Compare the Ways in Which the Poets you have studied Address the Theme of L&heart;ve.

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Compare the Ways in Which the Poets you have studied Address the Theme of L?ve

I have studied a number of different poems from different eras. They all seem to show different ways of expressing their thesis of love, what its consequences are and how people are affected.

A good example of this is Shakespeare's one-hundred and twenty-ninth sonnet; this informs the reader of the despair, grief and struggles love causes, and how when we get the person we want, all our effort is thrown back into our face and we become discontented. Yet again we search for love that does precisely the same thing over and over again. Yet how amazing it is that men still chase after women (and I don't mean prostitutes) for love, even though it betrays them, such is life.

Sonnet 129

Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame

Is lust in action; and till action, lust

Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,

Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,

Past reason hunted; and no sooner had

Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait