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How Is Love Presented In Romeo and Juliet and a Selection of Heritage Poetry?
There are many different types of love; love for family, friends, objects, animals
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But
they are still all loved
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However, with partners or friends it is easy for something to happen which
can quickly make love disappear
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Love for music can be felt when the song describes your personal situation,
making it relatable and understandable
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Everyone feels love but different people have different perceptions of what they believe love
is
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Even though it is sometimes confused, it is possible to feel a combination
of all these emotions
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A romantic novelist said “Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all
consuming, a physical pain” which can mean that when not being loved or being rejected by
someone you love can consume all your time and not be forgotten
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This shows how different
people describe love but they have the same message
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The flaws other people see in them,
they see as perfections and who they love
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Relationships are based from complete trust, understanding and even jealous
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Lots of love poems and songs have been written in the past; sonnets were very popular
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In Shakespeare’s poem, he describes his wife as not being the most beautiful
woman to look at, but in the Volta he describes his perception of her as beautiful and perfect,
he accepted her flaws and loved her for her
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But ends with a Volta represented her personality as that of a “Griffon” (a Greek
mythological monster), in other words; she is amazing to look at, but her personality is awful
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Unlike
the poems, Romeo and Juliet never pointed out any flaws in each other
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They have a Volta which is
different to the other 12 lines, with a rhyming couplet to end with
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In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 he described his wife as not being the best to look at, but he still
loved her
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When Shakespeare
wrote this, attractive women were supposed to have pale, white skin, signifying their wealth
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By saying his wife’s breast were “dun”, he was implying she
had to work, and wasn’t what they considered an attractive colour
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He also said that
she “reeks” which is a strong word; stronger that just ‘smells’
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Shakespeare's comparison of her hair as “wires” is describing it as hard with a bad
texture
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She is also not as beautiful as things found in nature;
another thing poet’s write about
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" In other words, her eyes are not nearly as nice as the sun, she
doesn’t compare to nature (but not in a good way)
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Furthermore, he thinks that she doesn’t need
to be compared to other women or misrepresented by comparisons, he likes her the way she
is
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All her
imperfections don’t matter; looks are not the most important thing he looks for
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He starts off by describing her hair as “threads of beaten
gold”, which is hyperbolic, but gold is a treasure, desirable, rare, and she is all these things;
unlike Shakespeare who described his mistress’ hair as black wire
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He tends to repeat
the word “purest”, not just ‘pure’ but ‘the purest’, more pure than anyone else; the repetition
adds to the fact he wants to emphasise this
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A similarity with Shakespeare’s poem however, is that they
both use celestial imagery (but in different ways): “her eyes the brightest stars the heavens
hold” meaning Heaven does not hold anything brighter than her eyes
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This
poem seems to be building up this woman, ready to give a more dramatic let-down at the
end
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A final poem is called ‘To His Coy Mistress’ written by Andrew Marvell, a metaphysical poet,
using images and word play, his poetry is also often humour or used to mock others
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The first 2 lines introduce her as a “coy” lady, a shy lady
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The second stanza makes it very clear that they have
not got that time, and death is approaching
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This poem is
written in rhyming couplets, a popular way of writing poetry
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He writes about wanting to spend
“an hundred years” to “praiseth thine eyes” and “two hundred to adore each breast
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There are biblical references in this
poem; “ten years before the flood” meaning the flood in the Bible with Noah’s Ark
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Also, it says “on
thine forehead gaze”, this could be a reference to prostitutes who shaved their hairline, to
create a larger forehead
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When dead “worms shall try
that long preserved virginity”
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The rhyming of
“dust” and “lust” summarise, basically, the choice the lady has
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The simile “while the
youthful hue sits on thy skin like the morning dew” relates to dew because it disappears
quickly as the day goes on, just like her appearance and the time they have
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He
suggests that “like amorous birds of prey” they should “at once our time devour”
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He thinks they should not be waiting for death
to come
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The alliteration of the ‘s’ sounds of positive, nice words (“strength” and
“sweetness”) could be trying to change the idea of the previous negative, vulgar language, to
more enjoyable, pleasant words and suggestions
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Similar to Romeo who also wasn’t talking to Juliet directly, he didn’t know
she was listening; so he wasn’t trying to get anything out of it
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However,
Shakespeare presents love in different ways
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The love
between Romeo and Juliet is the classic, romantic type of love – in which they will do anything
for each other, their language and actions reflect this
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This is very different to Romeo and
Juliet’s love
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Their love is given a cosmic meaning,
across galaxies
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While talking about Rosaline, his father speaks about how Romeo had been seen crying, which
in today’s society it would be very rare to see a man talking about emotions, never mind
crying, showing juxtaposition between society now and then
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He starts talking to Benvolio, who later says
“
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Romeo replies
with lots of rhymes and riddles, showing how he feels about love; it doesn’t make sense to

him
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In this scene the audience sees
how emotional Romeo really was and how much he cried
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Furthermore, this is a situation that is relatable to many people today
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Shakespeare has Romeo speak words like “lady”, “enrich” and “knight” showing
the audience that he is mature and sophisticated
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Using the word
“enrich” he associates her with something of value
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She is so lovely that she makes things aspire to be like her, or they wouldn’t know
how to burn if it weren’t for her beauty
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A dove is a beautiful, rare
thing to see, it is not known to be “trooping” or being with crows because they are different
breeds, and so Romeo is saying Juliet is too beautiful to be around ordinary people
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In this
scene he also uses religious imagery, by “touching hers, make blessed my rude hand”; he
thinks by touching her hand with his, he would become blessed
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For I ne’er saw true beauty
till this night
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But here, he is questioning whether he
even loved her; all his time crying was useless now he’s seen Juliet
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The use of religious association can imply that their love could only be
described using the vocabulary of religion, the pure association to God
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As
soon as Romeo saw Juliet, all his feelings and love for Rosaline disappeared, and he forgot
what he was crying about
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Romeo had gone to
Juliet’s garden just to see her one more time, but by doing this he risked getting killed if
Juliet’s “kinsmen find thee here”
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“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon
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The way he talks about
her is very different to the way Mercutio talks about ladies
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Juliet’s first
sentence in this scene is probably the most misinterpreted line of the entire play, “wherefore
art thou Romeo?” Many people think this means ‘where are you Romeo’, but in fact, it actually
means ‘why do you have to be Romeo’ Why does he have to be a Montague? She would love
him to be anyone but a Montague
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Why did Romeo have to be a member of the family, Juliet was brought up to
hate?

As this scene develops, the audience probably would feel emotionally moved and sympathy
towards both Romeo and Juliet
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The way Romeo talked to, and about her was pleasant and kind; unlike many other men
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By the end of the scene, after they swapped
romantic words, their time together was coming to an end and Romeo wanted something from
Juliet
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Juliet didn’t believe he didn’t
want anything else, very much unlike other men at the time
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In Capulet’s orchard, the two were ‘arguing’ about whether the night was over
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But Romeo
was being realistic saying it was a “lark”; a bird heard singing at dawn
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However, Romeo said he “must
be gone and live, or stay and die
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Near the end
of this scene Romeo says “More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!” He always
compares her to bright things (the Sun, stars, and torches), she is the light that frees and gets
him through the darkness
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In this scene,
they were basically denying the day approaching just to be together for even slightly longer,
their love compels them to be together for as long as possible
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In Shakespeare’s
Sonnet 130, he described his love as rare even though she wasn’t the most perfect to look at
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‘To His Coy Mistress’ indicated he
wanted to spend an age just looking at her, but they didn’t have the time, life is short so he
wants to love her now
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