Poetry - Loyalty, Love and Relationships

Loyalty, comp permitemaking and relationships argon explored through and through the six adjacent poems, ˜My Last Duchess and ˜Porphyrias hunchr by Robert toasting, ˜La Belle dame Sans Merci by prat Keats, ˜Sonnet 116 by Shakespe are, ˜ first cousin Kate by Christina Rossetti and ˜The Apparition by commode Donne. Everyone has different definitions of erotic love, and Brownings ˜My Last Duchess and Porphyrias caramel are two written in the form of dramatic monologues and both explore love in the form of enviousy, possessiveness and aggressiveness. ˜La Belle Dame Sans Merci is Keats version of a chivalric ro patchce, where a knight waterfall in love with a fairy lady; the love aspect arse be synonymous with ˜obsession, similarly with Brownings variant of love.\n\nThe love shown in tin Donnes ˜The Apparition is torn between jealous affection and bitterness. Love is shown in different ways, when contrasting behind Donnes ˜The Apparition and Robert Brownings Po rphyrias Lover; ˜The Apparition is shown clearly as jealous and vengeful love, whereas Porphyrias Lover is based on jealousy and lust.\n\n˜Cousin Kate carries out the themes of love and loss through the acquitted and hard working ˜cottage maiden, miserable forever when she could create been of something better and special the likes of a ˜dove, if she had not go in love with an uncaring and betrayer ˜Lord, who had used her. The primary(prenominal) themes within this poem are love and relationships and how people can get hurt and let down easily by the other person.\n\nContrasting with Browning and Keats poems, Shakespeare offers an optimistic take on love. Love here is seen as a powerful and unstoppable intensity level of nature. Sonnet 116 acknowledges that love is a mysterious force Whose worths unknown, implying love is priceless and beyond the ability of man to evaluate even though his height be interpreted.\n\nThe significance of loyalty of love is exemplified in Brow nings ˜My Last Duchess through its m...