1. Why might Sonnet 18 by Francesco Petrarcha be interpreted as a poem about defeat as much as a poem about love? Use specific examples from the text in your response. Answer: In Sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. The speaker says “Then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.
Although there is a lot of reference to violent and aggressive behaviour it does not make her hesitant, one could even say she was blinded by her love for him. To his coy mistress is a metaphorical poem, where the speaker addresses a woman who has been slow to respond to his sexual requests. In the first stanza he discusses how he would love constantly for an unlimited amount, if only time was not running out. If he could he would give her everything and anything till death. He quickly begins to mention how short life is even referencing her ‘preserved virginity’ being taken when she’s dead as ‘worms shall try.’ He finishes by focusing on the present and telling her to make the most of the time that they have now, which hints at the use of sexual innuendo.
She wants us to feel it and I know this in the end of her poem when she writes “In the wonderful MAGIC OF LOVE” and because of this line I have no doubt in my mind that she was madly in love when she wrote this poem. Now in the poem “Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims he takes a much different (and more realistic) approach on how he perceives the idea of his love. As early as the first line he starts to criticize his girlfriend/wife by writing, “My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases, At whose quick touch all glasses chip and ring.” In the first line he’s already calling her incredibly clumsy but tries to soften it up by calling her “dear” but by using the word shipwreck it’s almost like wherever she goes and everything
The poet repeats at each beginning of stanza the phrase ‘If you can’. This anaphora represents layers of bad elements being peeled of every line. The various advice changes throughout the poem but the way it is presented stays the same. First he presents what is good to be done and then the consequence of this action. In ‘Advice to a son’, Hemingway also takes on a didactic tone.
She will remember the people who had loved her grace and her beauty with either real or fake sentiments in the past, and also that one man who had loved her soul unconditionally as she grew old and the way she looked changed. As she is reminded of him, she will regret her missed opportunity of true love. Theme & Tone & Rhyme Scheme: The poem is written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ABBA CDDC EFFE which gives a steady rhythm to the poem. The themes of the poem are love, loss and regret and although based on the poet’s own personal life, the sentiment reflected in this poem is common to most, if not all, rejected lovers. Yeats’ tone helps enrich the reader’s conception of the poem’s theme.
“My Mistress’ Eyes” “My Mistress’ Eyes” is a poem in which the speaker discusses his attitude toward his mistress and how she looks and feels about her. The speaker in this poem is a man because he describes his mistress looks. The poem could be addressed to his mistress in an ironic way or to his friends or family to prove a point. There is no setting that is being stated in this poem. The poem was written to maybe show his friends and family how his mistress doesn’t seem too pretty or feminine but he loves her in the end and that’s all that matters.
‘She seemed to hear my silent voice And loves appeal to know’ (L19, 20) This depicts love as obsessive and selfish. A love that exists only in the mind of the lover. John Clare is writing as an adult looking back to his youthful past, to his 'First Love'. It is an innocent love toward a girl he has only just seen, yet feels instantly transfixed and ensnared by. The very first line of Clare's poem declares 'I ne'er was struck before that hour' The use of the word struck gives us an image of someone unexpectedly being hit by a spell or by one of cupids arrows, leaving him unable to resist falling in love.
Key words: feminist literacy criticism; self-respect; equal; independent; feminist conciousness 1. Introduction Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. During the process of training Eliza's pronunciation, Higgins and Eliza fell into love, but to many readers' surprise, finally the flower girl Eliza announced that she would leave Higgins and get married with a poor young man called Freddy. This "imperfect" open ending set by Bernard Shaw made numbers of readers regretful and full of expectation that Eliza would come back to Higgins at length. And would she come back to Higgins and would they stay together?
Young (251). Donne shows his love in these poems through references to physical love, the union of two souls, and journeys. These references can be seen in “To his Mistress Going to Bed,” “The Flea,” “The Extasie,” and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”. One of the ways Donne expresses the theme of love is through physical love. The two main poems that refer to physical love are “To his Mistress Going to Bed” and “The Flea.” Donne’s poem “To his Mistress Going to Bed” is about the speaker trying to convince a women to remove her clothes by saying “Off with that girdle, like heaven's zone glittering, / But a far fairer world encompassing.
Eliot’s poetics. Key words：impersonal theory, objective correlative "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" depicts a timid middle-aged man going (or thinking) to propose marriage to a lady but hesitating all the way there. illustration of “impersonal theory” The title of the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” has specific relevance to this theory because his sharing of what he knows of this alternate lifestyle is a gift to anyone who reads this poem. He doesn’t love any one person , he loves all, and therefore wants to take them to this other place to enjoy with him. In the beginning of the poem, when Prufrock says Let us go then , you and I , When the evening is spread against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table ; Let us go , through certain half – deserted street , The muttering retreats .