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Compare the ways the poets have written about love, bringing out different aspects of the theme.
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... anPre 1914 Poetry Unit Compare the ways the poets have written about love, bringing out different aspects of the theme. Love poetry has existed for centuries; it takes many forms ranging from Shakespeare's sonnets and dream visions from Chaucer to medieval ballads and feminist statements. As well as poetry, love comes in many forms as well. The main forms that we see in the poems are unrequited love, romantic love and possessive love. These poems that I will discuss are very varied, 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' is written by John Keats and it is in the form of a ballad. The next poem is 'My last Duchess' by Robert Browning, which gives an insight to possessive love. John Keats belongs to a group of poets called The Romantics who believed in respecting women and often spoke of the beauty of the middle ages. Keats writes the poem in the form of













