Attitudes Towards Love in Pre-1900 and 1990's Poetry Essay

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

The poems I have chosen to write about are ‘They flee from me’ by Sir

Kind Hearted Women (Sutherland, 2013) is a documentary that attempts to portray what it means to be a Native American in modern times. It uncovers how child abuse and domestic violence tainted the life of one woman on an Indian reservation. Robin Charboneau, the protagonist of the film, becomes a whistleblower of the dysfunctional tribal council system. As she seeks help and advocates for her family, she faces the scars from her own past and starts on a journey full of learning, growing and healing.

Like every marketed love story out there, the poem starts off with two souls who secretly admire each other, yet are too afraid to admit it. In a society that at that time would quite possibly think

Pre 1914 Love Poetry from the Victorian and Elizabethan Era Conventional females were considered to be second class citizens who were expected to refrain in conveying their natural feelings and emotions. Women were also socially neglected, as they were expected to remain at home whilst their respective husbands ensured the upkeep of the family by managing the family finances. The male population at this point in time ignorantly viewed women as coy, innocent characters, seemingly unaware that women had the same feelings and emotions as themselves.

The theme of love is a universal, timeless issue that has always been discussed and forever will be. People are searching for the true meaning of love and how it is different from person to person and from race to race. Everyone is amazed by how love can make people experience so many emotions and how love can bring sadness and happiness and confusion. ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ By John Keats and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ by Robert Browning for example both share the common theme of love, both lovers had to depart their loved ones whether due to societal pressures or due to the fact that the lover is from a different world. However the idea of women having power

All six of these poems are trying to send out a message of how they

He couldn’t stop hurting even if he wanted to. He felt, no he knew he deserved it. A pit developed in his stomach and throughout his whole body he felt this all affecting him. It was ruining him, and he had no one to blame but himself. He regretted what he had done. Pushed her away, became too controlling, and brought things to a full circle. He had put her into a relationship like the one she had that she also had to end. End. Everything has an end.

The poets view on modern love is scary because he uses death to represent love how someone feels when the one they love dies and they don’t know what to do with their self and all they can do it just sit and mope around looking for a way to get over it but can’t until death take over them. “By this he knew she wept with waking eyes” George Meredith. When her husband died she didn’t know what to do but, he knew every night that she would lay awake crying because she misses him. Modern love feels like death “and strangled mute, like little gaping snakes, Dreadfully venomous to him.” George Meredith. You just give up and when their gone you feel like a snake just bit and you have the venom in your skin and your dying. Or, you start to be depressed

The narrator in this poem had known bliss in the form of his love. He refers to his love simply as joy at one point, as if all the joy in his life

To begin with, the poet starts his poem by describing his precious Annabel with the lines such as “And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.”(lines 3,4) This line instantly takes me back to how I thought about when I first fell in love as I thought that she was sent to the Earth by the heaven just to love me and I was born to love her. It reminded me of what she used to say, it went something like, “what would I do if I was not loving you”. It sounds cheesy and it WAS cheesy but when I was twelve years old that sentence meant the world to me. Of course I realized later that those were nothing more than words. I did wish they were

The dynamic between Isabella and Elias in The Courtly Love Poems is a rather complex one as there is a thick lover’s quarrel unravelling throughout the work. This quarrel, consisting of an unlikely couple, a woman of elite stature and a mere troubadour, reveals an interesting dynamic between the two: a working relationship of repulsion and attraction from Elias to Isabella. As the poem starts, there is no doubt about the fact that Isabella is in a state of distress due to her crumbling love affair with Elias resulting from his alleged infidelity. Rather dramatically, she demands from the get-go to know “the truth about the love [they] once had...and why [he has] given it to someone else” (I,1-4).

fact that they were not as one rather just the one. When We Two Parted

I believe Auden had a negative view towards love, it seems like he lost hope and feels dejected. At the beginning of the poem Auden used a metaphor to create an image and

This suggests that the poet is writing from his heart and feelings which characterizes the poem as sincere and genuine. The poet attempts to redeem himself after the woman has criticized him in the first stanza. However, he would have desired to remain with the technique of a metaphoric dialogue. The poet however uses a different representation in this stanza as the woman would prefer a more literal dialogue of his love as she insists “Then you’d better think twice” (Line4). The woman is aware that the poet is capable of better-quality writing. This indicates that they have a shared history. It suggests that the woman motivates the poet to write “better” (Line 4) and also she acts as inspiration for the poet. The first and second stanzas complement each other. The fact that the poet uses a different dialogue technique in the second stanza reveals his love for this woman. The poet is willing to terminate his own writing technique for her “So I write” (Line5). He would adjust the dialogue of the poem if it were to make the woman delighted and captivated. This is the reason it is a love poem, despite it being written in an unconventional dialogue. The poet would express his love through his poem in order to impress the