Warm I turn to you
For the strength to be strong, for the will to carry on, for everything youdo
For everything that’s true I turn to you.
When I loose the will to win, I just reach for you and I can reach
The sky again I can do for you anything, cause your love is so amazing
Cause you’re love inspires me
And when I need a friend, you’re always on my side, giving me faith taking
Me through the night
For the arms to be my shelter from all the rain
For true love could never change, for someone to lean on
From my heart I cant deny under anything
For the one who, I can run to
I think that love can mean many different things, but to me here are some that I find most appropriate: affection, attachment, sexual attachment, lust, trust, passion, feeling, desire, care and puppy love.
There are different types of love for example “I Love chocolate” but that is not real love, but some would say what is “ REAL LOVE” or is there any such thing? I personally am undecided. Love has been written about for years and years, I think that may be because everyone in some way or another has felt or experienced love in one form of another.
The word ‘sonnet’ comes from the Italian word ‘sonnetto’ which translates to ‘little sound’. There are many types sonnet but I am going to explain
‘The English or Shakespearean’ sonnet:
The English form was developed by Surrey but through the popularity and genius of the poems here, it became known as a Shakespearean sonnet. Commonly, it is made of 3 quatrains (4 lines) and 1 rhyming couplet (2 lines) that conclude the poem concisely. The quatrains rhyme on alternating lines; that is the scheme, abab. The quatrains don’t rhyme with each other, so in the first 12 lines the rhyme scheme is ab,ab,cd,cd,ef,ef and then goes onto gg.
I am now going to discuss “My Mistress’ eyes’” by William Shakespeare
In the first quatrain, Shakespeare is saying that his lovers’ eyes are nothing like the sun; they are more dull and boring than bright and sparkly. He also says here hair is black and wiry basically describing all her imperfections. He does this because he does not want to do exactly the same as all the other writers, portraying their lovers as perfect and more beautiful than they really are.
In the second quatrain he explains that his loves cheeks are not red, she does not smell as sweet as perfume and her breath smells.
In the third quatrain he explains that even though he loves to here her speak he would by far rather listen to music. And he also says that she does not walk like a goddess, she treads.
In the final rhyming couplet he surprises the reader by saying that despite all of her imperfections his still loves her.
“If hairs be wires then black wires grow on her head” he is using this simile to state that her hair is black and very wiery. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” he uses this simile to explain that her eyes are not shiny and bright, but dull and boring.
I genuinely think this poem is a true love poem as he is saying after all the things he doesn’t like or find attractive about her he still loves and adores her. And he is also doing the exact opposite to all the other poets so he is being very different.
I am now going to talk about “Shall I compare thee” another sonnet by Shakespeare. Shakespeare is a lot nicer in this poem as he now is doing as all the other poets do, showing his love to be better then they actually are. In the first quatrain he starts to say how love is like a summer’s day. In the second quatrain he says that, sometimes summer is maybe even too hot. In the third quatrain he explains that even thought summer fades his love doesn’t. In the final rhyming couplet he explains that her beauty will last forever as long as people are still reading poetry about her.
I do think that this is also a love poem as he is saying love is like a summers day.
I am now going to go on and talk about a poem called “Porphyria’s lover” by Robert browning. The rhyming scheme in this poem is ab ab bb bc cc de. As you can see the rhyming scheme is very different. In this poem a man realizes he loves a women too much and then ends up strangling her to death with her own hair. So in this sense it does show you can love someone too much.
To conclude my essay, I am gong to say that beauty does sometimes get exaggerated. But some people may only see what they want to see or even be referring to personality. People do also kill for love and love not only can be a little dangerous, it is very risky. So be careful what you do.
By Leonie Mallabone
