How Do I Love Thee?

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is one of Christopher Marlowe’s pastoral poem. A pastoral poem deals with the idealistic rather than realistic viewpoint of the life of the country. In the poem, the speaker is trying to convince his love to come and live with him. The setting that gets described here sets the mood of the poem. The sincerity and the eagerness of the speaker can be observed

Since time immemorial, the concept of love and its definition have been highly personal and truly unique phenomena. They have been the source and product of comedy, tragedy and everything in between. Poets have praised and despised it, the media has sold it and mankind has ever longed for and misunderstood it. In her poem, Variations on the Word Love, Margaret Atwood juxtaposes the connotations and denotations of the word “love” in order to comment on the misrepresentation

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.

Initially, Barrett Browning’s misunderstanding of love implies her innocence, apparent in the utilisation of direct speech in Sonnet I, “Not Death, but Love,”, emphasising her surprise. However, as the sonnets progress her views are altered and Sonnet XIV accentuates Barrett Browning’s yearning to be loved and urges Browning to reemphasise his love, “But love me for love’s sake, that evermore thou mayst love on, through love’s eternity,”. Imperative voice and diction indicates Barrett Browning’s preoccupation for an everlasting love that is not influenced by superficial circumstances. This notion is reiterated in Sonnet XXI, “Say thou dost love me, love me, love me,”. Imperative tone is utilised, urging Browning to repeatedly express his love for her. The idealised love that EBB envisions can surpass even Death, reflected in her Victorian

The poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden define the meaning of love and describes the love that a son has for his father. He showed his love, thanking his father for what he did for him by describing that every day he get up early the next day to go to work no matter the circumstances he sustain his family. The father in the poem, is a hard working person who wants the best for his family even though the family never thanks him. For example, “Then with cracked hands that ached, from labor in the weekday weather made” (Lines 3-4). The father demonstrates a scene of love because when you love, you can demonstrate it with actions to let the other person know is important and what can you do to make them happy. On the other hand, the poem “Magic of love” by Helen Ferries

Hence, she appraises the responder of how Robert Browning, her lover, has given her a new life and hope “in all her green” for the future. The pleasure and ecstasy she experiences due to his passion are further expressed through the repetition of “Say thou dost love me, love me, love me”. This conveys her excitement and deep infatuation with Robert. It also suggests the joy Robert has given her. Therefore, EBB communicates to the responder how influential true love is and how it can change one’s life forever.

Love is such an abstract concept for the human mind to figure out. Along with the love of a mother for her child, there are many types of sensual love or brotherly love; friendship is frequently described as a type of love, as well. This abstraction can also be distorted and made to fit into categories that would normally be associated with negativity and abuse not "love." Think of why a woman will continually go back to an abusive spouse with the irrational reason that "he loves me." If he loved you, he wouldn't beat you…Would he? In a poem, the confusion seems only to extend, as writers will describe a beautiful event that is tainted by a

A slightly different approach to a proclamation of love is conveyed in the third poem,  by Christopher Marlowe.  He,  despite having the same aim as the poet in the first poem,  seeks a far more realistic approach,  and seems to try to win his loves over by being truthful and presenting her with the truth.  However he does this in such a manner,  that the poem seems to contain a touch of sarcasm in it.

A poem is a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and that often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanza structure. In her poem, “Variations of the Word ‘“love”’,” Margaret Atwood introduces to her audience the word “love” from many different perspectives. Google defines “love” as “an intense feeling of deep affection”, or “having a deep feeling or sexual attachment to (someone).” But “love” is not something that can easily be described. Atwood goes on to present and portray the word through different illustrations, beginning with cliché examples and ending with her own personal scenarios. The author’s tone and metaphorical language effectively conveys her perspective of “love”.

In the poems ‘Let Me Describe for You Her Eyes’ by Glenn Colquhoun, and ‘Sonnet XVIII’ by William Shakespeare, both writers’ describe their experiences and ideas of love in two very contrasting ways, which can reflect on the world around us, and helped me learn about the how different relationships can affect people, and the world around them. Though their ideas may differ, both writers used similar techniques, such as the use of an extended metaphor. Similarly, both writers tone and structure supported their own ideas of what was like for them in the relationship of which they are writing, and helps the readers, as well as myself, to understand the message which their poems portray. Both, have very contrasting ideas when it comes to love,

The act of expressing love is something that has occurred since the beginning of time. Love is something that is the most important aspect of a person’s life because most humans are interested in it and things such as poetry and music help fulfill that desire. Although “Candy Shop” by 50 Cent is a different form of poetry than The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe, they both describe their love using theme, imagery and tone.

How do I love thee, let me count the ways” often is mistaken that it comes from Shakespeare. However it comes way after Shakespeare, it comes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning who wrote the sonnets, not as an abstract, but as a personal declaration of love to her husband, Robert .Elizabeth and her husband had a lot in common, but like anything else, also had many differences like : they both belonged to different social classes, they were educated and both had a great hunger for learning they both learned with different ethics and didn’t succeed in the same way. Robert Browning’s work reminds readers that the nature of truth or reality varies. He talked about evil people in his poems his poems who commit crimes and sins that fluctuated from

Love is such a strong word that we sometimes use it to the best of our ability. While reading I was very intrigued by two poems that I feel was wrote more so on the love side and trying to show or I would say express themselves through the poem. The poems Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? by William Shakespeare and To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet are two poems I feel is trying to express love, but in two totally different ways. The poems are bringing meaning to the word love and showing that it doesn't have to be used only to show a connection between two different people, but it can be used in other ways as well.

The poem “How Do I Love Thee”, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed”, by Edna Vincent Millay are both well-known poems that both have themes of love. (LIT, Kirszner & Mandell, Pg. 490). In both poems the poet helps the reader experience a lot of emotion with the use of certain words. There are speakers in both poems. In Mrs. Browning’s poem, the speaker is undefined, leaving open that the speaker could be a he or she. Millay’s poem which is written in first person, the speaker is more defined leading the reader to believe it is a she who is talking about love in the past tense. Both poems are sonnets written with fourteen lines, and written in Italian style. When comparing these poems we will be looking at the use of rhyme scheme and metaphors and how they were used to express emotions in these two sonnet poems.

Love can be characterized in different ways. Particularly in American culture, where love is utilized to portray the passion or fascination of a wide range of things or individuals. There is no genuine characterization of the sort of adoration for things; it is outright love. Usually, when the word love comes up, a great many people connect it with sentimental love; love that is shared between couples in a relationship. However, still there are various definitions one needs to portray this kind of adoration. In an article called "What is Love," Sheryl Paul characterizes love, "Love is activity. Love is resilience… Love is giving. Love is getting… Love is perceiving that it isn't your accomplice's business to influence you to feel invigorated, satisfied, or finish." Sheryl Paul utilizes verbs to portray love and has her own particular view of what love is and ought to be that individuals can concur or can't help contradicting. There are numerous poems all through the historical backdrop of writing that have been composed about comparable subjects. Some are fundamentally the same as others are totally unique, despite the fact that they share a similar reason. Anne Bradsteet has two poems specifically that I will examine with a similar subject, sentimental love for her husband. Despite the fact that they both offer alternate points of view on the topic, they approach clarifying it in a comparative way. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick Employment” share the subject of sentimental love, and the authors approach explaining the topic in comparative courses, paying little mind to their restricting perspectives.