...the central conceit that the lover's world is a microcosm excluding all outside demands or realities. In fact, the world outside barely exists. The tone of the two poems is similar, too, being celebratory, idealistic and yet jocular and quite outrageous in the hyperbole. This has come to be one of Donne's best known love poems. The first stanza The whole of The Sunne Rising is a far-fetched apostrophe to the sun, which is personified quite disrespectfully. Donne calls it ‘Busie old foole’ and ‘Sawcy pedantique wretch’. Conventionally, love poetry is aware of the seasons, particularly Spring, and the seasons are, of course, defined by the sun. Donne wants to reverse this. The lovers should define their own seasons and the sun should keep out of the business. Rather, it should do fairly ordinary, trivial things like ‘chide/ Late schoole boyes’ and other people who need to get up in good time. The second stanza Having established in his mockery of the sun the lovers' own timekeeping, Donne then gives the sun a job that would benefit the lovers. The sun can tour the earth and report back if there is anything of value or of royalty that is not already here in the lovers' bedroom, that is to say, in each other. The third stanza The expectation is that the sun won't have found a single thing. ‘All right,’ says the poet. ‘Just stay here and warm us.’ Donne proclaims that the sun will then be everywhere, since the lovers' world is a complete world of its own. Themes in the Sun Rising: ...
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...“Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur’s poem, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” is about the first moments of the morning when we are between the state of being asleep and being awake. That moment when we aren’t burden with the outside world and still on the outskirts of reality, engulfed in a worry free peaceful zone. As the sleeper is in his peaceful state, the window is open and he hears the “cry of the pulleys” as laundry is being hung and what I envisioned also was him hearing the flapping of the laundry because he says “The morning air is all awash with angles”. That maybe the flapping laundry instead of awakening him even more, reminds him of the flapping wings of an Angel. As the sleeper is in the world of the Angels and harmony, consciousness eventually wins and the sleeper is now aware that it is just laundry flapping in the wind and nothing more. The soul is now descended back into it body and daily life. One then wonders why we would want to wake up from this blissful state of being and the answer to that I believe is love. Just like the title says “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”. We do things for love and that is why the sleeper leaves the peaceful wondrous state and awakens to a new day. “Love Calls Us to the Things of this World” shows us how different the spiritual world and the real world can be. The man then goes to describe the thieves in the gallows should have clean linens for their backs...
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...Perilous times shall characterize the end time. Evil imagination and strange things will be happening, many false prophet and fake Christ will arise against nations, brothers against one another, disasters will be happening here and there, there will no longer be comfort but danger and discomfort. The world is in its perilous times now. Evil imagination and practices are increasing every day. God has warned against this. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 says, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parent, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breaker, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying the power therefore. From such turn away. “The judgment and wrath of God is coming upon the world and upon the children of disobedience (Col.3:6). But God in his infinite mercy has made a way of escape in Christ Jesus for every soul to be saved. John 3:16 says, for God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.”1 Tim 2:4, “who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” Acts 4:12 says “Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved...
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...REVIEW This poem is a typical Dennis Brutus poem. As is characteristic, he compares his love for South Africa, to the love he has for some other person. Maybe, a woman! He opens the poem by saying ‘the constant image’ (line 1) of his woman’s face and the ‘grave attention’ (line 3) of her eyes which survey him amid his ‘world of knives’ (line 4), accuse him perennially. This is all coming to him as a memory because in line 2, he makes the allusion to a period gone when his love was knelt before him with the frame of her face in his hands. His ‘world of knives’ can mean so many things at once. It could mean that Brutus was surrounded by apartheid South Africa with its numerous brutalities. It could also mean that he was conflicted inside him, in a way that struck him like many knives piercing at once. Again, he could be talking about the conflict between his two loves as the poem tells us as we read on. And we are yet to know what she accuses him for, but Brutus doesn’t make us wonder long. She accuses him of heart’s-treachery (line 6). No, not even accuses but convicts! He has accepted that he has been treacherous to his woman, going on to probably share his love with another. But he does not apologise for it. He tells her that none of the two of them can ‘plead excuses’ (line 7) for his seeming infidelity because apparently, he cannot stop his love for his land and she can also ‘claim no loyalty’ (line 8). I want to risk saying that he is saying that he’s not bound to be loyal...
