In the Mood for Love

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 love…

time. The two main characters, Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague, fall in love, but their love for each other ends in tragedy. Shakespeare uses certain imagery to enhance the feeling of their love. In Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet”, the use of light and dark imagery is used to add effect and enhance the reader’s image of Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other. It not only sets the mood, but also symbolises each other’s love. Shakespeare first uses light and dark imagery during the party…

including: imagery, assonance, repetition, and consonance. The poem also has mood and a speaker. The poem talks about a man losing the love of his life and how their love will go on forever. This poem has a speaker, mood, and figurative language helping tell the tragic love story of “Annabel Lee.” The speaker in “Annabel Lee” is a heartbroken man. A man that loses his only love to a sickness. He is heartbroken because his love has been taken away from him. He loses the only person close to him…

dead wife Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe. She was his everything and this poem was made for the great change he experienced in life. Edgar Allan Poe use of repetition, metaphor and romantic elements helps create a tragic and romantic mood for the speaker which conveys his love for his wife even after her death in the poem “Annabel Lee.” He was never able to find asylum after this tragedy and died young and miserable. Repetition in the poem help creates a remembrance and symbolism. One of the…

Period, Postwar Period, and the Twentieth Century. As you can see the came from around the same time periods (WKU Library). In Fahrenheit 451 and “A Worn Path," both convey a theme of love with different types of symbolism, personification, and moods. In Fahrenheit 451 and "A Worn Path", both convey a theme of love with many different types of symbolism. There is symbolism in Fahrenheit 451 by using a “Phoenix” to represent rebirth. The firefighters burn the books to make a new society…

thing or subject, or it can simply be used to tell a story. It can be about life, love, or even death. The poems “I am offering this poem to you,” by Jimmy Santiago Baca and “Curandera,” by Pat Mora are both great compelling poems with interesting qualities. Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poem is a love poem. It is about a poor man in love who cannot afford to buy his love extravagant gifts, who therefore offers to give his love and affection instead. Pat Mora’s poem on the other hand is a sad narrative…

Architecture is also able to put us in a spiritual mood depending on the situation. However, the same situation that makes a person feel calm, could make another one uncomfortable or ‘unsafe’.…

their priest gave advice about taking your time. William Shakespeare was a successful playwright because he creates a theme, mood, and uses technique in his play, “Romeo and Juliet.” The purpose of Friar Laurence’s speech is to give advice to Romeo and Juliet for their marriage. The message communicated between the Friar and couple is that you should take your time with love. At the end of the speech, Friar Laurence says this, “Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (2.6.14). What the Friar is…

his parents argue or anything like that. Another detail is he wa always in an uplifting mood. Which most people wouldn’t always be in an uplifting mood if their parents argued all the time. The second reason I think the author of “The Gift” had a better childhood would be because he appreciated his father. Which if his father didn’t treat him well he wouldn’t appreciate him. Also it says his father shows love and tenderness as he pulled out the splinters. This is something someone would do…

dissimilarities of the setting enhance the mood and conflicts, represent different ideas and themes, and portray Shakespeare’s personal ideas about how true love can overcome obstacles, especially with the help of imagination and altered minds. The two different settings, the city of Athens and the forest outside of it, display contrasting ideas about the mood of the characters and the conflicts they share. The…