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John Donne's Love Poems, 2004.
This paper analyzes John Donne's love poems, "A Valediction: Of Weeping" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning".
1,490 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper explains that John Donne utilizes the techniques of imagery and metaphor to express feelings beyond comprehension in his love poems. The author points out that Donne is often referred to as a metaphysical poet, which means that his poetry, often a blend of passion and thought, was more intellectual than most poets of his time. The paper relates that the poet uses images such as a single teardrop or a compass to reinforce the theme that love is not only physical, but also spiritual.
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"The poet employs the use of a metaphor in the first stanza of this poem when he compares his lover's face to a stamping mill, which produces coins, which are tears that bear her image. He tells her, "By this mintage they are something worth" (Donne A Valediction: Of Weeping 4). This line indicates that because his tears are like coins, they are valuable aside from their obvious worth. The poet also tells his lover that the coins are "Pregnant of thee" (6). This image suggests that the poet's tears and perhaps his entire being are filled with images of his lover. As a result of this fullness, they are "Fruits of much grief" (7). Because they are full of her being, they cannot help but bring pain when associated with separation. In addition, when a tear falls and becomes separated from the eye, it represents another level of separation. This is an excellent example of how Donne utilizes fantastic ideas to make his point."
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Analysis of Love Poems, 2005.
This paper serves as an analysis of two different love poems, "How Do I Love Thee" by E. Barrett Browning and "My Mistress' Eyes" by Shakespeare.
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This paper discusses the elements of poetry in two different poems. The writer notes that both of the poems are written about love. Further, the writer points out that they use many of the same elements of speech. In this article, the writer discusses the poem wrote "How Do I Love Thee" by E. Barrett Browning and Shakespeare's poem, "My Mistress' Eyes".
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""How Do I Love Thee" may be the favorite poem of lovers and other who believes that love is important in life. E. Barrett Browning wrote "How Do I Love Thee" as a classical love poem. Shakespeare created the poem, "My Mistress' Eyes." Both of these poems are written about love. Both authors use different elements of poetry to bring the poems alive, but "My Mistress' Eyes" establishes a sympathetic contract as the poem shows the author loves his mistress even though she may not be beautiful in the eyes of others. The best way to decide which poem will have more sympathy is to analyze and then compare both of them."
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Elizabethan and Early Seventeenth Century Love Poems, 2008.
Compares the Elizabethan-era Christopher Marlowe's poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and early seventeenth century John Donne's poem "The Flea".
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This paper explains that Elizabethan-era Christopher Marlowe's poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and early seventeenth century John Donne's "The Flea" share the same theme of romantic love; however, these poems are intrinsically and distinctly different as were the periods in which they were written. The author points out that, though both poem's speakers seek to win over the object of their desire, the ways they go about convincing their love are strikingly different, their images of love are juxtaposed and their definitions and depictions of love completely contrary. The paper concludes that Marlowe's poem describes a romantic love affair, while the speaker in Donne's poem goes in a different direction: sexual gratification.
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'The role assigned to the man and woman of these two poems are quite different. In "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love", the speaker (the man) clearly adores his love, while the speaker of "The Flea" is, essentially, a flea himself. The role of the man in Marlowe's poem is to give gifts and praise and care for his love. The role of the man in Donne's poem is to attempt to persuade his love into having sex with him. The women are treated differently and have different roles as well. In Marlowe's poem, the woman is someone to be put on a pedestal that should be given the finest things nature can provide.'
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Comparing Two Love Poems, 2007.
A comparison between Robert Burns' "A Red, Red Rose" and William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130".
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This paper reviews, discusses and compares the poems "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns and "Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare. The paper reports that both these poems use hyperbole to highlight aspects of love, but do so in dramatically different ways. The paper further reports that these poems share the common goal of convincing their lovers that they love them in a unique and rare way.
