 - 64 years 65 years and over Socio-Economic AB C D E FG Occupation Work Full Time Work Part Time Not Employed State Breakdown New South Wales Victoria Queensland South Australia Western Australia Tasmania Darwin/Alice Springs 27 69 109 124 74 27 123 88 96 73 50 167 137 126 154 122 63 35 49 6 1 Profile % % 2.4% 3.1% 3.3% 2.6% 1.8% .8% 3.2% 2.3% 2.5% 1.9% 1.3% 2.3% 3.6% 1.6% 2.4% 2.6% 1.6% 2.5% 2.4% 1.4% .8% Mag. 6.3% 16% 25.3% 28.8% 17.3% 6.2% 28.6% 20.5% 22.3% 16.9% 11.7% 38.8% 31.9% 29.3% 35.9% 28.4% 14.6% 8.1% 11.4% 1.4% .2% Pop. 6% 11.9% 17.6% 25.1% 22% 17.3% 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 39% 20.2% 40.8% 33.9% 25.1% 20.1% 7.4% 10.6% 2.2% .6% NOTE: Personal income is based on full time workers only Source: Roy Morgan Readership Survey March 2013 Copyright 2007 Pacific Magazines. All rights reserved. Last Update : 30-Oct-2013 marie claire - Rates Rates Spend Casual 20,601 25,751 22,661 41,202 47,382 12,361 9,270 55,623 24,721 27,811 3x 20,087 25,109 22,096 40,174 46,200 12,052 9,039 54,235 24,104 27,117 6x 19,572 24,465 21,529 39,144 45,016 11,743 8,807 52,844 23,486 26,422 9x 19,058 23...
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...Compare the way love is represented in ‘Ghazal’ with one other poem ‘Love’ can be defined as a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection to something or someone. Poe believed that all good literature must create a unity of effect on the reader and this effect must reveal truth or evoke emotions. His work is admired as an excellent example of how a short story can produce an effect on the reader; much like how ‘Ghazal’ and ‘Hour’ produce an effect of love and pathos towards the characters. The poems ‘Ghazal’ by Mimi Khalvati and ‘Hour’ by Carol Ann Duffy are similar in many ways. Firstly, the structures of both include couplets; however ‘Hour’ is in a sonnet form with 3 quatrains and a couplet to finish, and ‘Ghazal’ has 10 couplets. This shows the reader immediately that both poems are of the theme of love. Also, this type of structure links to Shakespeare’s sonnets, as they have a similar, if not the same, structure. Additionally, the form of poetry that ‘Ghazal’ is one that is traditionally sung and deals with unattainable love. This form dates back to 7th century Arabia. Secondly, in the poem ‘Hour’ the poet presents love with the description of ‘time’s beggar’. The love talked about in this poem appears to be personified as a beggar. This may suggest that love wants more time to be with their other half. In addition, the poet redefines wealth as love and time rather than as money and gold. Carol Ann Duffy uses two fairytales, ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Rumplestiltskin’...
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...Compare and Contrast the poem ‘Sonnet CXXX’ by William Shakespeare and an extract describing Iranian love poetry from the book Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour published in 2009. The poem and text are connected the the techniques used by the poets to describe women in love poetry. Shakespeare’s sonnet, written for his mistress the Dark Lady is part of his sequence parodies of Petrarchan blazon objectification of the female form, similarly the extract from Censoring an Iranian Love Story explores the technique used by Iranian Sufi poets in the past, the humour here is also tongue in cheek as the narrator makes reference to body parts that were ignored in comparisons as their use would be considered inappropriate. The form and structure of of both texts vary, Text A is a Shakespearean sonnet with a abab, cdcd, efef, gg rhyme scheme with a volta before a couplet, whilst using iambic pentameter in a first person setting. Text A additionally uses caesurae to present stereotypical images of idealised beauty. Text B on the other hand is a single paragraph of continuous prose and detailed descriptions which similarly are used to portray the ideals associated with Iranian beauty, Text B however uses a third person narration. Text A written for Shakespeare’s mistress uses comparative nouns to describe desired qualities of an Elizabethan woman, and the qualities which have been bestowed own his mistress. He does this by pairing nouns such as “red”,“coral” as...
