The, The Sun Also Rises, By Pablo Neruda

In the famous poem “Bright Star”, dedicated to his lover Fanny Brawne, John Keats presents the essence of love in passion and in depth. As its form, a combination of Shakespearean and Italian sonnets suggests, the poem portrays love as a subject full of seemingly contradictive qualities. As a subjective matter, love is active and passive, physical and spiritual, mutable and eternal at the same time. Holding immortal love as the ultimate value of life, the speaker imagines a brave possibility of love transcending life for his romantic belief.

Shakespeare examines love in two different ways in Sonnets 116 and 130. In the first, love is treated in its most ideal form as an uncompromising force (indeed, as the greatest force in the universe); in the latter sonnet, Shakespeare treats love from a more practical aspect: it is viewed simply and realistically without ornament. Yet both sonnets are justifiable in and of themselves, for neither misrepresents love or speaks of it slightingly. Indeed, Shakespeare illustrates two qualities of love in the two sonnets: its potential and its objectivity. This paper will compare and contrast the two sonnets by Shakespeare and show how they represent two different attitudes to love.

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love Is Not All” both attempt to define love, by telling what love is and what it is not. Shakespeare’s sonnet praises love and speaks of love in its most ideal form, while Millay’s poem begins by giving the impression that the speaker feels that love is not all, but during the unfolding of the poem we find the ironic truth that love is all. Shakespeare, on the other hand, depicts love as perfect and necessary from the beginning to the end of his poem. Although these two authors have taken two completely different approaches, both have worked to show the importance of love and to define it. However, Shakespeare is most confident of his definition of love, while Millay seems

The acceptance of love has the power of transforming an individual to demand of that same love. The social context of the 1850’s was seen to be emphasised on individual’s emotions and rebellion against established social rules and convections which was evident in her open declarations of love and demanding’s of love which was a concept of idealised love. The notion of idealised love transforming an individual is presented in the ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’. Sonnet 14 as Elizabeth Browning urges her lover to not love her for any particular reason other than “love’s sake only”. In the Octave, the first line is EBB talking directly to whom she loves and she uses high modality in the word ‘must’, making it seem like she

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet IV” is a sonnet spoken from the point of view of a woman who is permitting herself to remember an old lover over the duration of her cigarette. The poem is set up through the classical structure of a Petrarchan sonnet and shares the topic of a lost lover. The octave follows the course of the dream, which takes the form of smoke and shadows. The volta marks the end of the cigarette and the dream, but the speaker still continues her memories in the sestet to follow. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet IV” is similar to other Petrarchan sonnets in both structure and topic. Upon closer inspection, however, Millay’s poem challenges the classical topic of love seen in Italian sonnets by reversing the typical attempt at immortalization of the lover’s beauty and greatness through memory. This is creates a tension which aids to divide the poem into two parts, the octave and sestet. Through these lines of the poem, Millay employs enjambment throughout both the octave and sestet and end stop in only the volta. This aids in drawing attention to the change in diction from long, euphonious, and elevated words in the opening portion of the poem, to shorter, more cacophonous words in the final six lines. In the final two lines of her sonnet, Millay utilizes a metaphor of a setting sun to compare the speaker’s moment of memory to the sun setting behind a hill. St. Vincent Millay makes use of this contrast and these literary devices to emphasize her critique,

The book “The Captain’s Verses” by Pablo Neruda, there are many love poems. Poems that express different ways of loving someone. I decided to pick Neruda's body of work because of how smooth and elegant his poems sound. They express so much passion towards a person and also send a message. When reading his poems I would be able to understand the emotion the poem carried. This is the first thing that caught my attention from his poems. The emotions each and every one of them carried.

In the classic novel The Sun Also Rises, author Earnest Hemmingway carefully follows the lives of several Americans, impacted by times of World War I. The cohort of people highlighted in this time period is often referred to as the "Lost Generation." The war was commonly known as the Great War, and shaped the way people lived in that particular time period. Known for its fast times and lack of morals, the war set a new standards for the people of its time, and changed many people's beliefs in traditional values of love, morals, and religion. Throughout the novel, the results of the war affected the characters in every aspect of their lives.

Imagine, a world where nothing looks as it should. The amount of hate so high, it’s practically unbearable. Everyday you wake up with this feeling that you’re going to die; sometimes you don’t even fear this happening. In the book “Night” the author Elie Wiesel takes the reader to a place in time that they wouldn‘t ever want to journey to. He gives you a picture of the real gruesomeness and terrifying circumstances that came from the Holocaust. Wiesel tells of his time spent at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Though the book is only a little over one-hundred pages, you are able to realize the tragedy of a teenage boy, losing his family, as well as losing his faith, and sense of self. Going through all these truly terrible misfortunes in this book, it’s clear that there are many certain messages that come from this book. The statement that Elie Wiesel’s “Night” is one the most powerful and moving stories to ever have been told can not be argued with.

