Poetry : Theme Of Love

Many of these poems describe romantic relationships and the relationship’s effect on the speakers’ behaviors. Whether the speaker feels lovesick, obsessive, or excited, the behavior of the speaker is different than it was when he/she was not in love. These love poems from Deir el-Medina depict the effects of a romantic relationship on the behavior of the people involved.

“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.

Poetry is oftentimes associated with the subjects of love and romance. Poets throughout the ages have used this medium to express their deepest emotions in the most eloquent of ways. Whether the poet is a man or woman is irrelevant. Poets of both genders have succeeded in expressing a heartfelt love to another with a poetic language that speaks volumes in a relatively short amount of text. Two poets from two separate eras each wrote a poem with just such a theme. Anne Bradstreet in “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and Edgar Allan Poe in “Annabel Lee” created magic by writing these poems that express a love for another that transcends time and place.

The poems I have chosen to write about are ‘They flee from me’ by Sir

Poetry is one of the countless items on the list that is thought of when the subject of love, whether it be legitimate, everlasting, or even fleeting, is brought to the light, but the thing about literature is that it can give off an impression that the events and emotions portrayed are too good to be true, especially when it comes to the topic of love. True love is out in the world for everyone, but very few

The poem “love poem” is by John Frederick Nims it is a one hundred and seventeen word poem with six verses of four lines in each, the second and also fourth lines rhyme with each other. This poem is very descriptive and has a lot of meaning in it just by the words this poet chooses to use and also in his style of writing. The first three words of this poem he was either speaking or addressing to his beloved one it said “My clumsiest dear”. We quickly learn that this is the woman he loves and that she nearly breaks everything she comes across, “her hands wreak disasters” “shipwreck vases”. They are like proverbial bulls in a china shop, he mentions and they catch in fine cloth like the burrs of weeds. In this poems first couple of verses mostly

In this poem, she expresses her love, through heart smoldering words, which could be felt through her speech act of exhortation. She appeared optimistic, about the continuity of her friendship and love with her lover. Her disposition in this literary act, unveiled her temperament. She favors romance and sexual intrigue. Her style of thought here, is intuitive and realistic because she talks about a tangible subject matter. She touches and holds the love she feels for her man friend with her words. This poem also appeals to the reader’s intellect and emotions because of her soft and emotional tone. Her words are not ambiguous or obfuscating. They have clear meaning, and are written in plain tense, which makes it easy to read and understand. Her poem is also built on comparison; she compares being lovers and friends, to memories shared, love made, tears shared and the significance of her romance with her lover. The poem lacked some rhyme scheme and imagery, however, it is divided into quadrant stanzas and follows a repetition of syntactical structures. Both capitalization and punctuations are present. This is a great poem that expresses the symbolic meaning of love and friendship. She teaches that, love is not based on sexual intercourse or transient things, but upon the love that we have,

Love is the most common theme that most poets write about; moreover, poets interpret and write different kind of love poems. There are poems that are about a person’s first love, a poem about the fate of two lovers, a poem about a strong everlasting love, and more. The poems In Muted Tone by Paul Verlaine, Fate by Carolyn Wells, and I Wish I Could Remember That First Day by Christina Rossetti are well connected to one another because they all have the same theme: Love. Although these three poems have different kind of love, the main focus of each poem is the love each speaker has towards someone: their first love, a person from their past, and the person they are with at the moment.

For as long as it can be remembered people have used multiple forms of literature in order to gain knowledge, entertain, and even express a certain idea. Poetry is in fact one of those forms of literature, and before people began to write it, it was known to be told verbally by many. A person would tell a tale and those who listened would memorize it, what eventually caused poetry to spread around. Still to this day, many come to fall in love with the magic poetry possesses. It is the writer’s decision to either have a specific rhythm to it or just have a simple list of words. This essay argues that poetry is a creative way of expressing one's emotions and that it should be, not only preserved, but celebrated, even by those who have not considered themselves poetry fans in the past.

If I should stay, I'll only be in your way, so I'll go, but I know I'll think of you every step of the way. Now everybody asks me why I'm smiling out from ear to ear. They say love hurts but I know It's gonna take a little work Nothing's perfect, but it's worth it after fighting through my tears this is the year for new beginning. The authors of the poems, “A Simile” and “Moon Rondeau” compare the steps of a relationship by using symbolism, analogy and imagery.

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”.

This poet chose to show various types of emotion with the themes of this poem. This poem has a purpose of demonstrating of how easy it is to become vulnerable of these moments of despair in one’s lifetime, especially when it comes to love. Life is based around love, people develop great unexplained heart filled feelings, it can even take place in the midst of just a few moments, to ignite that “love at first sight” feeling. When one gives another their heart, he/she must thoroughly trust that their chosen one truly does love them, because from the moment that one experiences love with another person they never truly know if they do. This feeling is very critical for a couple in a relationship. So, when things take a rough path, and one becomes unhappy it may take the other by surprise and catch them at a vulnerable state of mind and heart. This would cause for it to take a

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.