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...love, one finds a great richness and depth in Plato’s theory of love. In explaining why love is so important to us and yet why it fails us so often, Plato’s view of love seems applicable to our time. It is common knowledge that a very high rate of divorce threatens our marriages. We expect a lot from the sexual passion we call love, but usually end up disappointed when the romance goes away. Yet we keep getting married, thinking that we are going to be the ones that will beat the system. If we fail, we change our partner and try again. We end up our love life as we began it, confused, afraid and as disappointed as we were hopeful. The malaise that characterises our love lives naturally finds its way to the philosophical consulting room. In this paper I shall attempt to show how Plato’s view of love can be helpful both in dispelling our confusion about love and in proposing some solutions to our suffering. A comprehensive account of Plato’s complex theory of love, an exhaustive presentation of the controversies involved in interpreting it or a thorough discussion of the problems it creates, are all beyond the scope of this paper. What one may hope to do is to introduce the reader to some basic characteristics of Plato’s view of love, and then to share some thoughts about its applicability to our contemporary view of the blessings and predicaments involved in what we call love. I shall therefore begin with Plato’s definitions of love (sections 1 and 2), followed by a description...
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...Coy Mistress” * Mistress - A young woman who has an affair with a married man - A person in- charge (manager, caretaker, courtesan) - A patron or a female sweetheart in 1650’s - The female equivalent of master * Coy -Pretending to be shy or reserved -Olden days referred it to the feeling of shyness - “To coy” (v) means to stroke - The lady is no easy catch * His - Third-person possessive pronoun -Refers to the young man The tying of both the words ‘mistress’ and ‘coy’ brings about the beauty of the poem which talks about complicated relationship and complicated communication between the speaker and his mistress. It’s a plea to a young lady by his lover. THE PERSONA (The Young Man): * First-person point of view * Presentation as the plea of another man (fictional) who is the persona of the poet * The young man is impatient, desperately so, unwilling to tolerate temporizing on the part of the young lady * His motivation appears to be carnal desire rather than true love; passion rules him. Consequently, one may describe him as immature and selfish. SETTING: * Our Imagination * The poets imagination * No specific place is mentioned * Hypothetical situations * Written in 1651-1652 and Published in 1681...
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...The words sound off with so many bells and alarms going off like a nuclear bomb headed for the area. God’s wake-up call for the many evil hearts of the world, their desires and the burning lusts that resound inside the human flesh is to repent and come to Him. Even with such strong arguments as these, many who are of the blind world will not see but change the text to fit the personal’s lusts for today’s culture. For instance, it is said in many homosexual circles that Sodom and Gamora was about violent rape and orgies and God is against violent rape and unconsented sex but that He wants love expressed between two people who want to express themselves not only in physical sex, but with the love that two people, any two people, carry with them...
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... Subaltern’s Love Song Paper I have chosen to write my paper on John Betjeman’s poem “A Subaltern’s Love Song.” This poem is a humorous look at a romantic relationship from the poet’s point of view, who is ultimately the speaker as well. It is a satire and an imaginative work, which I will elaborate on further in the paper. I will cover the analytical approach on this poem, evaluate the meaning of it and discuss how it captured my interest. The poem is actually a satire because he wrote it about a woman who he really was in love with in real life and ended up being friends with for over fifty years. Satire is the literary art that calls attention to the difference between what a particular thing should be and what it actually is. It can also be the way a particular person should behave and how that person is actually behaving. The writer of satire exaggerates or criticizes such conditions, but blends ridicule with gentle humor. This often intends to encourage change or improvement (Clungston, R. W. 2010.) He also uses imagination in this poem by the way he shapes the setting of the poem. Imagination is the human power that shapes artistic expression; it enables a writer’s work to become an expression of meaning in our world and allows readers to engage in identifying with what the writer’s work has to say about things that matter (Clungston, R. W. 2010.) The poem “Subaltern’s Love Song” by John Betjeman captured my attention because of the way he was...
