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Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time Periods
The theme around these poems is how poets expressed their ideas of love as well as the type of language used to convey said love through poetry; it also indirectly highlights how society may perceive love based on how those poets' values may have aligned with/against society during their era. All the poems revolve around a discussion of love through the language they used to describe their feelings of love as well as the images they paint through said language (whether it be expressed through older iterations of the English language or through more modern forms of the language, hence the year differences among each poet selected). (Summary by Amr Ahmed)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
They Flee From Me
01:21 - Chapter 2
Whoso List to Hunt, I know where is an Hind
01:01 - Chapter 3
The Heart And Service
01:16 - Chapter 4
Farewell Love and All Thy Laws For Ever
01:02 - Chapter 5
My Lute Awake
01:56 - Chapter 6
The Long Love that in my Thought doth Harbour
01:05 - Chapter 7
MAG
01:04 - Chapter 8
Dream Girl
01:05 - Chapter 9
To A Stranger
01:12 - Chapter 10
When I Heard At the Close of the Day
01:46 - Chapter 11
Once I Pass’d Through A Populous City
00:58 - Chapter 12
As If a Phantom Caress’d Me
00:41 - Chapter 13
Fast Anchor’d, Eternal, O Love!
00:44