After I grasped the contextual poetic meaning of “Persimmons”, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold”, “To a Daughter Leaving Home”, “Divorce”, “My Papa’s Waltz”, and “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter- the theme of love consumed my mind. When you think of love, what comes to mind? The theme of love is infinite. I believe that love itself is transcendent and boundless. It can be subjective or objective. Love can be everything all at once, or nothing at all. Love is designed to be perceived at a variance of standpoints. For this reason, I couldn’t help but feel strings tenaciously tugging on my heart while reading these poems. First, The River-Merchant’s Wife: A letter, resonated with me because it was a letter to the one she loved. This poem beautifully displayed usages of imagery to reflect back on the memories she kept of her husband while waiting for his return. The thought of a man I once loved immediately came to mind. I was nearly eighteen years old when I came across the concept of love. It was the summer of 2016 when I began to take an interest in him. This was unforeseen and he was unforgettable. This love sparked my curiosity, for it was fascinating and captivating. The love we had radiated through everything. Although my love for him was unintentional, it slowly, but surely sprouted from beneath my feet. He grew on me. However, whenever I left for college, this summer romance grew further apart. The four-hour distance became unbearable for me. I couldn’t
When I write about her now, three decades later,... but I know for a fact that what we felt for each other was as deep and rich as love can ever get.” “I just loved her”
The need for love is first introduced in “Joyas Valodoras” through the metaphor of the hummingbird. Doyle discusses the life and times of the hummingbirds, citing their incredible abilities for their awe-inspiring nature. However, their glory must, as all do, come to an end sometime; when they rest, “if they are not warmed, if they do not soon find that which is sweet, their hearts grow cold,
This shows that the story itself did not matter as much as the actual act of love. The theme of this poem is, “Physical things sometimes have deeper meanings.” The tone of it was heartwarming, reflective, and grateful. When the reader reads this, he or she can feel and relate to the narrator because we all have parents that we have learned from and are grateful for. That is one reason why this is a great poem because almost anyone can relate to it.
Love as a theme of the poems actually took a very important place in the collection. These love poems often contain different emotions. There are poems expressing the author fall in love with someone or poems expressing painful feelings about missing someone else. One interesting thing I noticed is that the
Minh Nguyen. Forms of Love. First rotation essay. Seminar leader: Marcella Perrett. 28-2-2015 Question :1.
In A Ritual to Read to Each Other, William Stafford speaks about a different kind of love than in Shakespeare’s sonnet. The love Stafford describes isn’t romantic, rather it is built on the fragile communication we have with the people around us. Stafford emphasizes the love of humanity, and begins his poem by pointing out how desperately bereft we are of this kind of empathy today. In the second stanza Stafford talks about the emptiness that exists between us. According to the poem we’ve become
In the short story “The Chrysanthemums” written by John Steinbeck, the flowers are symbolizing more than the eye may catch. The author displays how important these chrysanthemums are to Elisa Allen, but there is a deeper meaning to the flowers than just the love she has for them. The chrysanthemums represented more than just a passion and more than just her strength, but also her dignity. When they were thrown out on the side of the road, they symbolized her dignity which was now gone since the man she trusted them with had abandoned them and her husband she catered to lacked affection for her, because through their lenses she will never be enough.
The once “fairytale” like expectations on relationships and love came tumbling down as reality set in. This shifting of tones towards love could symbolize many different things; it could symbolize the the transformation of innocent, naive Yolanda into skeptical, emotionally unavailable Yolanda, or the possible life that lies ahead of her and her constant longing for intimacy, or it could even be foreshadowing the possible growing apart that her once close knit family will experience. The utilization of
" This metaphor is used as a description of love because of the vastness and depth of the sea, it entails the notion that their love is unbreakable, and can reach the
The short story “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” by Raymond Carver is about four friends- Laura, Mel, Nick, and Terri, gathering on a table and having a conversation. As they start to drink, the subject abruptly comes to “love.” Then, the main topic of their conversation becomes to find the definition of love, in other word to define what exactly love means. However, at the end, they cannot find out the definition of love even though they talk on the subject for a day long. Raymond Carver in “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” illustrates the difficulty of defining love by using symbols such as heart, gin, and the sunlight.
Being in love is like an ocean; the further out one goes the deeper it becomes. In the poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” we get a sense of how deep and real her love is for her husband. Bradstreet gives us an insight to her and her husband’s relationship and how deep and strong their love has become. She uses hyperbole and biblical allusions to convey how great their love is.
Throughout the text, the speaker uses a diverse array of literary techniques to demonstrate the multidimensional nature of their love towards a lover. First, passionate love is conveyed in the spatial metaphor of loving with “the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” Here, love is a substance that fills up and infatuates the speaker, creating a powerful drive that forces her to express it. This spatial love is overwhelming and grand, which establishes the passionate and fervent tone of the poem.
5) shows the uncontrollable and more intimidating part of love. 'Mad ' (l. 5) stands for the loss of one 's sense of judgement and the possibility of being lead to behaviour that is most unlike oneself. The 'moon ' (l. 5), when present, generates a sombre atmosphere. The description of love being 'deeper than the sea ' (l. 8) means love, compared to the sea, holds an even vaster amount of unknown treasures and mysteries. Whether these are favorable or abominable is a question left unanswered.
William Shakespeare’s sonnets are closely related in the idea that the theme as well as the subject of the poem remain consistent. A distinctive factor among Shakespeare’s sonnets however, is that they each contain somewhat varying tones. Two specific sonnets that prove this are “Sonnet 71” and “Sonnet 73” respectively. Both sonnets refer to the same subject, what is seemingly the speaker of the poem’s lover or mistress. The theme of death and dying are ones which remain present throughout each text.