Love and Lust in Most Like an Arch, When You Are Old and Other Poems Es

Love and Lust in Most Like an Arch, When You Are senescent and Other Poems   I have chosen to compare and contrast three love poems with three lust poems from our text, An Introduction to Poetry (9th edition, Kennedy and Gioia, Longman Publishing). I feel that poems closely true love often incorporate themes of duration, unity and longevity all lasting sentiments. Conversely, poems of a lusty nature convey the sentiment that the feeling is transitory, and moldiness be pounced on immediately (before we get a chance to think about it too much). Love poems talk about the spiritual aspects of the subject and needing to be vulnerable to them. Lust poems seem to focus more on the physical beauty of the subject, recalling the flush of a cheek and the immediacy, the urgency of their passion. Rarely is the need to constituent and communicate with the subject conveyed. Most Like an Arch This Marriage, by John Ciardi (Page 259) illustrates the lasting nature of true love by using the image of dickens pillars which, on their own, are roofless around nothing (Line 11). The words Till we kiss I am no more than upright and unset, convey the bearing and durability the speaker finds with this significant other. The image of the stones used to create this arch communicate that idea of permanence. This speaker knows that real love comes through work and compromise, and is not a quick fix. Vulnerability on both parts is also a necessity, because It is by falling in and in we make the all-bearing point, for one anothers sake, in faultless failing, raised by our own weight (13). Love and lovers are imperfect, but exquisite in those imperfections. Cummings somewhere i have never travelled, lief beyond (Page 402) creates a similar th... ...es winged chariot hurrying near (22) is throwing the speaker into a tizzy, considering that place where thy beauty shall no more be bring (25). And maybe these men are right (thats just what theyd like me to think). What good doe s it do a woman to bite, scratch and repress her urges, only to closure up where worms shall try that long preserved virginity (28)? Seize the day, while thy willing soul transpires at e truly pore with instant fires (35-36). I suppose were not really trying to make a judgment, thoughjust a distinction. The bottom line is that lust and passion may be very stimulate forces, but they are as temporary and changeable as the beauty that inspires them. Compared to the reliable, transcendental, and lasting character of true love, it is obvious that the two must be approached very differently, for their natures are hardly similar at all.