Furthermore, the notion that girls will witness their future husbands adds a romantic and passionate feeling, endorsing Keats’ adherence to romanticism instead of rationalism. The connotation of ‘eve’ as the time between two separate days may indirectly allude to the Age of Enlightenment, where science and reason became the predominant culture in society. This change in social beliefs was criticised by Keats who supported romanticism, and this can be inferred by the cold semantic field at the beginning and end of ‘The Eve of St Agnes’; ‘Ah, bitter chill it was!’ and ‘slept among his ashes cold.’ This circular narrative could suggest that Keats felt contempt towards the idea of a new age, so he incorporated this cold reception in his opening and closing stanzas by using a negative
The structure of the poem has been manipulated to emphasise Duffy's key points. We have the use of a form of dialogue as the narrator is speaking to her lover however he does not reply showing a one sided viewpoint of their relationship. This is used to express the perspective of the narrator and invites the reader in to question the idea of their relationship and the fact that she presents her lover with an onion which would be considered as a ridiculous gift to give somebody that you love. Duffy presents the ridiculous idea of the onion in the poem as she says “I give you an onion.” This is immediately presented as a strange idea as an onion is usually seen as a repellent and a very un-romantic object so the fact that she is giving this to her lover could connotate a negative, unloving relationship between the narrator and her lover. On the other hand, it could show that the relationship between the narrator and her lover is not seen as the stereotypical ‘type’ of love as she uses the unromantic gift of an onion to convey her love and to show that the onion consists of several layers which could connotate the type of relationship the narrator and her lover has and that their relationship is unique.
She rejects the gifts conventionally associated with Valentine’s Day, such as ‘red-rose’, ‘satin cloth’, ‘cute card’, ‘kissogram’ but by bringing a Copernican revolution with the option of ‘Onion’ as a gift which we find in the second line as “I give you an onion”. The poem commences with a negative note “not a red rose” to slash the traditional offering of rose or satin cloth on Valentine’s Day. This is indeed to portray the idea that love is not to be taken as a bed of roses always, but to accept the thorns we find underneath the roses. Love has joyful and sorrowful nature. Carol gives the image of onion to love.
The poem ‘Valentine’ depicts love in a more truthful way, though it seems harsh and almost cynical. She does this by contrasting tacky stereotypical valentine gifts with an unusual, but more realistic comparison of an onion. She does this because she feels Valentine’s Day has become pointless and the gifts are too cliché. She chooses an onion as a gift and explores how it represents love by saying all the layers are different parts of love and as you peel through you
The reason for his lack of affection may be because E.B.B is being too demanding and obstinate of her own perspectives of what love is and how she would like to be loved. • She is also stereotyping the way men perceive women, and the only reason why men fall in love with women is for their appearance and physique. This is interpreted through the accumulative listing from line 3 to 6, when she was telling Robert Browning not to say he loves her for those superficial reasons. • The themes from this poem are – love and unconditional love, mockery and superficiality. • The techniques used in this poem are – accumulative listing, from line 3 to 6 and emotive language, used throughout the poem, but especially from line
Shakespeare echoes key thematic topics by the production of a series of lies that form intro deception at crucial moments. When Hero and Ursula exit and leave Beatrice alone, Beatrice declares, “…Benedick, love on; I will requite thee, taming my wild heart to thy loving hand” (III. i. 117-118). Beatrice expresses her acceptance of Benedick’s love but does not realize the love inside Beatrice exists artificially.
If one were to point out a verse in the poem, that might not be that romantic, it would be “Where thoughts serenely sweet express”. Personally, I don’t find the word “serenely” very fitting in this poem, because it’s like Byron backs away from describing her beauty, and instead doubts something about her. I would assume that this poem might have been provocative to some, because of the way he describes the woman in the poem, and also because of some of the adjectives he uses, especially “Gaudy” and “Serenely”. * Would you see this woman as sexually attractive? Explain and discuss I would see this woman as sexually attractive yes, because of the way she is describes through the nature and sky.
Introduction Compare and contrast how the writers of "My Last Duchess" and "Remember" portray different views of love. Love has as many expressions as people who experience it. For some it is a romantic life-enhancing one, for others it is a negative painful experience. In the poems "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning and "Remember" by Christina Rossetti were are offered two widely different views of love. One is a gentle, romantic, poignant message, the other a cynical sadistic monologue.
He quickly begins to mention how short life is even referencing her ‘preserved virginity’ being taken when she’s dead as ‘worms shall try.’ He finishes by focusing on the present and telling her to make the most of the time that they have now, which hints at the use of sexual innuendo. The speaker presents an argument in these three parts, however there are several layers of meaning to this poem. To his coy mistress is a poem, and ghazal is an ancient poet form often used to explain the beauty and pain of love. ‘If you are the rhyme and I the refrain,’ this is use of music to describe to describe fate and the feeling of eagerness is unnecessary as she is aware that when the time is right they will become one with each other. It also has several forms of sexual innuendo similar to ‘to his coy mistress’
Towards the beginning of the play A Mid Summer Nights Dream Lysander states that ‘the course of true love never did run smooth.’ Throughout the play along with the love song ‘Wild Horses’ by U2 we learn that love does not always make sense, that love is about emotions rather than rules and that love can cause us to both laugh and cry. Both the play and song use sophisticated language techniques that helps the audience understand certain emotions and believe certain truths about love. Love is about emotions rather than rules therefore can be unpredictable and can be chaotic. This is shown through the characterisation of Hermia. Hermia is in love with Lysander despite the Athenian rules.