In an analysis of the Troubadour Bernart De Ventadorn and the philosopher Abelard, this essay will argue that there is a great deal of inner turmoil discovered from within both of the twelfth century writers. ... In one poem he praises the feelings of love, "I can go out without my clothes, Naked in my shirt, For fine, true love will keep me safe From wintry blasts." ... He also does this within the same poem, "Tant ai mo cov ple de joya" (Bernart, p136). ... He never would have dreamed of belittling himself in his prose, the way Ventadorn does in one of his poems: "For all my songs aren&#x...

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Essay Topic: An analysis of the ideological implication of Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress", in respect to similar themes in William Shakespeare's Sonnets "18" and "73". There is an uncomfortable shallowness of the contextual nature of Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress" that in some way separates it from several of William Shakespeare's sonnets. ... The first two parts of the poem provide descriptions of two separate worlds of opposition, creating a rather disorientating reaction. ...

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In sonnet 141 (CXLI), Shakespeare speaks again of physical and emotional aspects of the persona's lover, however this sonnet differs in that the woman's physical appearance and ways of conduct are not appealing at all to the persona. From the start of the first quatrain, the persona declares his l...

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