Two Pesentations of Love in Maya Angelou's Poems: ‘A Kind of Love, Some Say’ and ‘Where We Belong, A Duet’

She even goes as far as to say that "you cooled my mind that burned with longing". A new pain is seen in love here, the pain of wanting to be loved as she longed for that feeling again. This divide of the relief and anguish of love is a constant problem for Sappho, but it makes her poetry more realistic for the audience. This idea is further pursued in fragment 51 as she illustrates the divide of beauty and rage within love that keep her mind uncertain. This is seen as Sappho brings up her "two states of mind".

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote in his book, The Brothers Karamazov, “Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams,” (“Love”). This quote shows that love is not as sweet as it seems in real life. In order to love, one needs to be ready to suffer and be able to encounter conflicts and trials. Love is an emotion that most of the time is distinguishable into two types: compassionate and passionate love. Passionate love is an intense feeling of love to another person and is sometimes known as infatuation, lovesickness, romantic love or obsessive love.

However, ... ... middle of paper ... ...death- or in a sense how she fears death and love in the same way. There is a point to be made by the author that the act of sex and falling in love do not go hand in hand- one is not an outcome of the other. Falling in love can be frightening, even terrifying, when it is new to someone. This could be the authors’ way of describing love in all its brutality and the moment she shares with us is being completely lost in a moment. Maybe it’s a one-night stand, or maybe it’s all about falling in love for the first time.

While “They Flee From Me” portrays men as the victim to women and their deviousness, “Amoretti” takes an opposing turn from how most poetry of that time wrote about love by celebrating it in a positive and joyful way. “Amoretti” was a change and very different from most writings about love which expressed either death or dismay and Spencer talks about it as the most joyful experience . Because of this it’s safe to say no one dies, is severely depressed, overcome with jealousy, or vengeance. The inspiration for “Amoretti” is Spenser’s experiences obtaining his wife and the love tale between the two before their marriage. These poems provide thoughts and visions of love as exciting, joy-filled, and most importantly a pleasure to be in.

In Olds poem it is also very clear that her view of sex is that it is violent that that she probable doesn’t like it very much, yet in Rios’s he wants to know what sex feels like so bad that he goes to the extreme and has sex with a flagstone wall. Both poets want to be loved in the poems in their own way. While both poem’s present a theme of love, it is obvious that the poet’s view on love changes from how they view love at the beginning of the poem from how they see it at the end.

Love is a necessity in everyone’s life to feel like a hole and sometimes people get mixed up between love and lust. Through out the story the author focused on Giovanni’s point of view and mostly his thinking process. The emotional exchanges between Giovanni and Beatrice start as two variables, which are simply, and pure attraction and they have no deep understanding for each other. Later on in the story, the changes of true love and an emotional attachment due to more communication. The author’s message is straightforward and was about love being complicated and comes in many different forms and in some cases does not always have a happy ending.

‘When We Two Parted’, written by Lord Byron, however, takes a different approach to the way that a love poem is usually written. The poet uses a quarrelsome style, in which he often uses verse to attack his enemies. This surfaces in ‘When We Two Parted’, as he emphasises the betrayal felt by a woman he loved. In this poem, the theme that runs throughout is loss of a love, rather than actually being in love. Lord Byron explores the link between love and loss, by directing the poem at an ex-lover.

There are also many places where racism reigns and people are hurt and violated because of their skin color, religion or gender. In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, the author does not only talk about violence, she also shows us how a person confuses love with violence. “Violence repeatedly usurps the space that love might hold. Commonly the fantasied antidote to psychic wounds and losses, real and imagined, love is an expected unguent, a form of medication, pain's "natural" anodyne. But Morrison takes a harsher, tougher, less romantic view of love, one fashioned from the accumulated wisdom of the ages, a wisdom infused throughout her novel”.

In most cases, ladies tended to run away, but if they did and made some money then unfortunately, if the husband finds them, he will take all the money away. This was actually legal. Not all Victorian marriag... ... middle of paper ... ...Thee' I believe that love and marriage are strongly bonded as the narrator describes love in all its variety. I believe she is describing her lover in many different passionate ways reflecting her devotion - it is like a religion to her. In 'Remember' the poet describes her feelings for her lover, (which is a sad form of love).

In addition to this the structure can almost be seen metaphorically as the only thing holding Dylan Thomas together and holding him back from breaking down. On the other hand with “Remember” the structure reinforces the meaning within the poem. “Remember” falls into the category of a sonnet, they tend to convey romantic stories and generally are associated with romance. Therefore the structure of the poem reinforces the romantic interpretation that some people may see when reading the poem. On the other hand the sonnet form of the poem may contrast with the interpretation that the speaker of the poem is jilting her “loved one”.