Shakespeare’s sonnet 130, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” and Pablo Neruda’s “My ugly love” are popularly known to describe beauty in a way hardly anyone would write: through the truth. It’s a common fact that modern lovers and poets speak or write of their beloved with what they and the audience would like to hear, with kind and breathtaking words and verses. Yet, Shakespeare and Neruda, honest men as they both were, chose to write about what love truly is, it matters most what’s on the inside rather than the outside. The theme of true beauty and love are found through Shakespeare and Neruda’s uses of imagery, structure, and tone.…
In the play `Romeo and Juliet` the writer William Shakespeare uses the theme of love as a main feature to push the story along. Presented are a plethora of variations of love including family love, true love and courtly love. This essay aims to analyse these three types of love chosen.…
Romeo and Juliet: the classic love story. But one has to explore what types of love this refers to. Romantic love is the most obvious; indeed this love is communicated between…
Love is an everchanging concept. Throughout the years, the classification of it constantly goes through various changes, and the exact meaning of it is never truly defined as one definite definition. The most accurate method of describing love is examining the countless ways it can be represented. For each person, a new meaning takes hold of the very sought-after emotion. It is through the use of literary works that the concept of love has been able to somewhat receive a label.…
Reputed to be the best love story ever written by an extensive number of resources, there is no doubt that Romeo and Juliet demonstrate a concise image of unconditional love. However, the real question is what was Shakespeare’s opinion on what true love looks like? And since Romeo and Juliet only knew each other for less than a week, should the reader automatically assume that they were truly in love, or should there be further suspicion on whether or not the love displayed was actually love, or simply lust? To answer this question various characters and points displayed in Romeo and Juliet must be explored, such as the different views of love that are presented by each character, the image of love that is revealed by Romeo and Juliet themselves, and Shakespeare’s way of exhibiting an outline of authentic passion.…
Thus far in our world literature class there have been many messages that have depicted the message of love, one of the works we have seen revolving in many different aspects in almost all of the readings. The two that I stood out to me the most was The Epic of Gilgamesh and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The reason why, I have chosen these was due to the fact that in both of there was love, however it expressed in a different way. By that, meaning in The Epic of Gilgamesh it was represented by erotic love between two of the main ‘powerful’ characters. In the other, it was a sense of true love between two of the characters and was more seen between a man and woman physically and with more affection. Although, in both cases they were known to be…
Shakespeare’s sonnet, My Mistress’ Eyes, explores the common and oft-heard comparisons created concerning one’s love to the material objects of beauty, and considers the value within such correlations. As the essay explores these associations, it ultimately comes to the conclusion that such comparisons can not properly depict the love that is present towards a close other.…
It is a common truism that love can be one of the most powerful forces we know of. William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” is no exception of this truism. The setting is the city of Verona, Italy. The plot is the two main protagonists of two feuding families fall madly in love with each other. Against all odds, their love grows, overcoming obstacles. Both, Romeo and Juliet, seem as if they are in true love, but this is not so. Romeo and Juliet feel as if they have true love, but most of the time, both don’t really know what it “true love” is.…
Love can sometimes be a cloud full of butterflies when it comes to describing what people saw in their lovers. In some cases, people enjoy making up things to their love story to make it look majestically, but then there's the ones who point out the real situation. Sonnet 130 changed this perception when the narrator decided to use figurative, picturesque, and grotesque diction to let the audience imagine how his lover looks and that even if she's not a gorgeous girl, he sees her perfect the way she…
The word Love is a strange feeling that can be one of the most exciting things someone will ever experience. It’s a feeling of warm, personal deep affection that one has for another person or thing. In Helen Farries poem “Magic of Love” she is very straightforward about how love makes someone feel “It can comfort and bless/ it can bring happiness” (601). But in John Frederick Nim’s poem “Love Poem” he uses metaphors to talk about love and you have to pay close attention to what he is saying. The theme of these two poems is love and the opposing views of the author’s views of love.…
At some point in our lives we will fall in love like no other has before. This love will be different and nothing will compare to this person. No poem nor song nor person could explain the feelings or love for that person. In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare wrote a sonnet about the person he loves and this love compares to no other. In most sonnets he has written he has compared beauty to the most beautiful things but this sonnet is different. He talks about her beauty but contrasted it from things that were beautiful. Shakespeare uses a critical and crucial tone to suggest that love oversees all flaws and that they do not matter when it comes it comes to true love.…
During the Middle ages, men and women alike were infatuated by the vices the world had to offer them. Whether it was the love of money, power, or possessions, each of these enticements in the end were short lived. This type of love, a finite love that fed off of human nature, this was referred to as Amor. Despite the fact that this type of love did not last long, people during the middle ages flocked to it for it was the only type of love they had ever known. As time would show, there would be a gradual change in how love was understood as it began to take shape or form into an eternal love. A love fueled off of jealousy and at times unrequited love, this new love was known as courtly love. Fully fleshed out within Troubadour poetry, Europe…
When you love someone you respect, appreciate, and do everything in your power not to hurt them. There is a way of expressing your love to someone, through a sonnet. A sonnet is a fourteen line poem using a formal rhyme scheme. William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor widely recognized. One of his most famous works is the 154 Sonnets. These sonnets are about passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. In the sonnets his view of love is different. In sonnet 118 he is talking about his waywardness and unfaithfulness. William Shakespeare’s view of love in sonnet 118 is uncontrollable. He explains that love is something you cannot control.…
The first idea of love presented by Shakespeare in Sonnet 116 is that love can overcome obstacles that arise in the journey of love. In the first quatrain Shakespeare writes ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments.’ The quote suggests that true lovers should not allow objections and obstacles to come in between their love for each other. ‘Admit impediments’ is a deliberate echo of a marriage ceremony. The quote is the opening line of the sonnet, this sets the tone for the rest of…
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have: for both are infinite.” (II.ii.133-135) In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, two lovers will risk anything and everything to be with each other no matter the consequences. The two’s fate was sealed the moment their families began their feud, but in the short time they had, they loved to the fullest. In a single play, Shakespeare is able to captivate a whole world for an audience and show them the picture of love. Now, in the modern world, it’s motives are questioned, but in the end the love conveyed by the author overpowers all the pitious misadventures they contain. From the extent they will go to prove they love each other and how they look past all flaws show how Shakespeare's approach on love was beautiful.…