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...blah Edgar Espana Kara Lybarger-Monson English MO1B February 29, 2012 Questioning Ones Power In T.C. Boyle’s novel When the Killings Done, Dave LaJoy the so-called animal lover and animal rights activist, who by the way hates humans, faces-off with Alma Boyd Takesue, the real animal lover that is trying to restore “Eden” to the way it was before being infested by rats and feral pigs. Both Alma and Dave are interested in animal rights but have different ways in doing so, Alma even though she’d rather not kill anything has to eliminate animals from Eden because she is dedicated to preserving the species unique to Eden’s environment and Dave, on the other hand, is on a determined mission to “save animals” even though the way he goes about it is very destructive. They both will do whatever it takes to preserve the animal’s rights even if that means lives are lost. Throughout the story, we find out that both Alma and Dave question their motives on how they are fighting for the animals rights. Like despite all the power Alma has, she doesn’t really know what to do with it and we also find out Dave questions his motive of controlling because he lacks the power Alma has. Because of each characters’ internal conflict, the actual power of each character is shown: Dave questions his motives of controlling because he lacks the power to do so and ironically, Alma questions her actions even though she has complete control. Alma is very dedicated to what she does such as she...
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...relationship with Catherine is what initially causes his morality to be called into doubt. The loss of Catherine’s fiancé makes her desperate for some type of love again which leads to the first questionable moral act by Henry. After just their first few meetings Catherine asks, “You did say you loved me, didn’t you?” Henry replies “yes” but follows it by thinking “I knew I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards.” (Hemingway, 30) Whether he was unsure of his true feelings or they changed rapidly is unknown but within just a few short chapters any free time he has while away from Catherine is spent thinking of her and how they will spend their time together after the war. Henry doesn’t mean to fall for Catherine but the impact of the war causes nearly every character to search for love in order to feel anything but the horror of war. Rinaldi’s love for every beautiful woman he meets is an added example of this desire for passion in a world that seems completely engulfed by...
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...believes because the most desired Transformations, and new beginnings require the death of an old life,that may leave us feeling sad and pensive. “Araby “by James Joyce and “A Trifle from Real Life” By Anton Chekhov about children and adolescents to trust others easily. A trife from real life which is set in late nineteenth century st Petersburg Russia about an Eight year old boy aliosha and his mothers, lover Nikolai Belayeff and have a conversation about Aliosha relationship with his papa. In the end Nikolai Breaks his promise and questioned his mama Olga and breaks aliosha heart and destroys his Belief in the end. Araby a story that takes place in Dublin Ireland about a boy starts off as an Innocent boy who starts of playing with his friends then ne notices mangan,s sister when she calls her brother in for tea. He begins develop feeling for her and every morning he watchers through the blinds almost as if he stalking her. How do both stories serve as evidence to France claims that adolescents must endure hardships and heartbreaks and learn from them so it can ready them for new beginnings? ‘A Trifle from Real Life “aliosha starts off as a playful innocent boy who’s trustful of others but when nikolai breaks his promise about their conservation for first time in his life he had come face to face with deceit Unlike Araby which doesn’t give a clear evidence how this boy inability to pursues his desire leaves him having feelings of anger and anguish. “A Trifle from Real...
