In the poem Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds William Shakespeare portrays love in its most ideal form, while John Keats portrays love as eternal innocence and beauty. Shakespeare's poem praises the glories of lovers who have come to each other freely, and enter into a relationship based on trust and understanding. Keats poem on the other hand emphasizes love as pure and innocent. Even though these two poems portray love in different ways they both capture love as being beautiful and eternal.
In the first four lines Shakespeare reveals that love is constant and strong, and will not "alter when it alteration finds". The following lines Shakespeare states that true love will survive any crisis. In lines 7-8, Shakespeare claims that love's actual worth cannot be known; it will always remain a mystery. In lines 9-12, Shakespeare reaffirms the perfect nature of love that is unshakeable throughout time and remains so "ev'n to the edge of doom." In the final lines, Shakespeare declares that, if he is mistaken about the constant, unmovable nature of perfect love, then he must take back all his writings on love, he adds that, if he has in fact judged love inappropriately, no man has ever really loved, in the sense that he has portrayed. .
Keats introduces the theme of eternal innocence and the sufficiency of beauty with reference to the "unravished bride of quietness." Accepting her purity of not yet engaging in the sexual actions of marriage, and she will remain like so forever. The second and third stanzas restate the theme of eternal innocence and beauty. Keats writes of a young man sitting under a tree with the girl whom he loves. He is playing a pan flute to the girl expressing his passion for her through music. He will always play the flute and can never kiss the girl. Keats uses the following lines in this stanza: "She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, / For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!" These lines simply mean that the boy doesn't have the bliss of the kiss; but the poet says not to worry because the young girl will always remain by his side, young and beautiful.
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One might ask, "How is love expressed? Are there certain categories in which love falls? How do different people react to love?" Love is expressed through a variety of mediums. ... If everyone understood their love language, people would learn how to better love others. ...
Throughout history Love has been a topic of conversation. Plato's Symposium provides us with many different views and theories about Love. ... After describing history of Love, he proposes that each person is half of a complete love relationship, a whole. ... It is perfectly accepted having males seek Love with females; if no Love is found having males interacting with the females, so that by the mutual embraces of man and woman they might breed, and the race might continue. Or, equally so, if a man came to a man to seek Love; if Love is not found they might be satisfied and go about th...
Love is the desire for the soul. ... Confused from what love really is, they immediately attract on each other. ... Lastly, they liked the idea of love itself, rather than loving the person. ... Lastly, Romeo and Juliet loved the idea of "being in love"" instead of truly loving the actual person. ... It is clear that the type of "love"" that Romeo and Juliet are experiencing is nothing but lust and an illusion of what appears to be love. ...
"Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds, expresses her emotions against loveless sex as a hurtful and cold act. ... Sex with love leads to babys that are wanted. On the other hand sex without love can lead to unwanted babies that get given away. ... The figurative meaning of cardio could be love because the heart is a symbol of love. ... When referring to Sex Without Love, the topic of religion can be brought into the discussion. ...
Since many people fall into and out of love it is difficult to define what love actually is. ... He compares young people to being apprentices of love. ... I believe in most of what Rilke has to say about love. ... Rilke says that we need to learn how to love. ... How does one learn love without mistaking false love as truth? ...
Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on how love is presented through in Shakespeare's: Romeo and Juliet and how love is presented through a series of sonnets (18, 130 and 134). ... Throughout the play there is a constant theme of love and fate. ... 'Alas that love, whose view is muffled still. ... This also shows how ' first love' isn't always 'true love'. We can compare this type of love to that in Sonnet 130. ...
It is not love that affirms the bond of man's unity, but it is man's unity and his bonding which integrate love into man. ... Because of love, some of mankind's greatest histories have been recognized as infamous, but also some of mankind's greatest histories have also been recognized, all of them influenced by Love. Was it not the power of love which allowed the Israelites to unify against the Egyptians? Was it not the power of love which brought forth Helen from Sparta and the destruction of Troy? Was it not the power of love which made Buddha an enlightened sage? ...
This is a location of Love Canal. ... So what is the lesson of Love Canal? ... The Love Canal neighborhood is in the southeast section of the La Salle area of Niagara Falls, New York. ... Unusually heavy rain and snowfalls in 1975 and 1976 provided high ground-water levels in the Love Canal area. ... In 1978, the Department of Health learned that Love Canal chemicals had surfaced at the site. ...
