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Discuss how the poets in this collection explore the feeling of love.

Love is a strong feeling and has many different aspects, for example it can have bad or good aspects. Love can be a very painful experience when it is for example not returned or when it comes to an end. But love can also give people joy and happiness in their lives. In this essay I will discuss how the poets explore their feeling of love. The poets in the collection explore both good and bad aspects of love.

In the poem “when We Two Parted” Lord Byron talks about how people are broken hearted because of their break up. We can see this when he says, “half-broken hearted to sever for years” the word “sever” implies a physical cutting or separation of two people that had a relationship. Ending such a relationship often can cause pain, which is almost physical sometimes although it’s emotional. Byron also tells us that maybe he isn’t completely heart broken, he wasn’t completely unhappy about their separation, “half-broken hearted” the word “half” is the word suggesting that he isn’t completely unhappy and heart broken from the break-up, but suggesting that it was bitter. The “half” could also suggest on the other hand that only one half of the couple was upset and the other one wasn’t, this could suggest that one of hem had an affair. His wife or girlfriend. In the third stanza he tells us how much he regrets it and that he will regret it forever “Long, long shall I rue thee too deeply to tell”. Suggesting that his love experience was a painful, depressing and bitter.

In the poem “First Love” John Clare explores how unrequited love can cause physical pain. He tells us when he describes how “blood burnt round my heart”. This is suggesting that he has pain from his blood that is physically burning. The blood is burning because of the strength of he emotions. The alliteration of “blood burnt” reinforces this idea because of the words that are spoken together sound like a heart beat. In the poem John Clare also says, “my heart has left its dwelling-place and can return no more”. This is suggesting that because he fell in love with her so deeply that he claims that she took his heart away. But in return she isn’t giving him her heart because she isn’t in love with him. This is called unrequited love. This the also suggests that now that she has taken his heart and in return not given hers back, John Clare claims that he cannot love anyone else anymore. This makes John Clare feel physical distress and sadness.

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In the poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” John Keats explores he idea of a woman loving a man in return because she takes pity on him for loving her. He also shows that at the end this could ultimately cause a lot of emotional pain. In the poem John Keats explains that he fell in love with a woman, but she only pretends to love him and at the end she does him a lot of harm. “And sure the in language strange she said, I love thee true.” Here we can see that she actually tells him ...

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