Literature Essays

The theme of love plays a very important role within the play. The different characters show different types of love and respect for each other, but all the love in the play is not necessary true love, due to Oberon’s love potion. The main type of love is romantic love, …

The poem ‘Once Upon a Time’ is written by a male African poet, Gabriel Okara in XXth century. This poem is the story of a grown up man who once was an innocent child. Now the poet reminisces about a time when people were caring and sincere. He regrets that …

During the studying of these four sonnets, the poets use images of time, death and destruction habitually to create a sense of compulsion for the reader to grasp onto. Imagery of time, death and destruction is collaborated with the love-affairs which has a dramatic effect upon the sonnets because they …

There’s this sexist assumption that something is solemn about women who never marry. Men who don’t marry seem roguish and sexually charged, in the Victorian society. Rossetti’s poetry conveyed this by showing the women as disrespected, and treated as “objects” and didn’t have equal rights compared to the men of …

Poets have written about love in many, possibly countless ways, each of them emphasising different aspects of an emotion which is at once both wide and deep. I have studied a range of love poems exploring married love, unrequited love, possessive love, destructive love and even lost love. Some seem …

One would believe that the primary reason for becoming emotionally involved with a partner in the form of marriage would be love, and my perception of love between two human beings is an intense feeling of deep affection or fondness for their partner. However “My Last Duchess” completely contradicts this …

The character of Carlo Guercio is portrayed as a peripheral figure between the love of Corelli and Pelagia. Though Carlo is a marginal character in that part of the novel, overall, he plays a considerable part. There are many chapters dedicated to Carlo and through these chapters and through Carlo; …

Jealousy is one of the key links and themes both poems have. The duke’s jealousy being he didn’t find appropriate the way his duchess would flirt with other males when they gave her compliments maybe because he found she was “Too easily impressed” or maybe the fact in which “she …

In ‘The Sun Rising’ by John Donne, the poet is awakened by the sun’s rays streaming through the curtains into his bedroom, where he lies with his lover. Wishing to prolong (to lengthen in duration) the pleasure of lying in, cuddled beside her, he tells the Sun not to disturb …

“The Sick Equation”, is a poem which portrays a young boy’s struggle to cope with the adult world, and the long-term effects his parents’ quarrelling had on him. The poem “Long Distance” also shows the problems a young boy faces throughout life, which involve his parents and the overall concept …