Love Essays

‘Teresa’s Wedding” written by William Trevor and “The Three Sisters’ by Jane Austen are short stories that explore the attitudes people hove to Marriage, the reasons for marrying and whether or not the decisions made when choosing a marriage partner are made out of love or convenience. The stories encourage …

After reading a substantial number of poems by different poets concerned with love, we can categorise them in their different themes as above. I have chosen 5 of the poems to evaluate and they are as follows: ‘The Voice’ by Thomas Hardy is about a man who has lost his …

The poems ‘Love’s Farewell’ and ‘The Chilterns’ are both about relationships, however the moods of the poems are quite different which I am going to look at in depth, also I will look at the similarities and differences of the two poems. ‘Love’s Farewell’ was written by Michael Drayton and …

Both of these poems have aspects of different sorts of love. In “La Belle Dans Merci” Keats uses the notion of courtly love. This is worshipping from afar. In “Isabella” Keats uses unrequited love. This is often bad for the person’s health as they are always obsessed with each other, …

Daisy and Gatsby fell in love before he left for the war in 1917. Gatsby had lied to try to impress the girl he found so charming and elegant, and it worked. Daisy promised to wait for his return. However, two years later, desperate for someone to love her, she …

I will be contrasting two stories, which were written to highlight issues about communication in relationships and social status. The two stories are The Son’s Veto, which was written by Thomas Hardy in 1891. The title The Son’s Veto means a strong negative vow, which was made by the son. …

Goblin Market and the Lady of Shalott have strong themes of love and death, which with issues such as temptation. Goblin Market has a strong Christian theme running through it as well. The Lady of Shalott deals with isolation ,which leads to temptation, circled with a feeling of the supernatural, …

Sylvia Plath wrote the bell jar shortly written after her suicide; Esther Greenwood takes her burden of being the representative of Plath in an unreliable narrator’s point of view autobiography. Ted Hughes, the British poet who was known as much for his doomed marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath …

Jealousy and obsession are themes that occur in the poems ` Porphyria’s Lover ` and ` The Sisters `. Browning and Tennyson were both writers who wrote in the Victorian era. But they came from different backgrounds. Browning was middle-class and lived in London, where as Tennyson was poor and …

In Heany’s Digging we are greeted by a scene depicting him, in his bedroom performing his passion of writing. Upon looking out the window he is immediately greeted by his father in his passion of work. This poem is one of separation of family tradition and the tenacity of a …