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Love in the Words of Women

Love in the Words of Women. Passionate Love. I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown

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Love in the Words of Women

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  1. Love in the Words of Women

  2. Passionate Love I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown I live, I die, I burn, I drown I endure at once chill and coldLife is at once too soft and too hardI have sore troubles mingled with joysSuddenly I laugh and at the same time cryAnd in pleasure many a grief endureMy happiness wanes and yet it lasts unchangedAll at once I dry up and grow greenThus I suffer love's inconstanciesAnd when I think the pain is most intenseWithout thinking, it is gone again.Then when I feel my joys certainAnd my hour of greatest delight arrived I find my pain beginning all over once again. • By Delmira Agustini

  3. Love is a paradox • In The poem, several paradoxes are used to describe the way the persona feels in love. • What is a paradox? “A paradox is a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement which, when analysed, is found to be true. It is, in fact, an extended oxymoron. The opposites are not next to each other but are found in the same sentence.” • Lutrin, B. And Pincus, M. 2004. p. 41

  4. Life is at once too soft and too hard

  5. Life is too soft She is talking about the good times in life; life is good and everything feels harmonious.

  6. Life is too hard Vs. The hardships and difficult things we endure in life; pain and suffering, misery.

  7. The poem is about the inconsistency of love and how the experience can fill one with confusing emotions which seem to contradict one another. Agustini fills the poem with oxymorons and paradoxes to show this. • Live/die • Burn/drown • Life as soft/hard • Pleasure/pain • Laugh/cry

  8. Dreams of Love Echo Come to me in the silence of the night;Come in the speaking silence of a dream;Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as brightAs sunlight on a stream;Come back in tears,O memory, hope and love of finished years.O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter-sweet,Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,Where souls brim-full of love abide and meet;Where thirsting longing eyesWatch the slow doorThat opening, letting in, lets out no more.Yet come to me in dreams, that I may liveMy very life again though cold in death;Come back to me in dreams, that I may givePulse for pulse, breath for breath:Speak low, lean low,As long ago, my love, how long ago. By Christina Rossetti

  9. Dreams “The speaking silence of a dream” The persona calls to her dead lover to appear in her dreams as although she knows they are physically separated, in the metaphysical realm of dreams they can be united. She uses the metaphor of the ‘speaking silence of a dream’ including the oxymoron ‘speaking silence’ to show the power of dreams to communicate. Also the sibilance adds to the ethereal tone of the poem.

  10. This image shows the way, in the silence Of night and dreams, the lovers can Communicate on a spiritual level.

  11. Similar to Agustini, Rossetti includes paradoxes in her poem including: • That opening, letting in, lets out no more.Yet come to me in dreams, that I may liveMy very life again though cold in death; • What does this mean? • The persona is speaking to a dead lover and these images are of the afterlife. Christina Rossetti was Catholic and much of her poetry, and indeed her life, was influenced by spirituality.

  12. That opening, letting in, lets out no more. Here, she alludes to the Gates or door of Heaven. Which is open to Christian souls but from which no one returns. She makes the Reference to Paradise in line 8 Of the poem; Heavenly Paradise.

  13. Eyes of love • There is a contrast in the images Rossetti uses to describe the eyes of her past lover: • eyes as brightAs sunlight on a stream; • thirsting longing eyes • The first image uses the simile to compare the brightness of her loves eyes, as her memory perceives, to be like sunlight on a stream. • The second refers to her own eyes, personifying them and using the emotive language of ‘longing’ to show the way she feels about being physically separated from her love.

  14. “As bright as sunlight on a stream.” There is a sense of tranquillity and comfort in this simile, Not only does the persona remember her lover’s eyes as bright, but it is the gentle brightness of the sun reflecting on a stream. Even the use of the word ‘stream’ adds to the soft and pensive tone of the poem.

  15. References • Agustini, Delmira. “I Live, I Die, I Burn, I drown.” http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/delmira_agustini/poems/7504 • Lutrin, B. And Pincus, M. 2004. English Language Handbook and Study Guide. P.41 • Rossetti, Christina. “Echo.” • http://www.poetseers.org/the_great_poets/british_poets/rossetti/cpoems/echo • Images: • Delmira Agustini> epdlp.com • Christina Rossetti> saltpublishing.com • Goodness of life>christianity.com • Softness of Life. coleengoralski.com • Tears>avani-mehta.com • Riot1> dhammatelukintan.blogspot.com • Rossetti- Goldenhead> versiscape-lifesentences.blogspot.com • Gates3> theislamawareness.blogspot.com • Sunllight through a Rainforest onto a rushing stream> art.com • Oxymoron1> blog.endesigns.net

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