A Love Poems
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If
ever two were made for each other surely it is love and poetry: the
infinite variety of love meeting the boundless capacity of poetry to
embrace it. There is something both sweet and intense about all aspects
of romantic love, a combination that is ideally suited to poetry's
marriage of the music of speech with compressed content. This is true
from love's first blush through to its heady consummation.
"It is
a surprise, however, to find that the straightforward romantic paean is
comparatively rare amongst great love poems. Perhaps this is because
the self-satisfied I'm-so-happy-now-we-twain-are-one approach can cloy.
For the most part, great love poems are either ones of wily courtship,
unrequited love, or the bitterest regret. There is something delicious
about these marginal states in which Desire (for it is he) is constantly
unsatisfied, confounded or denied. I would hazard a shaft that it is
just this strange quality of desire to persist in the face of its own
negation that we find compelling. With that in mind, and with the
exception of the Shakespeare (he seems to be able to carry it off), all
the poems I've chosen, in no particular order, are of this type. "A
romantic take on Horace's Carpe Diem in which the suitor desires to
seize rather more than simply the day. This poem contains many of the
cleverest metaphysical conceits: witness "our vegetable love" or those
trying worms.This is a truly subversive poem, whose first three lines
signal the arrival of literary modernism and which can be practically
read as its credo. Prufrock is a miscast troubadour of the Edwardian
drawing room who fails to raise his lute or his voice due to simple lack
of courage. The poem is an anthem for all those who have failed through
inaction, which probably includes us all at some time, and which no
doubt is what provides it with its great poignancy.The saddest poem ever
written. All the back-story is supplied by the reader as the death of a
solitary old man is reported by a younger oneA latter-day warrior is
beguiled to his inevitable fate by, as her name suggests, a temptress in
the mythic tradition. The quiet stroke of brilliance in this poem is
just that fact that Betjeman makes the narrator a soldier, trained to
repel any military assault no doubt, but defenceless in the face of
"strenuous singles" with the athletic young Joan Hunter Dunn. She runs
out the "victor", not only in the tennis, but in all regards. A caveat
on the hazards of mixing hormones with physical activity.When Henry VIII
announced that he intended to marry Anne Boleyn, Wyatt wrote to the
king in an effort to dissuade him, saying he himself had had knowledge
of her. This poem portrays a hind that the speaker and others pursue
vainly and which wears a necklace of jewels that spell out "Noli me
tangere [Do not touch me], for Caesar's I am." In the event, Henry took
no notice of the letter, thinking perhaps that Wyatt had written it out
of jealously. The rest is monumental history.f there are a number of
great conceits in the Marvell, then there is a single one in this, at
first sight tasteless masterpiece. Almost, one feels, as an exercise in
virtuosity, Donne turns a human flea into a persuasive romantic symbol.
Said flea has just bitten both himself and the object of his attentions
and so becomes an improbable erotic crucible: Donne argues
disingenuously that, as the two of them are now conjoined in the flea,
they might just as well get on with the grosser physical detailsA poem
of bitter ruefulness with the ex lover addressed as "Criminal". This is
an exuberant rehearsal of various curses around the thief-of-the-heart
motif. It knowingly protests too much, however, which is what lends it
its great charm it.
If
ever two were made for each other surely it is love and poetry: the
infinite variety of love meeting the boundless capacity of poetry to
embrace it. There is something both sweet and intense about all aspects
of romantic love, a combination that is ideally suited to poetry's
marriage of the music of speech with compressed content. This is true
from love's first blush through to its heady consummation.
"It is
a surprise, however, to find that the straightforward romantic paean is
comparatively rare amongst great love poems. Perhaps this is because
the self-satisfied I'm-so-happy-now-we-twain-are-one approach can cloy.
