In Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress”, a young man thinks exactly this, as he professes his love for a young lady; the lady is playfully hesitant, cleverly reserved. But lingering will not do, he says, for he is aware that their time will not be forever. He and the lady must take advantage of the moment, he says, and “sport us while we may” (line 37). If they had “world enough and time” (1) they would occupy the years in idle pursuits, leisurely passing time while the young man heaps compliments on the young lady. But he knows that they do not have that luxury, he says, for “time's winged chariot” (22) is getting nearer.
We get this impression as she says “Not a day since then I haven’t wished him dead”. This shows us that she is full of aggression towards this man as he has suddenly walked out of her life and broken her heart. As she starts the poem off saying, “Beloved sweetheart bastard”, this suggests that she once knew a sweet and loving man, who has turned into someone completely different and ruined her life. The words ‘beloved’ and ‘bastard’ are very harsh sounding words due to the effect that phonology gives it. Another point that shows her aggression is when she says, “Bang.
Character summary and analysis of Romeo The name Romeo has become nearly synonymous with “lover”, due to his experiences in Romeo and Juliet. The power of Romeo’s love, however, often obscures a clear vision of Romeo’s character, which is actually far more complex. In fact, Romeo’s relation to love isn’t that simple. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with Rosaline, claiming her paragon of women, and is miserable at her indifference towards him. Romeo is a great reader of love poetry, and from the beginning we could see that his portrayal of love for Rosaline seemed that he was trying to act out what he had read about.
He realizes that his mistress is not perfect but despite this he is able to accept her for who she is, and come to love her. Even though throughout the poem he feels the need to comment on all of her imperfections he continues to use “my mistress” signalling that perhaps there is more to it then he hints at. He mocks love in the beginning, but as time goes on he slowly becomes more conformed to the love poems of the time period. The opening line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 is an unexpected simile “My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun”. We might normally expect poets, especially those of Shakespeare's time, to praise the women they love by telling us that their eyes do shine like the sun.
It doesn’t sum up the love Anne Hathaway showed in the poem that is reflected in all other poems, but just the humour of the relation Darwin had with his wife. Where as, “Anne Hathaway” shows not only the love but also how she coped within losing her husband, which is a sum up of feelings on behalf of all the other “Worlds” wives. It can be said that perhaps “Anne Hathaway” isn’t the key to Carol Ann Duffy’s collection of “The Worlds Wives” after all, because some other poems show the negatives of love, and how being in a particular relationship has changed them for the worse. If “Anne Hathaway” was the key to Carol Ann Duffy’s collection, then there would be the wider use of mentioning the negatives of love too – it should include the main emotions
He continually juxtaposes images of the passion he felt for the woman he loved with the loneliness he experiences in the present. He is now at some distance from the relationship and so acknowledges, “tonight I can write the saddest lines,” suggesting that the pain he suffered after losing his lover had previously prevented any reminiscences or descriptions of it. While the pain he experienced had blocked his creative energies in the past, he is now able to write about their relationship and find some comfort in “the verse [that] falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.” Love and Passion Throughout the poem, the speaker expresses his great love for a woman with whom he had a passionate romance. He remembers physical details: “her great still eyes,” “her voice, her bright body,” “her infinite eyes.” He also remembers kissing her “again and again under the endless sky” admitting “how I loved her.” His love for her is still evident even though he states twice “I no longer love her, that’s certain.” The remembrance of their love is still too painful to allow
There are three kinds of love that William Shakespeare uses in this play: true love, friendship, and self love. Self-love is when somebody thinks they are better then another person and is totally in love with themselves and doesn’t listen to anything anyone says that is against them. A few characters display self love in Twelfth Night, for example, Malvolio, with his love for Olivia, but it is a love that is selfish, and that he thinks that everyone is in love with him, and Olivia, with her thinking she is the best and that no one is good enough for her and her mourning of her brother for so long. In Act 3 Scene 1 line 145, Olivia tries to persuade Cesario/Viola to be with her, thinking that is can get anyone to be with she is astonish that Cesario denies her and then tells him that she will wait for him to enter manhood, but that will not happen cause Cesario is not a man. Malvolio Is the easiest to identify with the problem of self love.
He claims that he loves to hear her voice, yet he says “music hath a far more pleasing sound.” He plays with the readers mind by complimenting and insulting the woman at the same time. Now the reader is not sure what to think at all. In the last lines of the sonnet, the ending couplet, Shakespeare makes it clear that it is indeed a love sonnet. He states that his love is “as rare/ As any She belied with false compare.”
Focus: Shakespeare begins his poem to the dark lady with no compliments about the dark lady. He describes her face with several similes. But when we read it, it’s not positive for a women. This sonnet compares the speaker’s lover to a number of other beauties—and never in the lover’s favor. Her eyes are “nothing like the sun,” her lips are less red than coral; compared to white snow, her breasts are dun-colored, and her hairs are like black wires on her head.
Spenser starts from an ordinary event that could happen in our daily lives. His poem is mainly the conversation between his lover and him, thus making his point through the dialogue. On the contrary, Shakespeare seems to be speaking to himself in a monologue, but also occasionally addressing his lover as well. Lastly, the moods of their poems are also different. Sonnet XVIII is more like a step-by-step argument; first saying that his lover looks more lovely than the already lovely summer, and then states that all natural beauty diminish no matter how great they once were.