...Love and Death in Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci ------------------------------------------------- Hereby I certify that the essay conforms to the international copyright and plagiarism rules and regulations. ------------------------------------------------- Student’s signature: Ditti Kovács Boglárka Kiss British Literary Seminar 05 May 2013 Ditti Kovács Boglárka Kiss British Literary Seminar 2013.05.05. Love and Death in Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” In poetry the most important things are to express feelings and to tell a story. Obviously most of the time these poems are about life, death, the meaning of life, love, but it can also tell a complete story. Throughout the history, basically every poet has written about love and death. Because of the fact that these themes surround our whole life, it is not surprising that these topics have an impact on people’s mind, and they have to deal with these in a way, and poetry is perfect for this. People have always been interested in the question of death, the unfulfilled love and suffering, and because of the fact that these feelings are related to every people in the world somehow, these poems, which deal with these themes, are considered to be the most beautiful ones. These works can be understood easily, and readers can feel close to the poet’s feelings. In the early 19th century, in Europe, people became interested in the folk roots of literature. Poets want to show the natural, ancient state...
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...small town which can only hold a few thousands. I am aged 25 and I have recently met this Gentlemen aged 27 I have fell in love with him he was is so sweet to me and kind and I have always trusted him for the past few years he’s been miserable please tell me how to make him love me again? Imad Says: Take advantage of new technology; text and send e-cards. With so many of us pressed for time, why not use technology to “keep in touch” during the day. A compliment, an affection or a quick “Hello, You are being thought of” via text can spark anyone’s day. E-cards are fast, and convenient. There are many sites that allow you to send them for free. You can find any type of sentiment from cute and funny, to serious and romantic or teasingly sexy. The bonus is that you can include a personal message along with it if you’d like. Hold hands, hug and give quick kisses often. Nothing is as good for the soul and the emotional health of a person as the human touch. As teenagers, we hold hands, give quick kisses as hello and goodbye and cuddle as we sit close. Why not keep that sense of youth no matter how old we are or how long we have been have together as a couple? Holding hands keeps a connection and closeness, no matter what we are doing. An enthusiastic hug uplifts us; a quick kiss says “glad to see you”. You must convince your husband to take you for a date often this is a good thing for you and him it makes a relationship fresh and clean. Write old fashioned love letters this makes...
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...falling in love? How do you know if you're in love? Does age really matter when you fall in love? What does love feel like? These are some of the questions asked by teenagers like me. I, as a teenager, admit that I have loved someone, and have been loved back. At first, I didn't know that, but I woke up one morning and realized that I was in love with him. I taught myself that time that I was too young for love since I was just 15 years old back then, but in reality, age does not really matter at all. Love is the greatest feeling in the whole world. Moreover, as a teenager we can't help but get curious in things like love. So I decided to read an article about teenage love. And while I was browsing the internet, I've come across an article entitled "What Teenage Love is" by Francis Githinji an Online Dating Expert. Furthermore, in everyone’s teenage years, we will encounter different people, get interested with someone, we want to be loved and fall in love. There will also come a time in our adolescent years where we will get an urge to fall in love with someone so that we will not be left behind with what is trending, because this is part of our physical growth as a teen. Francis Githinji states that "Teenage is a confusing place to be because you are not old enough to be called mature and you are not too young to be called a child.” Francis is right, we are in a place of confusion because sometimes, we feel like we are old...
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...word we all recognize is Love. Although Susan Griffin in the poem “Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields” Griffin explains how the humans put a whole new meaning too this word LOVE. The main concept of this poem is about Love and how we think love should be against reality. The use of multiple literary elements in this poem helps us understand the importance of true love by using imagery, and symbolism which helps the reader understand that love is easier said than done. Susan Griffin uses imagery all throughout the poem too aid the reader actually imagine the situation. Imagery on “the iris” a flower that grows, then “unexpectedly” blooms. The iris has one mission to bloom and take in sunlight (Lines...
