Essay On Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnets of the portuguese represents love to be eternal. Love has a highly religious motive in Browning’s Sonnets and also that love is transformative. Elizabeth browning wants to be loved for who she is and nothing else. In sonnet fourteen she states “If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Her poetry can be reflected as a prayer like quality in sonnet 14, browning says “I love thee freely, I love thee purely, I love thee.” The high modality anaphora enhances the religious imagery and the idea of her love being sacred”. Browning's voice and her idealistic view on love is transcendent into her poetry, where her imperative tone is delivered in a commanding way “Neither love me for thine own pity wiping my cheeks dry”. She expresses her love for her lover that fulfils her, “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height” the technique
Love is ephemeral, and is based on materialism and hedonism in The Great Gatsby. This reflects the jazz age, and the moral vacuity that people subjected them in the pursuit of the holistic idea of the American dream. This conveyed in Daisy Buchanan whose “voice is full of money”. Daisy’s purposes in life were material comforts and luxuries. Love being based on materialism and hedonism is shown were Daisy marries Tom Buchanan who buys her a $30’000 pearl necklace, instead of waiting for Jay Gatsby who she loves, but cannot love as he does not have money. It was only after Gatsby has material comforts and luxuries, Daisy loves him, an example of this is when Gatsby shows her expensive shirts and she says “They’re such beautiful shirts, it makes me sad because I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts.” This shows that love is based on materialistic values and wealth, as if it were not for Gatsby’s mansion and expensive shirts, Daisy would never love