Representations of Romantic Love in Poetry Across the Periods

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English

 

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Mary B

 

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April 27, 2015

 

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University

 

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The discourse of masculinity positioned the man as the hunter in pursuit of the unattainable. Women were idealised as physical objects of beauty, virtue and perfection. It was part of the tradition of courtly love to declare through exaggerated and effusive poetry that one’s beloved had virtually no human qualities...
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All her qualities were divine. Poets privileged the physical and the aesthetic in representations of romantic love, and thereby failed to recognise the mind and intellect of the woman. In this environment, Shakespeare wrote ‘Sonnet 130’ to directly contest courtly love. The sonnet is a satire of the conventional love sonnet popular in the Elizabethan period...
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