Love In Poetry
Love, I feel, is the most used theme in poetry. But there are many types of love expressed in poems. Whether it is love for another, love for ones self, or love for nature, love has the same meaning in each of these forms of love, which is unconditional love. William Shakespeare, John Masefield, and Nancy Sullivan are three poets whose poems express love in different forms. Sonnet 130, “Sea Fever,” and “My Body” are the three poems in which one can find reoccuring themes of love in each one. Love is expressed in many different ways and in many different forms that let the reader know how they feel about another person, about ones self, or about nature. ... Because love to Shakespeare is not about looks, but inner beauty. That’s why at the end of the Sonnet he makes it up to his mistress by saying “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare, As any she belied with false compare.