The depth of emotion around these topics is intense but handled very differently in each poem. In ‘Hour’, the love is passionate and sexual. The lovers are probably married to other people, or facing some other restriction and their meeting is dangerous. This danger makes it exciting. Her passion for her lover is seen when she says things like “for thousands of seconds we kissed”.
Simon Armitage's poem 'Manhunt' talks about a relationship being different after the husband returns from war, and the wife is trying to get them back to how they were before hand. This poem is also known as 'Laura's Poem' because it was originally aired as part of a documentary called 'Forgotten Heroes: The not dead' which looked into the lives of soldiers and their families affected by war and injury. It was read by Laura, the wife of a soldier who was discharged due to injury and depression. Armitage writes 'after passionate nights and intimate days', this suggests that the relationship is sexual because of the word 'passionate' however 'intimate' suggests that they're taking their time. This makes me think that the speaker is trying to get to know her partner again, like it's a brand new relationship with a brand new person.
In both poems gender conflict is demonstrated between through the emotion of betrayal in a relationship. For example in Les Grands Seignurs she talks about “little woman” which could show the great depth of thought about how she feels towards men. The word “a toy, a plaything” suggests that’s once she got married she has became powerless and feels like she is a toy, this shows her betrayal as when you get married you expect the marriage to be fantastic and not to feel like a toy. In contrast, Medusa also demonstrates this when she says “wasn’t I beautiful?” this Is effective as I can infer that she feels insecure about her looks. It also suggests that she misses her past through the use of a rhetorical question which makes the reader feel sympathy for her.
She stood by him until his breath helping him bear the agony of his inevitable and anticipated death. These examples of her charity instill feelings of understanding and pity for John. The other side of Alcott's appeal to emotion is John's mentality. John questions the nurse in reference to the battle: ".do they think it will be my last?" He seems eager to return to his position and fulfill his duty.
To His Coy Mistress" begins as a declaration of the speaker's love, but, by its end, it makes the assumption that the woman being addressed is as passionate as the speaker. He declares his love in fantastic, larger-than-life terms in the first twenty lines, because he is describing an admittedly unreal situation: his love would grow to span continents and stretch from the beginning of time to the end, he tells her, if only it could. This poem is describing a man's thoughts about his love and wishes. He wants to take things slow and just "dally" around, but they cannot. Time is of the essence so to speak.
B. I’m sure many people in the audience have been jealous during the course of their romantic relationship. C. Experiencing romantic jealousy may be common in relationships, but can perhaps be easily resolved by effective communication. D. Today I’m going to talk to you about what romantic jealousy is, events that often lead to romantic jealousy, and how we can possibly mitigate those jealous feelings. E. Let me begin by explaining what romantic jealousy is. II.
In this line Clare is claiming that this experience of first love is so dramatic that it overpowers our senses. Here he is touching on a claim often related to true love which gives a more life altering feel to the experience of first love he is portraying. Throughout the second stanza, John Clare is attempting to describe first love as a mind blowing experience leaving him dazed, ‘took my eyesight away’. The most common reference to brain alteration is a drug; Clare may be touching on a very common romantic stereotype that love is a drug in itself. This enables him to present the experience of first love as more intriguing and romantic.
O'Brien's war stories, "The Things They Carried" and "How to Tell a True War Story" were similar in concerning the mental turmoil that Servicemen undergo while experiencing a life fighting in a war. My hands-on experiences are limited in physical contact; however; both stories are told by the narrator(s) about a letter that is being wrote to two special people of interest. In reference to Lieutenant Cross's letter from "a girl name Martha" (O'Brien p. 78), his misconception of “wishful thinking" about a virgin name Martha, he knew was mentally a myth, "the Love was only a way of signing and did not mean that he sometimes pretended" (78). However; O’Brien’s "How to Tell a True War Story," the 2nd person narrator describes his encounter about his Vietnam collogue during the time of his murder. This character uses the writing technique to "the guy's sister" (O'Brien p. 361) proves to the readers that he grieves and distraction of this incident consistently overtakes his daily focus.
In ‘The Manhunt’, Armitage uses simple language that often rhymes ‘trace / face’ to convey the simplicity of Laura’s love for her wounded man. This contrasts with his long lines which run between the stanzas: there is no full stop under the penultimate line. This indicates the concept that war never ends for the men who fight in it. The structure of the long lines echoes the idea that she is exploring his body, identifying herself with his wounds and the extent of the damage, and methodically helping him to heal himself: ‘climb the rungs … skirted along … widened the search’. His physical attributes (his ‘rudder of shoulder-blade’ his ‘damaged porcelain collarbone) can be compared to the places where the man has been: the woman is trying to reclaim her man from the war.
It has a powerful focus on the intense passion between the character of Romeo and Juliet first sight of each other. At that moment both characters fall victim to this force of illusionary love. By falling victim to it, they allow it to take force of their character. They begin to act strangely and make rash decisions. These actions could have been avoided if Romeo and Juliet had not let illusionary love take a hold of them.