The presentation of love and its difficulties can be very different as is seen in Romeo and Juliet and the poems by Carol Ann Duffy.
Carol Ann Duffy uses lots of different words to talk about love. The poem Valentine is a monologue and in the poem she says “I give you an onion” I think that she says this because love is like an onion and has many layers that you have to unpeel until you reach the centre. However, I think there is a more evil side and that she chose to use an onion, because when you cut into an onion you start to cry. In the Poem “Havisham” she writes about her “beloved sweetheart bastard” which is an oxymoron and I think it means that she loves him but hates him at the same time.
The poem Ann Hathaway has lots of metaphors and lots of Shakespeare’s poems about love are also written in this way. The poem ends with Anne claiming that all her memories are stored “in the casket of my widow’s head” meaning she has great memories of her dead husband.
In the poem Mrs Lazarus it talks about how love can be so powerful it has driven her mad. After her fiancé died she talks about how she has “wept for a night and day”, “crawled at the burial stones till my hands bled, retched his name over and over again, dead, dead”. I think this may mean that when her fiancée died she was so heartbroken that it has driven her mad.
However in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet love is presented in different ways. The types of love shown in Romeo and Juliet are courtly love, family love and true love. Each character has a different view on love and some of the characters view on love change during the book.
Shakespeare’s first mentions love in the first act when Romeo is talking about his love for Rosaline with Benvolio. Romeo uses oxy...
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In conclusion I think that Carol Ann Duffy’s language in her poems is not the sort that you would expect in find in poems about love. Some of the words she uses are not normally associated with love like “possessive”, “knife” and “lethal”. These are not good words to use in love poems. I think that she uses these words to try and make sure she gets across what she thinks love can actually be like.
The words Shakespeare uses in Romeo and Juliet are more romantic. During the whole play, there are reminders of how much in love Romeo and Juliet are with each other. But because Carol Ann Duffy views are different to the way we traditionally see love it can be harder to understand what she means. I think that love in Romeo and Juliet is easier to relate to than the way love is presented in Carol Ann Duffy’s poems
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a Renaissance poet and playwright who wrote and published the original versions of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, and often called England’s national poet. Several of his works became extremely well known, thoroughly studied, and enjoyed all over the world. One of Shakespeare’s most prominent plays is titled The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. In this tragedy, the concept that is discussed and portrayed through the characters is love, as they are recognized as being “in love”.
In "Valentine" Carol Ann Duffy starts off the poem by describing the state of the relationship and uses the words like the careful undressing of love to create a simile of sexual nature. As the poem progresses, we find out that Carol Ann Duffy is, in fact, ending the story. relationship with the person concerned. She uses phrases like possessive and lethal, which certainly does not conform to most. Valentine poems for today.
"Do you particularly like the man?’ He muttered, at his own image; ‘why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like…" (Dickens 103). Romeo Montague is no less desultory, but youth is his excuse, while alcohol and lifelong disappointment are Carton’s. Shakespeare has Friar Lawrence state [about Romeo’s multiple infatuations], "Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes" (1.3.67-68). Having not experienced life yet, Romeo does not yet understand the nature of love. He still sees it as a physical reaction, rather than emotional, "For beauty, starved with her severity / cuts beauty off from all prosperity" (1.1.227-228). Juliet is so immature and unskilled in the ways of love, that she shares her youthful desperation with her nurse, "Go ask his name; if he is married / my grave is like to be my wedding bed" (1.
There are many different types of love in this world, thus there are many different ways of expressing love. What revolves around that love, and the many different circumstances, trials, and tribulations that a love might face can greatly influence the outcomes of that love. These trials and tribulations can also be seen as different literary elements when used in plays. When looking at Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, he used many different themes and elements to provide complexity to the love story. Shakespeare cleverly takes the main theme of the play, love, and ties in other elements such as time, stage imagery, and language to pull the whole play together in a way that makes one think about the play on other levels.
“Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude” – Louis Aragon. Shakespeare presents a variety of feelings in Romeo and Juliet to appearance, emotions and relationships shared through Romeo and other characters. Romeo and Juliet depict a romantic relationship between “a pair of star-cross’d lovers” (prologue). Romeo also is committed to Mercutio with the familial love overriding the friendship bond. Unrequited love is seen through Romeo expressing his emotions on the unavailable relationship of himself and Rosaline.
