The Theme Of Love In The Poems Cousin Kate And Maude Clare

Pansies, for thought, are given to Hamlet because he is a thinker, not an actor. Rue, for repentance, can be given to the Queen and to herself. She says “you may wear your rue with a difference” (4.5.176-77), suggesting that they have different reasons to be repentant. Ophelia feels that she has failed her duties as a woman and so has the Queen by forgetting her husband or remarrying too quickly. Ophelia probably remembers her father’s advice to “Tender yourself more dearly, / Or - not to crack the wind of poor phrase, / Wronging it thus—you’ll tender me a fool” (1.3.106-8).

He could not forgive her unless he changed himself, by altering his values. Based on the poet’s passion in describing her, she is a beautiful, youthful woman who does not want to end up alone. The speaker has a preconceived idea that intimacy makes everything flawless, when it is simply an illusion to wear a mask to hide the reality of who we truly are. Further... ... middle of paper ... ...t will always become a negative influence. Since people do not want to end up alone, they allow for “[their] faults by lies flatter[ed] be” meaning they let lies help them to forget about their faults (line 14).

Pride and Prejudice as Romantic Novel and Romantic Criticism To a great extent, Jane Austen satirizes conventional romantic novels by inverting the expectations of "love at first sight" and the celebration of passion and physical attractiveness, and criticizing their want of sense. However, there are also elements of conventional romance in the novel, notably, in the success of Jane and Bingley's love. The first indication of Austen's inversion of accepted romantic conventions is Elizabeth and Darcy's mutual dislike on first sight. However, Jane and Bingley fall in love almost immediately, and the development of their romance follows conventional romantic-novel wisdom, down to the obstacles in the form of Darcy's and Bingley's sisters' disapprobation (the typical disapproval of the Family) and the attraction between the rich young man and the middle class maid. Their Cinderella story ends in happily-ever-after, as does Elizabeth's and Darcy's.

In The Last Ride Together, it is clear that the speaker is eternally in love with the person he is addressing, which actually rejects typical beliefs of the Victorian era, since the Victorians believed in chaste marriage before true love. Browning’s character, however, is not afraid of rejection, but nevertheless gets rejected. Although both these poems deal with a different kind of love—whether it be the kind that is unsure or the kind that is undying—both speakers deal with the concept of rejection. This further signifies a relation between the two poems, because although they have contradicting ideas about life and love, they both end up in the same place, suggesting that neither of the characters has power over his fate when it comes to love. Although The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Last Ride Together differ in that they deal with contrasting ideas about time, they both project similar ideas of love and rejection.

In distinction Criseyde loses what she once considered most important, her name and reputation, but she adapts herself practically to whatever circumstances befall her. Yet we can have sympathy for the choice a woman caught between two worlds makes, almost against her will. In conclusion, this is for Criseyde, a true lover can never desire a new love unless he knows for some definite and sufficient reason the old love is dead. The question lies here if she was such a lover, Chaucer speaks off why she would give up Troilus for Diomede.

These two devices add to the understanding that the metaphors for the ugly are meant to make readers realize an over exaggerated view of the speaker’s reality in regards to his lover, and the similes for the beauty are meant for readers to show how the speaker really sees love. In contrast, Shakespeare’s sonnet contains twice as much negative imagery; however, there is h... ... middle of paper ... ...en’t 100% flawless. However, if it is meant to be, its possible to look over the imperfections and have a true love story. Today some people say that love is blind, but in William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” and Pablo Neruda’s “My Ugly Love,” they understand and see its honesty. Inside their poems they tell love like it is: imperfect and full of flaws.

Wyatt wrote this poem as an epigram of what court life would be like and what would come along with it. ‘They flee from me’ is a poem of love and what Thomas Wyatt’s attitudes are of love and hat it can do to you. The main theme of this poem is that women did just about anything to be with Thomas but eventually in hardly a long time they fled from him as the title suggests ‘They flee from me’. However an important theme is the uncertainty of life in the court of a cruel, fickle tyrant like Henry VIII. This suggests that although the life in the court of Henry VIII may be appealing and attractive it also comes with great dangers.

The Theme of Love in Sonnet 130 , Anne Hathaway, Havisham and The Laboratory First of all I will be talking about William Shakespere’s Sonnet 130. Now this poem has a rather odd element to the other poems. Some may say this is romantic but others may disagree. Now the people who disagree have justified this by the way of writing and the use of words. Where the opening line is “ My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” This line is straight away implementing that either he is saying his lovers eyes are so beautiful that they cannot even be compared to the sun or he is saying his lovers eyes are nothing like the sun’s.

The Essence of a Love Poem What is a love poem? Many believe that a love poem is supposed to be sweet and romantic. That is the basic tone of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “How Do I Love Thee?” However, William Shakespeare’s “My mistress‘ eyes are nothing like the sun” takes a much different approach to the typical love poem. Both poems are noticeably love poems, but they respond to the ideal in different ways. Browning describes her love as enormous and wonderful, but it is somewhat too ideal, to the point of being unrealistic.

In the novel Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, several, if not all of her characters, can verify the idea that in order to achieve happiness one must abandon their pride and in turn, replace it with self-respect accompanied by some humility. In addition, tolerance and mutual respect must replace one’s prejudice. In the inception of the novel, the Bingley sisters, Caroline and Mrs. Hurst, exhibit their prejudice towards Jane because of their differences in social status. It is their pride that forces them to believe they are better than others solely because of the amount of money they have. It is their prejudice that causes them to earnestly avoid people of different social status and do everything their powers allow to ‘protecting’ family members such as Mr. Bingley from people of the lower class.