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 many ways I see this as this as more of a representation of lust rather than love, disguised under layers of affectionate terms. ... Without knowing all the details of the poets life however, it is impossibl...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Donne's love poetry expresses a wide variety of changing views and attitudes towards love. Through his poetry Donne portrays love at times as physical, at other times as spiritual, and sometimes as a combination of both. Often times when Donne is speaking about physical love he describes it in terms of a religious experience, as in To His Mistress Going to Bed, this description of physical love would seem to imply that it holds great importance to Donne. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: High School

Similes and metaphors flood angst filled teenage poetry, and the more reserved work of our elders. ... In terms of comparisons, love, to me is an unspoken understanding, known completely through actions. ...

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Literary Style: According to Langston Hughes, "Baldwin uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing....The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought." ... Meaning of Title: The title of the novel Another Country stipulates two explicit terms: love and racism. ...

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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 tw...

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Romeo is a great reader of love poetry, and the portrayal of his love for Rosaline suggests he is trying to re-create the feelings that he has read about. ... Her level-headed observations, such as the one about Romeo's kissing, seem just the thing to snap Romeo from his superficial idea of love and to inspire him to begin to speak some of the most beautiful and intense love poetry ever written. ...

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Page 1 Scholars of Chaucer agree that Latin poet Dante influenced the former's writing of Troilus and Criseyde. As Barry Windeatt says, "Close verbal parallels are relatively few, but there a range of significant parallels in both poets' understanding of love which suggest how Chaucer may have had the example of the Divine Comedy in mind as he worked on his Troilus- (125-6). The extent of Dante's influence has remained an issue of debate, especially when talking about the closing stanzas of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. What exactly do the last six stanzas of Troilus an...

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• Grade Level: High School