Poetry Of Love Essay - 1346 Words

Poetry is a form of literature which can be characterized by rhythm. Poetry may be short or may be long. There is no limit to themes that a poet may use for their poem. A poem can be about animals, nature, and a common theme, love. The two poems that will be discussed in the paper have a common theme of love. While one poem speaks of love for a woman, the other explains what love is in general. Theses two poems are When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats, and Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by no other than William Shakespeare. In our first poem, When You Are Old, Yeats uses his aesthetic language to rhyme about the love of a woman whom he addresses. He begins his poem by telling her that when she is old and grey and†¦show more content†¦Like what many men go through, Yeats was rejected by this woman. This poetry is a result of that and may be a rather sweet vindication of her rejection. William Shakespeare in his sonnet 116: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Mind s explains what true love is. He opens his sonnet saying that he will not come in between the order of matrimony of true minds who also hold true love.(Shakespeare 616) For love is not truly love if it amends when it alteration finds. (Shakespeare 616) A person who does not love anymore because of a change in his or her spouse did not possess true love. Love does not undertake divorce with the remover to remove. (Shakespeare 616) Love is an ever-fixed mark that cannot be removed or erased or even shaken by storms. (Shakespeare 616) It is constant. Love is the star or guide for every wandering bark. (Shakespeare 616) This may symbolize a marriage that may set assail and needs love to guide them. People who take the height of love but do not really know its worth, nature or meaning hence take love for granted. (Shakespeare 616) Love is not contingent on time and nor is it times slave. 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