In Wild Oats It explains that a person, over the course of time, comes to realise that his greatest desires of love, are unattainable, and second best things will have to suffice. The central purpose of this poem is to show that love is one of these great desires and despite flashes of promise it contains scarcely anything that is more than fragmentary. Larkin reveals this through tone and diction. Both poets seem to focus a lot on the physical side of love where lust and desire are involved however Abse makes it sound more sensual and even spiritual when he speaks of Eros in his poem. Larkin portrays this sense of objectification in his poem with regards to woman as he describes a woman as a ‘bosomy English rose’ and then follows on to call her ‘beautiful’ throughout the poem portraying the sexual lust involved with love.
In this assessment I will be writing about how men show commitment towards women. Despite the differences in how commitment has been portrayed in the poems, there are many themes which link all the poems together, for example the theme of romantic love has been shown throughout the poems Cousin Kate and Valentine and has also been resembled in a circular object which is either a ring or an onion. This circular object could also resemble loop of infinity which could imply that love is infinite. Although the gifts maybe different they both represent commitment the only difference is the structures of the poems and how the author expresses their thoughts on how commitment should be shown. In Christina Rossetti’s poem “Cousin Kate”, there is a theme of commitment.
They both explore the theme of love or rather painful love. the poet revels the link between the two poems’s through a verity of techniques which is done very effectively but also shows the difference between the obsessive love in “Havisham” and the possessive love of “Valentine”. The pain of love is evident from the beginning in both poems. “Carol Ann Duffy” uses the tone in the first couple of stanzas to show the unorthodox nature of the love. “Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain.
Cosi The particular aspect of love that is the focus of the play is fidelity; the notion of faithfulness, commitment and loyalty. The play explores many aspects of love, the characters present slightly different perspectives, some final about their positions from the start and others change or develop differing perspectives. This concept is explored through the individual characters Lucy and Lewis. Using the technique of characterisation, Nowra is able to present the idea of ‘free love’ negatively to the audience through the character Lucy. Who strongly endorses the idea that love is an indulgence, “After bread, shelter, equality, health, procreation, money comes maybe love” .
Anne knows that God is rewarding and gives gifts to the deserving of it. Even though all this destruction happened to her, her belief in God becomes stronger than ever. She says “In silence ever shall thou lie, Adieu, Adieu, all’s vanity” (line 35-36), and that we have no control over all the small things in this world, rather God is the one who gives us the gift of life that we should be thankful for. In Anne’s next poem, “ To My Dear and Loving Husband”, she describes the love she has for
There are many examples of love at first sight in the text. One example is “Did my heart love till now”. Romeo is falling in love with her at this point and he is flirting with her, which is leading him to kissing her. Romeo is also using religion in this example. He talks about kissing with lips touching and he is comparing that to a pair of hands joined together like somebody is praying.
However, as he continues to perform with the patients finds for himself that love is most definitely imperative for humans. Love is one of the main themes of ‘Cosi’. The play suggests many different aspects of love by giving us the different opinions of love from the main characters. Ultimately throughout the play the changed values that Lewis has on love, the faith that Cherry has towards Lewis and the loyalty that Julie displays towards her lover shapes Nowra’s views on love. Love must consist of not
Henry and Roy who both tells a story of their idealistic past, can be grouped together as the ones, who believes in the existence of idealistic love which tends to be fanciful like their own childhood memories. Roy claims that his love is equivalent to “Mozart’s love” which characterises the romance with happy endings. Henry’s depiction of his mother’s devotion has the sense of artificiality, and it’s almost like as if he forces the story upon himself to avoid other alternatives. However unlike Roy Henry understands the contradicting reality in regards to commitment and fidelity “everyone blames women but I forgive them, if they change their love a thousand times a day.. but I think it’s the necessity of women’s heart” Henry is aware and accepts the flaw in the concept of absolute faithfulness. Ruth, who suffers from her inability to distinguish reality from illusion, was a victim of a horrible relationship.
As I picture both characters in my head I can see the courage and bravery in their eyes, defeating each demon that crosses their paths. It seems that Sandars presents to us that Gilgamesh obtained a sense of restlessness that was not portrayed in Perseus, the main character of the movie. A type of restlessness that even Gilgamesh’s mother, Ninsun, curses; for he does not know when he has gone too far or over his limits, but in the mind of a true hero theirs
In short, with genuine platonic love, the beautiful or lovely other person inspires the mind and the soul and directs one's attention to spiritual things. One proceeds from recognition of the beauty of another to appreciation of beauty as it exists apart from any individual, to consideration of divinity, the source of beauty, to love of divinity. The spiritual ideas of platonic love—as well as the fundamental spiritual emphasis of all of Plato's writings—have been less emphasized. Plato discusses love (erôs) and friendship (philia) primarily in two dialogues, the Lysis and the Symposium, though the Phaedrus also adds significantly to his views. In each work, Socrates the philosopher is in two ways center stage, first, as a lover of wisdom (sophia) and discussion (logos), and, second, as himself an inverter or disturber of erotic norms.