Love should grow up like a wild iris

Throughout “Love Should Grow up Like an Wild Iris in the Fields” Susan Griffin provokes the readers to think twice about why they consistently enslave themselves with the burden of daily monotony, instead of enjoying the simplicity of love. Griffin uses two metaphors in her poem when describing love, as a flower, as well as the iris of an eye. Her comparisons are both interesting as well as accurate.

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.

In the blank space before the third stanza we infer that the woman has killed the flea. He is upset at the woman because she killed the flea and wants to know how this flea was guilty. The tone of the poem changes in this stanza because now, he is chastising her for her sins. He is even cool and harsh when he says, “Just so much honor, when thou yield’st to me, /Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee” (26-27) He then concludes by explaining that having sex with him would be just as trivial as killing the flea.

“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”.

     In contrast to these fairly pessimistic views on love, the author describes an instance in which a couple found true love. Mel tells an anecdote of an old couple that was admitted to the emergency room after a very bad car accident. The two people were wrapped up in full body casts, and as a result they could not see each other. Mel noticed that the old man was very sad, even

In this global era of evolving civilization, it is increasingly difficult to ignore the fascinating fact about love. Love is a feeling of intimacy, warmth, and attachment. Love is inevitable and it plays a vital role in human life as Janie uses her experience with the pear tree to compare each of her relationships, but it is not until Tea Cake that she finds “a bee to her bloom.” (106).

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.

We live in a society that has increasingly stomped on love, depicting it as cruel, superficial and full of complications. Nowadays it is easy for people to claim that they are in love, even when their actions say otherwise, and it is just as easy to claim that they are not when they really are. Real love is difficult to find and keeping it alive is even harder, especially when one must overcome their own anxieties and uncertainties. This is the main theme present in Russell Banks’ short story “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story,” as well as in “The Fireman’s Wife,” written by Richard Bausch. These narratives, although similar in some aspects, are completely different types of love stories.

Love is undoubtedly one of the most frequently explored subjects in the literary world. Whether the focus is a confession of love, criticism of love, tale of love, or simply a tale about what love is, such literary pieces force readers to question the true meaning and value of love. Raymond Carver accomplishes this in his short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” As the unadorned setting and the personality of each character unfold, the reader realizes that Carver is making a grave comment on the existence of love. Carver utilizes strong contrast, imagery, and diction to ultimately suggest that love cannot be defined concretely and therefore cannot be defined in words, and because of this, it is better off unexplored.

In analyzing the symbolism in “Play-by-Play,” Murray suggests more than expected. “Watching the young men move above the rose garden” (line 20), brings about the conventional meaning of love through the symbol of the rose. However, if one looks at the line as a whole, it could be interpreted as men being above or

Oftentimes, poetry is used to express extremely romanticized love, such as in Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18.” This love is often explicitly expressed through numerous emotional appeals and comparisons of love to many seemingly incredible views or experiences, such as stating “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate,” (Sonnet 18, 1-2). In contrast to this figurative expression of one’s love, Declan Ryan provides a more human and tangible expression of his love while writing about what seems to be a more mundane experience in his poem “Rope-a-Dope.”

In the essay “Loves Vocabulary” Diane Ackerman portrays the notion of love possessing not just the ability to produce a buoyant feeling, but also cause emotional harm. The analogy of arrows communicates the idea of love encompassing not solely pleasant feelings as well as negative.

An incredibly crucial component of modern love remains having relationships that are “rightly ordered”. Unfortunately for Wing Bittlebaum, most of his obsessions were incorrectly ordered. Although sexual relationships between adults and children are obviously inappropriate for any time period or location, Bittlebaum’s relationship with Willard was incorrectly timed by approximately sixty years. Despite not necessarily being an allegory for any modern problem in particular, Sherwood Anderson’s “Hands” provides incredible insight into human need and want, and the drive to fulfill one’s desires while ignoring a rightly ordered life in favor of an incorrect balance. Although many relationships can flourish without necessarily being ordered perfectly, Wing Bittlebaum’s many illegal and unwanted relationships could never have succeeded due to his lack of understanding and empathy. Although not considered to be the pinnacle of knowledge regarding poetry, John Dalton’s famous expression, “It’s the right idea; but not the right time” (online) rings true in Sherwood Anderson’s short story

From the majestic nature of her walk to the adorable laugh that she seemed to have no shortage of, she was a shining emerald amongst the dull characters that pervaded his everyday life. At first, he could live without her pervading all his thoughts and dreams, but now, here he was, as the frigid cold of winter set in, feeling the full force and warmth of her mere presence. Quite frankly, he was in love. Endless hours were spent talking to his friends about her, and there hardly seemed a time where he talked about the usual thing. Love had taken complete control of all of his senses, and as much as he’d hate to admit it, he was truly at the whim of his heart. Her name? Sylvia Peters

In Ernestine Northover’s poem, “Joint laughter,” a theme of love can be seen. A couple realizes that marriage is not always beautiful. The married couple realizes that not everything in marriage is beautiful. In this famous poem the speaker uses imagery to show the joys and sorrows of marriage. Imagery is used by a lot of authors in their poems to appeal to the readers senses. Northover uses imagery to show the reader how beautiful marriage can be. The imagery in this poem also shows the reader that marriages is not always beautiful. In Northover’s poem, “Joint Laughter,” the imagery is critical to authorizing the theme of the poem because the imagery brings vivid pictures to the reader's mind.