How Love Poems Work: from William Shakespeare to Bob Dylan

By Sandra Roe

How does Bob Dylan smash the tradition of sappy love songs with his song, I Want You? Why does Robert Burns liken his love to "a red, red rose"?How does Christina Rosetti express her frustration at the impossibility of fulfilling love? How does William Shakespeare use some of his greatest compositional powers in his love sonnets so that the experience of reading a poem becomes an inexorable widening of thought?Every love poem reflects the poet's own life experience. And when we read a poem, we anticipate a glimmer of recognition. How does the poem reach into our lives and reflect our experience? And what other meanings does the poem have for us? This book answers these questions by taking a look at some of the finest poetry in the English language. We look at love poetry's modern historical development. Then we spend time with individual poets, beginning with William Shakespeare in the sixteenth century. Their verse will demonstrate different ways in which poets have written about love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1976877938
• ISBN13: 9781976877933
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"