Love Should Grow Up Like A Wild Iris In The Fields By Susan Griffin

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

James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy are both contemporary poets. Their poems ‘In Paris with You’ and ‘Quickdraw’ both include the themes of the pain of love. This essay compares how the two poets present the pain of love in their poems, exploring things such as imagery, vocabulary and form and structure.

“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”.

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.

Unlike other forms of literature, poetry can be so complex that everyone who reads it may see something different. Two poets who are world renowned for their ability to transform reader’s perceptions with the mere use of words, are TS Eliot and Walt Whitman. “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” by TS Eliot, tells the story of a man who is in love and contemplating confessing his emotions, but his debilitating fear of rejection stops him from going through with it. This poem skews the reader’s expectations of a love song and takes a critical perspective of love while showing all the damaging emotions that come with it. “Song of myself”, by Walt Whitman provokes a different emotion, one of joy and self-discovery. This poem focuses more on the soul and how it relates to the body. “Song of myself” and “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” both explore the common theme of how the different perceptions of the soul and body can affect the way the speaker views themselves, others, and the world around them.

In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the concept of love is explored through several of Janie’s relationships which define not only how societal-cultural norms affect relationships, but also how emotionally fulfilling love ascends over the bounds of society into its own basis. The setting of the book is the early 20th century in the South of America, which spawns Janie into a society of inequalities: primarily generation, gender (along with race), and class. Amongst the obstacles of inequality, Hurston establishes Janie’s idea of a perfect love symbolically with her moment under the pear tree: “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!” (11). Although one might initially believe the metaphor serves to mirror the cultural norm that the (female) tree waits for the aggressive (male) bee to penetrate its blossoms, the careful wording “arch to meet the love embrace” indicates that Janie’s idea of love is actually reciprocal and mutual. The choice to have Janie make this belief involving two different species suggests that within this mutual love, there should be no barriers in terms of race or class, for both the bee and the tree possess neither

Coley had felt something twinge inside her at that moment; Of course, she was too young, too inexperienced to know what it meant– the very notion of love was something still frivolous and unattainable – but right then, when her eyes met Sonya’s for the first time, she felt something take root inside her; a tiny plant finally pushing its way out of the ground, a minute mark of green on a barren brown landscape.

The author uses figurative language to show that love is an illuminating and brightening feeling, without it our lives are dull and gloomy. Ryan Ross uses both the Sun and the Moon to symbolize a man (the Sun) and a woman (the Moon), who fall in love

At a first glance, the title of the poem, “Love after Love”, might appear to imitate another soppy love poem written by another pretentious poet claiming to know yet another secret to a perfect love. One could not be more wrong. Nor, would one know, at a glance, the impact Derek Wallcott’s poem, “Love After Love”, has had on my life. An impact that would make all the difference, through all of the trials and tribulations, seventeen-year-old me has endured so far. In a short fifteen lines, I have relearned the everlasting importance of self-love and the transformative powers I hold within myself. These lessons which I vowed, to never let myself, again, forget.

Who can be in control of how someone feels? With reading “Porphyria's Lover” written by Robert Browning, and “Adam and Eve” written by Tony Hoagland; they give an insight on how one can feel about love. The poem “Porphyria’s Lover” starts with the speaker inside of a cottage, hearing a strong storm that’s outside. However, the words of “the sullen wind was soon awake, it tore the elm-tops down for spite”, can also mean the speaker has emotions that are dwelling on his mind.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning gained a love that instinctively felt long before the meeting with her future husband. The ninth and tenth lines described the author as a passionate flower blossoming in marriage with her husband: “I love thee with the passion put to use, In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.” (Barret Browning 509) She did not know about such a deep and strong love before she met Mr. Browning. The connection between the spouses is so reliable, that a wife fully trusts him herself and her life. With the childhood faith, she is ready to open her soul for him.

But what if someone never has this realization and never moves on? What if they stick to this first crush forever and never move on? In Robert Penn Warren’s poem “True Love”, Warren uses syntax, imagery, and an uncomfortable, remorseful tone to prove that an unrealistic perception of true love can prevent someone from attaining true love. First Warren uses variable syntax to make the reader feel uncomfortable. In the poem the speaker is describing his unnamed dream girl when he first sees her.

Finding the Love of Your Life was written by Neil Clark Warren, PH.D., and in this book he explains his ten basic principles of finding the right mate to spend your life with. He teaches people how to understand the two different types of love: passionate love and companionate love. He states that many do not get past the passionate love portion which is why many people go from relationship to relationship when the passion wears off.

“Oh, my love is like a red, red rose” by Robert Burns, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare, and “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe are similar poems. The biographical information for each author, the conflicts in the poems and the literary devices contribute to the central theme, love.

Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Valentine’ ultimately depicts a highly cynical attitude towards love and conventional gestures of affection. The poem uses traditional images of valentine as a starting point, before showing how an onion is much more true to the nature of love. An extended metaphor of the onion is then used to depict Duffy’s underlying implication that love can be destructive on many different levels.