The Relationship Between Love And Time

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The Relationship between Love and Time After taking the time to explore different types of poets and styles of poetry, I have come to appreciate the beauty in the way these poets incorporate language to express love and different aspects of life. Although being able to understand poetry is what makes it difficult and sometimes frustrating, I have found myself being able to relate in many different ways to the poems I have read over the past month. Once I am able to correctly analyze a certain poem, it is something very beautiful and enjoyable to read. Though poetry can talk about anything, I believe the more complex poems that deal with sensitive issues are the ones to recognize. These poems take difficult issues in life and express them in a beautiful way that help others relate and feel not alone in a particular hardship. Wystan Hugh Auden, who admired poetry at a young age, has written several wonderful poems about love, happiness, and numerous aspects about his life and others. Two of his famous love poems: “Song” also known as “As I walked out one evening” and “Lay your sleeping head, my love” also known as “Lullaby” have taken the concept of love and expressed it in means of time. In both of these love poems, Auden has written as a different speaker than himself. Although, Auden himself is gay, his love poems analyze a deeper meaning of love that doesn’t articulate whether it is love between two men or a man and woman; it can be love between anyone or anything. Auden’s, “Song” or “As I walked out one evening” speaks to the nature of time as it relates to the human condition. The poem is defined as a literary ballad with elements of the dramatic, however carries several traits essential to the sonnet. The rhyme scheme in the poem is fairly simple and represents the meter “abcb” in every stanza. The poem is divided into two distinct parts. The first
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