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The four poems I have chosen are Kid by Simon Armitage, Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy, The Laboratory by Robert Browning and On My First Born Sonne by Ben Jonson. Each of these poems are very different, the most obvious difference being the different ages they were written in. But they all have one major […]

The very opening word of John Donne’s “Death be not proud” is “Death”, he is directly challenging death, whereas Herbert’s first word is “Love”. This creates a binary opposition as the two words are complete opposites. There is also a clear difference in the rhyming schemes. John Donne uses Petrarchan sonnet as it is the […]

Two poems, “A Valediction Forbidden Mourning” by John Donne and “Love Poem” by Elizabeth Jennings, discuss the topic of love, but each offers a unique perspective. While both writers draw upon personal experience, their distinct approaches and styles make their works markedly different. Donne employs a regular ab, ab rhyme scheme that connotes clarity of […]

Ever since man has been able to script and speak they have been able to express their emotions. Love poetry has been passed down and become part of our cultural and literary heritage. In the following essay I will be using 2 different poems: “The Barrier by Claude Mckay” and “Long Distance by Tony Harrison”; […]

Patrick Kavanaugh in his ballad “Raglan Road” conveys through beautiful metaphor his disappointment in love. The poem sings with its iambic heptameter and the AABB rhyme scheme combined with the internal rhyme of the even-numbered lines. The lilt of its music is enhanced by Kavanaugh’s alliteration and overall melopoeia. Kavanaugh combines the pang of attraction […]

These two poems show very different attitudes to love and relation ships. In the poem ‘To his coy mistress’ the poet is talking about his lust for her. ‘In how do I love thee’ the poet is talking about her love and emotion for him. Section 1 I will firstly look at the poem by […]

Each poem displays a different attitude to love: “Our Love Now” explores the end of love; “I wanna be yours” depicts the almost ‘slavish’ side of love; “To His Coy Mistress” is concerned with more sexual side of love. What is most enjoyable about all of these poems is that they depict a variety of […]

This excerpt is from the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is in the last chapter of the novel, and two of the main characters, Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, have accepted their love for each other and have taken a boat trip together. These two pages demonstrate the […]

In medieval literature, love and marriage are portrayed as separate subjects. Marriage in that time was an institution of duty, restriction, and convention. Love, in contradiction to Marriage, is idealized as chivalric, adventurous, and what all women truly long for. When literature at that time began to introduce the concept of romantic love, the idea […]

In his poem, ‘With how sad steps’ Sydney is addressing the issues of love together with rejection and depression. He has adopted a Shakespearean sonnet form, which immediately indicates that the poem is about love. It is apparent from the first line that the speaker in confiding in the moon. The speaker is expressing his […]

This essay sets out to examine Richard Dyer’s claim that the musical generates a utopian sensibility by comparing Howard Hawks’ ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ (1953) with Baz Luhmann’s ‘Moulin Rouge’ (2001) This will firstly involve an assessment of Dyer’s general argument concerning his view of the musical’s ability to generate a utopian sensibility. The essay will […]

Both the poems I have been asked to read to about love and both poems are written by women. The speaker in the poem is constant always staying the same. The poems were written a long time ago so women’s views about men are much different and there is a more of an equal chain. […]

In ‘The Sun Rising’ by John Donne, the poet is awakened by the sun’s rays streaming through the curtains into his bedroom, where he lies with his lover. Wishing to prolong the pleasure of lying in, cuddled beside her, he tells the Sun not to disturb the peace of the bedroom. The fact that the […]

The sonnet “Remember” by Christina Rossetti was written in 1849 when Rossetti was just 19 years old, in this sonnet the themes of love, loss, and reaction to death are portrayed. Christina Rossetti was born in London in 1830 and died in 1894 a well-known poet. The sonnet, “Remember”, is written to a lover and […]

The ‘courtly love’ tradition dates back to the seventeenth century, and is an idealistic idea based on the circumstance of a knight and his lady, a lover and a beloved. In this essay I will explore this tradition and how it is used in past and present literature. The tradition of ‘courtly love’ is one […]

“Porphyria’s Lover” is a Victorian poem written by Robert Browning and narrates the occasion in which a man strangles his lover to death as consequence of his rather special outlook on love, action catalysed by the climaxed situation they were both engaged in. The poem transmits an overall tone of honesty, as if it were […]

The poem ‘The Sick Equation’, by Brian Pattern is one of the many poems which comes from the book ‘Armada’, which was published in 1996. The book is dedicated to his mother. This poem is in retrospect and is about his childhood. The poet uses enjambment in this poem. ‘The Sick Equation’ focuses on the […]

Love and lost plays an integral role in the story of the Half Bothers, which successfully leads to an inevitable ending. Each character rein act different aspects of the definition of love and lost. For this reason, I will explore the way Elizabeth Gaskell epitomises love in each of the characters Helen, William and Gregory. […]

The opening of “Porphyria’s Lover” gives a sullen, depressing description of the weather, which then creates the mood for the whole poem. The storm is both metaphorical and physical because it represents the storm going on outside and the storm going on in the narrator’s mind. The image we get from the wind is violent […]

The theme of love is a one that comes up very often in all of Browning’s poems, not just in Love Among the Ruins. We see it in Porphria’s Lover, Andrea Del Sarto, My Last Duchess, A Lover’s Quarrel and many more. Browning himself was a devoted husband and father who was a follower in […]

Love has always been presented as a glamarous dream in music and media for years, For example films such as ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ and ‘Titanic,’ etc…show how love is important and that it is worth more than anything else.Songs such as ‘Iris,’ by the ‘Goo Goo Dolls,’ uses such lines as’I dont want the world […]

Ecstasy is known as an out of body experience and in this poem Donne strives to incorporate many different scenarios so that the reader can apprehend the out of body experience love gives: “Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread our eyes, upon one double string;” This metaphor presents the concept that the gaze of the […]