Themes of Love

Themes of Love

Unrequited Love
1. Poetry
  1. Love me by Stevie Smith
  2. Love Song by William Carlos
2. Prose
  1. The Collector
3. Drama
Eternal/Time
1. Poetry
  1. The Anniversary/ John Donne/
    1. Form: 1st Stanza: Love will not decay
      1. 2nd Stanza: Love will allow them to be immortal
        3rd Stanza: Shouldn't fear death and look to the future
        Two graves must hide thine and my corse
        Death won't separate them. Mockery of vows?
      2. "Our Love hath no decay".
    2. "first, last, everlasting day".
      1. Thesoft sibalance creates the idea of a pure, innocent love = idea of eternal perfection
2. Prose
3. Drama
Romantic
1. Prose
  1. Jane Eyre/Charlotte Bronte/
    1. Proposal Scenes
    2. First Meetings:
      1. Rochester: "Had he been an handsome, heroic-looking young gentleman, I wouldn't have dared..."
2. Drama
  1. Romeo & Juliet
  2. Importance of being Earnest
    1. First Meetings:
3. Poetry
  1. Wild Oats/Philip Larkin/1964
Forbidden
1. Poetry
2. Drama
  1. Romeo and Juliet
3. Prose
  1. Jane Eyre
    1. Class
Parental
1. Drama
  1. Hamlet
2. Poetry
  1. Catrin/ Gillian Clarke
Destructive
1. Poetry
2. Drama
  1. The Rover/Apr
    1. Marriage as destructive: "All the honey of matrimony but none of the sting".
    2. Love as destructive: Battle/storm Imagery, "Storm of a marriage bed".
      1. "Make it anything but a long siege..."- Willmore warned of the dangers of entering Angelica's house
  2. Importance of being Earnest
    1. Algernon: Is marriage so demoralising as that? (to Lane)
    2. Jack: I am in love with Gwendolen. I have come up to town expressly to propose to her. Algernon: I thought you had come up for pleasure? . . . I call that business.
    3. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal
    4. Divorces are made in heaven
3. Novel
  1. Picture of Dorian Gray
    1. Marriage as destructive: "Men Marry because they are tired, women because they are curious:both are disappointed."
      1. "A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
Power Struggles
1. Drama
  1. The Homecoming/Pinter
  2. Richard III/Shakespeare
Courtship
1. Poetry
  1. Wild Oats/Philip Larkin/1964
  2. The Flea/John Donne
  3. The Scrutiny/Richard Lovelace
    1. Form: Structured as an argument
2. Prose
3. Drama
1. One Flesh/ Elizabeth Jennings/1966
  1. "Her eyes fixed on the shadows overhead".
  2. "Strangely apart...silence between".
    1. Sibalance emphasises the "silence" in the house
  3. "Do they know they're old..has now grown cold?"
    1. Cross rhymed quatrain - reinforces that once old there is no passion. Thus passion is only in the youth
    2. Rhyming copulet usually implies finality yet the

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