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Love Poetry Assignment
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- Thu Jun 09 2005

... James Wilmshurst 10S Love Poetry Assignment 05/02/2005 Love has been the theme of many poets for centuries. Have the sentiments expressed, of have the symbols used to represent love, changed fundamentally over the years. We have been studying a number of love poems in class during recent weeks: 'The Flea', by John Donne; 'Sonnet 116', by William Shakespeare; 'O my Luve's like a red, red rose', by Robert Burns; 'Valentine' by Carol Ann Duffy; 'My Box', by Gillian Clarke; and 'Love is...' by Adrian Henry. The first three poems were all written well before the twentieth century - with Shakespeare and Donne writing four hundred years ago. The poem 'O my Luve's like a red, red rose' was written in Scottish dialect, so I would expect the language to be different. However, the latter three poems are all modern. Have the ideas, metaphors, symbols and sentiments in this type of poetry changed over the













