Lover

found with her lover. Anna’s lover made her feel as if “she was intoxicated with her good fortune…” (Oates). Her lover instills true pleasure in Anna and nothing could draw her attention away from him. This concept is further developed when the narrator states that “[Anna] trusted him, she could sleep in his presence” indicating that her subconscious is completely comfortable with her lover (Oates). Her internal happiness, however, is not the peak of pleasurable experiences with her lover. Despite it

with pleasure. This results in an inner conflict developing within Antony between what he perceives to be his two identities: the lover and the general. Throughout the play, the lover is associated with death, whilst the general is associated with Antony’s sword and armor. Though he believes the two parts of him to be separate, the text indicates that Antony is both lover and general at the same time through all of it. The difference in the two identities lies in the accountability. As a general, Antony

What would you choose to do if you could kill your lover or have him live but marry someone that you hated? In the story “The Lady or The Tiger,”the semi-barbaric princess was shown with two choices that would change her lover’s life. However, in the end, I believe the princess led her lover to the door with the tiger. Doubtlessly, the princess chose that door because she was jealous of the lady who could possibly be the wife of her one true love and envious at the growing relationship they are developing

In this philosophical analysis, The Symposium provides examples of how Socrates represents the “idealized lover” in this descriptions of love provided by Diotima. Socrates embodies the dualistic forms of love in the metaphysical (the sprit) and the mortal (bodily) that form the perfect union of both aspects of life. The Symposium provides examples of love through the gods, right and wrong, and other aspects of loving, but Socrates embodies the dualism of the diamond (the spirit) and the mortal link

choices that affect his life in a major way at one point or another during his life. In “The Lady, or the Tiger?”, by Frank R. Stockton, a story about how a princess must make a choice to help her lover or to stand by her father and let fate decide. In the story the princess is caught with a forbidden lover, and he is then sent to the king’s vast amphitheater. He is accused and there he is forced to choose between two doors, one which held the fiercest, and most cruel tiger ever. Then behind the

has a deep symbolic meaning and often conveys the truth (Merriam-Webster 1). Two common and well-known mythological stories, both from different cultures, include the Greek Myth The Love Story of Pyramus and Thisbe and the Chinese Myth The Butterfly Lovers. These two very similar romance myths both foretell a tragic romance, very much alike to the the famously acclaimed Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. There are many resemblances that can be found between these two stories. These tales

were more apt to die as tragic heroes because of the type of lovers they were. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a play that takes place in Verona. The star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, take their own lives because many obstacles do not allow them to be together. Romeo and Juliet died as tragic heroes because they were manic and erotic lovers. Throughout the play, many instances prove that Romeo is a manic lover. Romeo is very anxious to fall in love and jumps from girl

To her, Summer will pass with half a smile, because she will see her lover soon, and half a spurn because she must wait all summer before seeing her lover. She uses summer because most people see summer as something fun, but for Dickinson, she cannot truly enjoy summer without her lover. In the second stanza, Dickinson says that is she had to wait a year to see her lover she would wind the months in balls and put them all in separate drawers. She plans to do this to

Millay writes of the speaker thinking of how he or she will react calmly if in some tragic way he or she discover a lover is dead. It is a poem that hits a reader hard with its sadness but its serenity in how she writes. It is tragic how the speaker says he or she will hold in guilt. “If I should learn, in some quite casual way” is a poem that deals with the theme of losing a lover, as well as how the form of a Shakespearean sonnet and the author’s rhyme scheme and word choice make the poems meaning

“Tamer and Hawk” by Thom Gunn is one of the famous poems. The poem deals with two characters – the poet and his lover – where the poet uses the term Hawk for himself and Tamer for his lover. The poem is essentially a declaration of the poet’s love for his lover, admitting his fears of losing his lover, while proclaiming that he is willing to go to lengths just so he could keep his lover forever. While there are several interpretations to the psycho-analytics of the poet while writing this poem