Ian Mcewan's Enduring Love

Suffering is to undergo distressful feelings of a deplorable experience. When affixed with the defining of love, writers often seek to tie opposing themes together encouraging readers to believe that ‘To love is to suffer, to be loved is to cause suffering’. Such suffering, through love, is presented in the three texts.‘Enduring Love’ published in 1997, is Ian McEwan’s novel of suffering through an “entanglement” evoked by tragedy which sees the death of John Logan. However such an entanglement stirs a “torturing” powerful obsession which threatens the love of a couple and causes each character to suffer in a differentially opposed style. Love, guilt and suffering are presented in this,raising interesting comparisons to ‘The New Penguin Book
This intransitive verb may have been used, to suggest how quickly the beginning can be told an alternate view may be that is signifies how quickly happiness can replaced by suffering; The “careful consideration” Joe uses to speak of “John Logan’s fall”explains why McEwan briefly writes about the picnic in Chapter one,then immediately uses Joe to inform us about the horrific event he later witnessed. The significance of the picnic is its use of detail:“sunlight under a turkey oak,partly protected from a strong gusty wind.” McEwan uses this pathetic fallacy by juxtaposing “sunlight” and “gusty wind” and may signify the contrast between an ‘enduring love’ and ‘suffering’. McEwan uses Joe’s narrative voice to hold back the information, increasing anxiety to find out about the “accident” Joe admits he is “delaying such information” and tries to escape from telling the story as “it was a time where other outcomes were still
The poem begins “Love is a universal migraine” capturing the poet’s techniques to compare an emotion to a medical condition.‘Symptoms of Love’ was written in a period when Graves had a volatile relationship with Laura Riding after leaving his wife7.It can be suggested that his experience of relationships may have influenced his views on the concept of love. ‘Symptoms of love’ being the title holds strong imagery and connotations of love are conveyed by his cynical views.The poem begins “Love is a universal migraine” capturing the poet’s techniques to compare an emotion to a medical condition mirroring the ways.Love being expressed as a universal migraine metaphorically presents a factual tone although views may be argued against this idea.A ‘migraine’ is a severe headache its use in the poem symbolises the intensity of the poet’s feelings demonstrating that ‘love is to suffer’.Leila Rose-Gordan believes that ‘love is a malady that is the experience of all’8 This belief is reinforced in the following line“bright stain on the vision//blotting out reason.”This suggests that love has distorted the vision of the persona, affecting their state of mind. The third and fourth verses list the symptoms as “leanness, jealousy//laggard