He remembered when he would go wherever the girl (Lesbia) would lead him (“cum ventitabas quo puella ducebat,” line four) and how he loved her more than any girl could ever be loved. By remembering these times, Catullus is reminded of just how happy he was when he was with Lesbia, which causes his previous firmness of mind, that he was to stop being a fool and forget about Lesbia, to waver a bit. In the next section, Catullus switches back to present tense, which shows how the current situation was at the time he was writing the poem and returns some of his firmness of mind to him as he realizes the pointlessness of reminiscing. Almost as a reminder to himself after recalling his happy memories, Catullus says in line nine “Nunc iam illa non volt,” meaning that now Lesbia wants him no more. He then goes on to regain his
This shows how there are many reasons to her loving her husband and that there is depth to their love, the use of the explanation mark ‘!’ at the end emphasis her delight in telling her lover how much she adores him. Browning uses metaphors to describe her love for her husband “depth and breadth and height” this suggests how she lovers everything about him and how her love for him is much wider than what meets the eyes. The direct address makes the poem seem more personal and realistic. This is direct address, a question addressing her lover which gives the reader the impression that he has asked the speaker how much she loves him. This is a rhetorical question and it implies a conversation the two.
In the second quatrain, Shakespeare vivifies true love to make it pictorial through simile. He first describes love as an ever-fixèd mark keeping standing firm in the storm of tempests. Then he compares love to star, giving guidance to “every wandering bark”. And both worth is too high to be calculated. While in the third quatrain, personification is applied to portray love’s connotation.
The conflict adds to the story by making it interesting to read, and gives the reader the feeling that anything can happen at any time. Without conflict, this book would just be another love story with a happy ending. By making Romeo and Juliet's lives filled with conflict, Shakespeare sets it apart from other standard love stories where the characters end up living happily ever
So now she is telling her son not to give up and to keep going as she did because it’s like after every storm there’s always a rainbow at the end. The theme of the poem is that to never give up on anything no matter how hard it may seem. The poem relates to these famous words because hope is when you believe in something would turn out the way you would like it to. So while there’s life there’s always something to believe in, even if it means that you have to try harder than anyone else because you have more hope. For example, in the line “So, Boy, don’t you turn back.
EXPLORE THE WAYS THAT BRONTE PRESENTS DIFFERENT TYPES OF LOVE IN THE FIRST PART OF THE NOVEL Wuthering Heights explores many aspects of love; from the passionate, obsessive love between Catherine and Heathcliff to the almost convenient love of Catherine and Edgar. Bronte also explores many interesting views on marriage and the role of women. Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is not just an intensely passionate love but is portrayed as something more, as if they are soul mates or two parts of a whole. Catherine mentions her belief in existence beyond death and goes on to say ‘My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and, if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
We walk our allotted time and do what we are destined to do. The poets remind us, using he metaphor of Gold and of the valiant heart of a beloved pet, that the glory of life; life itself (far, far, more precious than gold), lasts but a brief moment. To live one’s life avoiding all thought of its impermanence is like throwing a part of it away: a part of life that is meaningful – the part that encourages us to ponder on our end, on our impermanence and our mortality. The poets of this era all seemed to have this in common: a sincere and vibrant belief in the immortal soul, as well as in an afterlife. As a famous Rabbi once said - Shaul of Tarsus (aka the Apostle Paul): “if it is only for this life that we believe … we are the most miserable of all men” (Moses et al, nd BC – approx.
The reader can relate to these symptoms and the text could compel emotions relating to love from the reader. This constant reference to feelings and stereotypes in correlation to love emphasises the romanticism of the experience of first love. When John Clare states ‘My heart has left its dwelling place and can return no more’ he is directly presenting the experience of first love as a life-changing
Elizabeth sets her mind on wanting the 'true love fairy tale' not just obeying her parents demands. Even though forming good marriage brings the family wealth, a respectable name and fame, she looks beyond that to true love. Whereas Jo featuring in Little Women explores the controversial "Can men and women be just friends?" She seeks the love that is shared between a couple wanting friendship rather than a relationship on potential future proposal. Throughout both texts, Little Women and Pride and Prejudice, Jo and Elizabeth are not afraid to speak their mind, resulting in strong desire to receive what they want.
Her husband, on the other hand, is content with his life and only wants to make his wife happy. He will do anything, within reason, to appease his wife’s desires. (Clugston, 2010) The theme of this story is that Mathilde, and unfortunately people like her still exist; perceives power to be found in possessions, instead of from within herself. Some people in this world believe that objects have the power to change their lives, but when they finally get the objects of their desire, their “happiness is fleeting at best”, (SparkNotes Editors, 2007) just as is Mathilde’s. Sure Mathilde was the “belle of the ball”, but she and her husband both had to toil and labor hard for the next ten years to replace the necklace she lost.