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*Love is like <span style="color:#C00000">'''war'''</span>, it's easy to begin but hard to end. | *Love is like <span style="color:#C00000">'''war'''</span>, it's easy to begin but hard to end. | ||
*Love is <span style="color:#C00000">'''more than three words mumbled before bedtime'''</span>. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day. | *Love is <span style="color:#C00000">'''more than three words mumbled before bedtime'''</span>. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day. | ||
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Version vom 4. Februar 2010, 09:27 Uhr
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Analysis of selected love-poetry
- Deadline: Monday, February 1st 2010
- Complete analysis of poem on the basis of worksheet (the handwritten one, "1. Gist of poem ...") + information (some sentences) on author and time, when poem/song was written
- Preparation of a presentation for the course (ideally a digital document that is used to (interactively) show (digital whiteboard ==> pen or with highlighting funktion in Word/Writer) what you have found.
- Written version of your analysis on your user-page in the rmg-wiki.
Imagery in Love Poems: Metaphors, Similes and Symbols
Helpful Links: LK_Englisch/Thelenberg_2009_11/symbols
Metaphors 1
- My Lady's hair is threads of beaten gold (Griffin)
gold=valuable, rare, difficult to get at, special, shines beautifully
- There is a Garden in her face,
- Where Roses and white Lillies grow ; (Campion)
fragile, beautiful, majestic flowers, stand for natural beauty without effort, perfection
- you're a rose (beautiful,best of all <~> painful if treated wrongly)
- water in the desert (hard to find, rare, essential <~> without water~> dead)
- jackpot (rare; if achieved, envied by the others <~> possible addiction (compulsive gambling))
- you' re my air (vital <~> without air~> suffocation)
- beat to the heart (vital, essential, excitement when the heart beats fast <~> cardiac arrest when the beat stops)
- my sun (making happy, shining, enjoyable heat <~> burning if getting to close)
- love is a Roller Coaster (pleasure <~> there are ups and downs)
Similes 1
- Love is like a smile, Love is like a song,
- Love is like oxygen (The Sweet)
Symbols 1
Stars shining from your face - your looks your smile - a rosbud wet and filled with snow
Metaphors 2
Similes 2
Symbols 2
- Love is like wildflowers ; It's often found in the most unlikely places. Nearly all flowers are beautiful and pleasant but wildflowers could be toxic and ugly as well.
- Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
- Love is like fire – When it is first kindled in a man, small troubles and temptations smother and hinder it; but when it really burns, having kindled the man's eagerness for God, the more temptations and tribulations meet it, the more it flares, until it overcomes and consumes all injustice and wickedness.
- Love is like war, it's easy to begin but hard to end.
- Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.
- Snow
Snow is a symbol often used to express innocence and purity, which is referred to its bright white "colour". The purity of snow is also sometimes linked with virginity and its white shine was often connected to beauty in times when white skin was supposed to be attractive, which isn't really contemporary nowadays, but still comprehensible.
- fever
"Fever" is used to express the writers mood or state of health being fallen in love with the extolled person. Like suffering under fever he feels about the beloved: there maybe a painful distance, represented by sickness-like pain, maybe also confusion or feeling about to get crazy about the person...
Links: Useful terminology
Thomas Campion - There is a Garden in her Face (1601)
- There is a garden in her face
- Where roses and white lilies grow;
- A heav'nly paradise is that place
- Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
- There cherries grow which none may buy,
- Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.
- Those cherries fairly do enclose
- Of orient pearl a double row,
- Which when her lovely laughter shows,
- They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;
- Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy,
- Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.
- Her eyes like angels watch them still,
- Her brows like bended bows do stand,
- Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
- All that attempt with eye or hand
- Those sacred cherries to come nigh,
- Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.
- What is the rhyme scheme?
- What parts of the poem are there?
- Who is the speaker talking about and what is his “message”?
- What images are used and what do they imply?
Andrew Marvell(1621-1678): To His Coy Mistress
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- Who is the speaker talking to and about and what is the “message”?
- What is the rhyme scheme?
- What parts and argumentative strategies/tricks can you find? Is there a turning point?
- What images and rhetorical tricks are used and how do they work?
- Do the use of language, division into parts and rhythm support the message?
