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"The Husband's Message" is an anonymous Old English poem, 53 lines long [1] and found only on folio 123 of the Exeter Book.The poem is cast as the private address of an unknown first-person speaker to a wife, challenging the reader to discover the speaker's identity and the nature of the conversation, the mystery of which is enhanced by a burn-hole at the beginning of the poem.
Modern Love by George Meredith is a sequence of fifty 16-line sonnets about the failure of a marriage, an episodic verse narrative that has been described as "a novella in verse". [1] Earlier working titles for the sequence were "The Love-Match" and then "The Tragedy of Modern Love". [ 2 ]
Epithalamion is a poem celebrating a marriage. An epithalamium is a song or poem written specifically for a bride on her way to the marital chamber. In Spenser's work, he is spending the day anxiously awaiting to marry Elizabeth Boyle. The poem describes the day in detail.
As you can see, these two have been nothing short of extra with their love for each other this summer. Like, just a few days ago J.Lo shared this sweet video of Ben serenading her in the car: And ...
1.4 – He attends a dinner party; the poem is mostly a list of secret instructions to his lover, who is also attending the party along with her husband. 1.5 – He describes a visit Corinna, here named for the first time, makes to his rooms. 1.6 – He begs the doorkeeper to let him into the house to see his love.
The World's Wife is Carol Ann Duffy's fifth collection of poetry. Her previous collection, Standing Female Nude, is tied to romantic and amorous themes, while her collection The Other Country takes a more indifferent approach to love; The World's Wife continues this progression in that it critiques male figures, masculinity, and heterosexual love to instead focus on forgotten or neglected ...
The Beauty of the Husband won Carson the T. S. Eliot Prize on her third consecutive nomination in 2001, [5] making her the first woman to be awarded this honour. [6] That same year, the book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, [7] and the Quebec Writers' Federation Award – A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry. [8]
Very often this husband and wife were no Darby and Joan. Their married life was one long campaign, whereof the truces were only by night. Darby and Joan appear in William Makepeace Thackeray 's The History of Henry Esmond (1852), when the beautiful, spoiled Beatrix taunts Esmond for his seemingly hopeless infatuation with her: