He continually juxtaposes images of the passion he felt for the woman he loved with the loneliness he experiences in the present. He is now at some distance from the relationship and so acknowledges, “tonight I can write the saddest lines,” suggesting that the pain he suffered after losing his lover had previously prevented any reminiscences or descriptions of it. While the pain he experienced had blocked his creative energies in the past, he is now able to write about their relationship and find some comfort in “the verse [that] falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.” Love and Passion Throughout the poem, the speaker expresses his great love for a woman with whom he had a passionate romance. He remembers physical details: “her great still eyes,” “her voice, her bright body,” “her infinite eyes.” He also remembers kissing her “again and again under the endless sky” admitting “how I loved her.” His love for her is still evident even though he states twice “I no longer love her, that’s certain.” The remembrance of their love is still too painful to allow
Drayton successfully depicts the rambling sentiments of a lover who seeks to rationalize his decision of departing with the love of his life. Here, the lover exhibits a tendency of justifying his decisions and acts, where he seeks approval of their decisions within himself by explaining that he didn’t have a choice. Subsequently, Drayton opens his sonnet with the lover’s first step towards justifying his departure with his lover. He has decided to end his relationship with his lover, and he is asking his lover to help him end it amiably with a kiss as they have no other choice when he says, “Since there’s no help…part” (Drayton, line1). Subsequently, he tells himself that he made the right decision, since he was bounded by the relationship and he was the only one giving in the relationship.
Character summary and analysis of Romeo The name Romeo has become nearly synonymous with “lover”, due to his experiences in Romeo and Juliet. The power of Romeo’s love, however, often obscures a clear vision of Romeo’s character, which is actually far more complex. In fact, Romeo’s relation to love isn’t that simple. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with Rosaline, claiming her paragon of women, and is miserable at her indifference towards him. Romeo is a great reader of love poetry, and from the beginning we could see that his portrayal of love for Rosaline seemed that he was trying to act out what he had read about.
He would praise each part of her body until he got to the heart. This sets the theme of the poem, imagery. In an article, Mevlude Zengin says that the poem “presents a familiar theme in literature/carpe diem,” to live for the moment and enjoy it. The speaker of the poem is trying to control the time. In his mind precious time is being wasted by the mistress not accepting his love.
In stanza The speaker begins by assuring his lady that, “Had we but world enough, and time” This is indicating that he if they lived forever they could relax and take things slowly. But when you start separating this quote then it could have another meaning. ‘and time’ This is emphasizing that he is annoyed that his mistress is refusing to sleep with him, perhaps he is trying to make her feel guilty. While in Romeo and Juliet it is a lot different, Romeo tries to make Juliet feel like a ‘rich jewel ‘. He says ‘thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.’ This clearly shows that he is trying to make Juliet feel comfortable.
Unlike most of the other sonnets which are full of love and praise, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138 is about a less than perfect relationship which is based on lies and is complicated and difficult, yet “both speakers practice, again and again, a self-deceptive illusion, compulsively complying with it rather than giving it up” (Vendler 294). They continue to flatter each other for the sake of their sexual needs and the persona simply ignores his mistress’s adultery. When we look at the first two lines of the first quatrain, we see that there is a mutual deception. The persona complains that when his lover swears that she is true and faithful to him, he believes her but at the same time knows that she is lying. It is a paradoxical situation and it gets more paradoxical when we see that Shakespeare’s use of the word ‘lie’ perhaps is not a coincidence, as it has both meanings which suit the themes in the sonnet.
This is the one time before Ophelia’s death that Hamlet reveals his true feelings. This could be due to the fact that, once Ophelia received the letter, she gave it to her father. Hamlet did not trust Polonius, and from that moment on, Hamlet knew he had to hide his love for Ophelia and act mad to protect her. Throughout the play, Hamlet continuously ridicules Ophelia. However, his attitude towards her can be somewhat vindicated.
Antonio quotes; “Well; tell me now what lady is the same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promis'd to tell me of?” Here we see Bassanio's love life is the first thing Antonio brings up with Bassanio when they're alone together in the play. Perhaps he could be perceived as a man who likes to gossip, raising comic aspects out of this quote, or Bassanio may have been on his mind. Bassanio's new courtship seems likely to be the source of Antonio's sadness, as it's at the forefront of his mind. Antonio clearly cares deeply about Bassanio as a friend, and he's facing the fact that he might lose him to this woman, which ideally he doesn’t want to happen. Antonio also says; “I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it; And if it stand, as you yourself still do, Within the eye of honour, be assur'd My purse, my person, my extremest means, Lie all unlock'd to your occasions.” Here we are portrayed with the image that Antonio is willing to do anything to help his friend, including loaning him the money to woo
Othello’s “Love” William Shakespeare’s play Othello is centered around the newly married couple Othello and Desdemona and the subsequent downfall of their “love,” this love is suggested by the characters to be “pure” and “true,” yet it just does not seem right. No one can truly love someone, and then kill him or her over a dispute without even listening to the others side. After looking into Othello’s story of how this love came to be, how quickly he believes Iago, and how their final encounter is handled, it is clear that Othello never truly loved Desdemona. Most importantly, Othello is happy not because he has found his soul mate; rather, he is happy because she fell in love with him. She fell in love with his stories that he told to her father, and consequently with him.
I believe he was almost trying to prove a point by not looking at Clarissa. He was sulking in his own restless sorrow and wanted her to be the one who asked what was the matter. For then they would be able to discuss the distance that Peter felt between the two. The previous sentences are a critical point in the novel; because it depicts the simple nature of human love. How easily influenced one can be when they are madly in love with someone.