To His Coy Mistress

Direction: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent. 131. Carpe Diem is an exhortation to value the moment over the uncertainties of future plans. It can be understood as a statement that encourages one to enjoy hedonistic pleasures, rather than investing one’s efforts towards attaining an ideal or preparing…

whereas sonnet 130 is more negative looking at the down side of things. Throughout Sonnet 18, a woman's beauty is compared with wonderful things. He starts the poem by using a rhetorical question comparing love to a summers say. He then starts describing his love as more temperate and lovely than a summer’s day. Throughout the poem he continues to point out the faults and problems of summer, including, rough winds, heat and rainy days. The last six…

Arthur L. Clemens states: “From Genesis on, the Father is referred to as the giver of life to man by breathing into his nostrils the breath of life. This is at least relevant to the sonnet since Donne is asking for new, innocent life, as was given Adam before the Fall: "make me new."” The renewal through the spirit of God can also be referred to the instance when Christ appeared to His disciples after Resurrection, as told in the Bible as "he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye…

The final stanza draws down from the compression and peak feeling of the previous stanza, keeping the sense of the old woman’s liveliness, however in the kinaesthetic verbs “drawing,”, “opening.” “grow”, “puts on,” “arranges” and “places.” The juxtaposition of the actual and active of the first line and the abstract “years,” or “time” as a burden and measurable, maintains blood-heat for the poem while the placing of opposites : “Grow less and less” quickens the pulse a little, as the reader…

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…

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…

“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…

that is proposed to Christopher Marlowe after he writes "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". He writes this poem to a lady, and intends for her to fall in love with him. Unfortunately the outcome may take a turn for the worst. Sir Walter Raleigh writes "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" as a reply from the lady to Marlowe. Marlowe writes about the date and love that he has prepared for the lady of his dreams. A night filled with romance and love. He has promised a night of listening…