The Well Known Phrase Of Love

Vincent Millay uses strong figurative language such as diction and imagery to present her view on love. Millay views love as an unnecessary part of life, it is not vital to the nourishment of the human body. In her poem she writes, “It is not meat nor drink/Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;”(Millay). Millay gives numerous backings to her claim that love is not vital to life. All that love cannot do is confirmed in Millay’s words, “Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath/nor clean the blood/nor set the fractured bone”(Millay). She uses precise word choice, such as “love is not all” and “love can not”, to get across to the reader that she feels as if love is useless. Yet Millay’s words are contradicted at the end of the poem when she states, “I might be driven to sell your love for peace...I do not think I would”(Suttor).This gives the idea that in reality, despite making all these claims as to what love can not do, Millay would still choose love over her own physical health and being(Suttor). Millay is quite simply stating that love is not all, it is not all that important. Millay “would not let go of her love”(Suttor). Millay is not trying to say that love will help her survive the Great Depression; it will not give her the money, or food, or any shelter she may need. That is all that Millay is trying to say, she isn’t trying to convince people to fight for love until the end or even die in the name of love(Suttor). Millay even states many examples

The Speaker of the poem speaks of the journey to find your one true love, and how it is long and hard. When you are in love, you wish that you could just be in a place of complete peace, and that nothing you do can affect the love between you and your significant other.

In conclusion, the poem points the inevitable cycle of natural and emotional events and the power that love has to go beyond that cycle. This is why the speaker assures that the way he has loved is something that

The author persuades people to use their head before just using the words heart or love to give the word its true meaning. Carruth also displays what happens to words when they tend to be misused which is that they usually lose their value over time if they are not of great importance. Through his writing style in the poem, Carruth shows how people freely use the word “heart” and how it affects the meaning of the word. He opens and closes the poem with a question, refers to the heart as 'it' in the first stanza, and shows uncertainty of the importance of the heart in the first stanza as well.

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.

The two had been on bad terms with each other, constantly arguing. Oberon was acting childish as he refused to join Titania and her fairies in their dance, unless given the chageling boy that he wished for. He thought to play with Titania's feelings after again being told he may not have the boy. He tricked her heart so that he could ask her for the changeling boy without her being in her right mind to refuse. He took things to an extreme, brainwashing her just to obtain the child.

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

For this reason, the speaker continues on with listing love’s other incapabilities, aside from food and shelter. These incapabilities continue to build the image of how expendable love is. By further downgrading love’s practical value, it leads to the question of whether love serves any purpose in life at all. In these four stanzas, “Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; yet many a man is making friends with death even as I speak, for lack of love alone,” (Millay 5-8) alliteration is displayed along with the addition of a contrasting idea. From the stanzas, we learn love can’t give/bring you oxygen or air, nor can it cleanse blood like your liver and it most definitely can’t mend a broken bone for you yet so many people are willing to die because of or for love. To put it

Love is such an abstract concept for the human mind to figure out. Along with the love of a mother for her child, there are many types of sensual love or brotherly love; friendship is frequently described as a type of love, as well. This abstraction can also be distorted and made to fit into categories that would normally be associated with negativity and abuse not "love." Think of why a woman will continually go back to an abusive spouse with the irrational reason that "he loves me." If he loved you, he wouldn't beat you…Would he? In a poem, the confusion seems only to extend, as writers will describe a beautiful event that is tainted by a

The poem is about the speaker saying he doesn’t have much, but offers the power/love poetry has to his special one. The speaker compares his/her poem to materialistic things and says how important his/her poem is. I really liked the poem since it shows how we always want materialistic things, but sometimes the best things in life are the experiences we have with our loved ones. I usually focus a lot on making sure I have money to get the things I want but the poem made me realize that sometimes I have to care more about the people I love. Although the poem didn’t have difficult vocabulary, it was somewhat hard to understand. It was hard to understand because the poem said to use it for physical comfort and as a focus for your life. After every stanza the poem has the line “I love you” which shows how the speaker has a continuous and immense love for his/her beloved one. The poem made me really happy since it showed me that even a small thing like a poem can hold so much value and love (Kelly

Love is the greatest human emotion one can experience. In the poem "Leaving the Motel" by W. D. Snodgrass and "Sex Without Love" by Sharon Olds each poet shares different views on the theme of love. Snodgrass' poem focuses on a couple having an affair in a motel. As they are leaving they go through a checklist to make sure they keep their secrecy. While, Olds' poem focuses more about how people have sex without being in love. Both of these poems illustrate a strong sense of love in different ways with the help of point of view, mood, and symbolism.

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”.

When Oberon attempts to force Titania to give him the changeling child, she goes against patriarchal norms of women submitting to men when she refuses to give it to him. Her refusal is direct when she says, “Set your heart at rest. The Fairyland buys not the child of me. His mother was a votaress of my order, […] And for her sake I will not part with him” (2.1.107-108,123). She defies Oberon’s expectation that she will listen to him and tries instead to keep a promise she has to a friend of hers. This deviation from patriarchal norms shows that Titania is a strong female character who has the power to combat a man’s wishes and make her own decisions. Her

The poems broader theme is that you can’t always have what you want in life because the tone of longing in

Additionally, Titania is mistreated by her husband, and shows little respect for women, as well. Oberon wants a possession of his wife’s, a changeling boy, so he formulates a plan to trick her since she will not give up the child freely. This plan not only seeks to trick her out of her son, but also to punish her for being disobedient (Garner, 1981). There is little to no concern for the feelings of the women during this play, as they are not respected or treated equally.