For His Son

be courageous to confess that he loves her, and daydreaming, it was his subconscious told him that he was falling in love with her at first sight. Next, the rhyme scheme of this poem is ABABCDCD from the first stanza, EFEFGHGH from the second stanza, and IJIJKLKL from the last stanza. Then, the setting of this poem is under the tree or inside his farm. Therefore, the theme of this poem is love at first sight. He was talking in his own thought. Because this poem explains that he meets a gorgeous…

Rumi and Love Rumi illustrates the different ways that we should love in each of his poetry. In "A King Dressed as a Servant", Rumi says that we need to wait for love to come to us, and that there is more than meets the eye when it comes to love. In "Any Sprig of an Herb", he tells us to be appreciative, to tame our ego, and that we should not be afraid to blunder in love. In "Split the Shack", Rumi says to surmount the sense of self-preservation, to give our entirety and not fragments, and…

author makes note that Paradise Lost is a great example to support his claim that…

Using Carpe Diem to Manipulate Women Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” and Richard Wilbur’s “A Late Aubade” all use the idea of seizing the day to seduce women. The first two poems address women who are resisting having sex and the poets are pressuring them to remember that time and their youth is fleeting and they’ll die virgin old maids if they don’t make love and get married while they are still young and attractive. Wilbur’s…

Aristophanes and Alcibiades define erotic love as longing for another being which an individual is drawn to. Both these men yearn for love in the idea of another figure in their life. Alcibiades yearned for the Socrates, whereas Aristophanes yearned to find his “matching half” (Plato, pg. 19). Both want to achieve a sense of completeness in their lives, because of these yearning faults are seen in their idea of love. Both men cause disturbances through the party seen in the hiccups of…

to explore. Not by ourselves, but accompanied by one or more fictional characters and their adventures shared through the written word. Using the literary works of: “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by Frank Baum, “His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife” by Philip Pullman, “Reckless” by Cornelia Funke, and also by Funke “Inkheart.” I intend to delve into the history and meaning behind how and why they work. ROOTS OF PORTALS In 1858, George MacDonald wrote…

“Lust is wanting to sleep with them. Love is wanting to wake up next to them in the morning’’ - Dan Simmons, American fiction writer. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two so called “star crossed lovers” who think that their love is so strong that they will be brought together even in death if they cannot be together in life. However, due to their young ages, and small amount of time that they knew each other, they were not in actual love. There is no doubt that they lusted for each other, but in…

CONCLUSSION The development of a love poet, can be traced easily by subtle analysis of various strains that define different moods and shades of love. The great metaphysical poet, John Donne provides a great instance of this kind of analysis of the poem. The first phase of Donne's love poems are conspicuous for exasparation and eccentricity that owes its genesis to peculiar notion that woman is essentially unfaithful and the object of sexual pleasure only. The second phase begins with the…

The concept of love and lust have been echoing throughout the history of literature. This is especially prevalent in Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress. In this 17th century poem, a male speaker runs his poetic lines to a female to accomplish one goal- convince her to have sexual intercourse with him. Through a transitioning mood, a wide spectrum of imagery, and series of metaphors and similes, Marvell is able to capture and reignite the old Latin elegy of Carpe Diem. Like a majority of…

To His Coy Mistress is a classic poem that follows the three act structure about a man trying to convince a woman to make love to him if they had energy and time. There are many themes in this short three stanzas, time, lust, death, freedom and confinement, these are all told through basic figurative language. In the poem there are many forms of speech condensed in there, simile is the most basic of figurative language as defined by “a figure of speech to compare a thing to a different thing” in…