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. ... Without knowing all the details of the poets life however, it is impossible to tell just hoe he intended to characterize love, and so, as is often the case with poetry, the reader will see their own interpretat...

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Not only was it poetry but one of the poems actually was named "Poetry" (Moore 146). ... Once getting into the first section, "Poetry" and "Ars Poetica" began to define what poetry was. ... The poem "Poetry" (Moore 146) began to answer my question what is poetry. ... What is poetry to me? ... Now that I have this new found understanding of poetry I continued reading in order to get the final answer, what can I possibly get out of poetry? ...

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I believe he was kind of showing off within this sonnet because not only did this man know how to write poetry, he knew the details that came along with it as with the sentence structure and rhyming. Shakespeare not only know how to write poetry while using sentence structure, he also uses imagery in his sonnet. ...

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To me "POETRY" embodies all that art should be. ... Poetry is able to capture life at its best and worst. ... Thus poetry became my outlet and my life line. I began to read any poetry book that I could get my hands on. ... Are you able to distinguish the flow of my poetry? ...

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"A measure of great poetry is its ability to transcend time and place". ... Love and religion will always engage the reader and therefore it follows that his great poetry transcends time and place. ... Donne's poetry was not received very well by the Petrachan's because it went against almost all of their rules and his metaphysical approach to poetry offended many people. ... This also helps to show that great poetry like Donne's transcends time and place. ... Donne's poetry truly does transcend time and place and therefore his poetry is "great". ...

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Troubadour love poetry and the practice of courtly love empowered women to a certain extent. The poetry of the Goliards and the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine are two very different groups of people and yet they praised women and allowed them power over men's hearts (and loins). The poetry of Bernart de Ventadorn both praised and despised women for their beauty and power. ... For all the good troubadour poetry did for women it still kept up the misogynistic tendencies from previous centuries and courtly love did make women vulnerable to an extent. ... She has stolen my heart, and stolen my...

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Women's poetry in the late nineteenth century was very sentimental and death was a common tool in provoking pathos in the reader. ... Poetry is the expression of feeling. ... In the late 1800's, Christianity was still dominant in early America- its literature, its morals, and its poetry. ... Women's poetry in the nineteenth century wasn't just about love, death, and expression. ... All this came out in their poetry. ...

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Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basualto, more commonly known as Pablo Neruda, began his widely renowned career in poetry as a young boy. ... Neruda sought this pet name so that his parents would not know or recognize their son's input in poetry, which they frowned upon. ... Neruda loved the sea, and it became one of the most important symbols in his poetry. ... It gives the poetry innocence, but in a deeper way. ...

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John Donne turns this tool into an art form in his poetry as he weaves absurd relationships between two or more seemingly unrelated ideas. ... By using metaphors throughout his poetry Donne makes the reader understand feelings in ways that they would have never before been considered. ... If he were to write his ideas in simpler terms his poetry would lose a great deal of its appeal and expressiveness. ...

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"It's a weary life, it is; she said: - Doubly blank in a woman's lot: I wish and I wish I were a man; Or, better than any being, were not" In the above lines, taken from Christina Rossetti's From the Antique, she lets her speaker openly express female discontent. Apart from displaying the speaker's...

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Romantic Love In Dante's Inferno and The Lais of Marie De France It is fascinating to take the time out to examine in similarities and differences in the way authors Dante Aligheri and Marie De France impart to their readers their views on romantic love. It can almost be said that the two perspectives are "similarly different." Marie De France, like Dante, has a distinctive literary form. Her narrative twists and female perspective, differentiate her vastly from Dante. She focuses on stories from women's points of view, she involves her female characters much mor...

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"Sufism, is the notion of possessing nothing and being possessed by nothing," (Waines, p.138), is the basis of Farid Ud-Din Attar's The Conference of the Birds. Just as a Sufi is in search of God, the birds are on a Path to find the Simorgh. In order to reach the Simorgh they must complete the sev...

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Furthermore , Orlando , son of sir Rowland de Bois and the love interest of Rosalind , searches for his concept of the perfect woman and attempts to woo his love by poetry and confessing what to the presumed Ganymede. ...

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"Cousin Kate" was written for the pleasure of writing a poem, but "The Seduction" was written for a children's poetry competition with the subject of "water", these facts must also be taken into consideration. ...

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Is it more poetic to die after enjoying the greatest night of your life, or remain living until you're too old and weak to take care of yourself? In Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover," the author takes us inside the mind of a madman who reveals the dark side of human nature, and how death is twis...

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William Shakespeare's Othello is a tragic play regarding jealousy and its decomposing effects on the human psychology. The title character is a noble, highly ranked idealistic general. Due to jealousy, Othello transforms into a raging, uncontrollable murderer, in the desperate search for revenge. In...

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THESIS ----about Dickens & his "Great Experience" During the long vacation I was immersed in reading a great book. In the book there is a fearful marsh, fog London, mysterious escaped criminal and uncertain love. The book i...

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Diotima also makes the distinction that love is not confined solely to the feelings of one person for another, but encompasses many things, like poetry, philosophy, money-making, gymnastics and politics. ...

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As a little girl growing up, I spent a lot of time with a Hispanic lady because my mother worked all the time. She was like a grandmother to me. I loved to hear her speak of her late husband and how much she loved him. Her voice would change when she spoke of him. She described how she would sit and gaze at him when he perused the newspaper or how she would leave sweet notes in his lunch pail. ...

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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is known as a great love story because it is the central theme: the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. This love is the reason for the tragic development of the story; all the other themes like hate, revenge and death (among others) derive from this love between the two main characters. But here, we have a kind of love that is very difficult to classify. Some elements would place this kind of love within romantic tradition, like the intense involvement with nature, some mystical references, the wish of death from the lovers, and the m...

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