For the most part, great love poems are either ones of wily courtship,
unrequited love, or the bitterest regret. There is something delicious
about these marginal states in which Desire (for it is he) is constantly
unsatisfied, confounded or denied. I would hazard a shaft that it is
just this strange quality of desire to persist in the face of its own
negation that we find compelling. With that in mind, and with the
exception of the Shakespeare (he seems to be able to carry it off), all
the poems I've chosen, in no particular order, are of this type. "A
romantic take on Horace's Carpe Diem in which the suitor desires to
seize rather more than simply the day. This poem contains many of the
cleverest metaphysical conceits: witness "our vegetable love" or those
trying worms.This is a truly subversive poem, whose first three lines
signal the arrival of literary modernism and which can be practically
read as its credo. Prufrock is a miscast troubadour of the Edwardian
drawing room who fails to raise his lute or his voice due to simple lack
of courage. The poem is an anthem for all those who have failed through
inaction, which probably includes us all at some time, and which no
doubt is what provides it with its great poignancy.The saddest poem ever
written. All the back-story is supplied by the reader as the death of a
solitary old man is reported by a younger oneA latter-day warrior is
beguiled to his inevitable fate by, as her name suggests, a temptress in
the mythic tradition. The quiet stroke of brilliance in this poem is
just that fact that Betjeman makes the narrator a soldier, trained to
repel any military assault no doubt, but defenceless in the face of
"strenuous singles" with the athletic young Joan Hunter Dunn. She runs
out the "victor", not only in the tennis, but in all regards. A caveat
on the hazards of mixing hormones with physical activity.When Henry VIII
announced that he intended to marry Anne Boleyn, Wyatt wrote to the
king in an effort to dissuade him, saying he himself had had knowledge
of her. This poem portrays a hind that the speaker and others pursue
vainly and which wears a necklace of jewels that spell out "Noli me
tangere [Do not touch me], for Caesar's I am." In the event, Henry took
no notice of the letter, thinking perhaps that Wyatt had written it out
of jealously. The rest is monumental history.f there are a number of
great conceits in the Marvell, then there is a single one in this, at
first sight tasteless masterpiece. Almost, one feels, as an exercise in
virtuosity, Donne turns a human flea into a persuasive romantic symbol.
Said flea has just bitten both himself and the object of his attentions
and so becomes an improbable erotic crucible: Donne argues
disingenuously that, as the two of them are now conjoined in the flea,
they might just as well get on with the grosser physical detailsA poem
of bitter ruefulness with the ex lover addressed as "Criminal". This is
an exuberant rehearsal of various curses around the thief-of-the-heart
motif. It knowingly protests too much, however, which is what lends it
its great charm it.
"It is
a surprise, however, to find that the straightforward romantic paean is
comparatively rare amongst great love poems. Perhaps this is because
the self-satisfied I'm-so-happy-now-we-twain-are-one approach can cloy.
For the most part, great love poems are either ones of wily courtship,
unrequited love, or the bitterest regret. There is something delicious
about these marginal states in which Desire (for it is he) is constantly
unsatisfied, confounded or denied. I would hazard a shaft that it is
just this strange quality of desire to persist in the face of its own
negation that we find compelling. With that in mind, and with the
exception of the Shakespeare (he seems to be able to carry it off), all
the poems I've chosen, in no particular order, are of this type. "A
romantic take on Horace's Carpe Diem in which the suitor desires to
seize rather more than simply the day. This poem contains many of the
cleverest metaphysical conceits: witness "our vegetable love" or those
trying worms.This is a truly subversive poem, whose first three lines
signal the arrival of literary modernism and which can be practically
read as its credo. Prufrock is a miscast troubadour of the Edwardian
drawing room who fails to raise his lute or his voice due to simple lack
of courage. The poem is an anthem for all those who have failed through
inaction, which probably includes us all at some time, and which no
doubt is what provides it with its great poignancy.The saddest poem ever
written. All the back-story is supplied by the reader as the death of a
solitary old man is reported by a younger oneA latter-day warrior is
beguiled to his inevitable fate by, as her name suggests, a temptress in
the mythic tradition. The quiet stroke of brilliance in this poem is
just that fact that Betjeman makes the narrator a soldier, trained to
repel any military assault no doubt, but defenceless in the face of
"strenuous singles" with the athletic young Joan Hunter Dunn. She runs
out the "victor", not only in the tennis, but in all regards. A caveat
on the hazards of mixing hormones with physical activity.When Henry VIII
announced that he intended to marry Anne Boleyn, Wyatt wrote to the
king in an effort to dissuade him, saying he himself had had knowledge
of her. This poem portrays a hind that the speaker and others pursue
vainly and which wears a necklace of jewels that spell out "Noli me
tangere [Do not touch me], for Caesar's I am." In the event, Henry took
no notice of the letter, thinking perhaps that Wyatt had written it out
of jealously. The rest is monumental history.f there are a number of
great conceits in the Marvell, then there is a single one in this, at
first sight tasteless masterpiece. Almost, one feels, as an exercise in
virtuosity, Donne turns a human flea into a persuasive romantic symbol.
Said flea has just bitten both himself and the object of his attentions
and so becomes an improbable erotic crucible: Donne argues
disingenuously that, as the two of them are now conjoined in the flea,
they might just as well get on with the grosser physical detailsA poem
of bitter ruefulness with the ex lover addressed as "Criminal". This is
an exuberant rehearsal of various curses around the thief-of-the-heart
motif. It knowingly protests too much, however, which is what lends it
its great charm it.
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