Furthermore, elements of superficial love are also in The Millers Tale, as Absolon loves Alisoun due to her “goddess corpus”. Both poems therefore illustrate superficial love as men become captivated with women due to them having physical beauty. However, additionally this could be interpreted as not being superficial love and demonstrates how society in the past had different values which made women desirable. Furthermore, feminine beauty within the two poems is compared to nature portraying a stereotypical type of love. The Knights Tale compares Emelye to flowers frequently as she is “fressher than the may with floures newe”.
By the end of the poem he talks about how he loves her even though she may not be as beautiful as all the things he described. The main point that he is trying to make is that love doesn't have to be excessive, even with her imperfections, he still loves her. The poem starts off with him talking about his mistress' eyes. "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun." Instead of being like most poets, Shakespeare says that his mistress' eyes are not like the sun.
“My Mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” Essay In the poem “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare the author contradicts himself by saying horrible things about supposedly the love of his life. But at the end he says he loves her just the way she is. I think that this is an anti-love poem because he uses many negative words in almost every line of the poem. However, he contradicts himself saying that he loves her. For example in lines 7 & 8 “And in some perfumes is there more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.” He is saying that perfumes smell very good but at the same time he is contradicting himself by saying that his mistress breath smells bad not like perfumes.
In ‘Sonnet 130’ Shakespeare describes his mistress’s eyes as ‘nothing like the sun’, this goes against the normal conventions of a traditional sonnet. This is because in a traditional sonnet the poet would praise the woman that he loved by telling us that her eyes do shine like the sun. He would use the word ‘sun’ to emphasise how important she is to him because everything revolves around the ‘sun’, so this would imply that his life revolves around her. Traditional sonnets were written by men to women who were unobtainable; the women were usually married or engaged. However in ‘Sonnet 130’ the word ‘mistress’ tells us that Shakespeare is married and is having an affair with the woman who he is writing the sonnet to.
I will prove this is true in the following paragraphs Shakespeare uses a large variety of metaphors and similes. A metaphor found in Sonnet 116,” Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks” is a symbol of outer beauty that changes with time. Sonnet 138 shows a similar image, “When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies,” paints the picture of love in a similar way. Both the poems are depicting a love that has been through good and bad that have developed over time. For instance beauty fading with time and also trust fading.
Incidentally, he refers to Juliet’s life as “honey”, and that it was sucked from her breath. Therefore, it is not unnatural to assume that Juliet lived a good, friendly, and warm life. Love and death are a crucial part to the story as they provide a deeper meaning and understanding of it. Without images of light and dark as well as love and death, Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” would not have achieved the rightly deserved praise it has today. Consequently, the story would be dry and less lively, and some important connections and meanings could not be made.
The speaker bounces back and forth between simile and metaphor to create a specific illustration for readers to envision. A typical sonnet line would commonly express how a woman is as beautiful as the aspects of nature. Shakespeare may not use these similes and metaphors in the typical way, but he does succeed in displaying a vivid description of his apparently less than enticing mistress. The audience learns that this woman’s eyes do not look “like the sun” (1), and that even the fair pink hue of coral is “far more red” (2) than the color of her lips. He does not give descriptions of alluring scents or shiny hair, but instead describes putrid breath that “reeks” (8) and “black wires” (4) that grow in her hair’s place.
However, Duffy conforms to the more conventional poetic language in her accomplished love poem ‘Anne Hathaway’, which contains complex metaphors and aesthetic beauty. Therefore it would appear that Duffy’s poetry is far richer than the statement suggests. Critics analyze the lexis and diction of each persona, in “The Worlds Wife”, dependant on their delivery and expression. Some critics may label the poems where the character uses more simplistic language as “unpoetic”, for example in ‘Mrs Beast’ and ‘Mrs Faust’, because they would argue that it makes them too accessible. For critics, such as Peter Forbs, believe that poetry should be challenging: “by employing simplistic language and overstated imagery, Duffy is perfect for those no longer accustomed nor inclined to close reading”[2].
Their poems consist of imagery and diction within the writing to demonstrate the tones in which contrast admiration and adoration to hatred and cruelty. Each author used diction to better portray the tone in their writings. In “To Helen”, King Menelaus is simply love struck by the most beautiful woman in the world. He cannot help but to adore and admire Helen. Edgar Allen Poe creates a mood or feeling of adoration by choosing words such as “gently, perfumed, and beauty”.
LOVE: WHEN IS IT HEALTHY AND WHEN IS IT TOXIC? When is love healthy and when is it toxic? Love is healthy when it makes you feel happy and the relationship is joyful whereas love is toxic when you stop seeing other people around you and only thinking about the wellbeing of your partner in the relationship. William Shakespeare’s film ‘Romeo And Juliet’ and Steven Herrick’s book ‘Love, Ghosts And Nose Hair’ both have evidence of healthy and toxic love. For example the healthy romantic love between Jack and Annabel and the toxic love of Romeo and Juliet that led them both to taking their lives.