Themes of Love and Loss in Poetry
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: Themes of Love and Loss in Poetry
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Themes of Love and Loss in Poetry
In this essay, we are going to analyse five poems to study the way
love and loss are treated in the pre-nineteenth century poems, "So,
we'll go no more a roving" and "When we two parted" by Lord Byron,
"Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare, "How do I love thee?" by
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and "Remember" by Christina Rossetti. After
looking at the level of implication of each of the poets in their
writing, we will show the way they treat the themes of love and loss.
Written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century, "Sonnet 116" is
the most ancient poem in this collection. It has fourteen lines and is
structured into three quatrains and an ending couplet. The rhyme
pattern is ABAB. The main differences with the other poetry is that
Shakespeare doesn't get involved personally in his writing until the
very last lines. He only speaks of love, not loss. There aren't any
marks of his presence, he keeps the tone impersonal and neutral, thus
his poem has a general outreach.
He describes, explains what love really is and, mostly, what it isn't.
He isn't indulgent with people who blame time or "impediments" on the
vanishment of their love. In his opinion, love does not alter "when it
alteration finds" and is not "Time's fool". The metaphor "it is the
star to every wandering bark" depicts love as the guide to every soul
who cannot appreciate the importance of it although it can see "his
height". The second quatrain contains an extended allegory of Love, it
is said to be "an ever-fixed mark", "a star", personnified by the verb
height". The second quatrain contains an extended allegory of Love, it
is said to be "an ever-fixed mark", "a star", personnified by the verb
"looks". The third quatrain personnifies Time because love does not
bend unde...
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