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"In sharp contrast to Burns' poem, Shakespeare's poem makes it clear that he does not believe his love is supernatural. While many love poems, like Burns' "A Red, Red Rose," describe love as something greater than nature, Shakespeare celebrates the earthly nature of his love. Instead of using commonplace metaphors to exault his lover's beauty, Shakespeare uses these metaphors to demonstrate that his lover is not an exceptional beauty. Her eyes are "nothing like the sun;...her breasts are dun,...black wires grow on her head," and her breath reeks. (Shakespeare). In other words, Shakespeare acknowledges that his lover is simply a woman, not something greater than this earth. In fact, he specifically states that his lover is not a goddess. Compared with the over-the-top love sonnets of the day, it seems that Shakespeare has little affection for his lover."
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"Love Poem", 2003.
Analyzes John Frederick Nims' poem "Love Poem" about his kind and awkward lover.
700 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 24.95
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This paper is a literary criticism of "Love Poem" by John Frederick Nims. The paper addresses techniques used within the poem as well as the underlying meaning of Nims' work. It shows ways in which Nims addresses the issue of his lover's imperfections and yet, despite them, proclaims his love for her.
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"Poetry is the best way to convey love, and John Frederick Nims uses poetry effectively to convey his love for his companion. "Romantic love can be defined as a deep devotion or affection for something or someone and is often shared between two people. When a love is mutual, lovers find themselves compelled to communicate the love between them, for example, expressing love in a solid form such as poetry" (CliffNotes 1).
John Frederick Nims's poem "Love Poem" is a humorously light poem with an underlying love. This poem would make a perfect poem for a clumsy lover simply because Nims says there is more to a person than their awkward faults. Poetry is a prime way to express love, especially using such vivid imagery as John Frederick Nims does in "Love Poem." "And most importantly, we come to understand this poem for what it is... a true love poem"."
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Donne and Ciardi's Poems of Love, 2002.
This paper looks at "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne and "Much Like an Arch This Marriage" by John Ciardi.
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The paper analyzes the two poems which detail the strength of a relationship between two people in love through the use of vivid figurative language. The writer shows that although each of the images in these poems is effective in its representation of the bonds of love, the poems themselves support two contradicting ideas: absence makes the heart grow fonder versus out of sight, out of mind.
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"Before focusing on the contrasting elements of ""A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and "Much Like an Arch This Marriage, one must examine the poems; similarities and realize that, in one sense, the two writers are expressing the same themes. Such similarity is derived from the uses of figures of speech, by Donne and Ciardi, that represent the belief that love between a man and a woman can be a source of personal growth and strength. Through the use of metaphysical conceit, imagery involving comparisons that are often far-fetched, yet intellectual, Donne compares his relationship with his lover to a compass, the "fixed foot" being their fused souls. Ciardi says that his marriage is like a firm arch that has been formed by "two weaknesses that lean together into a strength" (Donne 497), namely him and his wife. Both Donne and Ciardi believe that true love unites two people so intimately that those involved fell they can over come any obstacle. Their similarities end with this point, however. One obstacle exists that, according to Ciardi, love cannot conquer: separation."
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Ovid's Poem "Art of Love", 2001.
Addresses the question of whether Ovid's "Art of Love" was subversive to the rule and reforms of the Roman emperor Augustus.
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This paper looks at Ovid's poem Art of Love, which cheerfully preached the art of seduction and adultery. Eventually Augustus, the ruler of Rome, regarded Ovid as a threat to his moral regime and exiled the poet in 8 C.E. This paper looks at "Art of Love" and examines how Ovid delighted in poking irreverent fun at everything from the sanctity of Roman marriage to the serious consequences of adultery instituted by the Augustan reforms, and how this was considered subversive to Augustan reform.
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"Augustus greatly preferred the poetry of his patron poets, specifically Virgil and Horace. Ovid, however, scorns Virgil's Aeneid, an epic poem portraying a panoramic history of Rome and its destiny. The hero, Aeneas, was driven by his piety, that is, his duty towards the gods and his devotion to his father. Ovid exhibits his rebellious intentions by mocking the traditional aspects of an epic poem. For example, Virgil begins the Aeneid by summoning the Muses and asking for their guidance in his telling of the tale. Ovid, on the other hand, does not abide by this custom; instead he grants himself credit for having previous knowledge on the subject of his writing. He states his work is clearly "based on experience: what I write, believe me, I have practiced" (Ovid 167). Thus, Ovid obviously states he has no need for the aid of the Muses, at the same time taunting Augustan tradition."
