What is Love? Essay

While the first two stanzas illustrate his view of Love in general and all lovers, the third stanza relates his personal experience with Love and Donne reveals the reason for his view of Love as a cruel, consuming power. Donne entice the readers with his use of figurative language, specifically imagery and personification, and diction. The speakers own experience with Love has left him feeling empty. And makes his feel how powerful and cruel love can really be. Donne’s use of those certain literary elements allows him to create a hostile speaker who is against love and is currently feeling heartbreak from losing his

Teacher and classmates, A few weeks ago, I questioned Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet wondering why, why is this literature still prominent in today's society? The foreign tongue it is written in, the seemingly basic and boring plot and the lack of action all combined being regarded as one of man’s greatest achievements didn't quite equate. However through my studies of the question, How effectively does Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet shape our notion of love, I realised. Throughout the text lies defining moments of romantic, fickle and fraternal love and the complexity of the text allows for both interpretation while maintaining relatability. However our perception of love, the strong feeling of affection, has differed immensely since 1595. Romeo and Juliet, a story over four centuries old is the foundation of love and romance throughout history.

Love means that one has to care for another person’s happiness more than their own, no matter how painful the choices one faces must be. It becomes a strong and emotional attachment that focuses on the heart and mind while simultaneously is a promise and the simplest way to be happy. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, William Shakespeare’s Othello, and Philip Sidney’s “Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 31”, certain characters have a distorted view on love as it is dominant and holds a heavy weight on the formation of relationships. A simple four letter word can be very influential when creating a basis of emotional availability.

Donne sets up the poem by introducing death imagery to provide a contrast to his eventual conceit. The first four stanzas are used to explain that most relationships are made of "dull sublunary lovers" that can be broken from their relationships by omens and mis doubts 'men reckon what it did, and meant". Yet he contrasts this image when beginning to talk of his relationship by illustrating the relationship as "a love so much refined". Furthermore this reference of refined love is a connotation to the practice of alchemy in the time of his composition. Donne then begins to orchestrate his conceit by stating that his relationship is 'as stiff twin compasses'.

What is yours? The value and worth inherent in your idea or self-concept is real; and it is all you really have. You are to act as though you know something; not because putting on an act will fool anyone, but because you actually have something of great value. What you have is real, but it is not material. It is spiritual, mental, invisible, intangible and valuable; and that is the essence of all that has real value. Is love real? And, does not the experience we have of love owe its validity and reality to the intangible love within? The tangible would be worthless if not for the value of the intangible within. Is an idea not as real as that which is manufactured to represent it? The intangible thing you express is as real as the tangible

Love has many different meanings to different people. For a child, love is what he or she feels for his mommy and daddy. To teenage boy, love is what he should feel for his girlfriend of the moment, only because she says she loves him. But as we get older and "wiser," love becomes more and more confusing. Along with poets and philosophers, people have been trying to answer that age-old question for centuries: What is love?

“Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. (Love’s Labours Lost.1.2.)” This Shakespearean quote relays on the fact that love can lead to many misfortunes, presented as one of the aspects of love in both William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and Wole Soyinka’s “The Lion and the Jewel”. One aspect of love demonstrates its brilliant sides, and with it, brings affection, faith, and intimacy. However, it is also noted that an equal aspect of love conveys the consequences and misfortunes. Both plays display the penalties of love as a contrast to the comedies. We will be discussing the exhibition of the negative connotations of love, broken down into several characteristics: lust, manipulation, and hatred,

There are several poems written about love, romance, and lust during the sixteen and seventeenth century. All of these poems have a different style to them, but most share one theme; the goal to seduce their love. John Donne was no except to this common theme. Although Donne was raised in a devout Catholic household, his poetry would say he tried to commit a few sins in his lifetime, and even tried to have others to commit them with him. Some of his poems depict the chase of girl only to receive opposite feelings from her. An example of this is his poem, “The Flea.” Donne faces rejection when he is in the pursuit for his love, but Donne doesn’t accept it passively and aggressively continues his quest for her.

What is love? The type of love I’m describing is the one that gives you butterflies when a certain person comes to mind. Just seeing that particular person can be enough to make one smile and make your day and all the worries go away. Right now that person comes to mind. It’s neither a crush nor infatuation and many are willing to do anything for this thing that is called love. Love can hurt in the long run, and people can also be blinded by it.

Contemporary academic deliberations of “Love’s Alchemy” by John Donne and “On My First Son” by Ben Jonson has given rise to one controversial issue: whether love should be labeled as uncertainty. In fact, some argue that the poem “Love’s Alchemy” expresses the cynical love, whereas, the poem “On My First Son” focuses more on pious love. These contrasting views have also been articulately conveyed through words, such as, “Alchemy” and “Farewell” in the individual poetic works of both Donne and Jonson, respectively, with one conclusion: to alter men by first enticing them to a fantasy world, wherein they are rendered unstable, and later, compelling them to correct themselves. Furthermore, though both of these aforementioned poems are about

“Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. (Love’s Labours Lost. 1.2.)” This Shakespearean quote relies on the fact that love can lead to many misfortunes, presented as one of the aspects of love in both William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and Wole Soyinka’s “The Lion and the Jewel”. One aspect of love demonstrates its brilliant sides, and with it, brings affection, faith, and intimacy. However, it is also noted that an equal aspect of love conveys the consequences and misfortunes, the negative connotations of love, which the essay will be exploring, broken down into several characteristics: lust, manipulation, and hatred, which both plays share in correspondence and in distinction. In A Midsummer

As one experiences this journey called life, one will encounter someone who will shake, shift and alter one’s world; this feeling is called love. Throughout written history there have been several stories and tales about love, whether it is finding it, losing it or chasing it. Love can be overwhelming to the point that one may feel it is best to part ways in order to preserve one’s own sanity especially if one is unsure of how the other party feels. The concept of love has stood the test of time and the 17th century is no exception. Michael Drayton had a few of his works published during his time, “Idea”, sonnet LXI, is one of his popular works. As on explores Michael Drayton, “Idea”, one will find that a man, who is in love, trying to make a firm decision to walk away from love yet is still holding on to a spark of hope. Letting go of love and walking away is never an easy task.

What is love? As one of the most debated questions in the history of human thought, everyone—from philosophers and poets to doctors and scientists—has tried to discover the secret behind the word. Love, however, means something different depending on who is defining it, so there is not one single correct definition for it. Even so, there are ways to portray and personify love that can help explain one’s view on the subject to others, creating a wider understanding of it. Two Italian poets, Guido Guinizelli and Petrarch, try to express their version of love through their writings by using love’s relationship with the heart and the narrator.

Have you ever wanted something that you knew was bad for you, but you wanted it anyway? Love is something that is complicated and heady but so easily controls many. As there are many ways to love, it can be something that is equally bad and good for a person. In John Donne’s Holy Sonnet XIV, he captures this sort of uncontrollable and needy desire that comes with love. Throughout the poem he not only speaks of themes that include uncontrollable desire, and not having self-control when it comes to actions of love and sex; but he also builds up these themes through tones he implies and makes in the sonnet through word choice and symbolism.

Another theme found in Donne 's love poetry is the juxtaposition of the sacred and the profane, mirroring secular love in divine concepts and expressing