Virgilian Pastoral and Roman Love Poetry

1966 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Fantazzi
Keyword(s):  
Love Poetry

Medieval Irish Courtly Love Poetry : An Exercise in Power-Struggle ?

1982 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Grace Neville
Keyword(s):  
Courtly Love ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Love Poetry

Plant Creepers in the Ancient Tamil Love Poetry

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Kumaran Subramanian
Keyword(s):  
Love Poetry

Modeling Perfection

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Wasdin
Keyword(s):  
Love Poetry ◽  
Beautiful Woman ◽  
Husband And Wife

This chapter shows how three heroic paradigms (Helen, Achilles, and the couple Peleus and Thetis) function in wedding and love poetry. The flexibility of their myths allows for both positive and negative presentations in different contexts. Helen, as the most beautiful woman, serves as a model for both brides and mistresses. Her ability to arouse desire and her willingness to follow her longings make her a complicated ideal. Achilles is equally complex as an archetypal young warrior, albeit one without a stable union who often brings death to his paramours. Peleus and Thetis, the parents of Achilles, are famed for their glorious wedding, yet do not go on to become devoted husband and wife. Weddings glamorize fleeting moments of excellence, but the discourse of love poetry shows how fragile these models can be.

The Art of Love Poetry

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Gray
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Erotic Love ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Comprehensive History

Love begets poetry; poetry begets love. These two propositions have seemed evident to thinkers and poets across the Western literary tradition. Plato writes that “anyone that love touches instantly becomes a poet.” And even today, when poetry has largely disappeared from the mainstream of popular culture, it retains its romantic associations. But why should this be so—what are the connections between poetry and erotic love that lead us to associate them so strongly with one another? An examination of different theories of both love and poetry across the centuries reveals that the connection between them is not merely an accident of cultural history—the result of our having grown up hearing, or hearing about, love poetry—but something more intrinsic. Even as definitions of them have changed, the two phenomena have consistently been described in parallel terms. Love is characterized by paradox. Above all, it is both necessarily public, because interpersonal, and intensely private; hence it both requires expression and resists it. In poetry, especially lyric poetry, which features its own characteristic paradoxes and silences, love finds a natural outlet. This study considers both the theories and the love poems themselves, bringing together a wide range of examples from different eras in order to examine the major structures that love and poetry share. It does not aim to be a comprehensive history of Western love poetry, but an investigation into the meaning and function of recurrent tropes, forms, and images employed by poets to express and describe erotic love.

scholarly journals Aristotle My Beloved: Poetry, Diagnosis, and the Dreams of Julius Caesar Scaliger*

2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 819-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Louise Haugen
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Julius Caesar ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Love Lyric

AbstractNotoriously Aristotelian in his poetic theory, linguistics, and natural philosophy, Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558) also reimagined the lost love poetry that Aristotle himself was said to have written. Scaliger'sNew Epigramsof 1533 combine a distinctively humanist view of Aristotle as an elegant polymath with a sustained experiment in refashioning the Petrarchan love lyric. Most visibly in poems about dreams and dreaming, Scaliger educes his speaker's erotic despair from philosophical problems in contemporary Aristotelian accounts of the soul, knowledge, and personal identity. The strange but compelling texts that result form a crossroads for Scaliger's own identities as physician, philosopher, and poet.

The Early Love Poetry of Heinrich Heine. An Inquiry into Poetic Inspiration

1963 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
S. S. Prawer ◽  
William Rose ◽  
Heinrich Heine
Keyword(s):  
Heinrich Heine ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Poetic Inspiration

The Love Poetry of Robert Graves

1988 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-438
Author(s):  
Richard Hoffpauir
Keyword(s):  
Love Poetry

THE HERALD OF SPRING. IMAGE OF ARMENIAN HERO IN THE POEM OF AHMAD SHAMLU "VARTAN

2021 ◽  
pp. 240-250
Author(s):  
Lilit Safrastyan
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Metaphorical Language ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Creative Life

THE HERALD OF SPRING. IMAGE OF ARMENIAN HERO IN THE POEM OF AHMAD SHAMLU "VARTAN" Ahmad Shamlou is one of the most prominent representatives of the Iranian literature of the 20th century, who stood at the roots of the anti-dictatorship struggle, carrying out creative and social activities. Shamlu's unbreakable revolutionary spirit, love for the homeland and a human being have found their vivid expression in his works. In the very first period of his career, Shamlu was persecuted and imprisoned many times as a dissident. Many of his works, including translations, literary works, were censored and burned in printing houses. Armenians have a special place in Shamlu's personal and creative life. The main heroine of Shamlu's inspiration was his wife Aida Sargsyan, to whom he dedicated the most beautiful poems of modern Iranian love poetry. Armenian revolutionary hero Vartan Salakhanyan's character was also immortalized by the poet in the famous poem "Vardan" or "Nazli's death". In this poem Ahmad Shamlu depicts the heroic feats of the Armenian hero in metaphorical language, calling him "The Herald of Spring".

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