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Love as a Theme Expressed in Three Poems, 2000.
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This paper looks at how three authors use love in different poems, including Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover," A. E. Housman's "When I Was One and Twenty," and Thomas Hardy's "Neutral Tones."
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"For hundreds of years, people have used poetry to express their attitudes towards something or someone. In these centuries, the most common use for poetry is to express feelings of love. Through poetry, a person can say so much more than trying to verbally express his or her feelings. Also, this person's identity does not need to be known if a nervousness is present about telling that "special someone" these feelings. This person may write an original poem if he or she feels able to do so, or, as others would chose to do, it is common to have another person write a poem that best conveys the feelings of one towards another. Poems may have changed their styles over the course of these generations, but the basic "love poetry" still remains, charming the hearts of millions of people. Along with love poems are the "break-up" poems that people dread receiving. The poems "Porphyria's Lover," "When I was One and Twenty," and "Neutral Tones" each convey this idea."
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The Poems of Pablo Neruda, 2002.
Critical assesment of the different themes of love in the poems of Pablo Neruda.
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The poet Pablo Neruda is renown for his exploration of themes of love within his poetry. These themes of love range from the traditional portrays of passion to representations of political commitment. This paper critically assesses Neruda's poems of love in respect to the themes that are manifest within his presentation of love, where he argues that emotion and passion allows the individual to better experience life.
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Love in Chaucer's Poetry, 2005.
Examines the theme of love in three poems by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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In this paper, the theme of love is analyzed in three poems by Geoffrey Chaucer. By selecting various scenes and motifs from these poems, one can realize the differing concepts of love as they relate to one another, as well as how they compare overall. The paper shows that the resulting notion of love is depicted through different perceptions of love, and how they are perceived through knowledge, divinity and elegy.
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"In this literary study, the theme of love will be analyzed in the "The Book of Duchess", "The House of Fame", and "The Parliament of Fowls" by Geoffrey Chaucer. In this manner, all three poems will present comparing and contrasting elements of love. By utilizing Chaucer's perceptions of love in medieval society, the absence of love due to book knowledge, godly intervention or elegiac poetic form in the overall thematic intentions of these poems. The "Parliament of Fowls" relates the narrator's view of life through advent of reading books, but has no real experience in matters of love. In this respect, the narrator states: "For al be that I knowe nat Love in deed/.Yit happeth me ful ofte in bokes reede/ Of his myrakles and his crewel yre" (Chaucer "Parliament of Fowls" 8;10-11)."
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Love in Victorian Poetry, 2005.
An examination of love in the poems of Victorian poets Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Lord Alfred Tennyson.
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Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Lord Alfred Tennyson are three poets that present us with very different perspectives on the subject of love in relation to women. The writer explains that there is no doubt women struggled in conventional romantic roles, and an examination of these poets will help us understand the complicated connection between women and love. It shows how Robert Browning's poetic visions of love are not calm, peaceful, or logical. Instead, love is often brutal and selfish. Tennyson and Arnold present us with women who are equal to men in love and sometimes struggle in an attempt to break free of social restraints. The writer concludes that each poet allows us to see women from different perspectives and, thus, allow us to understand why love in the Victorian age was a complicated matter.
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"Robert Browning's poetry places women in a more traditional role in Victorian society that often works to their demise. In fact, it is safe to say that Browning's poems bring characters to life and death, literally. Love can sometimes result in death. In "Porphyria's Lover," "My Last Duchess," and "Count Grismond," we witness the darker side of love. The females in these poems suffer at the hands of their lovers. Browning also focuses on the very worst aspects of jealousy. In "Porphyria's Lover," the narrator is consumed with jealousy and a desire to possess her in the worst way. All logic is lost in his passionate moment and he decides he must kill her to keep her. Moreover, he feels "happy and proud" (32) and he feels his heart "swell" (34) when he knows he will kill her. He wants to make her immortal in his world and becomes fixated on the thought of keeping her "perfectly pure and good" (Browning Porphyria's Lover 36). Here we see a woman that suffers at the hand of her lover. She is helpless and hopeless and becomes eternally silent. In fact, it is safe to assume that she never had a chance once the narrator made up his mind."
