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Since the beginning of human existence love has earned a meaning of pure bliss and wild passion between two people that cannot be broken. Through out time the meaning of love has had its slight shifts but for the most part, maintains a positive value. In the poem “Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields,” the author, Susan Griffin expresses that this long lost concept of love is often concealed by the madness of everyday life and reality. In the poem, Griffin uses many literary elements to help convey the importance of true love. The usage of imagery, symbolism, and other literary techniques really help communicate Griffins’ meaning

“Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims is an excellent of example of an author using many types of literary terms to emphasize his theme of a love that is imperfect yet filled with acceptance. In, this poem Nims uses assonance, metaphor, and imagery to support his theme of “Imperfect, yet realistic love”.

When a person imagines a love poem, they may conjure up the idea of someone saying that their beloved is an angel in human form, or that the love between the two can move mountains. Everything experience is heightened and it takes on a fantastical nature. In Alexie’s poem “Reservation Love Song”, the reader hears about how the speaker tells his lover “I can meet you/ in Springdale buy you beer” and “I can pay your rent” (Lines 1-2, 5). That’s not often what people think of when they imagine “true love”. However, when a person has lacked financial or emotional stability in the past, they tend to crave that when looking for someone to be with. In stanza

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 comes in numerous ways and can be expressed in countless fashions. Love is powerful, has a meaning, and is capable of eclipsing time all due to the human psyche. One can love anything from a family member, to a fictional character in a TV show, or even an inanimate object. The fluidity of love is what makes it so difficult to understand if one is “in love” or has ever experienced love. Experiences often mold a person’s perspective on what love truly is. Love is not an emotion, but rather a condition of the mind that cause one to act in ways that are uncharacteristic. It can be blinding, obsessive, and pure, depending on the reciprocation of the love. Since love is an abstract concept, one simply cannot measure how much love they have received or given alike. Although the human brain can perceive and interpret other’s actions or words as signs of love and care, in which the mind processes this into the mental psyche that is love.

Love can be quite a difficult topic to write about, expressing one’s intimate and innermost emotions requires a great level of dedication and honesty. If done correctly, the outcome is truly stunning. John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and Katherine Philips’s “To Mrs. M.A. at Parting” are two masterpieces of this genre. These poems depict the concept of true love so meticulously that the reader cannot help but envy the relationships presented. Perhaps the reason that these works are so effective is due to the fact that they are incredibly similar to each other. Although some differences are present when it comes to structure and gender concerns, the poems share the same theme of love on a spiritual level and show many parallels in meaning.

Being in love is like an amalgamation of different yet powerful emotions exploding every second. It tends to heighten ones perception, hence, perceiving the world through a larger lens. It can cause a deep sense of grief at times but it can also make one feel a certain kind of content. The very exclusive one where the abundance of joy cannot be defined. Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy explores the many sides to love. The entire poem is an extended metaphor that criticizes the stereotypical idea of love. Duffy uses an onion, a very unusual object as a symbol to represent a gift for one’s admirer. The poet reveals the positive aspects of the speaker’s attitude to love through the use of powerful imagery (similes, metaphors, repetition), prominent

In past poetry, love and romance has been interpreted in many ways but mainly in a form known as sad and heartbreaking experiences. During the sixteenth century and times before that, many authors expressed love as gloomy and also wrote in the favor of men. Two interesting portrayals of love are in the sonnet “They Flee From Me” by Thomas Wyatt and collection of sonnets “Amoretti” by Edmund Spencer. In these poems, love is described mostly in two opposite ways. While “They Flee From Me” portrays men as the victim to women and their deviousness, “Amoretti” takes an opposing turn from how most poetry of that time wrote about love by celebrating it in a positive and joyful way.

