– blog entry two (week 7) –
Similar to poetry, love is quite a tricky thing to describe and define. Maybe this is why poetry is often considered the language of love. Throughout the decades, poetry has been a vital source to express strong emotions of love. This common theme throughout poetry has stayed popular even with the rapid growth of modern day society. Loves intense emotions associated with it make it an easy theme to write poems about. Love can make you overflow with happiness, or sink with sadness. The large contrast of emotions love can endure makes for an engaging and interesting poem.
“When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love.” – Lana Del Ray
In class a PowerPoint presentation was presented to us that helped us to fully understand the strength that the message of love has portrayed throughout poems. Multiple examples of classic love poems were included in this slide show. A prime example of this is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare, the saddening yet compelling famous story of a pair who fall in love at first sight. Other examples of famous love poems include ‘She Walks in Beauty’ by a lord Byron and ‘My Love is Like a Red Red Rose’ by Robert Burns. The following is an extract from Romeo and Juliet that greatly portrays the love between them;
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp. Her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!
(Act 2 Scene 2 lines 15-25)
I personally believe that love poems are quite beautiful, wether they are in the classical or modern style.
If this interests you and you’d like to read more about how poetry is often considered the language of love, make sure to read the following article:
https://www.keen.com/articles/love/she-walks-in-beauty-why-poetry-is-still-the-language-of-love
xo Letissia
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