...The connections between love and loss are significant, as the presence of one strengthens the impact of the other. Love can bring people unimaginable bliss at it’s high points, though with harder times, love can cause extreme heartache and distress. The fear or recognition of loss hurts people, as they attempt to strive for an unblemished state of bliss. The unwelcome devastation of loss continually hurts and helps, as it causes misery (in loss) and elation (in love). Loss strengthens love because it is supported by a backbone of dull fear. The loss of love is something that scares people into wanting to make the best of any happiness they have. In “Ode On A Grecian Urn” by John Keats, the effects of both love and loss are displayed. The poem...
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...Hardy’s ‘The Voice’, convey the tone of loss? In ‘Sonnet 29’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay, loss is a strong underlying theme, referred to generously throughout the poem. This poem has the form of a Shakespearian sonnet which is thought to have meant to challenge her readers’ preconceptions about life. The first ovctave has strong themes of the loss of love while in the last sestet after the volta she is more accepting of this loss. In the third line, Millay compares love to “beauties passed away”, which is a personification referring to the humiliation of love. ‘Passed away’ could also be a euphemism for death, as death may be considered a word too harsh and blunt to use. This phrase is backed up in the fourth line by “From field to thicket”, which is meant to convey how orderly and well tended the love was at first, later turning into a mess. In line five, Millay uses pathetic fallecy to compare love and its continually fading power and influence to “the waning of the moon”. Then on line six it says “the ebbing tide goes out to sea”, and this could symbolise a weakening relationship between Millay and a lover as the force pulling the tide decreases which is imagery for the fading love in a relationship. This fading love is emphasized on the two lines below, where Millay blames her partner as this fading love is due to “a man’s desire hushed so soon”, then substantiated further when her husband is said to “no longer look with love” on her. This may be an attempt at a feminist...
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...Love is an attachment that can’t be broken. Relationships are a representation of love and what love embodies. In a “Rose for Emily” By William Faulkner, Emily Grierson deals with the struggles of relationships from family to friends. Emily deals with problems of separation and feeling lied to. Emily’s struggles can compare to that of Charlie Fineman of “Reign Over Me” and Carl Fredrickson of “Up”. Within all these movies we see characters deal with relationships being lost. They all relate to death but the love in each relationship Is never lost. When we see the loss of a relationship it is most often difficult to let go afterwards. Sometimes in relationships we let go and it’s a choice but when death is a factor we see that we have no choice....
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...deeply in love with Matilda that he is willing to risk his life in order to protect and be with her. Likewise, the man from the song “The Unquiet Grave" by Faith and the Muse is also deeply passionate about the woman he loves. Both The Castle of Otranto and “The Unquiet Grave” have elements of supernatural happenings which enhance the drama of the plot. In this essay, I will describe the similarities of the two main characters from each piece of writing being reviewed, as well as which method of coping with grief I found most satisfactory. Theodore and the young man in the song appear to have many similar personality and behaviour traits. Theodore is considered very valiant and noble by many of the characters in the book, particularly the women. An example of this adoration for Theodore comes from a statement that Bianca (Matilda’s handmade) makes to Manfred stating that “he is as comely a youth as ever trod on christian ground: we are all in love with him: there is not a soul in the castle but would be rejoiced to have him for our prince” (Walpole, 1764, p. 122). Theodore also shows immense loyalty to the women that he encounters in the story and he develops strong feelings for Matilda quickly. This is portrayed in the scene where Matilda releases Theodore from prison and “he vow[s] on the earliest opportunity to get himself knighted, and fervently entreat[s] her permission to swear himself eternally her knight” (Walpole, 1764, p. 86). Likewise, the young man from the song could...
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...The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her. ~Author Unknown A mother holds perhaps, the most important place in a child's life. The loss of a mother, then is perhaps the biggest loss anyone has to deal with. Unfortunately, the death of a parent is something most children have to see and experience. While some people naturally hold the capacity to endure such a heavy loss, for some it is indeed a tough period to get through. No matter what kind of person the sufferer is, a few words of sympathy from close ones are always comforting. With the knowledge that there is someone who shares the grief, and is there for support in such trying times, indeed gives the sufferer the strength and courage to pull through. For most of you, deciding what to say when a person loses her/his mother is difficult, because it is an extremely sensitive time and you don't want to say anything that will deepen the grief of the sufferer. As such, you may take a look at these words of sympathy that may help ease the pain arising from the loss of such an important figure in one's life, and utilize them to make your close one, who is grieving the loss of her/his mother, feel comforted. Words of Condolence For the Loss of a Mother No words of condolence you put together can heal a person grieving the loss of her/his mother. But it can definitely provide a small amount of comfort, in knowing that someone is there to share the grief and to be there when needed. This gives them courage...
