Love is portrayed in many ways but certain actions can be mistaken for love. People have often thought that they have found love but have failed to find the true meaning of it. The poem “How Do l Love Thee” is an ideal love. To be loved is to have a sexual passion for someone, to have unconditional love for someone, or that nurturing love between family members. Some poems fall short of my idea of love they are flawed and don’t measure up to love.
In the poem “How Do I Love Thee” written by Elizabeth Browning she could be incorporating many different kinds of love. Depending on how you read the poem. To me she incorporates my ideal love because the poem shows all three ways to love. Browning says in line nine “I love thee …show more content…
In “My Papa Waltz” a father and a son are dancing around the kitchen. In the poem we learn that he is probably a hard working man because the poem says “ with a palm caked hard by dirt.” And early on in the poem it says his knuckle was battered. As they were dancing the drunken father was scrapping the boys ear on his buckle and as the finish he walts him off to bed. To me this does not seem like a nurturing love. The boy is dancing with his father around the kitchen and never says anything about it being fun or h was laughing with his father. It seems as if he just does it just because his father is drunk. A nurturing love is where you hold someone tight at night and make them feel safe. The father and son were knocking down pans and being wreckless. In the last line the son tells us he was still clinging to the father shirt this might infer that he is scared if he lets go he doesn’t know what could happen. “ my Papa Walt” Is flawed to me because he isn’t loving him in a fatherly pure love.
I believe that “ How Do I Love thee “ Shows all different types of love. It shows that love can be shown through intimacy. You can love someone unconditionally. There is also a nurturing love between a parent and child. The poem “ To his coy mistress does not demonstrate a passionate love in the way I think we shiuld love. It shows a man filled with lust for a womens body. In “ My papa Waltz. The boy is not getting a nurturing love like what might