Endless Love

about Love? Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 43” and Edna St Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet 29” show that love is a life-changing force in a person’s life, and how they are affected differently by Cupid’s arrow. Browning has a sensuous experience of love whereas it has impacted Millay adversely. This essay explores how the twopoets use the sonnet form, imagery and tone to express their contrasting feelings of love. The sonnet form plays a vital part in explaining Browning's attitude to love…

gave up on his entire life because of Willy's affair, which leaves Linda ready to throw her relationship with the kids away. As one may be able to recognize, it is effortless to find the endless dysfunctions within the Loman family. Just like any family, they have unresolved issues, but the Lomans have an enduring love for each other. After all, Mary Karr once said, “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in…

Snow, that grief is never ending even if you have accepted the death of a loved one. In Longfellow’s life he had a deep understanding of the beauty of love and happiness which…

Takes, that “Love is putting another person before yourself. Love means doing what's best for the other person, no matter what it means for you.” Perhaps without realizing it, she stated the message that Shakespeare wished for us to grasp in his comedy, The Twelfth Night. In a day and age when marriages can last for seventy two days and some individuals consider a casual night together to be romantic, it can be hard to discern what the differences between lust driven passion and patient love…

fluctuating that he has to persevere hard in order to “learn” her constantly changing moods, something that he inevitably cannot do. However, in Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare successfully presents a conventional love between the speaker and his partner, who’s beauty and love from the speaker is endless and timeless. In Marrysong, Scott compares the speaker’s wife to nature to highlight his wife’s fluctuating personality and her instantaneous mood swings. The use of “without seasons, shifted”…

Propp, in his article Is Psalm 45 an Erotic Poem, writes about the origin, interpretations, imagery, terminology, and other aspects of Psalm 45. With a hidden meaning of poor translations behind every word, the depth of the palm is endless. However, due to the sexual themes and notations throughout the poem it can be difficult to see the psalm as anything less that an erotic poem. The original use of Psalm 45 was for either an Israelite or Judean royal wedding, possibly for common use or for…

music of a Broadway musical style. It may seem out of place at first, but the music makes a mockery of people fighting over a diamond, and makes them look like toddlers fighting over a bright red toy car in playgroup. The film however is not an endless roller-coaster. We experience rare moments of respite between the man and the woman that concisely demonstrates the intimacy that can occur when we distance ourselves from brawling over a diamond. This is a beautiful contrast. Props have to be…

She Walks In Beauty Laced with endless compliments and adoration, Lord Byron’s poem “She Walks in Beauty” tells the story of a man admiring a woman’s beauty. While the speaker does not claim that he is in love with the nameless woman, it is evident that he is attracted to her – based on the detail in which he describes her physical beauty. The “cloudless…starry skies” and “tender light” accompanied by the undulating iambic tetrameter sets the perfect, romantic mood for the speaker to…

The Effects of Everlasting Love Between People Jackson Brown once said, “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own”. Everlasting true love between two people results in many positive outcomes, including happiness. In the short story “A Bolt of White Cloth” by Leon Rooke, a mysterious peddler approaches a couple that lives on a farm. He tries to sell a bolt of white cloth to them, which can only be bought by love. After the wife proves her love, the man finally…

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green is a brilliant yet complex novel. The book answers the questions of why doesn’t the one I thought could love me, doesn’t? What would happen if I was left alone? What would happen if I didn’t matter or I won’t be remembered? The author, John Green, writes a story so compelling that it makes you want to keep reading and never stop. The book takes place in Gutshot Tennessee where the main character, Colin Singleton and his bestfriend Hassan end up during…