Sir Thomas Wyatt and Samuel Daniels have sonnets in which the speaker is attempting to define love. With one speaker stating his daily life and the other expressing the feeling through paradoxes, both ultimately end up with poems that are not conventionally good love poems. I allege that the reason they cannot effectively define love is that they do not truly understand it because their own egos blind them from it. The scope of both sonnets is restricted to simply the speakers’ focus and they spend all fourteen lines saying things of little consequence. Rather than getting across the point that they are in love, they are showing their disillusionment in regards to what love is because they are so self-centered and thus inadept at writing poetry. I aim to reveal that these sonnets reveal more about the speakers than about love through their choice of rhyme scheme, rhetorical devices, meter, and repetition.

Her use of plosives imitates her nervousness as she is displayed as uncomfortable with the idea of exposing herself to the vulnerability associated with pain. A fragile atmosphere is incorporated within this stanza as she emphasises the importance of truth which connotes a sense of being unguarded or broken down. As well as this, Jenning’s explores the delicacy of people as love inevitably pushes them to their limit. In order to experience love entirely Jenning’s explains that true feelings result in “every shaking of the heart.” This could suggest the excitement led by love, the skipped heart beats and ‘butterflies’ causing the muscle to tremble. However, Jenning’s explores the fine line between excitement and anxiety. In portraying the heart this way, love is suggested to be dangerous as it puts strain on the persona’s life. In experiencing true love, the persona is said to be placed at risk of loss as the heart symbolises their existence. True love is so complex, the heart trembles and threatens to stop as a whole should it become unbalanced with passion or emotional weight. Jenning’s exaggerates the deadly nature of love as she highlights the destruction it is capable of. This is significant to her as she is presented to have lost in the past. Through this use of imagery,

When defining love in literature it is described as ‘a feeling of intense deep affection’. William Shakespeare, one of the greatest advocates for romantic love, alludes to romantic love as being like ‘drunkenness’ . Like too much alcohol or happy drugs, romantic love takes over all senses in a person, and somewhat changes his or her outlook on situations and decisions. However the power of love and passion is all too often associated with destructive irrational thinking none more so than William Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in which love ultimately leads to the death of six characters. Still, the most important factor to take into consideration when discussing love is the contextual influence and era in which the play, novel or poem

Love is the strongest force on the planet. It can move mountains and bend rivers. Love is affection and passion. But love cannot consistently be there for a person. Love is not guaranteed. Love is not like a good pair of shoes waiting to be worn. Love is the only thing in the world that can save and ruin a person, just like how it wrecked Doodle’s brother. Doodle and his brother seemed inseparable. Doodle constantly had his brother’s back, but Doodle’s brother did not seem to have his. Brother took Doodle’s love for granted and he did not realize it until Doodle was gone, along with his love. In the story of The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, the theme of when love is taken for granted, people do not realize it until it is gone can be revealed through foreshadowing and symbolism.

When discussing love and its frustrations a rose can represent the beauty of pure love. The idea of love is difficult to comprehend, pure love is described as perfection and beauty incarnated. In Edmund Waller’s poem

Throughout Derek Walcott’s poems he guides the reader through an emotional struggle he faces in life and one issue that he can relate with the reader is the struggle of overcoming love. Both “Love After Love” and “The Fist” reveal Walcott’s writers’ craft that allows the reader to fully understand the situation that Walcott is in and how he is trying to draw to a conclusion. “Love After Love” is a poem in which Walcott reflects on love while at the same time giving some advice to the audience. In Contrast, Derek Walcott’s “The Fist” shows us the idea of what love drives a person to. Both of these poems help the reader

The Metaphysical and Victorian concept of love is as diverse as it can be particularly comparing the intense love shown in 'Porphyria 's Lover ' by Robert Browning with the playful love in nature in 'To His Coy Mistress ' by Andrew Marvell. Love has multiple definitions and it has so far remained among the most complex subject that require a single particular definition to define its meaning. Plato once said "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet" and that 's why may be we have so many diverse poetry on the subject of love with so many different definitions of love that are available. Shakespeare wrote in his Sonnet 116 defining love, "Love is not love which alters when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove", talking about the passion and loyalty, a belief unassailable, "That look on tempests and is never shaken". Such intensity that Shakespeare shows and the partial playful nature that Plato hints has the possibilities for influencing a writer to produce unique individual thoughts, with different approach and equally persuading in nature.