Donne uses some very evocative imagery in this universally relevant poem. ... Donne's most famous conceit is then introduced. ... Batter My Heart is a very controversial poem about religion. ... Donne is writing this poem in desperation. ... The poems have a universality that seems to live on throughout time. ...
Ezra Pounds poem "The Jewel Stairs' grievance" was a little confusing to me to be honest. ... The poem doesn't really give too much information referring that the poem isn't very detailed and lengthy. ... The poem seems to take place in the late autumn season in the cold where leaves begin to fall from trees. ... This language characterizes himself as a professional old English famous writer. ... The repetitions at the beginning of each part of the sonnet resemble a structure that Shakespeare seems to follow (along with other old English poem illustrators). ...
Of course the husband was never supposed to find out about his wife's love of another man, but in nearly all of the poems and lais the beloved was a married woman and the lover a married man. King Equitan, in the famous lai, by Marie de France, of the same name, falls in love with his seneschal's wife, "The King loved the seneschal's wife for a long time, had no desire for any other women; he didn't want to marry, and never allowed the subject to be raised,"" (Adulterous Love: The Story of Equitan, 113). ... The idea of not being in love with the person but of being "in...
Romeo and Juliet is undoubtedly the most famous love story in English literary history; love is the play's dominant and most important theme. ... This is traditionally a love poem about unrequited love, but it is obvious at this early point in the play in the way that the sonnet is shared between both Romeo and Juliet, that the spell that has been cast over Romeo has been cast over Juliet as well. ... What follows is the aptly named balcony scene, perhaps the most famous scene in the play. ...
