The Theme Of Love In Valentine By Carol Ann Duffy

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

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 first stanza Duffy uses the technique of asyndetic listing of all the potential suitors that the monarch could have married like the "lord, the baronet, the count", instead she has accepted "Time for a husband". Duffy personifies "Time" as she gives it a capital letter resembling a name, it also embodies how the queen left it too late to marry, instead married her people and gave up seeking to find a husband. Another interpretation could be the historical context of the poem which could be an allusion to Queen Elizabeth the 1st This is evident in the name of the poem "the long queen" as Queen Elizabeth is notorious for possessing a "Long" reign. She was perceived to be the 'virgin queen' and was to have not married because of infertility. This suffering is a central aspect of some female lives and could be empathised by Duffy to make it universal. In 'the map women' relationships inevitably fail because of her "map" signifying her past. When the women haves a relationship the lover's maps "flapped in the breeze" which could portray that she is hard to read. The structure of the sentence also end stop, suggesting that companionship for the women is difficult due to her past. Duffy also describes the lovers as "lost tourists"

“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”.

The short story “The Love Of My Life” by T.C. Boyle's examines two couples who are imagined to be inseparable and how no love comes closer to theirs. The story follows young high school couples who are in the merge of a bright future. They are always together “wearing each other like a pair socks”. They idolized the love they share is something far from real and it is true love. While Jeremy is set to attend Brown and on the other hand China were in Binghamton things took wrong turn. Over the summer before their going to college they mistakenly conceived a baby while they are at a camping trip. The story was pleasant and everything was green and China and Jeremy went to a trip together and had sex. The couples were so keen to avoid this from

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.

In the first stanza Duffy uses the technique of asyndetic listing of all the potential suitors that the monarch could have married like the "lord, the baronet, the count", instead she has accepted "Time for a husband". Duffy personifies "Time" as she gives it a capital letter resembling a name, it also embodies how the queen left it too late to marry, instead married her people and gave up seeking to find a husband. Another interpretation could be the historical context of the poem which could be an allusion to Queen Elizabeth the 1st This is evident in the name of the poem "the long queen" as queen Elizabeth is notorious for possessing a "Long" reign. She was perceived to be the 'virgin queen ' and was to have not married because of infertility. This suffering is a central aspect of some female lives and could be empathised by Duffy to make it universal. In 'the map women ' relationships inevitably fail because of her "map" signifying her past. when the women do have a relationship the lover 's maps "flapped in the breeze" which could portray that she is hard to read. The structure of the sentence also end stop, suggesting that companionship for the women is difficult due to her past. Duffy also describes the lovers as

Through the use of poetic devices such as repetition or alliteration, the author originally describes what love is not capable of providing and defines love as unnecessary but by the end of the poem, the author reveals that love has some value.

Poetry is a beautiful way to express the subtext within it, using literary devices which enhances the poem 's beauty. Poetry is considered to take distorted ideas and transforms it into beautiful words. Therefore, resulting the harsh truth being displayed in a form of a poem for readers to sink into another point of view. These creators called poets, are a group of people with a wide variety of experiences that an average person does not usually experience. They can create a more unified meaning in their masterpiece, without taking up 300 pages to exhibit their meaning, and still hold different interpretations by different readers. Poets are known to uncover the truth, which could be their experiences or reality based ideas, by beautifying the reality with literary devices to make it more relatable and enjoyable but still hold that very core of the meaning behind the poem. Poetry is a powerful vessel, between creator and reader, to change a person’s outlook of life or one’s surroundings. A poem can change moods, enhances one’s personality, gain a sense of people knowledge and become a bit more sensitive around one 's world. Even if poets are not aware of the power poetry holds, they still do it to convey an experience, a lesson or a journey. All of this relates to 'Love and Roses ' by Tracy Marshall, where the speaker is telling the reader a journey of their blinding love. The abusive relationship exists in the speaker 's life but is distracted by the idea of the

“Being deeply in love by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage,” by Lao Tzu. Love is a feeling of strong affection for someone. In the novel The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, describes love in many different ways. Tim O’Brien illustrates love through each of the soldiers in the book.

Love can be quite a difficult topic to write about, expressing one’s intimate and innermost emotions requires a great level of dedication and honesty. If done correctly, the outcome is truly stunning. John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and Katherine Philips’s “To Mrs. M.A. at Parting” are two masterpieces of this genre. These poems depict the concept of true love so meticulously that the reader cannot help but envy the relationships presented. Perhaps the reason that these works are so effective is due to the fact that they are incredibly similar to each other. Although some differences are present when it comes to structure and gender concerns, the poems share the same theme of love on a spiritual level and show many parallels in meaning.

The following lines: ‘its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithful as we re, for as long as we are. Take it.’ Duffy suggests that love like an onion, it leaves a bitter after taste that lingers for a long time. It seems that Duffy believes that once you have had a taste of it you will remember it forever because it is that powerful. The ‘kiss’ suggests passion but the ‘fierce’ suggests that is a violent, urgent, desperate, and clinging sensation. She presents this as a metaphor for love in such a way that makes it seem disturbing and an altogether unpleasant experience. The line "for as long as we are" seems more realistic as it is very honest in the sense that the narrator has accepted that the relationship probably won’t last forever. This also relates

My first and immediate explanation for the poem was an address from one lover to a

of the unspoken terms of love in one of his love poems – “Twice Shy”.