In John Keats's poem, "Ode to a Nightingale,"" he characterizes the Romantic Era through his discontent with the tiredness of the real world, and he attempts to use the nightingale as a representation of an ideal world where beauty and love are not subject to change. ... Literature from the Romantic Era emphasizes originality and a love for nature. ... "Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow"" (29-30). Keats desires to reach out to this ideal world where love and beauty's existence cease to change. ... John Keats's life had its shar...

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Immortality of Plato's Love Though Plato died nearly 2500 years ago, the English language still keeps his definition of love in common usage. To keep a relationship "platonic" means to eliminate its romantic aspect, restricting the partners to intellectual stimulation alone. Modern minds may think that this love is not as fertile as heterosexual romantic love and even consider this asexual affection something other than love, as it bears no children. ... Naturally, if the object of love is "the good", people who love want to have "the good" forever (206a). ... This perpetuation is esse...

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Romantics believed that man, while certainly capable of evil, was inherently good natured, but that civilization as a whole was flawed and corrupt. ... The vast unknown of the American West appealed to the Romantic followers as they saw nature as a source of wisdom and inspiration for the soul. ... The Romantic Movement saw many authors become household names. Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allen Poe became well-known advocates of Romantic ideals. ... "The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one poi...

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" This famous quote reflects the tension felt between the individual and society for some of the later Romantic writers and is apparent in their work. ... Writing in the Nineteenth Century, Romantics such as Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman had radical beliefs about the individual's role in society for their time period. ... It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. ...

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This production, The Elixir of Love, managed to look and feel real, with real passion, real sorrow, real despair. ... But loves scorching flame cannot be soothed by shade or stream. ... However, there is more of a complexity to his character than the typical hopeless romantic narrative most may impose on him. Nemorino is a more serious character that has a serious love interest. ... However, perhaps Nemorino was happy and a hopeless romantic character as he yearns for Adina's love, which inevitably pushes him to become a resilient character for obtaining the mutual feelings from Adina. ...

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Not only does the strong female friendship and love between Ramatoulaye and Aissatou cultivate a space of understanding, it also serves as site of healing for the women. ... The essential thing is the content of our hearts, which animates usYou have often proved to me the superiority of friendship over love (Bâ 75).... As Ramatoulaye writes, "Friendship has splendours that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. ... It has heights unknown to love (Bâ 56)....

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We mostly see him in the countryside, emphasizing on love and death. ... His hopelessly falling in love brings out the emotional side of him - which wants to believe in something (which is love in this case). The whole idea of Bazarov letting his guard down and falling in love takes away a part of his Nihilist image which is no more pure. ... He is not evil nor is he a complete romantic. ... He also tries to place himself against the Romantics to see how the world really functions but he himself does not manage to resist as his friendship with Arkadey is a very romantic friendship and he also ...

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Discuss Representations of Love In One or More Poems Read in Class Many different poets throughout history have represented love, perhaps the most common subject matter chosen in poetry, in many different ways, and many of these ideas certainly do not conform to what the current generation would consider love', mostly due to the advent of sexual equality and equal rights. ... In the first section the voice the poet chooses to use (it is never clear if he speaks as himself or if the poem is intended as a satire) very traditional, romantic language and is complimentary throughout, su...

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William Blake and William Wordsworth were two poets from the Romantic period. ... He was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth's personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent most of his mature life. He demonstrated a towering sincerity with compassion and a love of minimalism. ... "The Garden of Love" shows Blake's disbelief that human feelings are associated with the changing moods of nature. ...

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Friendships, romantic relationships, infidelity, marriage, lust, and love: all these things are founded on the deeper need of survival of the species. ... Sexologist John Money draws the line between love and lust: "Love exists above the belt, lust below. Love is lyrical. ... Then there's romantic love, which is more associated with the crazy, obsessive feeling, all thoughts are bent on the object of the infatuation. ... Thus more often than not romantic love turns into compassionate love due to the oxytocin and vasopressin amassing in the lovers' brains. ...

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Though many people in Don Quixote's world seem to have given up on romantic love, Don Quixote and a few other characters hold dear this belief. Don Louis's love for Clara and Camacho's wedding, for instance, are situations in which romantic love rises above everything else. Even in the case of Sancho and Teresa, romantic love triumphs as a significant part of the matrimonial commitment, which we observe in Teresa's desire to honor her husband. Ironically, Don Quixote's own devotion to Dulcinea ridicules romantic love, pushing it to the extreme as he idolizes a woman he...

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Whether you refer to his poem as "A Song" or "Ask Me No More," Carew revolutionizes the love poem and redefines beauty in such a way that the recipient of these words could care less about what the poem is called simply because it would be just as romantic with any other title. ... In his endeavor to redefine beauty in a love poem, Carew plays with a combination of words in each stanza that help to paint a deeper picture that a simple simile would not be able to accomplish. ... The phoenix could be taken literally as a phoenix, like the other objects of comparison, or it co...

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Topic Question: Queen Elizabeth turns up on stage at the end of Shakespeare in Love and says 'I know something of a woman in a man's profession'. ... The 1998 film, Shakespeare in Love, cleverly altered the way in which audiences viewed Shakespeare by adjusting the temperament of the film with a modern lens. ... Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard, is a romantic-comedy drama that depicts a lustrous affair between the privileged Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and the upcoming commoner playwright William Shakes...