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... You can take it out and buy a new one to help you get to love the person you are currently with. Heartbeats can be attuned to help please the lover, too. And if you get your heart broken, it literally will be broken. Then you can go to a rental place and get a new one, to help you feel love again. The story is a frame story with two big flashbacks. At first Grace is presented as the girl the main character wants to fall in love with, with no risk of being hurt. On the way to the rental place the narrator looks back and recalls all the times it has been done before and in the end we see the narrator in Grace’s arms again. The story takes the expression “To be heartbroken” literally and paints a picture of how your heart might look after being hurt. “When Jacob left, I felt my heart shatter like a shotgun pellet, shards lodging in my guts” (line 30). The heart is not only a symbol of love but also of life, because your life depends on your heart to beat. When your heart stops beating, you live until your brain dies from lack of oxygen, but in this short story the narrator lives perfectly fine while changing hearts. The story is basically about restarting peoples’ capacity to love, but also of how real love can over-come technology in place to fake it. When we hear of the narrator falling in love with Grace, we expect the main character to have a perfectly fine newly rented heart, but when we are told that Heart Model #4345-27J is recalled, it cannot be true. What we have...
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...It takes a STRONG HEART to love but it takes a STRONGER HEART to continue to love after it has been hurt. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― André Gide, Autumn Leaves Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow, we must fail in order to know, Sometimes our vision clears only after our eyes are washed away with tears.... 1. There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe. ~Robert Brault 2. Without a single thought, two hands collide and the world finally makes sense again. ~Kayla Dawn 3. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn 4. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey 5. Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers. ~Mary Tyler Moore 6. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ~Rainer Maria Rilke 7. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. ~Wayne W. Dyer 8. Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings...
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...understand this feeling as old as the connection between woman and man Eve felt it in Adam's hands Cleo saw it in Marc Anthony's eyes I get it - everytime I think of you and I Feeling like volcanos creating new land like ocean water lapping up sand like a midsummers night breeze in leaves That feeling... Is.... elemental My love My love is too poetic to have thrown back in my face So take it and put it in the right place My love is too indulgent to be misplaced Be sure to know it when you’re in its grace My love is too potent to have it diluted Do mistake it for an mere unsubsequent pollinate My love is too bright to be dimmed by your light Yes you will be looking for it when it becomes night My love is too memorable so do not forget You have not even felt the full power of it yet My love is too valuable to be priced by you Can you see it through the glass you’re looking through? My love can not be boxed and tied with strings Only joy that comes with my love can I bring My love is too powerful to ever be taken for granted Do not look at it in disgust or sideways or slanted My love is too important to be told that...
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...I would believe P!nk when she clarified the truth about love, but I kept on asking myself, what is the truth about love? Is it the way two people fall in like and then the feelings develop to love? Or is it the way they illustrate each other the affection? I don’t know because I feel like I haven’t experienced true love. Yes, I’ve had my fair share of relationships, but I think those are the kind where in we just felt like we needed someone to be with. Like we needed someone to share something with. Now I know what you’re thinking. How old are you anyway to feel and think this way? Tell you what, I’m too young to know the truth about love, but at the same time, too old to be innocent and naïve. Now this isn’t about love in general. This is about the truth. Why the truth if I can make up my own? Because to me, it is important. It may not to you, but it is to me. I don’t know what got me thinking this way. Maybe because we lie too much. We even lie to ourselves to think that what we felt, what we’re feeling, or what we’re going to feel is true love. The idyllic idea when we say love is relationships. Boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, and wives. Those kinds of relationships. What if feeling true love is by making someone happy like your mom or your dad or your brother or your sister? So many options to choose from, but we always think about the romantic relationships. Why do we think like that? I don’t even know why I think like that. Like it’s the end of the world when you’re...
