Poetry to me is a way to express thoughts or feelings in an artistic and meaningful way. The poem "If Thou Must Love Me" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is more or less a love poem that sends many messages to me about love. A few of Browning's messages are that true love is forever, love transcends image, and the use of love is too common.
The first message in Browning's poem, true love is forever is directly supported. Line 14, "love's eternity" says that love is forever. The whole poem talks about how sometimes love is called love but may not necessarily be true love in fact, and thus won't last forever. "Except for loves sake only", line 2, means that if one loves the person for love of that whole person then the love is genuine and will forever exist.
The second message in Browning's poem is that love transcends image. One cannot love someone because of some physical beauty, "Do not say "I love her for her smile-her look" ", she doesn't desire to be loved for this reason. Nor does she want to be loved because of her manner of speech "Do not say her way of speaking gently". .
The last message that I can relate to in this poem is that the use of love is too common. Browning says several times that she doesn't want to be loved for such superficial things. Love is a deep and meaningful thing that shouldn't be conditional, this is supported by lines 9 through 12, "Neither love me for thine own dear pity's wiping me cheeks dry-A creature might forget to weep, who bore thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby". Furthermore, if love is based on superficial things then when these things change that the foundation for the love is thus lost, "For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee-and love, so wrought, may be unwrought so".
This poem was chosen for the personal response because for me, love is a touchy subject. To me love is something that people claim because they cannot handle being alone.
There were many topics in this book that interested me. ... But it is not inherent the true nature of love that it must occur. ... Sex and love though they are related they are very different. ... The problem with sex is that if we do not like or sexual responses, we are inclined to disown them even while acting on them. ... And in this system if one person changes the other must also change. ...
She exudes the truth of love even if it hurts sometimes. ... Cordelia knows this, and this is the reason for her response when Lear asks how much she loves him. Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. ... It would not be possible to return to someone that exclaimed his disgust in you if you did not truly love him. ... "Within the world of the play, true justice is absolute, love serves justice absolutely, and injustice must be stopped by love." ...
If one remains without offering response to others, he/ she becomes a receiver without giving, in other words, he/ she is egoistic and becomes a "Dead Sea." ... This requires my actions to be shaped in response to objective requirements; in other words, the choice will be made between personal profit and love for our fellow men. ... It is the bond of love that made Quynh's being meaningful in relation with the family, even though her life was so short. ... Though she could not speak yet, love between the parents and the baby made her being a beloved partner, a partner of communication. ...
This behaviour didn't disconcert me as I was still quite happily totally unaware of physical same sex relationships. ... These two men reminded me of friendships and relationships that I have actually had with young men during my young adult life. ... It suddenly dawned on me that two people of the same sex can love each other in this way. ... Having read the book I began to wonder how I could employ it into my classroom and the likely responses that I can expect from my students. ... For the first time, as I did, these students might realise that not only does homosexuality exist in th...
The wedding is over, his Love is truly his, and Sir Gawain convinces Yvain that to remain the great knight who has earned her Love through accomplishments and valour, he must leave his bride in pursuit of glory. ... He asks, "What am I doing, then, if I do not kill myself?" ... This is no small matter, as can be seen in Gawain's response: "You would do this for me?" ... Laudine has no romantic notions of love, but is brought into the marraige though self-servitude. ... Yet, she must give in, as she admits "I am bound to be accorded with him." ...
God loves us so much that in response to our repentance of sins, he offers us grace, even though we do not deserve it. Paul recognizes that grace is given as a gift when he writes, "The grace of our Lord was poured on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus."" Yancey phrases this idea of free grace as a gift when he says, "Grace means there is nothing I can do to make God love me more, and nothing I can do to make God love me less- (Yancey 1997). ... However, the world would not see grace if it did not provide a calling for those who have received grace from Go...
He survived, not as a child, even though he was physically a human being, but rather as an animal. ... He continues on to explain how love is a learned emotion or response and not something that exists naturally in a human being. In order to learn love, the person must learn to learn well. ... This love must consist of many things; most importantly the knowledge of how to learn and the knowledge of how to love. ... If you ask me- what a child really needs most is not to be born into a family lacking the necessary love, but this is an improbable solution to a very real problem. ...
I said love and she said oyy jesus, her exact response. ... If she hears someone is dead, she has no response. ... She was in a four year love lasting relationship and even though it's over she will still have the forever lasting memories. ... She must find it really entertaining, who knows? ... Even though we only met last year, we learned everything about each other's pasts and loved learning about what was going on now. ...
To focus completely on the bond and lawful commitment will highlight specifically the 'love' in which I wish to examine within Beckett's work. ... It could be seen that 'Beckett concedes that his narratives cannot avoid this futility'2 and the relationships are there to present the awareness of that, even if the characters themselves are not. ... I will be able to decipher or not whether there is hope within the love, or if not, what Beckett is implying if, for these characters, the impossibility and futility overpowers the hope in love. ... Be with me.'13 They ...
