“Tolerance, what crimes / have been committed in your name.” can especially be seen as a criticism against the various social and legal inequalities perpetrated against many races, religions, and sexes under the guise of ‘Political Correctness’. However, as the point of these focus papers seems to be on interpreting the poem within its historical context, I will leave this tangent short. Levertov begins with “Genial poets, pink-faced / earnest wits…”2 This seems to be a criticism against all poets who write “neutral3” things; poets who do not try to choose a side; poets who do not challenge their readers; poets, even, who rely more upon being witty than on actually saying something. The entire stanza, from “Genial” to “name” seems to imply that poets who do these things are making excuses rather than really putting their ideas forward. However, at the second stanza Levertov moves back into familiar territory, seeming to criticize women who are content to live at home and bake bread4 ; to remain blind to the “nightmare reality5” around them.
3.Presentation of relationships in 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'Ghazal' Both 'Ghazal' and 'To His Coy Mistress' present relationships as self-seeking and manipulative, as the narrators in both poems desire the sexual fulfilment of their lover. In 'To His Coy Mistress' Andrew Marvell uses form for effect. The narrator in the poem is trying to convince his love to have sex with him, and his whole argument can be seen as humorous and playful. One way we see this is through the use of rhyming couplets which are employed throughout the poem: 'Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime'. The extended use of rhyming couplets has a comic effect in this poem as the fast paced rhymes read like a collection of little jokes with fast punch lines.
Beatty tells Montag that with “a bigger market there is less controversy” however some of the authors were full of “evil thoughts” and they created and wrote content and compositions that were derogatory to many ethnicities and religions which caused dispute and arguments among many minorities. So the books stopped selling and books were banned- they “were dishwater”- so censoring books and tv programs was to ensure equality among people. By eliminating information and keeping people docile and passive with meaningless
With Jane he realizes that he can’t just have anything at instant gratification and he may have to wait for the good things. Not money or fame but like sentimental things and things that are hard to come by. With Sunny he just needed someone to talk to even though she was a prostitute she was sort of listening. That’s all Holden needed was someone to listen to him, to hear his problems. With Sally he learns about sex because he goes to Carl and he told him a few things about sex.
So if you are saying that gay marriage should not be allowed to marry based on moral issues, you are in essence saying that morally it is worse to be a homosexual than to be a rapist, murderer, or child molester. It is this kind of thinking that has held society back. Still others would argue that due to divorce and cohabitation the institution of marriage is already in a weakened state. They view allowing legal gay marriage as the potential straw that is going to break marriages back. I would acknowledge marriage does not have the same prevalence and level of commitment it held in past generations but the decline of marriage has nothing to do with homosexuals.
Venus and Adonis, lines 720-810 This section of Shakespeare’s poem, moves away from the comedy and sexual innuendo of the previous section, into a more serious debate on the nature of love. Up until this point we have been given an elaborate description of Venus`s physical desire for Adonis and her argument for its consummation. Till this juncture, Adonis has appeared powerless to admonish her aggressive advances, which appear masculine in their nature, while he takes on a more effeminate role. It is from lines 769-810 that Adonis speaks nearly half of his lines; he only communicates 80 lines in the whole poem. When he first speaks, Venus brashly teases him, ‘what canst thou talk?’, ‘hast thou a tongue (427)?’ He appears to have gained some confidence in this latter episode, maybe because Venus has started to show a more emotional side, identifying Adonis as ‘love`s master (585)’ and stating that she will ‘waste in sorrow (583)’ without him.
Modesty is how much skin is showing in different situations and in different topics. Lewis mentions that there are people out in the world who want to make people enslaved to sexual desires just so that they can make money off of people. In all reality there really isn’t a cure to sexually desires, the only real cure is if we decide ourselves to be cured. Lewis mentions that our instincts our contrary to our Christian values. He states that it is either Christianity went wrong or our instincts went bad.
She tells us at the beginning that this a polemic, and polemics don't tell both sides of the story. They do not mention the important parts like what causes the problems, and sometimes make fun of the situation. Laura Kipnis argues against marriage, and against fidelity, she hardly argues against love. Kipnis informs us that “During the reign of courtly love, love was illicit and usually fatal. Passion meant suffering: the happy ending didn’t yet exist in the cultural imagination.
With Donne’s Elegies being intended for reading between discrete, small and private groups of males otherwise known as a coterie readership it is not surprising that he explores desire from a male perspective (Cousins, 2014). An interesting extraction that can be made from his Elegy 19 is how men view the role of the woman in a sexual relationship as a reflection of their society’s values and beliefs. There is a lack of mutuality as a theme in his texts, and instead there is misogyny and Donne’s innate desire to shock his audience. Donne’s Elegies were written in England in the 1590s when a female ruled the monarch. The context of Donne’s writing indicates a time that females had power despite being subordinate to men in every day life.
However it is the foundation of debates regarding the moral status of a large number of sexual acts – the latent stigma still attached to homosexuality is a prime example of the influence of the theological standpoint on sexual desires. Despite retaining some influence on the way we think about certain sexual practices the traditional theist conception of sexual desires is often widely ignored in modern times. A primary objection to the viewpoint is that it is an almost empirically observable fact that sexual desires do not necessarily aim at procreation. The massive use of contraceptives throughout the modern world is evidence