John Frederick Nims Love Poem Analysis

Nature helps soothe and relieve the and loss of a loved one. In the eighth stanza, an observation is made by the author, where “[he] remember[s] the gradual

I translated the whole line as “my heart shatters in my chest”, as I not only believed that “shattered” shows more severity, but there seems to be more urgency, and even panic, in the word “shatters” sounds compared to “flutters”. Another part I found to be integral to the poem itself was lines nine ten, which, when translated, read “a fragile fire runs instantly through my veins below my flesh”. I was drawn to these lines as they provided the best imagery of the whole poem. However, again, I felt this poem described the sort of violent passion that so often accompanies love, so my translation wound up being a little harsher, reading “a fire burns through my veins, it pounds and thrums”. In reading the rough translation, the symptom sounds to be descriptive of a bashful blushing, but I sensed the deep burn of rejection in the poem, and I wanted my translation to reflect that. “Burns”, “pounds”, and “thrums” are reflective of a deeper a deeper pain, especially when compared to “fragile”. The lines that conclude the work as a whole I had the most fun with. The Greek reads “τεθνάκην δ` ὀλίγω ᾿πιδεύης φαίνομαι”, and when roughly translated means “I appear to myself a little short of dying”. What I found to be humorous about this line is that it is so dramatic, but also nonchalant. The narrator has gone through a list of all these horrible symptoms of love to end with “I’m a little short of

Love poems are declarations of the admiration of the color of a lover’s hair, the texture of their bare skin, the shape of their smile. Love poems about loss are pieces of mourning and wailing. However, John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” does not fall into this cliched trap. Instead, Donne provides something genuine for his readers to dissect and ingest from the stanzas with varying contents. He also includes language that may be interpreted as sexual while saying that their relationship transcends the physical. “A Valediction” provides information on how Donne sees romantic relationships as well how poetry treats love as a whole.

“Neutral Tones,” a poem written by Thomas Hardy, is composed of four stanzas with each stanza consisting of four lines. The first and fourth line of each stanza rhyme, while the second and third line of each stanza rhyme. Each line is short enough to be spoken with a single breath, and the last line of each stanza is slightly indented. Both the tone and diction throughout the poem is consistently depressing. The theme of “Neutral Tones” is that love is not always what one would expect it to be. The theme is expressed as the speaker reflects upon a past relationship that did not end smoothly.

This is my anthology which is a collection of different “Love Poems”. It includes my creations of poems that I have made in this course, two favorite poems that I enjoyed quite a lot, a poem that I have “borrowed” and a graffiti poem that I have also created in this course.

The first stanza of the poem begins with the explicit and confident rejection of despair and death. The rejection of despair operates as a thesis of some kind, as the speaker announces that he will “not feast on [Despair]” in the first line. He shall not, as it were, enjoy the morbid satisfaction of giving up. Rather, he goes on, he has the power to act; he “can something, hope,” and this refuses to relinquish that power. The repetition in these lines illustrates the depth of the speaker’s commitment; the word not is emphatically reinforced, and the speaker’s list of what he could do rather than despair is born of his sense of his own agency. The narrator insists on remaining human, with human ties, but nevertheless he betrays his doubts. “These last strands of man in [him]” are evidently slack and weak. The speaker resists the untwisting of these strands and thus the dissolution of his humanity, but still recognizes his weakness. He clings to his humanity and disavows death, or rather, rejects the possibility of killing himself out of hopelessness. He asserts that he will not cry that he “can no more;” giving up and resigning himself to nihilism is

This woman portrayed in the poem has just found some musical scores she used to play, and here she has become a widow. Larkin explores a range of different language choices to illustrate that love is corrupt and cannot live up to it’s ‘brilliance’. In the third stanza, Larkin uses ‘much – mentioned’, which supports love and its brilliance, which can corroborate with ‘still promising to save, to satisfy’, and then Larkin writes ‘its bright incipience sailing above’. There are many language uses in the poem which see love in ‘brilliance’, nevertheless, the phrase ‘to cry’, could open up to the reader that Larkin is ‘changing his mind’, and believes his mother noticed that love could not live up to it’s promises, which ends on ‘it had not done so then, and could not now’. - This leads the author to believe that Larkin changes his mind very quickly, and from viewing Sylvia Plath’s poems, she also tends to write in a confusing manner. Although it is unsure to whether Larkin believed in the promises to begin with. - The ‘failure’ of love, which Larkin clearly sees to be true, leaves a sad impression on the reader. The poem implies that the mother’s death will come, and that the ‘promises’ are unattainable, so instead she must ‘glare’ into imminent death, without forever lasting

Throughout Derek Walcott’s poems he guides the reader through an emotional struggle he faces in life and one issue that he can relate with the reader is the struggle of overcoming love. Both “Love After Love” and “The Fist” reveal Walcott’s writers’ craft that allows the reader to fully understand the situation that Walcott is in and how he is trying to draw to a conclusion. “Love After Love” is a poem in which Walcott reflects on love while at the same time giving some advice to the audience. In Contrast, Derek Walcott’s “The Fist” shows us the idea of what love drives a person to. Both of these poems help the reader

She died at the age of 17. In this poem, the Duke is now looking for a

Lulu was a composed and shy woman, who mostly kept to herself. Lulu suffered domestic abuse, and had her ear cut off by her ex-husband. Lulu was a cellist, although she worked at a local Café. Lulu seemed to be reserved, and did not speak of her ex-husband to Rudy, although he was an exceptional man. Her ex-husband had abused her frequently, and ended up going to prison. Although Lulu was not a particularly beautiful woman, she had something that made Rudy love her. Despite Rudy’s missing eye, she adored him. This also helped lead me to the belief that internal beauty is what causes love, because outward appearance in inferior to internal beauty.

At the mere age of seventeen, Pablo Neruda wrote ’Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair’ and it has since become one of his most famous collection of poems. Once, in an interview, Neruda stated that he could not understand “why this book, a book of love-sadness, of love-pain, continues to be read by so many people, by so many young people” (Guibert, 2015). He also mentioned that “Perhaps this book represents the youthful posing of many enigmas; perhaps it represents the answers to those enigmas.” (Guibert, 2015). Neruda was one of the first poets to explore sexual imagery and eroticism in his work and become accepted for it. Many Latin-American poets had attempted the same, but failed to become popular with their critics. He merges his own experiences and memories with that of the picturesque Chilean scenery to present a beautifully poetic sense of love and sexual desire. The collection hosts quite a controversial opinion, however, amongst critics and readers alike, with the risqué themes running throughout the poems. Eroticism being one of the most evident and reoccurring themes.

The poems also depict love-sickness experienced by the lovers, which causes one to be irrational, jealous, and results in the inability to complete mundane activities (Fox 1985:279-280). The love songs also describe how the love of one’s lover is the only effective medicine for ailments, given that love to them brings well-being and vitality, “She is more powerful for me than the Compendium” (Fox 1985:280).

In a poem that the speaker has titled a love song, there is no congruence of the title to the issues that are highlighted in the poem. The poem does not form any congruence to the individual attributes that have been indicated and differentiates the main precepts from critical attributes through the changes that have been defined in the stanzas. It is difficult to point to a specific pattern or appropriate title for the poem since it does not have any form of congruence and accompaniment with the different model that have been critical towards highlighting

Throughout Love Poem, Jenning’s explores the theme of romanticised love and her personal struggle to bare its complex nature as she is portrayed as a private person who avoids intimacy. Despite her vulnerability, she discusses the idea that true love involves aspects of pain and discomfort.

has written the poem in this way in an attempt to portray love as a