Comparing Bridges And Stevenson's Poems

Love has an intoxicating effect on humans. It has the ability to cripple the mind of an individual as they become fixated with undying passion of another individual. Although love can bring pleasure, it can also be a cruel mistress that has the ability to crush one’s soul at a moment’s notice. The negative impacts of love are clearly seen in Virgil’s Aeneid, where we see the love between Aeneas, a Trojan war hero, and Dido, Queen of Carthage, ultimately resulting in the death of Dido after Aeneas is forced to leave Carthage to fulfill his duty. This story and Virgil’s negative interpretation of love are reflected in poet Louise Gluck’s poem “The Queen of Carthage.” In her poem, she attempts to portray to her audience the suffering Dido felt after Aeneas left Carthage. She warns her audience of the dangerous and double-edged nature of love using Dido as an example. Gluck’s use of repetition of key words, parallel structure, syntax and frequent allusions of to convey the risky nature of love.

follows him everywhere, just like how Aschenbach will become obsessed with Tadzio and will follow him everywhere (Jalic). Aschenbach sees artistic aesthetic when he looks at Tadzio, but he doesn’t look for an Apollonian form in Tadzio, he looks for a Dionysian form. Aschenbach compares Tadzio’s beauty to the Eros. Eros is a Greek god depicted as a beautiful and carefree young man. Eros is the god of love and passionate, physical desire (Cartwright). “Without warning [Eros] selects his targets and forcefully strikes at their hearts, bringing confusion and irrepressible feelings or in the words of Hesiod he ‘loosens the limbs and weakens the mind’” (Cartwright). This Dionysian comparison suggests that Aschenbach is giving in more and more to

In the recollection of myths, Edith Hamilton creates a novel named Mythology and includes a tale that demonstrates that love will be supported, defended, and encouraged in a relationship of true love. There is a beautiful woman who is also charming and appealing but not enough for someone to love her. The woman’s father worries for her as she cannot find a husband that will love her. With help from the God of Music, she finds herself a husband. One day, the woman’s sisters are crying for her and when they visit her location, they become overcome with envy for her deluxe living experience and convince her to glimpse the face of her lover. She sees her lover but he awakens and states, “Love cannot live where there is no trust” (Hamilton 129).

Bridges paints a saintly picture of Eros; “like to his gods in thy proud dress, Thy Starry sheen of nakedness”. Showing Eros to be a heavenly pure creature giving the poem a very calm feeling/tone, however, Eros is still out of the human races reach and whatever the humans do it will not affect Eros in any way. However, in Stevenson’s poem, it is the complete opposite picture/image. Eros is shown to be an essentially ugly being with a corrupted face, like that of a boxer “this thug with broken nose, and so squinty eyes”, changing the tone from calm and relaxed to being negative. The speaker in Bridges speaks as though the god has acquired their (humans) approval where Stevenson has disapproval (because the god is looked down upon). What God gets beaten up and taken advantage of by the impure human

In the Poem, EPƒÇƒÃ, by Robert Bridges, Eros is referred to as an ¡§¡Kidol of the human race¡K¡¨ with a perfect form and looks, however, he bears no expression on his face. On the other hand, in the poem, EROS, by Anne Stevenson, Eros is portrayed as a ¡§thug¡¨ with a bruised and ¡§patchy¡¨ appearance. I believe that although both authors are trying to convey the same message, they choose different ways to go about it.

In Greek mythology, Eros is the god of love and beauty. When one falls in love, fate falls into the hands of this saintly figure. Many people fail to notice the presence of Eros, and both Robert Bridges’ poem “ΕΡΩΣ” and Anne Stevenson’s poem “Eros” focus on this forgotten god. Despite the focus of each poem being centered on Eros, Bridges uses literary techniques such as metaphor, elated language, and poem structure to enforce the idea that Eros is a dictator over human emotions, while Stevenson creates the notion that Eros is a slave to humans’ desire for love by using metaphor, poem structure, diction, and dialogue.

