Philip Larkin and Dannie Abse have very different and contrasting attitudes to relationships. On the whole, Larkin presents the concepts of love and marriage as very superficial and meaningless, whereas Abse appears to be less such nihilistic and more open and positive about such topics. Throughout Wild Oats, Philip Larkin uses various literary techniques, such as imagery, structure and symbolism to convey certain aspects of love and the passing of time. Larkin's poetry often relates to the social and cultural views upon love and marriage in his time. 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.
Therefore, the artist can be considered irrelevant to the meaning of the art, and the artwork itself. Beardsley in 1946 subscribed to this view, stating that the intentions of the artist within an artwork are not available. • Since we frequently can and do interpret a work of art with little or no knowledge about the artist, let alone what is intended, an artist’s intention doesn’t fix the meaning of the work. Example: Consider a painting of two rings joined. Suppose the artist sincerely asserts that it represents the male/female relationship.
She refers to novelist Lou Salome and her loathing in giving up intellectualism for love and sex, portrayed through her inability to recall details of kissing a famous philosopher. H. then juxtaposes Salome to Saint Therese who spoke passionately about loving forever – she notes extreme difference between disinterest of apparent “mistress of Europe” and extreme romanticism of other in love with God, and ask for some of balance between them; “shall we meet half way between sanctity and liberation?” persona then finds she does not need to open collection as she is not upset, instead she understands that “this farewell’s left me joyful” in certainty that her lover will return to her: ‘my lover will come again to me”. Here unlike beginning of poem, she projects power, the insight brings her serenity, symbolised by image of her moving into “peaceful sunset” feeding her geese, pastoral scene where she is dominant force. Her reference to “latter children” and sunset contrast her youth at poems opening, term “afterglow” is implicitly sexual and is clear this afterglow is different to that of her youth – poem clearly shows her maturity and change. The audience reflect that while the poem is superficially about a farewell to a
What do you think are the feelings about marriage in this poem and how does the poet present these feelings to the reader? In the poem 'A marriage', Michael Blumenthal expresses a clear view to the reader by presenting marriage as a positive affair which helps people to share burdens as well as progress their lives. At the beginning of the poem, Blumenthal implies that living on your own is a tire and an exhausting ordeal as he describes the arms as "tired". This word is repeated which exaggerates the misery of loneliness and implies that there is no end; this idea of there being no end is also expressed in "either your arms or the ceiling will soon collapse" giving out before the end. From this, it is clear to the reader that Blumenthal believes that being alone is painful and controlling towards you.
Her experiences have seriously damaged any sure thoughts toward men. As the title suggests, ‘lust’ is straight physical attraction and has no positive permanent effect on the young woman. Ironically, as one continues to read the story, he or she will discover that the narrator longs for more than a physical attraction, but a long lasting
Their sexual orientation does not dictate the kind of person they are. What they do to others does. Most gays and lesbians are not in the streets trying to tell other people that the religious groups are the bad people, they just want to be left alone. In times of war among countries the enemy has an agenda and the opposing side will harm who they must to protect their own, yet this is not war. Homosexuals are not hurting anyone by being homosexual, so why such hostility?
The concept of love and fidelity is explored through lewis's relationship with lucy and julie. Acording to motzarts 'cosi fan tutte' fidelity is just an idea that is not achieved. He encourages males to see that all women are unfaithfull in relationships. Nowra illustrates this through the relationship between lewis and lucy. while she's sleeping with lewis she's 'having sex with nick'.
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.
Much of this post-war era literature does not present romanticized stories of true love, as many people avoid the allegiance and commitment of relationships by which true love is characterized. On the contrary, it is commonly seen that characters attempt to pursue happiness and eliminate void by fulfilling their needs through meaningless sexual relations due to a lack of meaning in life, just as Lady Brett Ashley did in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Lady Brett Ashley “must be the controlling individual in any relationship, the imperial force, and she can only be that while men are under the sway of her sexuality. When they seek equality in the relationship, or dominance, when they want to call the shots, she ends the relationship, giving up her conquered territory and moving on” (Hays 241). Despite the negative connotations often associated Brett, she is quite complex as this “bitch goddess,” as labeled by Mimi Gladstein, is an “intriguing mix of femininity and masculinity, strength and vulnerability, morality and dissolution.
The poem’s theme appears to be about unrequited love and a man wooing his “coy mistress” to sleep with him, but this poem does has a deeper meaning, which is really impressive and therefore is striking. The theme of mortality is highlighted in this poem through word choice and by using imagery which reinforces the idea of death. Words relating to death such as “ ashes” and “grave” are used to emphasise the lack of time that we have and the stark contrast between the slow, idyllic first stanza and the sped up, heavier second stanza shows the difference between the idealistic eternity and the reality that we are all mortal and have to die at some point. Another deeper theme introduced is the idea of “carpe diem” which is shown through the lustier language in the poem, word choice such as “time devour”, and also through the quickened pace of the second stanza. The speaker is not simply asking the “coy mistress” to sleep with him, what he is saying is if there was all the time in the world then life would be ideal but there is not so they have to live for the moment.