Compare at least three poems in this group, which show how different love poems and lovers can be.

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Compare at least three poems in this group, which show how different love poems and lovers can be.

Hearts and Partners is a group of poems, which show different attitudes to love and relationships.  They deal with insincere love, unrequited love and the physical side of love.

The Despairing Lover is a 17th century narrative written by William Walsh.  It tells the story of Damon’s unrequited love for Phyllis.  Damon goes to the edge of a cliff

“Where a leap from above

Would soon finish his woes.”

We are led to believe that Damon is so desperately unhappy because Phyllis won’t return his love that he is really planning to kill himself.  We soon see that his love is insincere and only skin deep.  He is very fickle, an anti-hero and the only person he loves is himself.  He realises that he could find someone else if he tries to.

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“A lover forsaken

A new love may get”

The tone is mocking all the way through the piece, which reveals, that the writer doesn’t take Damon too seriously.  There is a definite rhyme scheme throughout the piece, which make the poem humorous and patronising.

Anyone reading the poem would recognise Damon as a stereotypical character.  He is seeking attention and he thinks that by acting dramatically he can get it.

Stop all the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone is written by W H Auden.  It is a deeply emotional poem about the loss of his lover. ...

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