Poetry Anthology - Love through the Ages

Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde

\-Sir Thomas Wyatt

\-Attempting to hunt the 'hynde' but it is unattainable
\-Abandons the hunt as the speaker is aware that it is unachievable

\-Obsession, Courtly Love, Position of women in society
\-Rejection, Unattainable love

\-Wealth and Status as a significant barrier to love

Sonnet 116

-Shakespeare

-Love should win the test of time and all other barriers
-What love is not- use of metaphor
-Time is the enemy to love

-Jay Gatsby thought his love for D would pass the test of time, pass any barriers, overcome challenges as his love was so intense.

The Flea

-John Donne

-Complex poem of seduction and argument to engage in pre-marital sex
-The flea represents/ metaphor for their love

-Selfish Love
-Societal pressures, expectations

-The Great Gatsby-the desperation in the hotel room

To His Coy Mistress

-Andrew Marvell

-Argument to persuade a women to lose her virginity
-Sets up a logic argument, time is catching up
-Dominant male
-Urgency

-Time
-Selfish love

The Scrutiny

-Richard Lovelace

-Satirical Poem
-Passive female does not participate
-Calling for sexual pleasure, sexual liberty
-Impossible nature of undying love - seeks other females to feel satisfied

-Passive speakers -Tom
-Pursuit of pleasure- Myrtle

A Song (Absent from thee)

-John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

-Tormented speaker, trying to understand loyalty and society
-Love asks too much

-Loyalty, sincerity, commitment
-Idol, spiritual, worshipping

Song (Ae fond kiss)

\-Robert Burns

\-Paradox
\-Sincere expression, finial kiss before they part forever
\-Semantic field of sadness

\-Purity of love
\-Innocence, admiration, naivety

\- Nick's admiration of G

She Walks in Beauty

-Lord Byron

-Order and harmony
-Poem of contrast
-Admires a women in the distance

-Idolatry
-Spiritual, G elevates D
-Presentation of gender
-Status
-Love expectations too high

Remember

-Christina Rossetti

-Patriarchal sonnet
-Sincere and compassionate love
-Female position in society
-Tones of grief

-G sincere feelings for D, N love for G
-Time running out, inevitable

At an Inn

-Thomas Hardy

-Speaker wants hope again, pulled abruptly from him
-Catering staff looking into their relationship - society
-Social expectations
-Lack of progress
-Trapped in the past, faliure

-Time, hasn't allowed them to progress
-Barriers to love
-Unrequited love

La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad

-John Keats

-Male perspective
-Explores the relationship between sex and cruelty

-Gatsby tries to capture something from the past
-Nick's strange relationship with love
-T married to D but still searching for more
-Past is perhaps glorified
-Infatuation

Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae

-Ernest Dowson

-Focused on love from the past, fragility of the speaker's mind
-Love can't be fulfilled
-Not accepted by society
-Hopeless longing
-Cynara intruding thoughts

-Frantic yearning for D
-Obsessive love