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Love Expressed, 2000.
A look at the theme of love in three poems.
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A paper examining how authors choose to express their feelings of love in poetic form. A look at Robert Browning's "Porphyria' s Lover", Housman's "When I Was One" and Twenty" and Thomas Hardy's "Neutral Tones".
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"For hundreds of years, people have used poetry to express their attitudes towards something or someone. In these centuries, the most common use for poetry is to express feelings of love. Through poetry, a person can say so much more than trying to verbally express his or her feelings. Also, this person's identity does not need to be known if a nervousness is present about telling that "special someone" these feelings. This person may write an original poem if he or she feels able to do so, or, as others would chose to do, it is common to have another person write a poem that best conveys the feelings of one towards another. Poems may have changed their styles over the course of these generations, but the basic "love poetry" still remains, charming the hearts of millions of people. Along with love poems are the "break-up" poems that people dread receiving. The poems "Porphyria's Lover," "When I was One and Twenty," and "Neutral Tones" each convey this idea. "
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Robert Frost's Poetry of Love, 1973.
This paper discusses Robert Frost's poetry of love, with examples from poems: Sexual love, married love, love of people, nature and God.
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"Robert Frost is commonly regarded by his American public as a poet of Nature, and on occasion likened by his critics to Vergil and Wordsworth. At first glance much of Frost's poetry is unpretentious and simple, having the appearance of clever verbal charms and homely, parochial descriptions. His verse is modest in its diction, colloquial in its syntax and relies on ordinary experience. He affects the stance of the inspired but cool and shrewd New England observer and like Coleridge seems to believe:
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small.
But Frost's apparent loyalty to the ordinary themes of earth and sky, to the heavens with their constellations and the small flowers with their insects, does not necessarily permit Frost to ... "
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Anne Bradstreet's Poems, 2005.
This paper discusses Anne Bradstreet's poems "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House".
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This paper explains that Anne Bradstreet lived and wrote poetry during the middle decades of the 17th century. The author examines the Puritan themes in two of Bradstreet's more recognized works "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House". The paper compares these two poems to reveal the Puritan themes of devotion to one's husband and devotion to one's God.
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"Anne Bradstreet lived and wrote poetry during the middle decades of the 17th century. At that time, she was incredibly steeped in Puritan tradition, owing to her cultural heritage and upbringing. This fact is incredible evident in her poetry, as it expresses many of the dominant themes of Puritanism. This essay examines two of Bradstreet's more recognized works - "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House." The two poems will be compared in order to demonstrate how both works are an expression of Puritan ideology, namely the primacy of men and God. "To My Dear and Loving Husband" is a poem about just what the title would have readers believe. Amazingly, there is no irony or sarcasm lurking beneath Bradstreet's lines."
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Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" and Anthony Hecht's "Dover Bitch", 2004.
Compares the love theme in the two poems, "Dover Beach" and "Dover Bitch".
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This paper compares the way the poems, "Dover Beach", by Matthew Arnold, and "Dover Bitch", by Anthony Hech, treat the subject of love. The paper explains that, while both poems are about love, the type of love each poem is describing is quite different. The paper goes on to discuss the different tones in the poems, which render the poems' descriptions of love very differently. Also discussed is how Hecht makes his poem, "Dover Bitch", a commentary about the confusing desire for love by satirizing Arnold's poem, "Dover Beach".
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""Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold and "Dover Bitch" by Anthony Hecht are poems that on the surface are based on the same subject--love. Though both poems are about love, the poems are not alike. The love that Matthew Arnold describes is a serious one, while the love that Hecht describes is, arguably, not love at all, but simply desire. "Dover Bitch" uses the "Dover Beach" as a platform to speak of love in a tone that is crass and hollow feeling-a feeling that has more to do with satisfying a physical desire than with satisfying an emotional desire. Both poets achieve their goals through the use of different tones."
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