In the poem “620. Sonnets from the Portuguese” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Barrett presents the narrator describing the unqualified love she feels for an unnamed character. Through the use of diction and tone, Barrett suggests that love should be unconditional, in order to be authentic. The author presents this idea to make the readers reflect on the similarities between a person who loves passionately and the way God loves his children.

The post-WWI political and societal climate produced a steep increase in the number of American expatriates in Europe. These expatriates were disillusioned by the horrors that they witnessed during wartime. Romantic ideals became obsolete, and traditional values of love and happiness faded with them. The effects of this disillusionment can be seen in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a novel that revolves around the relationships and characters of a group of expatriates on vacation in Spain for the Running of the Bulls Festival. Of these characters, only one still subscribes to prewar values: Robert Cohn. Robert Cohn did not fight in the war, unlike the others in the group, but he lost most of his inheritance, his wife, and the

The Sun Also Rises is classified as a “Lost Generation” work and in the opening pages of the book the reader is introduced to a Jewish man and American author, Robert Cohn. He feels as if life is passing him by and attempts to convince his friend, Jake Barnes, to travel to South America with him. During a night out, Jake encounters Lady Brett Ashley. They both love each other, but as the night progresses they lament why they cannot be together. Robert later angers Jake when he professes his love for Brett, but later encounter problems with his girlfriend, Frances Clyne.

Love makes people become selfish, but it is also makes the world greater. In this poem, the world that the speaker lives and loves is not limited in “my North, my South, my East and West / my working week and my Sunday rest” (9-10), it spreads to “My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song (11). The poem’s imagery dominates most of the third stanza giving readers an image of a peaceful world in which everything is in order. However, the last sentence of the stanza is the decisive element. This element not only destroys the inner world of the speaker, but it also sends out the message that love or life is mortal.

Ernest Hemingway lived a fairly normal childhood. He was born on July 21st, 1899 to Grace and Clarence Hemingway in Oak Park, Illinois. He was heavily influenced by nature as a young man and would take summer trips to Walloon Lake in Michigan (Ernest 1). During his stay, he would participate in hunting and fishing. His passion for nature influenced many parts in his works, such as the fishing trip in his novel, The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway grew up in a well educated and rather wealthy household, living in a seven bedroom house with his father, a doctor, and his mother, a musician. As a teenager, he attended River Forest High school where, unlike many authors, was very popular and excelled in his classes (Wikipedia 2). In addition to his popularity and overall success in high school, he was very athletic as he was involved in many sports such as track and field, boxing, and football. He was greatly affected by the masculinity of his father and, in return, learned to hate his mother. Perhaps this was the root of his rejection of femininity that influenced his seemingly misogynistic views portrayed in his works. As a junior in high school, Hemingway joined a journalism class that sparked his love for writing. He wrote for the school paper The Trapeze, as well as the yearbook, The Tabula. His style of writing seemed to imitate that of a sports writer (Wikipedia 2).

The sun also rises is a book that takes a very peculiar view on gender roles in the society. It takes place right after World War I, in a time where all the veterans of the war come back to the real world and figure out that they have lost all masculinity and become very insecure. One of the main characters of the book has relationship problems due to a war wound and the woman he loves actually ends up being the most masculine person in the novel. Although Ernest Hemingway presents Brett as a very independent, masculine, and selfish woman, there are some indirect notions throughout the book that the reader picks up on that shows her as a character that really does have feelings for Jake but she is too full of herself to show them. The novel’s repetitiveness of going to bars, drinking and dancing every single night, reveals the meaningless lives they all seem to live.

(Intro) Love is a constant theme explored in English Literature and can be presented through a variety of connotations, such as romantic, sexual and possessive. The poems Sonnet 116, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and My Last Duchess all portray these notions. Sonnet 116 presents a real, romantic and everlasting love, as the poem explores the meaning of love in its most ideal form. This is reflected in Shakespeare’s other sonnet, Sonnet 18, in which the simplicity of the poem emphasises love in its most perfect form; pure and unbreakable. It is also interesting to note that he often writes using a sonnet structure as this is one frequently associated with the conceit of romantic love. The poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci is undoubtedly an example of the effects of lust, which is similar to To His Coy Mistress, in which the theme of lust is certainly present, as the speaker desperately tries to tempt his mistress into the act of sex, through a persuasive argument. Robert Browning’s poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, are both alike in being dramatic monologues, portraying the possessive nature of love and the idea of submission, as the cynical speakers of both poems are describing their former loved ones, who, in both cases, are suggested to be dead.