The Symbolism of Love Artists, poets, and painters all symbolize the heart as the love symbol, but in order for people to understand love, the brain creates chemical signals. There are many terms referring to how to express and describe the forms of love, but one in particular is termed Eros. The universal theme of love as expressed and approached in these selected poems offers a general understanding and description of this type of love. In the poems “To Celia,” “To His Coy Mistress,” “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” all express the same type of love, Eros. The significance of this love is a passionate and intense love that arouses romantic feelings; it is the kind that often triggers “high”
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The speaker knows that his and Celia’s time is limited so therefore he is trying to rush because he wants to seduce her. He is claiming that he and Celia could become lovers and be together if she would just commit this crime. The speaker refers as love being “temporary” and who cares if a crime is committed; just “seize the day.” He is so passionate about this love between the two beings so great that he is trying everything in his will to convince her to be with him. The poem “To His Coy Mistress” the speaker is a very intense guy who speaks very beautifully about his love to his mistress, but his mistress is a coy woman who likes to play games in relationships. The title of this poem is referring to the relationship being very complicated. The speaker wants him and his mistress to be together until the end of time, and states that his love will grow much more over the time that they are together.
I would
Love you ten years before the flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should …show more content…
He offers these things because he is so madly in love with her that he is trying anything and everything he can so she will fall for him. The Shepherd also wants to do these majestic activities so she could have a world of care free pleasure. He offers things like sitting on rocks, watching sheep eat, listening to birds sing, things that are identified as “too good to be true.” He tells her that if she proves of all of these things, she can stay and be his love. In “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” the speaker is very cynical, as well as disbelieving. This poem has a more realistic meaning rather than what the Sheppard had to offer in “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” The Nymph is not necessarily making fun of the other poem she is just making it clear to the Shepherd that all of gifts he is offering are unrealistic. The Nymph says in the poem
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy
The speaker knows that his and Celia’s time is limited so therefore he is trying to rush because he wants to seduce her. He is claiming that he and Celia could become lovers and be together if she would just commit this crime. The speaker refers as love being “temporary” and who cares if a crime is committed; just “seize the day.” He is so passionate about this love between the two beings so great that he is trying everything in his will to convince her to be with him. The poem “To His Coy Mistress” the speaker is a very intense guy who speaks very beautifully about his love to his mistress, but his mistress is a coy woman who likes to play games in relationships. The title of this poem is referring to the relationship being very complicated. The speaker wants him and his mistress to be together until the end of time, and states that his love will grow much more over the time that they are together.
I would
Love you ten years before the flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should …show more content…
He offers these things because he is so madly in love with her that he is trying anything and everything he can so she will fall for him. The Shepherd also wants to do these majestic activities so she could have a world of care free pleasure. He offers things like sitting on rocks, watching sheep eat, listening to birds sing, things that are identified as “too good to be true.” He tells her that if she proves of all of these things, she can stay and be his love. In “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” the speaker is very cynical, as well as disbelieving. This poem has a more realistic meaning rather than what the Sheppard had to offer in “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” The Nymph is not necessarily making fun of the other poem she is just making it clear to the Shepherd that all of gifts he is offering are unrealistic. The Nymph says in the poem
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy