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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.

From the Paper
"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."

Tags:metaphor, imagery, metaphysical, passion, thought

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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".

From the Paper
""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."

Tags:poetry, figurative, language

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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.

From the Paper
'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.'

Tags:interpretation, contrary, courting, sex, roles, blood

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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.

From the Paper
"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.""

Tags:romantic, goodwill

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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.

Tags:poems, pablo, neruda

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The paper explores how love and sex are operationalized in selected modern poems, beginning with Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" and also including poems by Hardy, Millay, H.D. and Atwood.

From the Paper
"The theme of love and sex is readily on offer in a number of modern poems. Some of them deal with the theme in a gentle way while others emphasize the emotional brutality and confusion that can pervade love and sex. In the more serious of poems on the subject, there is an element of ambiguity, which is to say that the reader is left with a degree of uncertainty about meaning or the poet's attitude. Among the more striking of love poems from the modern period..."

Tags:love, sex, ambiguity

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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.

From the Paper
"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."

Tags:earthly, love, supernatural, super, power, beauty

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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.

From the Paper
"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."

Tags:victoria, social, struggle, women

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This paper analyzes and compares Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee" and Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband." The paper notes that although these love poems were written two centuries apart, they share the concept of unwavering love, the sense of being completed by one's mate, and the testament that true love never changes over the years and will always satisfy. The paper explains that Bradstreet's poem has more intimate tone because she composed it for her husband, while Browning describes love in far-reaching metaphors, often showing religious overtones. The paper concludes that the poems share the bond of utter devotion, and that the authors allow readers to see the unique depths of their love through metaphors, symbols, mood, and tone.

From the Paper
"The intended audience is different for each poem; in "To My Dear and Loving Husband," the poet is speaking directly to her husband as opposed to making a more declarative statement as we see in "How Do I Love Thee." Bradstreet is speaking directly to her husband and Browning is speaking to readers. This difference does not diminish the effect of either poem but it is significant when examining strategy. We can look at Bradstreet's poem as more personal in that she might not have intended this poem for public consumption and even if she did, she still chose to address her husband directly, giving him all of her attention. Bradstreet's poem is also composed with a mood and tone of humility, indicating that the love she shares with her husband is invaluable."

Tags:poetry, romantic, undying, intimate, everlasting

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This paper examines how the use of the concept of love in both poems is similar in that both poems distinguish between spiritual and physical attraction while calling both 'love'. It also discusses how both poets seem to ultimately (though Dacre- explicitly and Byron - most probably unintentionally) agree that males are more inclined - by nature - to physical relations and women - to the transcendent kind of love. In other words, the separation of love and sex, commonly considered as late twentieth century obsession, originated in the Romantic era.

From the Paper
"In contrast, Charlotte Dacre's poem is only sixteen-lines long, arranged in four quatrains rhymed in a much less flamboyant abab scheme. The poem seems to be a letter/note from the author to her aspirant but uses a slightly more ornate language than Byron's. Dacre drops no name and belittles no one. No one in particular, that is: the very choice of Spanish for the title - Il Trionfo del Amor - is a very subtle way of telling all her male contemporary colleagues and readers alike, that she, too, is well learned and well read... Likewise, when she makes a direct reference to broader erudition, it is put in parenthesis and bites at the learned males and their perception of learned women. Indeed, "(So charms the witchery)", for being put in parenthesis and for insinuating she is familiar with witchery, could be read as teasing the contemporary (male) perception that "women's writing is an affront to God-given, 'natural' gender roles" (Gilroy, in Bygrave, p.183)."

Tags:amor, byron, charlotte, dacre, del, il, juan, poetry, romantic, trionfo