Even though love may seem unimportant at times, it is essential for life. The title of the poem “Love is not all” points out the inadequacies of love when compared to the basic necessities of life. The speaker inventories all the things needed to sustain life that love cannot replace. Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; (1-6 It is apparent that the speaker covers every need that we require to live and effectively demonstrates that love cannot provide any of these needs. Love does not provide us with the food that we need to keep us alive or to fill our empty bellies when we are starving .
The metaphor "the blood flowing" represents the heart which is a symbol for love implying that without marriage there is no love and you have to have love to survive. This is also supported with "house" and "day" as a metaphor signifying the importance of marriage in life. Blumenthal concludes the poem by revealing that each partner takes turn in holding up the ceiling, which can go on "for many years without the house falling". This suggests that by sharing our problems
He describes his existence as a supreme waste of life and takes every opportunity to declare that he cares for nothing and no one. But the reader senses, even in the initial chapters of the novel, that Carton in fact feels something that he perhaps cannot articulate. In his conversation with the recently acquitted Charles Darnay, Carton's comments about Lucie Manette, while bitter and sardonic, betray his interest in, and budding feelings for, the gentle girl. Eventually, Carton reaches a point where he can admit his feelings to Lucie herself. Before Lucie weds Darnay, Carton professes his love to her, though he still persists in seeing himself as essentially worthless.
Analysis of 10 Quotes (For Absence) Quotes: 1) “Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.” ~ William Blake 2) “To ignore the past is to act a fool before life’s greatest teacher.” ~ Rev. John T. Wallace 3) “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. 4) “[War] wasn’t like what I learned in training. The heat, the noise, the screaming.” ~ Tom Corey 5) “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
Ramanjot Dhillon Mr. Desjardins ENG4U0-G February 12th, 2014 Deception and Truth Although humans look to love, being naive will only bring disappointment and grief. In the short story "Was it a Dream? ", Guy de Maupassant tries to implement the idea that nobody can be trusted. To begin with, the protagonist (who remains unnamed) is a man in the midst of grieving the loss of his partner. We are quickly acknowledged to the fact that the man is a very loving and caring person, and so was his wife.
We see the bitterness of the relationship as they are standing by a pond. “Since then, keen lessons that love deceives”. This shows that the narrator does not believe in love any longer and does not highly regard love, due to the particular experiences he had in his own relationship with his partner. In the poem “Sonnet 116” Shakespeare talks about supreme romantic love. “Love alters not...” It establishes how endless and unshakable true love is.
In John Clare's poem 'First Love' we see love as an instant attraction and he says it was a love 'so sudden.' It also highlights the aspect of unrequited love as the relationship between the poet and the person he loves has never even started. In fact he is hardly noticed as we can see from the rhetorical question 'And when she looked 'what could I ail?'' It is only in his own mind that she even perceived his love for her. ‘She seemed to hear my silent voice And loves appeal to know’ (L19, 20) This depicts love as obsessive and selfish.
Everyman: My Cousin, will you not with me go? Cousin: No, by our Lady! I have the cramp in my toe. Trust not to me, For, so God me speed, I will deceive you in your most need.4 The single exception is Good Deeds who is very willing to attend him at his trial. Even though she is favorably inclined to go with Everyman, he has had so few good deeds in his life that she cannot even stand up and is unable to make the journey.
Everyman places his faith in material things, his friends, relatives and goods. These material things do him no good. Fellowship claims he "will not forsake thee to my life's end" (Everyman 213), yet when Everyman asks Fellowship to accompany him on his journey for redemption and ultimately death he "will not go that loath journey- / Not for the father that begat me!" (Everyman 268-269). By placing his faith in man rather than God, he does not receive "any more comfort" (Everyman 304).
One of the most misunderstood emotions in life is love. There are so many different perspectives of love that it can be translated into something completely different from its original meaning. Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, describes her book as “a plain and simple love story”. Obviously, this story is no romance novel, rather the love Lee is referring to is the one amongst family, friends, and enemies. Martin Luther King Jr. defines this love as agape, or “a disinterested love in which the individual seeks not his own good, but the good of his neighbor…it begins by loving others for their sakes…it’s a love seeking to preserve and create community” (King 19).