Romantic love, physical love, unrequited love, obsessive love… Compare the ways poets have written about love, bringing out different aspects of the theme.

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Love and Loss

Romantic love, physical love, unrequited love, obsessive love...

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

Poets have written about love in many, possibly countless ways, each of them emphasising different aspects of an emotion which is at once both wide and deep. The romantic poets, who were part of a movement, beginning in the late eighteenth century, reacting against the conventions of classicism, saw the emotions and the senses as being more important than the reason and intellect that had been typical attributes of classicism and used their poetry as a means of expressing the power of the human imagination. I have studied many love and loss poems including, "First Love" by John Clare, "When We Two Parted" by Lord Byron and "A Woman To Her Lover" by Christina Walsh.

In "First Love" by John Clare, we see two main types of love, obsessive love and physical love. We can see physical love as the poet talks about and describes his lovers face. "Her face it bloomed like a sweet fire", this shows how the poet sees the girl. The poet later says "I never