Finding true love is something that people strive to obtain within their lifetime. People can find love multiple times before they find the one. Love is fragile and tends to need a type care that involves caution. This is not the case with friendships because friendships are more durable and last longer. When problems occur in a relationship, it is harder to maintain the love rather than in a friendship. In the poem “Love and Friendship,” by Emily Bronte, friendship is more worthwhile because it can survive many different problems while love will start to die when problems start to happen as seen through similes, rhymes, all of the imagery throughout the poem, and the theme.
The poem “Love and Friendship” starts out with a simile comparing …show more content…
Bronte expresses “the holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms” (3) in stanza one which shows the theme of the poem. The theme is that friendship is more important than love. Friendships tend to be set aside because of a relationship, but that can dissolve quickly while a friendship will be durable holding together. In line ten, Bronte expresses the theme because she says, “holly’s sheen” (10) that in the same fashion shows that friendship is better than love because friendship will outlast love. When a rose-briar is in blooming season this flower is what people are more likely to focus on. The rose-briar is bright, new, and exciting and that is what love is like. Love can happen at random times, and when people are in love they have less time for their friendship. The friendships are still prominent and important despite being set aside, but like the holly tree, they are sturdy and can live on without blooming often. Bronte goes on to ask, “But which will bloom most constantly?” (4) in the last line of the stanza. The last line of the first stanza then questions the reasons why friendships are set aside when love occurs. Bronte shows the reader here that she does not think that love is worth looking …show more content…
In the Twayne’s Author Series-Document-The Life of Emily Bronte by Richard Benvenuto, Benvenuto wrote, “Although she wrote powerfully about love and sexual attraction, there is no evidence that she ever had a lover or desired one” (Benvenuto). Benvenuto stated that Bronte had no experience that is known with love, but she still does not like the thought of love. The poem “Love and Friendship” by Emily Bronte discussed her extreme dislike for love and having relationships other than friendships because she believed they were a waste of time, and the person in the relationship left disappointed. Emily Bronte thought that love will eventually fade away because love is an Achilles heel. Emily Bronte “hated strange faces and strange places” (Benvenuto) which was another reason why she hated the concept of love. Love was a foreign concept to Bronte and required communication with new people making it unpredictable.
In conclusion, Emily Bronte’s poem “Love and Friendship” discuss the relationship involving love and friendships. The poem compares the two concepts that are in nature holly trees and rose-briar to show the vast differences between the two. Love is like the rose-briar dangerous, exciting, but in the end, it will be devastating when it ends because of the delicacy of it all. Emily Bronte’s life is the reasoning for her harsh view of love because of her upbringing. Friendship is stronger of the two because
The poem “Love and Friendship” starts out with a simile comparing …show more content…
Bronte expresses “the holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms” (3) in stanza one which shows the theme of the poem. The theme is that friendship is more important than love. Friendships tend to be set aside because of a relationship, but that can dissolve quickly while a friendship will be durable holding together. In line ten, Bronte expresses the theme because she says, “holly’s sheen” (10) that in the same fashion shows that friendship is better than love because friendship will outlast love. When a rose-briar is in blooming season this flower is what people are more likely to focus on. The rose-briar is bright, new, and exciting and that is what love is like. Love can happen at random times, and when people are in love they have less time for their friendship. The friendships are still prominent and important despite being set aside, but like the holly tree, they are sturdy and can live on without blooming often. Bronte goes on to ask, “But which will bloom most constantly?” (4) in the last line of the stanza. The last line of the first stanza then questions the reasons why friendships are set aside when love occurs. Bronte shows the reader here that she does not think that love is worth looking …show more content…
In the Twayne’s Author Series-Document-The Life of Emily Bronte by Richard Benvenuto, Benvenuto wrote, “Although she wrote powerfully about love and sexual attraction, there is no evidence that she ever had a lover or desired one” (Benvenuto). Benvenuto stated that Bronte had no experience that is known with love, but she still does not like the thought of love. The poem “Love and Friendship” by Emily Bronte discussed her extreme dislike for love and having relationships other than friendships because she believed they were a waste of time, and the person in the relationship left disappointed. Emily Bronte thought that love will eventually fade away because love is an Achilles heel. Emily Bronte “hated strange faces and strange places” (Benvenuto) which was another reason why she hated the concept of love. Love was a foreign concept to Bronte and required communication with new people making it unpredictable.
In conclusion, Emily Bronte’s poem “Love and Friendship” discuss the relationship involving love and friendships. The poem compares the two concepts that are in nature holly trees and rose-briar to show the vast differences between the two. Love is like the rose-briar dangerous, exciting, but in the end, it will be devastating when it ends because of the delicacy of it all. Emily Bronte’s life is the reasoning for her harsh view of love because of her upbringing. Friendship is stronger of the two because