The Metaphysical And Victorian Concept Of Love Essay

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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.

The term metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse. These poets were not formally affiliated and few were highly regarded until 20th century attention established their importance. Given the lack
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