This line reflects the subject of the poem that love is eternal. Browning however, goes on by using the internal rhyme of breadth and depth which gives the reader an impression that the love she has for her husband has increased further. In addition to that, breadth, depth and height echoes Ephesians III 17-19, where Saint Paul prays for comprehension of the length, breadth, depth, and height of Christ's love and the fullness of God. Browning then embarks on a religious idea of love “my soul can reach”. The diction of soul implies that the love she has for her husband is genuine.
Analysis of “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps” “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps, “was published in 1980 by Galway Kinnell. It employs literary elements such as tone and diction that contribute to the poems subject of admiration. The poem begins with a parent’s sexual frustration and evolves into an appreciation of the result of sexual acts. The parent’s see past the act itself and come to the realization that the product of sexual intercourse is what is truly miraculous. The speaker then comes to understand that there are greater things in life that create sentimental memories.
But when Shakespeare wrote about love, it was about many different kinds of love, and there usually are no ‘happily ever after’ endings. “As an abstract concept, love is typically taken to represent a range of human emotions, from simple feelings of pleasure to overwhelming and ineffable attraction towards another person” (Ahmetoglu, Swami, and Chamorro-Premuzic). The main theme of the play is love and this statement is a good example of the different types of love in Othello. While the love between Othello and Desdemona takes center stage, there is many different love relationships in the play as well. In the play you can see familial, friendly, unrequited, true, and sexual love.
Olds suggests in this poem that “True Love’’ is all about two people having passion, oneness, and comfort with each other. These three things in a marriage or relationship create true love. Also, she tries to show that without true love, sex is no good. From the beginning of the poem, the speaker talks about the passion between her and her husband. She expresses that their love making is very intense and passionate.
In ‘strange fits’ Wordsworth describes a relationship blossoming, and the feelings associated with that relationship “Strange fits of passion have I known, and I will dare to tell”. The importance of intuition, imagination and emotion over reason. “O mercy! To myself I cried, if Lucy should be dead!” convey a sense of both love as something amazing and something yearned
But if an account reaches a certain threshold, a very special emotional reaction is triggered -- romantic love. We no longer simply like the person -- we are in love. It's a feeling of incredible attraction to someone of the opposite sex.” As a result of love, the intensity of the affection continues to gain momentum and the two lovers become deeply affectionate for one another; society has established that sex is the ultimate and most essential part of loving one another. Tradition, peer pressure, expectations by the culture of the region where the lovers are residing, and, even a person’s own personal psyche, which could potentially consider that sex is the next step that they must take to consummate their romantic
No matter how hard outside forces try to tempt you away, you are finished searching for your true love. You have found it and are holding fast. We are all initially searching for romantic love that will hold fast through a lifetime. Romantic love is defined as love that is unrealistic, fanciful, passionate and fabulous. In "Beginning of the Songs of Delight", Papyrus Harris 500 demonstrates fanciful love through "…apportioned to you is my heart,/ I do for you what it desires,/ when I am in your arms" (lines 1-3).
Such speculations—which reached their peak in critics and readers wedded to the sentimental Romantic insistence on an intimate tie between literary and historical “events”—are in one sense a tribute to the power of the sonnets. They are arguably the greatest collection of love poems in the language, and they provide a crucial test for the adequacy of both the love of poetry and the sense of the fascinating confusion that makes up human love. In a sense, the sonnets are as “dramatic” as any of Shakespeare’s plays inasmuch as their art is that of meditations on love, beauty, time, betrayal, insecurity, and joy. Each sonnet is like a little script, with (often powerful) directions for reading and enactment, with textual meanings that are not given but made anew in every performance, by different readers within their individual and social lives. What Sonnet 87 terms “misprision” may stand as the necessary process by which each sonnet is produced by each reader.
My Thesis is that love is irresistible to that who make it irresistible to themselves and, that’s why it has so much of a bittersweet style that follows along with it. First let realize that in the word love there is many types of love that are used and known to man today. We have Affection (a natural love) Friendship (an admiration love) Eros (passionate love) Charity (a sacrificial love) so love is shown to be a too general topic to just say one type of love is irresistible. Granted majority of people when you say love they think of relationships as in being in love. So we ourselves must ask don’t we love our mothers and fathers.
The combinations of love “A general theory of love,” “The art of loving,” and “A natural history of love,” all touch the aspect of the psychological influence on love. “A general theory of love,” investigates why communication, time spent, and touch of another individual plays a far more important role in relationships. Also, it looks at the natural science of our feelings. In “The art of loving,” Fromm emphasizes that people are looking for love but aren’t getting it. He also talks about how important love is, and states that the problem of human existence is love.