CATEGORIES OF LOVE THROUGH THE AGES

Timeless love
1. The Anniversay - John Donne
  1. “When bodies to their graves, souls from their grave remove”
    1. “Death were no divorce”
      1. “Souls where nothing dwells but love”
2. Touch by Thom Gunn
  1. "Continous Creation"
3. • A Letter To Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
  1. “My head…more”
    1. “Soon we should be together”
      1. “My chilled limbs now numbed in forlorn”
Overwhelming/uncontrollable love
1. Women in Love by DH Lawrence
  1. “A strange transport took possession of her”
2. A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
  1. Use of similes and natural imagery
3. Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
  1. “Beauty too rich…earth too dear” – repetition of ‘too’
4. A Love Song – William Carlos Williams
  1. "Heavily"
    1. "The weight of love"
Love and the arts/wealth
1. The Importance of Being Ernest – Oscar Wilde
  1. “Arrange my music for me”
2. Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
  1. “If music be the food of love” – Orsino
Lust/desire
1. Atonement - Ian McEwan
2. Women In Love - DH Lawrence
Parental/familial love
1. A Childs Sleep – Carol Ann Duffy
  1. “Wood”, “flowers”, “pebble” – natural imagery showing the naturalness of maternal love
2. Contrast – Catrin – Gillian Clarke
Forbidden love
1. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
2. Atonement – Robbie and Cecilia – Ian McEwan
3. Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
Unrequited love
1. No Second Troy – W.B Yeats
  1. “She filled my days with misery”
  2. “What could she have done being what she is”
2. The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
  1. Laura and Jim – last scene

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