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...What if you wanted something that you knew you could not have? In the book Jayber Crow, by Wendell Berry, it tells a story of a man named Jayber Crow who is going through a rough time in his life dealing with death, heart break , and grief. He tries to find out who he is. In this book, you will see all of Jayber’s happy moments and many heart breaking times and how he is abject in the story. In Jayber Crow, Jayber tells of all the deaths of his loved ones and how he is left all alone. Jabber is also introduced to the woman that he loves but he can never have her. In the book Jayber always has hope that his days will get better, and that there is hope that he will get the woman he wants. Everyone in the story laudable Jayber and will come to...
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...HOW DOES STEVEN HERRICK EXPLORE THE THEME OF GRIEF AND LOSS IN “LOVE, GHOSTS AND NOSE HAIRS”? The Australian author Steven Herrick, explores the theme of grief and loss in the novel Love, Ghosts and Nose Hairs. He explores different ways that family members deal with the loss of the maternal figure. He also explores the life of Jack, a sixteen year old boy dealing with the loss of his mother. A lot of strong relationships were lost, and each family member dealt with the loss in completely different ways. Herrick shows the readers what it is like to lose a family member and the ways that some people could deal with the grief of that loss. While reading the book the themes, characterisation, language and symbolism. Herrick explores the different methods used to deal with grief and loss in the book Love, Ghosts and Nose Hairs. Herrick uses poetry...
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...Comparing the voice of love and loss in Bryon’s “When We Two Parted” and the Balcony Scene in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” Lili Mutyambizi From the beginning of Act 2 scene 2 it is evident that Romeo conveys a different voice of love and loss compared to Bryon. Because at this point, he knows that he has no other company and so therefore does not restrict any of his feelings or thoughts that go through his mind. So in the first part of his monologue, the language in this monologue includes phrases that are associated with subjects that are essential tot he human body as he expresses:: “It is the east and Juliet is the sun, arise far sun and kill the envious moon” this signifying that he needs Juliet to come out for him to ‘live’ and destroy the feelings he has for Rosaline ‘kill the envious moon’. This showing that Romeo’s voice of love is immature as he quickly wants to diminish his previous love of Rosaline and replace with Juliet as “kill” causes a fast action of death. However when comparing the first stanza of Byron’s “When We Two Parted” the mood of this is regretful as he reflects on past events:”Pale grew thy cheek cold colder thy kiss” as this effect is reinforced by the use of enjambment that is a common theme in the poem. This signifying that Bryon’s voice of loss is mature as he is accepting that what he thought was love was growing to be non existent which Romeo does not acknowledge as in this play he thinks that his and Juliet’s love will always be there as...
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...In “The Song of Despair” by Pablo Neruda, the speaker talks about their lost love. The poem is about how the love between the speaker and a woman ended. It tells readers the nature of their relationship and what it has become now. Neruda uses simile and repetition throughout the poem to help express that lost love cannot always be mended. Throughout the poem, the author uses similes to describe how it feels like to lose someone you love. “You swallowed everything, like distance./Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!” (Neruda 10). In the first line, the speaker says that the woman “swallowed everything,” and then says that she is “like the sea,” because of this. The speaker continues onto say that “everything sank,” in the woman,...
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...relationship. People think they know what love is and they really don’t know. And their misunderstanding about love creates jealousy. By `love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly, some possessiveness without understanding a simple fact of life: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him. Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open. But the thing has been going on a wrong path for centuries it has become ingrained in us so much that we cannot separate love from jealousy. They have become almost one energy. For example, you feel jealous if your lover goes to another woman. You are disturbed by it now, but I would like to tell you that if you don't feel jealous you will be in much more trouble then you will think you don't love him, because if you loved him you should have felt jealous. Physically, it can strain your body trying to fill in the jealously, such as getting hurt trying to get over it. Mentally, your mind can become obsessed on it and in the end never be able to recover. And emotionally or spiritually this can leave devastating effects on both your state of being and the being of others around you. Therefore, jealousy is not great emotion. Also Children compete with one another in their attention-drawing behavior from near and dear ones and members who dominate the family as leader. Anticipatory or actual loss of affection on the part of the child...
