Love and hate
Love and Hate Love and hate, two of mankind’s most common emotions. Such emotions are greatly portrayed in powerful poems such John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding mourning” which shows the love between the speaker and his lady, and Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” which declares her hatred for her father and husband. Donne uses a series of bold and unexpected comparisons for the love between the speaker and his lady, while Plath expresses herself through language, structure, and tone. ... The speaker and his love should not display their private, intimate love as “tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move” (6). The speaker thinks that it would be a “profanation” to reveal the sacred love he shares with his lady (7). ... The loud display of grief upon separation would therefore desecrate the sacred love the speaker and his lady to the less elevated love of ordinary people. ... In the third stanza, the speaker again refers to the unrefined love of ordinary people in contrast with the love between him and his lady. ... In contrast, in a more refined love such as that between the speaker and his lady, any disturbance is above the reach of such earthly upheavals. ... It is as if their love resided in the heavens, among the crystal spheres of the Ptolemaic universe. ... Their “soul is sense” and “cannot admit absence” because the only way to express their love is through their five senses(14-15). Their relationship depends on the physical act of love, which cannot occur in the absence of each other. The speaker explains that the refined love between he an his love doesn’t need the presence of the physical body because it is “Inter-assured of the mind” (19).