Dickey And Sexton's Poetry Analysis

Ever since the beginning of time, love has played an enormous role among humans. Everyone feels a need to love and to be loved. Some attempt to fill this yearning with activities and possessions that will not satisfy – with activities in which they should not participate and possessions they should not own. In Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker encounters an emotion some would call love but fits better under the designation of lust for a woman. In contrast, the speaker of Robert Herrick’s poem, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” urges virgins to marry, to make a lasting commitment in which love plays a

Marriage unites two people for better or worse, in sickness and health, until death they do part. In earlier times, some people might say wedding vows were taken more seriously; other say divorce was different back in the day. Looking at Katie Chopin and Nathaniel Hawthorne, who both exemplify martial vows in their short stories, “The Story of an Hour” and “The Birthmark.” It is clear in one instance, it was because divorce was different but then on the other hand the stories demonstrate the seriousness of the wedding vows. However, these stories express a husband-dominated relationship, in which the men possess ideals such as possession, perfection, and being all knowing.

The Poem “Introduction to Poetry” is by Billy Collins, an English poet, and it is about how teachers often force students to over-analyze poetry and to try decipher every possible meaning portrayed throughout the poem rather than allowing the students to form their own interpretation of the poem based on their own experiences.

The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife, and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. The poem expresses deep sorrow and sadness that derive from the loneliness of the speaker, after his other half’s passing away. Nemerov attempts to take his readers on a grief-stricken journey, by strategically employing figurative language (mainly personification, metaphor, simile, and alliteration), fractured rhyme schemes and turns in stanza breaks in the poem.

In Mark Cox’s “Joyland”, Cox uses juxtaposition and symbolism to underline how infidelity exposes the complex relationship between the fantasy and reality of what it means to maintain a healthy marriage. The narrator of the poem is observing the behaviors and setting of a man and his wife while on a mini-golf course, shortly after the man cheated on his wife. In the first stanza of “Joyland,” the narrator introduces the mini-golf course that the man and his wife are playing at: “Here, between teen lovers spooning each other ice cream, / and the press of a five-putting family of four”(1-2). Cox uses imagery and juxtaposition to highlight the contrast between the fantasy and reality of loving another person. The narrator describes “teen lovers”

The topic of adultery has always been a touchy subject amongst couples; never the less, many people have succumb to it. In Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” and Clint Eastwood’s The Bridges of Madison County, both protagonists were married mothers who were becoming complacent living their ordinary housewife lifestyle on a farm. As a lone character comes into their lives, a new passionate love is sparked which will test the loyalty to their husbands and children. Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” and Clint Eastwood’s The Bridges of Madison County, share the use of love, passion, and loyalty in order to show the complications and justifications of an affair.

Marriage may not be as simple as just falling in love and living “happily ever-after” with that special partner. It may become complicated when superficial values, such as social standings, money and ones name, become more important than love. Without that thumping in the heart and special someone, marriage may encompass cheating, lies and dominance. These dishonest and threatening tendencies may doom a marriage to fail. In the play Importance Of Being Earnest and the poem My Last Duchess, both Oscar Wilde and Robert Browning utilizes the rhetorical techniques of satire, diction and characterization to show that marriage is not a sacred and honest relationship.

The discussion of the Wife’s five husbands describes her evolving role as a woman and how she overcame the most ridiculous obstacles to maintain this idea or illusion of marriage. The Wife’s depiction of her marriages was that three were good and two were bad. The initial marriages were to older rich men where she kept up this idea of marriage in order to receive money, but was not faithful by

Wilde viewed marriage to be filled with hypocrisy and often used to achieve status. Wilde also saw marriage as an institution that encouraged cheating as the majority of people in the Victorian era did not marry for love instead they married people who would help achieve a more important social status in society. In spite of the fact that the play does inevitably end on a joyful note, it does however give the feeling that marriage and respectability are frequently entwined in dangerous ways. This states that there is a link between marriage and social status rather than marrying for

Adultery has been the topic of movies, books, television shows, and many arguments between spouses. One of the main question that surrounds it is, to what extent is adultery morally permissible. To me adultery can not be talked about unless also talking about love. Often love and adultery are intertwined whether it is because one uses love of another to justify adultery, or uses adultery as an evidence that one no longer loves their spouse. Pausanias, a character from the play Symposium by Plato, argues that love is constantly talked about yet few recognize the difference between the two types of love, which I will examine later. While people may dismiss adultery as not morally permissible because it causes pain to one’s spouse, a reason brought to light by Bonnie Steinbock in her essay, What’s Wrong With Adultery?. At this point Steinbeck offers the alternative of open marriages. John McMurtry also entertains the idea of open marriages being the extent that adultery is morally permissible. Finally, there are those that share the ideals of Raymond Carver’s characters in his fiction story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. It takes a deeper look at the love two people can have for each other and the effects of it on their lives. I believe that adultery is not morally permissible because it perverts the pure meaning of love and uses it as an excuse.

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Poetry is a reduced dialect that communicates complex emotions. To comprehend the numerous implications of a ballad, perusers must analyze its words and expressing from the points of view of beat, sound, pictures, clear importance, and suggested meaning. Perusers then need to sort out reactions to the verse into a consistent, point-by-point clarification. Poetry utilizes structures and traditions to propose differential translation to words, or to summon emotive reactions. Gadgets, for example, sound similarity, similar sounding word usage, likeness in sound and cadence are at times used to accomplish musical or incantatory impacts.

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s work The Canterbury Tales, “The Franklin’s Tale” and “The Merchant’s Tale” depict many differences on the characters and authors outlook on marriage. In both of Chaucer’s tales, the manner in which marriage transpires between the two couples varies prominently. Additionally, the effort to control the wives in the tales is also conspicuously different. In Chaucer’s two tales, the author depicts the differences in both women by seeing if they are faithful to the vows of their marriage. Throughout the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer demonstrates to the reader a true and ethical appeal by using the aspect of marriage.

He then meets the lady with the dog, Anna, who is also not happy with her marriage and they decide to have relations, while still being married. This can be seen as one of the biggest sins of society. However, the compelling question about these stories is whether or not it is acceptable for these characters to be viewed as unsympathetic for their lack of faithfulness or support in their marriages. Both of these stories take place during the late nineteenth century, in a time period where traditional values were a commonality throughout society. During this time period, unfaithfulness and unhappiness within a marriage were seen as morally wrong and most believed that since they vowed to be with each other until death when they part, that it was morally wrong to either divorce or cheat on your spouse. Through the common theme of marriage and unhappiness, it becomes evident that are reasons for each character that make them both sympathetic and unsympathetic from the eyes of the

Today, divorce has become a common cultural and historical concern and “an American way of life” (Whitehead). This essay studies the relationship between divorce and love as presented in numerous realist literary works from the turn of the century, including A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells, Marry Me: A Romance by John Updike, and The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton. Closely reviewing these novels, I examine love as well as divorce, which saw a remarkable increase between the years 1880 and 1920. Moving the topic of divorce to the forefront illuminates love in real life and helps us understand the ways in which these realists were actively participating in and engaging with the issues of society during their era, rather than exposing life as they saw it. In each of these novels, this old-fashioned subject of love or romance is presented with a sort of sympathetic disdain, creating a tension in these texts rendered thematically by the disruptive subject of divorce and informed by contradictory beautiful and social priorities that shape an analysis of the present and the past on which it depends. A closer glimpse at divorce in American literature is captivating because love has played a central role in the history of literature as a whole. It has been demonstrated that love has served as a complex conceptual formal function in the development of literature through each era. Love and marriage have been pivotal to the plot and shape of literary works, serving as