He adds that she was his true love in life. With "To lytel while oure blysse lasteth" [too little while our bliss lasts] (line 211), he leaves her, echoing a theme of this and other poems in Chaucer's love-poetry oeuvre. ... The knight is sorrowful, and while he sits he is composing a verse (called a complaint) about his sorrow in love. The complaint details how his lady-love, whom he "loved with al my might" (line 478), has been lost. ... The dreamer tries to talk the knight out of suicide by enumerating the foolish people in history who killed themselves for love and were judged harshly...

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• Grade Level: High School

It appears in divers forms (ex. happiness, merry, laughing) in the vast majority of poems (just to mention some of them see for example Infant Joy, Laughing song, Nurse's song) and together with the remarks on careless life in the presence of a care taking father give allusion to the garden of Eden which knows nothing about the evil. ... What he highly evaluated and was important was the soul capable of love. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hence, "the image of wealth and luxury describes not only the blossoms from her garden but also the richness and sustaining power of" poetry (Tingle,2009); the flower, "like a good poem, hides its softest velvets or deepest, most intimate petal sentences for the one who appreciates it" (Fart,Carter,2005). ... In fact, the title highlights his love for individuals: each leaf of grass possesses its own distinct beauty, and together the blades form a beautiful unified whole, a Whitman's theme explored in the sixth section of "Song of Myself", in which he again &...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate