Love Poetry

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seduction in his . The poem is arguably a performance designed to show the reader how cleverly thought an argument could be twisted rather than a genuine attempt at courtship. The poem is made up of three stanzas each one having a different argument to put across. It is an extended metaphor with the flea and its actions compared to the narrator and the mistress. A flea goes around his daily business by landing on unsuspecting culprits and then sucks the blood from it. When had enough he goes and does his act on other mammals. Two types of blood are then mixed inside the flea. This is how the flea is related to the narrator and the mistress. Basically the first stanza is where the flea is spotted; the second is where the narrator argues that she mustn't kill the flea, and the third is where she kills the flea. He tries to make all the arguments logical so he can win her over. The first stanza has three arguments to it. The 1st argument puts forward the point that ...

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poem nor seductive. It is more of a lets sleep together and that will be that. There is not any real love in this poem just the narrators love for sex and he will argue to have his own way. He doesn't like the mistress; he just wants to fulfil his own pleasure.
Porhyria's Lover is a monologue, which gives the reader a dramatic insight into the mind of an abnormally possessive lover. Love poems often express the wish that time would stand still so that a particularly intense moment of love will last forever. This is the same with the lover in the poem. He feels the same way and feels he has to immortalise the moment in a different way to anyone else. In the poem we can see that ...

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