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...do Going down, party time My friends are gonna be there too I'm on the highway to hell No stop signs, speed limit Nobody's gonna slow me down Like a wheel, gonna spin it Nobody's gonna mess me round Hey Satan, payed my dues Playing in a rocking band Hey Momma, look at me I'm on my way to the promised land I'm on the highway to hell (Don't stop me) And I'm going down, all the way down I'm on the highway to hell GIRLS GOT RHYTHM Highway To Hell (1979) SINGLE: Girls Got Rhythm/Get It Hot (1979) SINGLE: Girls Got Rhythm-If You Want Blood/ Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be(live)-Rock'N'Roll Damnation(live) (1979) (Young, Young, Scott) I've been around the world I've seen a million girls Ain't one of them got What my lady she's got She steals the spotlight Knocks me off my feet She's enough to start a landslide Just a walkin' down the street Wearing dresses so tight And looking dynamite Enough to blow me out No doubt about it can't live without it CHORUS: The girl's got rhythm The girl's got rhythm She's got the backseat rhythm The girl's got rhythm She's like a lethal brand Too much for any man She gives me first degree She really satisfies me Love me till I'm legless Aching and sore Enough to stop a freight train Or start the Third World War You know I'm losin' sleep I'm in too deep And my body needs love No doubt about it can't live without it CHORUS You know she moves like sin And when she lets me in It's like liquid love No doubt about it can't live without it CHORUS You know...
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...Christ Love. Introduction Be rooted, grounded and established in the word of God is our theme for the church. Since the beginning of the year, as a church we have taken time to understand what it means to be rooted, grounded and enlightened in the word of God. The women ministry/Joy fellowship have also derived their theme for their celebration week to go deeper into the theme and take time to examine ourselves how deep are our roots in Christ Love based on Ephesians 3: 17. Paul was praying for the church of Ephesus, that Christ may dwell in their hearts and that they may be rooted in Christ Love. He also prayed for them further, (Vs 18-19) that they may be able to comprehend the depth, the width of Christ love which passes knowledge, and after they comprehend this love they will be filled with fullness of God. As we endeavor to be rooted, grounded and enlightened by the word of God, one of the roots that we ought to develop and let it grow deeper is the root of love. What does it mean to be rooted in Christ Love? To be rooted in Christ Love means that we are established in the Love of Christ. Christ Love make us complete, the foundation of Christianity is based on what Christ did for us on the cross. Unless we have a clear picture of depth, width, length, and height of the kind of Love that Christ had for mankind then we can never understand what love is. After we have comprehended Christ love for mankind, then we can be able to apply the same and love one another...
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...the fields. We shield ourselves in acid metal pop. But there’s green all around us, and it never gives up. Harmony grows and ebbs, like it was meant to, all around us, now it’s bent too. Ghosts in the meadows, ephemeral in their gaze, they hang around, waiting for love to equate, their state. There’s a drum beat, slow, and dumb, keeping the time, almost silently. And the guitar strings, they sing melodically, in chords and tabs written, in heaven and forgotten, as some silly hooks. We burn books in our minds, but keep them on our shelves, so that we can revisit them, when we need a piece of hell. We fight and laugh, and fall in love blessed, almost every time, we meet again. while listening to old REM Rain is falling on the fields. We shield ourselves in acid metal pop. But there’s green all around us, and it never gives up. Harmony grows and ebbs, like it was meant to, all around us, now it’s bent too. Ghosts in the meadows, ephemeral in their gaze, they hang around, waiting for love to equate, their state. There’s a drum beat, slow, and dumb, keeping the time, almost silently. And the guitar strings, they sing melodically, in chords and tabs written, in heaven and forgotten, as some silly hooks. We burn books in our minds, but keep them on our shelves, so that we can revisit them, when we need a piece of hell. We fight and laugh, and fall in love blessed, almost every time, we meet again. while listening to old REM Rain is falling on the fields. We shield ourselves...
