Destructive Love In The Broken Heart By John Donne

In this writing assignment I will be giving a detailed interpretation on Robert Nozick’s writing, “Love’s Bond”. First I will give an explanation on Nozick’s account of the nature of love. Secondly, I will explain why Robert Nozick believes that in love there is no desire to trade up to another partner. Lastly, I will also explain why he says that it is incoherent to ask what the value of love is to an individual person.

Consider the ways in which Donne and Jennings use form, structure and language to present their thoughts and ideas. You should make relevant references to your wider reading in the poetry of love.

Love is not always an easy adventure to take part in. As a result, thousands of poems and sonnets have been written about love bonds that are either praised and happily blessed or love bonds that undergo struggle and pain to cling on to their forbidden love. Gwendolyn Brooks sonnet "A Lovely Love," explores the emotions and thoughts between two lovers who are striving for their natural human right to love while delicately revealing society 's crime in vilifying a couples right to love. Gwendolyn Brooks uses several examples of imagery and metaphors to convey a dark and hopeless mood that emphasizes the hardships that the two lovers must endure to prevail their love that society has condemned.

Love through relationships can be represented in many ways, for example romantic love and platonic love. In “A Bolt of White Cloth” by Leon Rooke, the couple has many types of love relationships. The wife loves her husband in a passionate way, the wife also has a deep connection and love for their cat that passed away. A relationship with a child is also mention by the man, however we soon discover they are unable to conceive. The evil apparent in the relationship with the cat is death, death by the actions of mankind. When the man inquires about their love and what they have loved, the woman replies, “Last year this time I had me a fourth, but it got run over. Upon the road there, by the time tall trees, by a man who didn’t even stop” (Rooke 3). Even after the passing of the cat the women's love was unconditional, it states, “She’d dug a grave under the grapevine and said sweet words over it. She sorely missed the cats” (Rooke 3). Death is inevitable, someday the passing of our loved ones will come. Death of the cat symbolizes the evil present in their love relationships.

George Gascoigne’s poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her” discusses the misery of love by exploring speaker’s internal conflict between the his romantic desires and his fear of betrayal. After leaving a difficult relationship, the speaker refuses to look his former partner in the eye even though he is still deeply attracted to her. He justifies his action by explaining how his desire for her will only continue to bring him distress. The speaker uses the poem’s form and diction in order to establish a dismal yet cautious tone in the poem. Furthermore, through various instances of imagery, he reveals his fear of being deceived in the future. By employing these literary devices, Gascoigne highlights the theme of human desire and how it consequently leads to the speaker’s emotional suffering.

Through the use of poetic devices such as repetition or alliteration, the author originally describes what love is not capable of providing and defines love as unnecessary but by the end of the poem, the author reveals that love has some value.

Love can be an amazing thing and it is often said that nothing compares to the bond between a mother and her child, yet before a study called “The nature of love” which is discussed in the book “Forty studies that changed psychology: Explorations into the history psychological research,” our society had a very different understand about what caused this bond (Hock, 2013). In the book the author Roger Hock explores many different influential studies but in the section called “Discovering Love,” he takes a closer look into this study and discusses its importance (Hock, 2013). The influence of this study can be found in many different types of literature such as contemporary articles like “Building your own family,” which was published in Scientific American Mind (2014). This article implicitly provides further understand of the “The nature of love” study results and shows active efforts to continue building on the original theoretical ideas in order to change our views about human development (Jacobson, 2014). Even in modern text books like Psychology: Eighth Edition, can we find traces of the importance of this study. Thus this study not only provided a tremendous contribution to the field of Psychology but also changed society by altering its views on child rearing all together.

The speaker indulges in visual imagery throughout the poem to depict the way he feels about himself and the woman, as well as describe the creatures that he compares himself to. The speaker creates this hurt and distrustful attitude when he describes the creatures he compares himself with that have been hurt before and are cautious around the same things that hurt them. The mouse who escaped a trap once before is now distrustful of the "trustless bait" and the "scorched fly", who escaped flames, "Will hardly come to play again with fire". The speaker uses these analogies to describe himself and the way he feels about his relationship with the woman, hurt and cautious.