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... AUGUST 27, 2012 The story of an hour The story I am choosing is the story of an hour by Kate Chopin (1894). Why I chose the story is because I found the story interesting. A tale kind of like the old saying I laughed I cried I fell down. This story kind of has it all just when you think she is lost to grief over the husband she loved but didn’t. She finds joy and when she’s ready to move on she dies from a kind of joy. Using a reader response approach I find I can identify with the main character Mrs. Mallard and the pain and loss she felt. The meaning of the story to me is about being able to move on but also about grieving for ones loss also. What I found interesting about the story of an hour is the main character they start with that Mrs. Mallard who has a heart condition they go on to explain that her sister is there to tell her that her husband has died in an accident from there she begins to grieve with her sisters support and then begins wonder if she really loved him or if it was just companionship she would be missing. Then when she finally finds a way to move on with her life she finds out that her husband was not dead but still alive. As she realizes that her husband is still alive she is over come with joy and sadness both which is too much for her weakened heart. What’s most amazing is that this all...
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...Jodi Hall Professor Zahir Small ENC1102.0M1: Writing/Lit February 19, 2013 A Tale of Two Poems Love is so often written about by poets. Perhaps it is because love offers so many elements of writing. It can be as grand as the ocean with great depths, leaving the poet free to roam about and explore. It can also have great passion and sensual power like the waves that caress and crush the shore line. Love can also be as vast and frightening as Pandora’s Box, with great unknowns and even evils such as heartbreak and the loss of a lover. It is through these different descriptions of love that great poets can share and reflect on having great love or remembering love that once was, but was lost or taken. Mark Doty’s “The Embrace” and Sharon Olds’ “Last Night” are two unusual love poems that bring several different accounts of love to light. In these unconventional love poems one can experience these differences, such as the heat of passion of a new found love that is not so innocent, and the fear and torture of grim reality as a deep love is lost. The premise of these unconventional love stories is seen in two extremely different ways throughout these poems. When one thinks of a traditional love poem, thoughts of happy times and romantic words come to mind. Not so in Doty’s “The Embrace”. Doty sets the tone of this poem by describing the shock of reality expressed by the homosexual speaker who experiences the agony of being unable to remember the details of the face...
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...While reading a story, it is un-noticeable that the theme can coincide with the setting. In some stories, it might be unchallenging, but there are some writers that do make it challenging. For instance, Edgar Allen Poe’s works, describe vivid details. His themes provide emotions and scenery – which gives a better understand or feel. The emotions that Poe shows in the story are generally a dark type of feeling – making the theme to be related to that type of feeling and emotion. In Poe’s work of “The Raven” he describes setting types that benefit in understanding the theme, which is life after a death or grief, loss, madness, and even love. In the beginning of “The Raven” Poe states, “a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary … and a curious volume of forgotten love” (Bayum 637). When he uses the words midnight and dreary those show an emotion of dark as well as eerie. Since, dreary means bleak and lifeless they relate to depression. With the words, weak and weary – they both mean lifeless as well as extreme exhaustion. Feeling tired and the lack of doing anything are the signs of depression too. Grieving shows many kinds of emotions, while during the time of grieving the feeling that will be felt is sadness – that follows in pursuit of...
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...Comparison Essay In the films EdTv and The Truman Show, the protagonists experience how the loss of personal freedom in their lives affected not only them, but the lives of the people around them. Specifically, the loss of personal freedom and control in there lives are seen through the “love interests” that the characters encounter, how Ed’s and Truman’s “overseers” interfere with their lives’ and what each character is willing to due to reclaim the personal freedom and control in their destinies. Throughout the plot in both films, Ed and Truman encountered love interests that derive from either fake love or staged love. In The Truman Show, Truman first spots Lauren sitting under a tree and immediately falls in love with her. However, because the choice to choose one’s love was not Truman’s to make, the “overseers” of The Truman Show interfered with his life. They hired an actor to play the role of Truman’s girlfriend and later wife. Similarly, in EdTv Ed begins to date Shari after comforting her. However, both Ed and Shari soon realize the conditions of their relationship began to change as Ed quickly becomes surrounded by his fame. This increase of involvement that the audience now has in Ed’s life makes them believe that they have the right to judge Shari which causes her to loose some of her personal freedom and control in her life. In both films, the protagonists’ lives become broadcasted over live TV regardless of what those said characters...
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...and London both expertly explore the intricate notion of love in the face of adversity, as well as the effect of loss on an individual as a result of a death of someone close. In addition, the destruction of relationships regarding families, friends and partners, which highlights the sacrifices lost throughout the journey of life, are examined. Inimical impacts can provide a prodigious influence on an individual's most...
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