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...Marlowe’s poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” makes promises to the intended audience to stay by his side. In contrast, the main persona in Sir Walter Raleigh’s poem, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” appears to respond to that of Marlowe’s poem in a negative tone. Because of the nature of both poems, Marlowe’s poem has a masculine voice, whereas Raleigh’s poem has a feminine voice. The history of the poem and the way it was written can help decipher whether if the poem was a masculine tone or a feminine tone, or even the each way gender reacts to the idea of courting presently in comparison to how the poets interpreted courting. Both poems were published during the late 17th century and the early 18th century. A critical essay written by Sheri E. Metzger states that “the great Elizabethan lyric sequences typically begin by identifying the poet's mistress as the primary lyric audience” and this quote shows that during the Elizabethan time period many of the lyrics of poems written would refer their mistresses as the audience. Poems were a very popular way of courting members of the opposite sex. Both poems were a way for the poet to show their emotions to their lovers. Marlowe attempted to do this by expressing the many things he had to offer to his love in order for her to come by his side. They were not just things that an ordinary person would be able to offer, but it was something far beyond normal. Another reason that a poet would have for writing a poem would be...
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...60426. Email: e4p3zambrano.emily@gmail.com Abstract The poem by E.E Cummings “All in Green my Love went Riding” is about the speaker falling in love then getting heartbroken. In this poem Cummings expresses how falling in love can feel like you've been hit by something moving faster than you can possibly catch. The speaker is stalking his prey like someone who’s truly in love will stalk his loved one. Cummings...
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...Reflections Of Love Table of Contents Prologue Storge (Affection in families)-Definition The Little Black Boy- William Blake Winter Trees- Sylvia Plath Mother to Son- Langston Hughes Philia (Friendship)- Definition Love and Friendship- Emily Bronte Time to Talk- Robert Frost Eros (Romance)- Definition Somewhere Never Traveled- E.E. Cummings Wind and Window- Robert Frost She Walks in Beauty- Lord George Byron Agape (Unconditional Love)- Definition How Do I Love Thee- Elizabeth Barrett Browning Love is More Thicker than Forget- E.E. Cummings Biographies Epilogue Storge Affection Affection- is the love through familiarity, especially between family members or people who have otherwise found themselves together by chance. It is described as the most natural, emotional feeling because it is outcome of love due to family ties. Fatefully, it is the strong point what makes it the most defenseless. The affection is “built-in” and as a consequence people expect it. Prologue This poetry anthology is a collection of poems, which shows the people's view of love. As I am a hopeless romantic, I chose this topic. I think the journey that life takes us all on is one filled with many adventures. I believe to truly live life to the fullest would be to love. If a person can say that he or she has never truly been loved or loved someone then he or she has never really lived. The feeling of love is so euphoric. The...
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...to “Last Night” John Donne’s love poem "The Sun Rising" was written from a male’s point of view in the 17th century and Sharon Olds love poem "Last Night" was written in the 19th century from a female’s point of view. These two love poems have different themes on the topic of love and both are very different in language structure, as "The Sun Rising" is more formal and much more complex to read than "Last Night". Despite these differences in writing style, theme and centuries apart, the poems have great use of vivid imagery and simultaneously both use the tone of unhappiness in the beginning. In the very opening Olds uses the word “Afraid” and Donne starts off with “BUSY old fool, / unruly Sun”. Both authors rotate the tone of unhappiness in the beginning to more content and satisfied towards the end. When comparing the two love poems, the reader can see how both have great use of imagery. Olds applies a high-pressure imagery throughout the poem, setting up a tension between submissive and aggressive sensations and images. Olds gives us a vivid image of the sexual intercourse as being very hot and animalistic. She describes it as "dragonflies in the sun /100 degrees at noon /the end of their abdomens stuck together". The animalistic and hot kind of imagery, as a reader gave me a mental picture of the sexual activity being wild and just pleasurable without feelings involved just like animals that have intercourse for breeding and not for "love" as human kind. The feeling of...
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