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    story in which Ann Beattie, the author, presents an often unheard of view of her lover. The main character, experiences the heart warming of love towards her lover rather than the desolation of loneliness after her lover doesn’t come back. Later, when the lady learns that her lover is still out there, she knows that all hope of her lover coming back is still there. The crushing disappointment kills her that her lover just left her out there all alone for the winter. Published in the earlier where

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    seventeenth century and was written by 'John Donne'. "Valentine" was published in 1983 and was written by 'Carol Ann Duffy'. Both poems are addressed to an unknown lover. The poem "Valentine" is written in free-verse form. Carol Ann Duffy could have used this irregular pattern because of the irregular present that she is giving to her lover. "Not a red rose or satin heart. I give you

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    illustrate the sexuality of the people. The ancient Near-East used erotic poetry to encouraged sexual encounters; and through this art form where they able to connect with nature, fulfill needs and obligations and connect to their divine or human selves. “Lovers communicate only through the world, through metaphor…” (Grossberg, 2005). What may seem unappealing or even appalling by modern standards, represented the people of the past and their understanding of the world around them. Erotica was used to deliver

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    The story of a lonely lover in “If you were coming in the fall,” By Parth Virani One of Dickinson’s best poems, that surprisingly has little to do with death, “If you were coming in the fall,” examines the speaker’s love with whom she has been separated from for a seemingly eternity. Dickinson pursues this by using a poetic device, Repetition, by repeating the word “if” throughout the poem. The speaker explains her passion for her lover by writing about how she will wait for her lover's return no

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    rememberer is a short-story written by Aimee Bender that is about a woman whose lover goes backwards through the evolution process. The story is written using very simple language in the first person of view. At first, the story appears to be science fiction. However, the story is more of a love story than anything else. One of the things that makes this more of a love story more than science fiction, is the way that Ben’s lover stays with him no matter what he looks like or is. At the very begging of

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    Pablo Neruda’s, “If You Forget Me” explores the relationship between lovers in cases of differing degrees of affection. It begins with a description of all the things that remind him of his love. It then shifts to the repercussions of a forgotten love, finally finishing with two lovers mutually committed to each other. Throughout, Neruda uses personification, metaphors, repetition, juxtaposition, periodic sentences, and imagery to express the dependence of a relationship on the fervor of the attachment

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    Born on 15 September 1889 in Jamaica to peasant farmers, Claude McKay was educated by his brother, older in age, who possessed a library of novels, scientific texts, and poetry all written in English. The brother, Uriah Theophilus had a neighbor Walter Jekyll who observed the passion of Claude McKay had when mimicking English poets and encourage him to start writing verses in Jamaican dialect. Having trained as army personnel in Kansas for the Kingston Police department, Claude McKay had the exposure

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    knew their love would be complicated, and new lovers came into the picture. Romeo and Juliet are lovers, but their families are feuding enemies. In Act 2, Scene 2, Romeo and Juliet are talking about denying their family, that way they can be together. Juliet says “ Deny thy father and refuse thy name, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet”(34-36).Knowing this plan will not work, because they are so young; the lovers still try to stay together. The lovers start getting through their head that their families

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    each other. Porphyria’s Lover is obsessive and violent love, How Do I Love Thee? Is more of an undying love and the poem Remember is more like truthful love. In this essay I’ll take each poem and in a sentence or two explain the type of love that each poem demonstrates. I’ll also use quotations to show each of my poems shows a different type of love. The poem Porphyria’s Lover portrays the type of love in a sexual and passionate way. In the poem Porphyria’s Lover a man is speaking about

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    "The Sun Rising," by John Donne, is a lyric poem about two lovers. The poem is divided into three stanzas, each ten lines long. The rhyme scheme in each stanza is ABBACDCDEE. This is a dramatic poem where the speaker and his lover are in bed together. The speaker personifies the sun, and is speaking to it throughout the poem. As the sunlight comes through the windows, the speaker tells the sun to leave them alone. He seems to feel that their life together is complete, and that the sun is being

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