Love In Poetry

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every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

This works as an anti-climax. The enjambment builds the reader up to the anticipation of love being compared in great magnitude again, however the language contrasts this pre-conception as the love is now presented to the reader at a realistic level. This is can be seen, as love is shown to be also the “Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.” The portrayal of love is shown to be adaptable and how it can just contain the companions “Most quiet need.” The poetic voice demonstrates the importance of companionship of the relationship here as well and how the love of the relationship is adaptable to each other’s need “by sun and candle-light.” The contrast between the boundless love described previously, to this image of day and night, “by sun and candle-light” also highlights the realistic level that the poem has been brought down to and so conveys a real image of love and relationships.

The portrayal of the purity of love and relationships discussed is emphasized...