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...------------------------------------------------- Act 1, Scene 1 | Original Text | Modern Text | | Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, and PHILOSTRATE, with others | THESEUS and HIPPOLYTA enter withPHILOSTRATE and others. | 5 | THESEUSNow, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hourDraws on apace. Four happy days bring inAnother moon. But oh, methinks how slowThis old moon wanes! She lingers my desires,Like to a stepdame or a dowagerLong withering out a young man’s revenue. | THESEUSOur wedding day is almost here, my beautiful Hippolyta. We’ll be getting married in four days, on the day of the new moon. But it seems to me that the days are passing too slowly—the old moon is taking too long to fade away! That old, slow moon is keeping me from getting what I want, just like an old widow makes her stepson wait to get his inheritance. | 10 | HIPPOLYTAFour days will quickly steep themselves in night.Four nights will quickly dream away the time.And then the moon, like to a silver bowNew bent in heaven, shall behold the nightOf our solemnities. | HIPPOLYTANo, you’ll see, four days will quickly turn into four nights. And since we dream at night, time passes quickly then. Finally the new moon, curved like a silver bow in the sky, will look down on our wedding celebration. | 15 | THESEUS Go, Philostrate,Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments.Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth.Turn melancholy forth to funerals.The pale companion is not for our pomp. | THESEUSGo, Philostrate...
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...in 1960. This particular work inaugurated the confessional movement, of which he said in an interview, “My poems were called confessional because I wrote about the facts of my own life and particularly about losing a daughter in a divorce” (Eyle, n.d.). A ropey love life also didn't help his prospects, since the breakdown of three marriages in succession made for a continuous emotional upheaval (Rosenheim, 2009). There is a sense of a personal experience in the lovers of “Leaving the Motel,” which he wrote in 1968. The poem, “Leaving the Motel,” offers a glimpse on how a couple takes the necessary actions at a motel after their clandestine encounter. It makes use of tone, form, language, and symbolism to convey the notion of love as systematic, impassive and mediocre. The two people in the poem are trying to keep their relationship a secret by ensuring that they have removed all traces of their time together. There was little indication of affection between them and that was overshadowed by the formal and frigid way that the persona was addressing their situation. The tone of the poem was its prevailing element. It permeates in the poem’s theme and how the characters act, in its form, structure and language usage and in the symbols used. The tone of the poem was calculating, detached and cautious. Instead of talking about how love endures and the assurance that it would last, it puts emphasis on the fact that the love between the nameless and faceless lovers is uncertain...
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...GRIPh Working Papers No. 0901 This paper can be downloaded without charge from the GRIPh Working Paper Series website: http//www.rug.nl/filosofie/GRIPh/workingpapers What is love? A Conceptual Analysis of “Love”, focusing on the Love Theories of Plato, St. Augustine and Freud CONTENTS INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 1 1. FORMAL ANALYSIS OF LOVE............................................................................... 3 2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF LOVE........................................................................... 6 3. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF LOVE....................................................................... 9 3.1 ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY: PLATO ..................................................................... 11 3.2 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY: SAINT AUGUSTINE............................................................ 18 3.3 MODERN PHILOSOPHY: FREUD ................................................................................. 27 4. COMPARATIVE EVALUATION............................................................................ 37 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................. 40 REFERENCES................................................................................................................ 43 Introduction The starting point of this paper is the question: “What is love...
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...Aristophanes's Speech from Plato's Symposium Translated by Benjamin Jowett from Collected Works of Plato, 4th Edition, Oxford U. Press, 1953 (189c-189d) p 520 to (193d-193e) p 525 Aristophanes professed to open another vein of discourse; he had a mind to praise Love in another way, unlike that of either Pausanias or Eryximachus. Mankind, he said, judging by their neglect of him, have never, as I think, at all understood the power of Love. For if they had understood him they would surely have built noble temples and altars, and offered solemn sacrifices in his honour; but this is not done, and most certainly ought to be done: since of all the gods he is the best friend of men, the helper and the healer of the ills which are the great impediment to the happiness of the race. I will try to describe his power to you, and you shall teach the rest of the world what I am teaching you. In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it. The original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two, of which the name survives but nothing else. Once it was a distinct kind, with a bodily shape and a name of its own, constituted by the union of the male and the female: but now only the word 'androgynous' is preserved, and that as a term of reproach. In the second place, the primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle;...
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