In order to understand the theatrical decisions in regard to actor placement and setting in the aforementioned scene depicting Theo proclaiming his love for Julian, one must first understand eros, it’s position within The Children of Men, and how it relates to Theo. According to C.S. Lewis, the concept of eros does not echo it’s traditional Greek interpretation of sexual love, but rather explains the state in which man develops “a delighted preoccupation with the Beloved—a general, unspecified pre-occupation with her in her totality. A man in this state really hasn 't leisure to think of sex. He is too busy thinking of a person.” (Lewis, 93) Though this interpretation by Lewis of eros may not fit the textbook definition and may seem somewhat trivial and juvenile in it’s essence, it holds merit in

What this story tells us is that even toe Eros is the god of love he doesn't use it almost

Caitlyn Santos Comparative Literature 2AW Professor King 15 November 2014 The Many Forces of Eros Eros expresses the feeling of sexual arousal produced by the physical attraction between two people. In Plato’s Phaidros, he describes the development of the soul during the process of gaining knowledge through the experience of love.

The influential feminine strain in the Odyssey also has important effects upon the whole flavor of the poem. Many other early epics are characterized by coldness, morbidity, and brutality, caused by the subjects with which they deal. The virtues, such as courage and martial prowess, which are seen in the Iliad are impressive, but they are undistinguished and limited, for they exist in a world of mas-culine competition and warfare. It is only in the Odyssey, among early Greek works, that such familiar ideas as love, family loyalty, and devotion, and other such important ethical attitudes, are both illustrated and advocated. It is the presence of these unconscious moral lessons that makes the Odyssey so unique in its genre and produces its humanitarian and optimistic outlook.

“The darkness, by contrast with the flash, appeared to have redoubled; nor was that all, for my ears were now troubled and my mind confounded by a great stir of bats in the top part of the tower, and the foul beasts, flying downwards, sometimes beat about my face and body.” These are the words of David Balfour as he was sent up a creaky tower in the eye of a storm. This scene took place during the live action movie made from the novel Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is hard to decide whether one would like to use their imagination to picture this thrilling scene or watch with anticipation as the storm takes place right on a screen, for there are many similarities and differences between the two versions. These similarities and differences

In the short story “What are we talking about when we talk about love” I believe that Raymond carver illustrates the strongest form of love through Eros. Eros love has to do with emotional, sexual and physical love. Raymond Carter shows this love through the past relationship of Terri and Ed. Terri and Ed were the most irrational couple in many ways. They really loved each other during the first state of their relationship but later as one loves grew another’s diminished. The diminishing love was shared by Terri while her husband Ed love only grew. In the story it describes how much in loved Ed was with Terri. Ed was so in love with Terri that he tried to kill himself. This, amazingly, was not a onetime situation. He first tried to kill himself

Many things influenced Robert Louis Stevenson.His full name is Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson.He was born on November 13, 1850 and died on December 3, 1894.Robert grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland.He got enrolled at Edinburgh University.When he was 25 years old,he became a lawyer.He married a woman named Fanny Osbourne.Their honeymoon was in an abandoned silver mine in Napa Valley.He died on an island in Vailima Samoa while working on a book.The natives buried him on the top of a mountain.

This extract was originally published in Cutts’s collection of work as Farewel to Love , which immediately highlights the term love and heightens its importance, presenting it as a prominent theme. The title alone essentially forebodes the content of the poem, therefore illustrating its entailment with this theme. This original title, alongside the first word alone ‘Strephon’ truly elicit love as a noteworthy theme. However, even without knowledge of the original title, the use of Strephon still renders this theme of love. Since 1504, Strephon has been adapted as a conventional name for a rustic lover , it has been commonly presented as a traditionally masculine name used for the male lover in pastoral poetry. Placing this name at the very beginning of the poem proposes great significance, as it immediately reinforces the theme depicted in the title. The status of love throughout the poem is further heightened via the capitalization of the word in the first quatrain. Capitalizing love is such a way seems to personify it, treating love as more than just a word, conveying it as an experience and as something that can personally affect everyone. However, the truly elevated footing of love arises from Cupid and his role in this text. In Roman mythology, Cupid is known as the god of Love, therefore placing him as dominant in this field, without hesitation. His rank is reinforced through such language as ‘Reign’, ‘Laws’ and ‘Subjects’, these display Cupid as both compelling and

In each of their poems, Bridges and Stevenson characterize love in the form of the Greek god Eros. Through the use of personification, praising (Bridges) or scathing (Stevenson) tone, and appeals to love, the authors describe the emotion that we are born to experience but can never understand. Although they describe it through different paradigms, they are of the mutual understanding that love is an ever present force in humans. The major difference between the two authors descriptions of love is the tone used to describe it.