Love is a big topic in the poetry world. ... It is something that all people have felt, will feel, or want to feel in their life times, so it makes sense that this is a widely discussed topic in poetry. The way that the poet defines love though is something that is left up to discussion. Some poetry seems to be great tribute to love and all its glory, while others simply use love as a way to describe the feelings of lust that people feel, like when people refer to having sex as “making love.” When you take a closer look at poetry and how it views love one begins to wonder if there is such a thing as love. Many poets write about “love,” but when examined closer the poems only seem to be talking about a man’s lust for some woman in his life.
When talking about the subject of love most poets seem to only be using the term as a way to make lust sound more romantic. Take Sir Tomas Wyatt’s poem “The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar” for example. ... When taken for face value the poem seems to be innocent and simply the embarrassed account of Wyatt’s misfortunes in love. ... The “longe love” that he keeps referring to is in fact just a reference to his penis, and the “hardiness” that the woman “taketh displeasure” in is an erection. When one realizes that in the time that this poem was written such discussions about sexuality were not openly talked about, you can see that Wyatt was using words of love as a way of venting sexual frustration and lust that he had for this woman. There is not real love being expressed in this poem, just the lust of a man for a woman.
On the other hand Love is such a central theme in poetry that it is hard to deny the fact that it must exist. ... It is not possible that all of the love poems that have been written through out time are simply the author’s way of talking about his lust for another in a more acceptable manner.
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