“Romeo and Juliet”, a play composed by William Shakespeare, is about a boy and a girl who are fall in love with each other at first sight, but soon find out that they have fallen in love with the child of their parents enemy. Seeing fate is not on their side due to the ongoing feud between their parents, they are willing to do anything to be together, which unfortunately leads to both of their demise. Many people question if the love between Romeo and Juliet was true. The love between the two was not true because they fell in love with each other’s appearances, they didn’t know each other long enough to actually figure out each other, and they were hardly thinking straight during the relationship.
William Shakespeare shows the forbidden love at first sight between two characters, Romeo and Juliet. The type of love, Shakespeare shows is a destructive love between Romeo and Juliet, which leads to their hurried marriage and eventually
In all poems the theme of Disappointment in love is seen throughout. Duffy focuses on the pain, despair and acrimony that love can bring, whereas Larkin focuses on the dissatisfaction before, during, and after a romantic relationship. Both Duffy and Larkin differ in tone. Duffy takes a more aggressive and dark stance to portray what love can do to a person after a disappointing love life. Duffy also uses this sinister and aggressive stance to try and convey sympathy for the persona from the audience in ‘Never Go Back’ and ‘Havisham’ Whereas Larkin conveys his discontent in love through his nonchalant and dismissive tone, but still concealing the pain that has been brought by love in ‘Wild Oats’ and ‘Talking in bed’.
Throughout the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, various types of love are portrayed. According to some of the students of Shakespeare, Shakespeare himself had accumulated wisdom beyond his years in matters pertaining to love (Bloom 89). Undoubtedly, he draws upon this wealth of experience in allowing the audience to see various types of love personified. Shakespeare argues that there are several different types of love, the interchangeable love, the painful love and the love based on appearances, but only true love is worth having. The first type of love the audience is introduced to is the interchangeable love of Benvolio.
Although true love is a dominant theme in both plays Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing, there are differences in the way that true love is developed in both of them and the changes it makes in the personality of the lovers. In Romeo and Juliet love between the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, is more passionate and romantic, springing up at first sight between them. Love controls and changes both of them completely, turning them to more simple and pure; it affects their language that turns to be really the language of their heart. Romeo becomes a lover poet, expressing his love to Juliet by comparing her to the sun, "Juliet is the sun" (2.2.3) and to stars, describing here as an angel and a messenger of heaven, "o, speak again, bright angel, for though art/ As is winged messenger of heaven" (2.2.26-28). The language that the both lovers use is an important instrument to show and to express their love. The change in Juliet's behavior is noticeable. Whereas she used to obey the authority of her nurse, she now defies authority. This is a sure sign of her emerging independence, and is a crucial factor in understanding her decision to marry Romeo and defy her parents.
The main and most common type of love in Romeo and Juliet is romantic love. Romantic love is when somebody loves someone in a way that his or her heart connects with the other person’s heart and they go on dates, embrace each other, and sometimes get married to each other. When people amorously love each other, they will do bizarre and insane things for each other, so romantic love is very powerful. Romeo says:
If one is interested enough to look, one can find twenty-eight definitions for the word "love" in the dictionary. Such a broadly-defined word has no doubt contributed to the diverse array of poems which all claim (legitimately) to be about "love". Two such poems are "To His Coy Mistress", by Andrew Marvell, and "Elegy for Jane", by Theodore Roethke. Both poems are clearly love poems; however, the types of love that each one represents are quite different. "To His Coy Mistress" is written in a very amorous tone, while "Elegy for Jane" is written with a tone of deep, personal affection and loss.
If love were ever a person do you think he or she would only be creating joy and pain? Would this person do more than just create these feelings? These are questions to ponder when reading the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Love is heavily involved in the play and the characters of it whether it be directly or indirectly. The theme created in the play Romeo and Juliet is that love is pain, a source of power, a troublemaker, a thief, and a solution.
Though ballads and Sonnets are poems that can depict a picture of someone’s beloved, they can have many differences. For instance, a Ballad is a story in short stanzas such as a song would have, where as a sonnet typical, has a traditional structure of 14 lines employing several rhyme schemes and adheres to a tight thematic organization. Both Robert Burn’s ballad “The Red, Red, Rose, and William Shakespeare’s “of the Sonnet 130 “they express their significant other differently. However, “The Red, Red, Rose depicts the Falling in new love through that of a young man’s eyes, and Shakespeare’s sonnet 130 depicts a more realistic picture of the mistress he writes about; which leaves the reader to wonder if beauty is really in the eyes of the beholder.
Romeo and Juliet have very different attitudes towards love. Their beliefs to this romance constructs a thick line between the themes if love is of beauty or if “love is blind…”(3.2.9). The romance of the two