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While I would not afford much to faith into Egeuses concepts of love, Theseus and Demetrius seem to conform to his standards of marriage, which is based not on true love, but merely manly materialism and social status. ... In the end as nature would have it, true love dominates false pretenses. ... He introduces the fairies and their realms into the plot to instigate somewhat of a romantic confusion that, in the end, restores balance in the conflicts of identities and love. ... Naturally, true love outweighed materialism, and Hermia did not compromise her true feelings. ... The fantasy ...

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If a female of that time were lucky, like Jane, she entered a marriage of love and fortune, and if unlucky, like Charlotte, a marriage without love and happiness. ... Despite all this, she marries a man of high position, economic standing whom she loves and is loved back by said man. ... She rejects marriage for a "comfortable home" and this is more substantial than romantic fantasies. ... Despite all this, she marries a man of high position, economic standing whom she loves and is loved back by said man. ... She rejects marriage for a "comfortable home" and this is more su...

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Men are expected to be strong and masculine, so to fulfill this requirement, they often build friendships based upon common factors such as sports, drinking, or even their love of women. ... The other type is "potentially a romantic relationship, where feelings of sexual attraction may become greater"" (Pg.482). ... In a study that was done in the Netherlands, a lack of day-to-day interaction between men and women may reduce understanding of the other sex and may complicate personal communication between men and women in friendships and romantic relationships (Pg. 101). ... Compared to men, wo...

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Unlike the earlier romantic 19th century novels of Jane Austen whose characters such as Elizabeth Bennett lived happily ever after, Victorian novelist George Eliot, broke the tradition of the standard romantic novel by representing women in unhappy relationships and the reality and problems of the woman's role in life and their place in society, this is particularly evident in her realist novel Middlemarch. Another example of the way women were represented in the mid-Victorian period is in poetry such as Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" who is bound by the web she weaved within th...

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Hawthorne's embracement of man's flawed humanity developed through the influence of Puritan philosophies on Hawthorne, igniting his Romantic soul with criticism for the Puritan's belief in total depravity and the corruption of humans' wicked nature. ... Aylmer cannot bear to view Georgiana as flawed and corrupted due to depravity; therefore, he insists on removing Georgiana's blemish and connection to humanity to fulfill his conditional love, which is seeing Georgiana as perfect. ... Although Hawthorne provides the readers with his Romantic insight, he also reveals tha...

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Because Hermione exhibits a "secure" attachment style, we see her projecting it within her own teenage experimentations of love. ... The audience learns that while the Weasleys love their children very much, they are either screaming at them through the use of "howlers" or are distracted, and thus basically absent. These types of behaviors create children who are unsure of where they stand in relationships and find themselves yearning for love that they're not sure they will ever receive. ... Will Hunting was abused as a child and has great difficulty developing me...

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Ironically, the supposed beast was initially much more compassionate and thoughtful than his creator, until his romantic and innocent view of the human race was diminished by the cruelty and injustice he unduly bore. ... As the supposed monster journeys onward, he is delighted and allured by the moon and sun, and other peaceful, natural and romantic settings. ... At the conclusion of the novel, Victor refuses to create another, and end the creature's miserable asylum due to the simple belief that beasts cannot nor should live peacefully in the comfort of love and kinship. ... The creat...

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The true definition of what makes a feminist text remains undecided, but can largely be received in light of strong female characters, social commentary, themes and the political stance taken by the author. For a question devoid of objective answers, I believe that in this instance it is best to tak...

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Shakespeare uses the comedy behind Viola's gender transformation to explore the notion that concepts of romantic love are not always selective by gender. ... Everybody, male and female, seems to love Ganymede, the beautiful boy who looks like a woman because he is really Rosalind in disguise. ... Ganymede is the cupbearer and beloved of Jove and is a standard symbol of homosexual love. ... Even though Orlando is supposed to be in love with Rosalind, he seems to enjoy the idea of acting out his romance with the beautiful young boy Ganymede "almost as if a boy who looks like the woman ...

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What if I was in love with a female? ... Would the love be any different? Being in love, taking care of, and growing old with someone is all that should be required to have a happy marriage. ... The idea of marriage as a romantic union between one man and one woman is relatively recent development. ... How would you feel to get strange and criticizing looks every time you walk down the street with the person you love? ...

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The persona announces that "had we but world enough time, this coyness lady were no crime", essentially denoting the fact that if he had enough time his desire would be to court and love his mistress for eternity. ... He uses romantic words such as "long loves day" to create a luring, enticing image his of the personas intentions of courting her for long periods of time. The alliteration enforces this argument of his overflowing love by hyperbolically stating that he would love her, "Ten years before the flood, till the conversion of the Jews". ... It is lifeless...

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After this scene the atmosphere swiftly changes from romantic and comical to more serious and tragic. ... His feelings are conflicted as he used to love her. Claudio only truly feels bad when he finds out that Hero was innocent and that it was all setup, and this shows that Claudio and Hero's relationship was superficial and that Claudio didn't truly love Hero, otherwise he would have known that Hero would never do something like that. ... The play was vaguely set out in two main stages, the first being a sort of romantic comedy, and the second being a more tragic love. ...

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