Romeo is talking in paradoxes; he does this to emphasize that love is confusing. He says that love is everything except for what it actually is. Since Romeo thinks that he is in love although no one loves him, love can be two things that are opposites at the same time. Although Romeo is happy to be in love, he does not like the thought of love itself because if no one loves him back, love will become more confusing. Romeo is hopelessly in love with Rosalind which he explains when he says, "I am too sore enpiercèd with his shaft To soar with his light feathers, and so bound, I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe.
v line 60). However, Juliet had a different love at first than Romeo; Juliet was more cautious, “dip toes in the water, then dive in.” In my own opinion, I feel that how much you are attracted to someone physically can make you feel as though you were in love, although it would be stupid to act so rash and quickly. The moment that Romeo sees Juliet he states that he is in love. He asks himself if he has ever loved till now (act i sc. v line 59), completely forgetting about Rosaline.
The Friar responds with, “Young men’s love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts but, in their eyes jesu maria, what the deal of brine/ Hath washes thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!”(2.3.68-90). In the first act, Romeo thought himself to be in love with Rosaline. Romeo had been distraught over the fact that his beloved Rosaline was going to become a nun. Romeo would never be able to love Rosoline, or be with her. Friar Lawrence makes fun of Romeo saying that young men only love what they see.
An abstract emotion or feeling that is profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person is called love, or the dictionary version of it. Not only can it be affection, but also it can be a sort of attachment. Love is a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend. Love cannot be seen, touched, or held physically, yet, it’s one of the most powerful or meaningful things that exists in society today. St. Augustine said “Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” (“Famous Love Quotes”).
The Relic is a poem in which Donne makes fun of the superstitions attached to the 'purely' platonic ideas of love; he also manages to satirize the society's blind prohibition against the attachment between the sexes. The persona addresses his beloved, with whom he has not yet been allowed to be intimate. They have only kissed out of the courtesy at meeting and parting, but not yet otherwise. John Donne John Donne He has taken a strand of hair from the lady out of love; and he has bound it around his wrist. Now he imagines that after some centuries, when superstitious people dig up the grave in order to bury another dead body, they will find this strand of hair around his wrist (still not decayed!)
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.
In the last two stanzas things take a turn for the worst. Daisy no longer has interest in Gatsby because he has become unsafe and demanding. The theme of my poem is love, focusing on Daisy and Gatsby. Love can be described as a strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, but that’s not the case in the Great Gatsby. Relationships in Great Gatsby are not “loving”and tend to be more motivated by money than true love.
Whereas, the couples must love each other unconditionally and decide on choosing each other without the input of anyone else but themselves, it is assumed that “married couples should be best friends, sharing their most intimate feelings and secrets. They should express affection openly but also talk candidly about problems. And of course they should be sexually faithful to each other.” (Coontz 381) In my opinion, I do not agree with Stephanie Coontz saying George Shaw theory of marriage has unrealistic expectations even though each culture has their own interpretation of marriage. No matter what each culture is different, if they believe that having more than one wife or having cospouses it is their choice and some will stay true to the values they were raised on. Finally, Coontz brought forth if someone is not marrying for love but just for the status then what is the point of getting married.
In Much Ado about Nothing, these two lovers are represented by Claudio and Hero, and the love which Shakespeare presents between them is meant to be romantic love or love at first sight; in my opinion, this is simply lust. There is no evidence in the play to suggest that Claudio's motivation for marriage is actually real love, the love of Hero's personality. He 'loves' her for what she is, not who she is; she fits Elizabethan society's ideal of the perfect woman. Claudio describes her as 'modest' (I.i.147), meaning chaste, an essential quality of an unmarried woman in the Elizabethan era, and in lines 167-168 of Act one, Scene one states: '...she is the sweetest lady that ever / I looked on.' He makes no comment on her character, but this would have been seen as normal in Elizabethan times; women were expected to be seen but not heard, and Shakespeare presents Hero as the conventional woman of her day.
Answer: Instead of him describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says that nothing special about her. At the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by stating even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is so special. So instead of praising her throughout the poem, he contrasts her normal characteristics with his special love for her. (20 points) |Score | | | 3. Read Sonnet 13 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning now.