Love In Love's The Lover And The Beloved

Shakespeare’s sonnet 130, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” and Pablo Neruda’s “My ugly love” are popularly known to describe beauty in a way hardly anyone would write: through the truth. It’s a common fact that modern lovers and poets speak or write of their beloved with what they and the audience would like to hear, with kind and breathtaking words and verses. Yet, Shakespeare and Neruda, honest men as they both were, chose to write about what love truly is, it matters most what’s on the inside rather than the outside. The theme of true beauty and love are found through Shakespeare and Neruda’s uses of imagery, structure, and tone.

    Loving one that loves one back is an easy task to accomplish, but loving them without them loving one back is a degrading, embarrassing task and only the bold, courageous, and madly in love people would do such things. The following passage was extracted

every human being". He is expressing that the phenomenon of love is as natural and

Poetry written in the sixteenth century is not very different from modern-day poetry. Poets seem to continue to craft work based upon love and heartbreak more than any other topic. In Georgia Giscoigne’s 1573 poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her”, the speaker comes off as distraught over a girl, but actually has a more conflicting attitude towards her. The speaker feels desire towards this girl, but his desirer comes off as ambivalent at times. He shows indecisiveness about his feelings towards her, and at times comes off as regretful towards his past with her. Gascoigne presents a desiring, ambivalent, yet regretful attitude through his choice of title, diction, and use of metaphors.

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.

Although the classic Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet depicts love at first sight between the two titular protagonists, such is not truly attainable in its entirety. Mainly, this is due to the nature of true love, which requires more than what can be obtained upon first sight, or even over the course of a few days, as in the case of Romeo and Juliet, where it is illustrated that the protagonists are so deeply in love with each other that they consider their romance to be of a higher priority than their own lives; that they had been willing to sacrifice themselves for their lover. In addition, love often segues

“When we judge other people we confront them in a spirit of detachment, observing and reflecting as it were from the outside. But love has neither time nor opportunity for this. If we love, we can never observe the other person with detachment, for he is always and at every moment a living claim to our love and service.”.

If love longs to possess the good there are two possibilities, either man can come to possess the good or it can not. Now the good itself, the form of the good stands outside of the realm of human existence, it is not possible for men to see the form of the good. This can be derived from the worst

George Gascoigne’s work “For That He Looked Not Upon Her” uses dynamic and vivid imagery, diction, and form when portraying his complex attitude towards the target of his emotions. Throughout the poem it is clear that he is unable to make eye contact, avoiding confrontation and contact by not looking upon her but rather averting his eyes. He is clearly overwhelmed with emotions, most likely a cross between regret, love, and heartache. The diction used displays this in sequence. The form is set up like a sonnet, a common rhyme scheme that is used to portray love songs and love poems. The form used by the writer sets up a backdrop of sorts for the literary devices used in the poem to portray such a conflicted series of emotions.

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.

In “For That He Looked Not upon Her” by George Gascoigne, the speaker displays the fiery anger of his beloved towards him. The speaker utilizes devices, such as form, diction, and imagery to explain the overwhelming conflict, while also showing the speaker has been betrayed by his beloved and is fighting to retain strength against her capturing beauty.

(4) This shows that lovers are people who go beyond their duty. (4) Caputo asks, “Who do I love when I love my God?”(2) He dives into this question by stating that God is love.(5) According to Caputo, God is love and all who knows love knows God. This is also stated in the Bible, I John 4:16, “God is love.

“Love is complex: considered simply in itself, it is neither honorable nor a disgrace-its character depends entirely on the behavior it gives rise to,” (Plato 183d). There are two different types of love that Pausanius refers to, which are the common and heavenly love. The common love is based on your love for someone for their body, sex or beauty making it physical love and desire for a person. Heavenly love is love for the mind such as your intelligence and strength, someone you can benefit from making one more wise. Any love that is encountered has a purpose whether is it the love between a mother and daughter or the love between a husband and wife. In the end, all love leads and is directed to virtue and improves the loved ones.

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.

Imagine yourself in a world in which the profound emotional need of affectionate love was non-existent. If that world somehow came to existence, what would then be the purpose and meaning of our lives? Now ask yourself, could you live a life with no purpose? Although the purpose of life is entirely subjective to each individual, a reoccurring theme of love has been expressed through stories over thousands of years suggesting that the need for love is deeply rooted within our very own being. Metamorphoses, a Latin narrative poem written by Roman poet Ovid, draws attention to change and social cohesion mainly by transfiguring characters within the poems. By examining Ovid’s Metamorphoses, specifically Book IX, glimpses of social cohesion through the reoccurrence theme of love have been brought to light. Ovid bases these poems on deep emotions of affection contrary to rational thinking while suggesting an encoded purpose of life: the need and search for deep affectionate love. While examining the poems within Book IX one can understand that a flashing insight into love encodes our world through the fundamental relationship between the sexes and therefore unifies our society by creating a sense of identity and purpose. Examining these two encodings will exemplify the understanding and discovery of what suggests as being the purpose of life. Although the poems