People who have been deceived or let down by those they once desired or loved, often mourn and lament their past relationships. In the poem “For That He Looked Not Upon Her,” George Gascoigne addresses the complexities of a broken relationship in his analysis of grief, the fear of being hurt emotionally again, and the captivation a woman still holds despite the misery she caused. He creates this through his tone of misery and undertones of past desires. By utilizing imagery and metaphors in the mouse, melancholy related diction, and words connoted with love, Gascoigne addresses a growth in the complex attitudes of the speakers regarding his prior adoration for a lover and current growth in the lessons of fear and doubtfulness.

The art of poetry speaks to people through the deep meanings represented in the words of the author. These meanings are meticulously pieced together through the mind of the writer. Readers can unveil the words to find truth within the work. The truth being presented in George Gascoigne’s poem illustrates a man that has given up on love because of his past heartbreak. It’s obvious that past failed relationships have altered the speaker’s view of love. George Gascoigne utilizes metaphors in “For That He Looked Not Upon Her”, to revel the truths that are embedded in the poem.

The author, Cormac McCarthy, shows in the book that love can overcome anything if there is still a little bit of faith left that is why the man still believes that the boy can turn society into a better place. The only thing that is driving this man to live is the boy because he needs to protect the boy at any cost. When a member of a bloodcult crew confronted the man about not using his gun because he only has two bullets left and using the boy as a hostage, the man instantly shoots him right in front of his son. The man thinks his killing was justifiable, but was questioned by his son if they were still the “good guys.” The father reassures him that they are still the good guys, or at least reassures his son to feel that way because he has

Although Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, ‘O-were I loved as I desire to be’, was written in 1842, the theme can be compared to Rostand's novel, Cyrano de Bergerac, written fifty-five years later. Both Alfred Lord Tennyson and Rostand are urging the reader to consider that love isn't as easy as it seems. However Lord Tennyson addresses this theme through the use of Imagery and Rostand relies on Personification. From Start to finish, metaphors are used to emphasize the theme of love in the book, “Cyrano de Bergerac” and the poem “O-were I loved as I desire to be.” For example, the author uses the quote “A little longer!

In order to describe the form which Donne gives to true love he chooses to create a scene of separation. He insists that when in love, absence is not a cause for despair. Stanza two describes the usual reaction lovers have to separation but explains that such reactions of tears and sighs do not prove one’s love but rather the

The poem, “For That He Looked Not upon Her” by George Gascoigne exemplifies how the speaker suffered from love, something that many people believe one should feel positive about. The title delivers a despairing tone by allowing the audience to believe that the speaker can no longer look the woman he loved in the eye. Conflicting with the despairing tone, the speaker develops a complex attitude with the use of structure, metaphors, diction, and desire.

I translated the whole line as “my heart shatters in my chest”, as I not only believed that “shattered” shows more severity, but there seems to be more urgency, and even panic, in the word “shatters” sounds compared to “flutters”. Another part I found to be integral to the poem itself was lines nine ten, which, when translated, read “a fragile fire runs instantly through my veins below my flesh”. I was drawn to these lines as they provided the best imagery of the whole poem. However, again, I felt this poem described the sort of violent passion that so often accompanies love, so my translation wound up being a little harsher, reading “a fire burns through my veins, it pounds and thrums”. In reading the rough translation, the symptom sounds to be descriptive of a bashful blushing, but I sensed the deep burn of rejection in the poem, and I wanted my translation to reflect that. “Burns”, “pounds”, and “thrums” are reflective of a deeper a deeper pain, especially when compared to “fragile”. The lines that conclude the work as a whole I had the most fun with. The Greek reads “τεθνάκην δ` ὀλίγω ᾿πιδεύης φαίνομαι”, and when roughly translated means “I appear to myself a little short of dying”. What I found to be humorous about this line is that it is so dramatic, but also nonchalant. The narrator has gone through a list of all these horrible symptoms of love to end with “I’m a little short of