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...LIFE FULL OF LOVE Love is one of the most wonderful feelings that a person can ever experience. Love knows no boundaries and discriminations. This world is a beautiful creation of the almighty and with love we can fill the best of the colours making it more vibrant and lively. Love is all around us. All it takes is the right perception. As soon as a young baby is born, he is endowed with parental love. Parents struggle day and night to bring him up and provide him the best this world can offer. They perspire in the day and then awake at night looking after their cherub. When the baby grows a little younger, he gets the love of his peers. With his growing age the circle of love also widens. Friends are the important milestones in one's life. And we all love our true friends who stood by us in thick and thin of life. Then, come the most crucial phase of life. The search for the life partner begins. True love is experienced and defined at this stage of life only. It is the basic human instinct to reproduce and continue the chain of life. To do so, all of us search for the most compatible person. With whom we want to share all the rights and wrongs of life. Love paves the way for the future life and generations. A new cycle begins at this stage of life. But this is the usual course of love and not necessarily the compulsory one. Love is beyond any restrictions and rules. To love someone is like to be the best person of his life. Love has the extreme powers and can make anything...
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...something more Searching for a sound we hadn’t heard before And it said Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s a new soundtrack I could dance to this beat, beat Forevermore The lights are so bright But they never blind me, me Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York When we first dropped our bags On apartment floors Took our broken hearts Put them in a drawer Everybody here was someone else before And you can want who you want Boys and boys and girls and girls Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Like any great love It keeps you guessing Like any real love It’s ever changing Like any true love It drives you crazy But you know you wouldn’t change Anything, anything, anything… Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Taylor Swift "Blank Space" lyrics [Verse 1] Nice to meet you Where you been? I could show you incredible things Magic, madness, heaven, sin Saw you there and I thought oh my god Look at that face, you look like my next mistake Love's a game, wanna play New money, suit and tie I can read you like a magazine Ain't it funny...
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... Title: what we talk about when we talk about love Author: Raymond Carver Theme Compose a complete sentence that states the author’s purpose (meaning or main point) in the story. What we talk about when we talk about love, written by Raymond Carver, talks about what true love is in everyone’s mind. Setting Describe the occasion, time, place, atmosphere, etc. Give details. The setting is very casual. Two couples are just talking during their spare time in the kitchen of one’s home. It is a good sunny afternoon, relaxed, and also not an annoying rainy or windy day. “My friend Mel McGinnis was talking.” “The four of us were sitting around his kitchen table drinking gin. Sunlight filled the kitchen from the big window behind the sink. There were Mel and me and his second wife, Teresa-Terri, we called her- and my wife, Laura.” Language Cite some quotations (at least three) that are particularly meaningful or interesting. Explain why you chose each. “He kept saying, ‘I love you, I love you, you bitch.’” Terri was memorizing what Ed said to her when he beat her. What Ed said was kind of contradictory. Did he hate Terri, or did he love Terri. In Terri’s mind, this is a different way to show his love, but as I know, this is love, while a sick way. The contradictory way he said can show this very completely. Just a several words, but readers can feel what kind of person Ed is. “‘Terri’s a romantic. Terri’s of the kick-me-so-I’ll-know-you-love-me school. Terri...
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..."Love Song" Head under water And they tell me to breathe easy for a while The breathing gets harder, even I know that Made room for me but it's too soon to see If I'm happy in your hands I'm unusually hard to hold on to Blank stares at blank pages No easy way to say this You mean well, but you make this hard on me I'm not gonna write you a love song 'cause you asked for it 'cause you need one, you see I'm not gonna write you a love song 'cause you tell me it's Make or break in this If you're on your way I'm not gonna write you to stay If all you have is leaving I'm gonna need a better Reason to write you a love song today I learned the hard way That they all say things you want to hear And my heavy heart sinks deep down under you and Your twisted words, Your help just hurts You are not what I thought you were Hello to high and dry Convinced me to please you Made me think that I need this too I'm trying to let you hear me as I am I'm not gonna write you a love song 'cause you asked for it 'cause you need one, you see I'm not gonna write you a love song 'cause you tell me it's Make or break in this If you're on your way I'm not gonna write you to stay If all you have is leaving I'm gonna need a better Reason to write you a love song today Promise me that you'll leave the light on To help me see with daylight, my guide, gone 'cause I believe there's a way you can love me Because I say ...
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