Compare the ways poets have written about love, bringing out different aspects of the theme

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Jonathan Richards

Romantic love, Physical love, unrequited love, obsessive love....

Compare the ways poets have written about love, bringing out different aspects of the theme.

Introduction

After reading a substantial number of poems by different poets concerned with love, we can categorise them in their different themes as above. I have chosen 5 of the poems to evaluate and they are as follows:

'The Voice' by Thomas Hardy is about a man who has lost his love and we are led to believe from the text she has died as "now you are not as you were " and "can it be you that I hear " implying it would impossible under normal circumstances to hear her calling to him. Even more evidence is the line "You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness, Heard no more again far or near." 'The Voice' in my opinion is a sad poem of obsessive love, where the poet can hear his beloved in the wind and how he misses her and wishes she was still with him. Although he is aware that voice he hears may be a figment of his imagination, it also comforts him allowing