Haddaway: A Literary Analysis

While Haddaway has written a whole song to it, every literary work has a different meaning to what truly is love. Love comes in multiple different forms and people show it differently. Everyone displays love in a way that is unique to them and helps describe their personality. Without love the world would be in chaos, without love people would go mad, without love there would only be hate. In this paper we will look at some of the works in British Literature and how the author goes about portraying love.

Robert Browning has a darker side of what love means to him, but in doing so he shows the influence love has over someone. In Porphyia’s Lover Browning finds solace in the murder of his lover. Throughout the latter half of this poem the author

The speaker mentions solemnly that now this flea has the blood of both of them. After the woman he loves tries to kill the flea, he goes on to mention the beauty in the flea how it now is a resemblance of the two of them and their connection they have. Eventually his lover kills the flea and the speaker, while one would think he would be upset, is modest. Even though his lover killed this thing he found special, he is still grateful of what they have together. While a little bit creepy relating the blood of this flea to their bond in marriage it does have the idea of love that we are looking for. The speaker mentions “Wherein could this flea guilty be, Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?“ (The Flea, stanza 3), saying to his lover that the flea did nothing bad to her other than bring them together. Very similarly to a marriage, a ring would bring two people together, and his lover mindlessly killed it. This odd love the speaker has for his lover doesn’t deter from the idea of love, it just goes to show that everyone experiences and shows it differently. When it comes to the common conceptions of love we see that Goblin Market shows one of the greatest forms of love in the form of sisterly/brotherly

In Goblin Market Rossetti believes love comes in the form of protecting the life of someone rather than being as close as possible to them (even though the sisters are strangely close). In the story Laura who succumbed to temptations becomes deathly ill. Laura’s sister Lizzie must find a way to save her sister due to the love she has for her. We see how strong this love is when Lizzie goes to the goblin’s risking her life to save her sister. This bond between them is the common conception of love, one would do anything for another at any costs. Years after Lizzie saves her sister's life they reminisce to their children about the importance of the of the bond they had, that love they shared was stronger than any temptations from outside forces. Nothing could have broken that bond they shared and even years later that love they had still exists. A slightly weaker form of love can be seen in the relationships of close friends and what toll a death between them