Japanese and Western Evanescence in Love Literature Literature across different time periods and locations often show identifiable similarities. The shifts in society and ideas of the time directly influence how history and literature are written down. The result are works of literature that have overlapping themes‚ but different interpretations. One such theme‚ evanescence‚ arises both in Japanese and Western love literature. The idea of “finiteness” shown through love manifests itself as loneliness
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Donne’s "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and Marvell’s "To His Coy Mistress" are identical and contradictory in many respects. Although "A Valediction" concentrates on the comfort of love on parting and "To His Coy Mistress" contemplates about sexual love and the briefness of life‚ both exemplify characteristics of metaphysical poetry. Metaphysical poetry is about the profound areas of experience‚ especially about love‚ romantic and sensual‚ and‚ to a lesser extent‚ about pleasure‚ learning‚
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To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell‚ it’s a rollercoaster of emotions that starts with a slow romantic tone and then it takes a drastic change of emotions. It goes from a soft and romantic tone to a crude and strong one. It is a beautiful story that makes us realize how human and feeble our existence really is‚ that no matter how powerful and mighty we think we are‚ we are nothing compare to time. Just as the great empires of our history everything crumbles with time and eventually becomes dust
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and "To Althea from Prison". Although‚ what is the main themes in all three poems? In the first two poems‚ the major theme is time and how quickly it is passing. In "To Althea from Prison" focuses on the speaker’s faith and love. The speakers in Marvell and Herrick’s poems would disagree with the them displayed in lines tenty-nine through thirty-two of "To Althea‚ from Prison". First of all‚ in "To His Coy Mistress" the speaker says "Had we but world enough‚ and time" which means if they had
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Analysis of To His Coy Mistress “To His Coy Mistress” is a very‚ in my opinion‚ different poem. The main story of the poem is about this man who tries to pick up this very beautiful women. I assume that it took place in a bar or club setting. The poem did not give a setting. Just by the way he is talking to her‚ its relevant that it’s not in a library or coffee shop. I love the fact that we see the poem through the eyes of this man. And by doing that it gives us a really good glimpse of what he
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affairs. But he’s never coldly intellectual; his sonnets burn with emotion and (unrequited?) love. And it’s in this respect that I feel that Shakespeare’s sonnets are the definitive statement of the metaphysical poet’s art: he presages Donne and Marvell and their ’passionate intelligence’ with remarkable accuracy. ’Let me not to the marriage of true minds’ is about as metaphysical as a poem can get; indeed‚ if I didn’t know better‚ I would have credited it to Donne. Its themes are the usual
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University of Massachusetts Boston ScholarWorks at UMass Boston Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series Africana Studies 1-1-2011 ‘The Mystic Drum’: Critical Commentary on Gabriel Okara’s Love Lyrics Chukwuma Azuonye University of Massachusetts Boston‚ chukwuma.azuonye@umb.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/africana_faculty_pubs Part of the African Languages and Societies Commons‚ Comparative Literature Commons‚ and the English Language and
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Essay: Diction and Tone in Poetry In the field of literature‚ authors use various forms of writing techniques to create diction and tone. One way that the author‚ Andrew Marvel‚ of “To His Coy Mistress” uses a unique way of diction to portray several styles of tone‚ in which they shift from one another‚ through stanza to stanza. His diction creates a variety of literary styles that most authors use as a way of conveying a personal message. This diction creates a multitude of imagery that the reader
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life. The metaphysical school‚containing authors such as John Donne and Andrew Marvel‚ seem to express to the reader that time moves quickly‚ while the Puritan group of writers‚ such as John Milton‚ seem to be slightly annoyed by Time’s passing but accepts it and puts it in God’s hands‚ and lastly the cavaliers‚ including Robert Herrick‚ write more about living life for today and living life like there is no tomorrow. Andrew Marvel‚ a metaphysical writer‚ stated‚"But at my back I always hear Time’s
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The poem To The Virgins‚ to Make Much of Time written by Robert Herrick contains direct diction‚ meanwhile the poem Song written by Sir John Suckling contains supportive word choice. The poems discuss the theme of Carpe Diem and are directed at the people whom the speaker think needs to live more freely. First of all‚ the poem written by Robert Herrick is directed at young females who are on their prime. For instance‚ he uses phrases like “You may forever tarry” to emphasize the importance of living
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