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Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time Periods

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Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time Periods

by Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Thomas Wyatt

English· 00:15:11· 13 chapters
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

  1. Chapter 1

    They Flee From Me

    01:21
  2. Chapter 2

    Whoso List to Hunt, I know where is an Hind

    01:01
  3. Chapter 3

    The Heart And Service

    01:16
  4. Chapter 4

    Farewell Love and All Thy Laws For Ever

    01:02
  5. Chapter 5

    My Lute Awake

    01:56
  6. Chapter 6

    The Long Love that in my Thought doth Harbour

    01:05
  7. Chapter 7

    MAG

    01:04
  8. Chapter 8

    Dream Girl

    01:05
  9. Chapter 9

    To A Stranger

    01:12
  10. Chapter 10

    When I Heard At the Close of the Day

    01:46
  11. Chapter 11

    Once I Pass’d Through A Populous City

    00:58
  12. Chapter 12

    As If a Phantom Caress’d Me

    00:41
  13. Chapter 13

    Fast Anchor’d, Eternal, O Love!

    00:44