The Love Poem
Carol Ann Duffy * Track #26 On AS and A-Level English Literature Anthology: Love Poetry Throughout The Ages
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Album AS and A-Level English Literature Anthology: Love Poetry Throughout The Ages
- #1Whoso List to Hunt
Thomas Wyatt
- #2
Sonnet 116William Shakespeare
- #3The Flea
John Donne
- #4To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
- #5
The ScrutinyRichard Lovelace
- #6Song: Absent From Thee
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
- #7
The Garden of LoveWilliam Blake
- #8Song (Ae fond kiss)
Robert Burns
- #9She Walks in Beauty
Lord Byron
- #10
RememberChristina Rossetti
- #11
The Ruined MaidThomas Hardy
- #12At An Inn
Thomas Hardy
- #13La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats
- #14
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno CynaraeErnest Dowson
- #15I, being born a woman and distressed (Sonnet XLI)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
- #16
Love and a QuestionRobert Frost
- #17A Quoi Bon Dire
Charlotte Mew
- #18One Flesh
Elizabeth Jennings
- #19Meeting Point
Louis MacNeice
- #20For My Lover, Returning To His Wife
Anne Sexton
- #21
Wild OatPhilip Larkin
- #22Talking in Bed - The Whitsun Weddings
Philip Larkin
- #23
PunishmentSeamus Heaney
- #24Vergissmeinnicht
Keith Douglas
- #25Timer
Tony Harrison
- #26The Love Poem
Carol Ann Duffy
- #27Long Finish
Paul Muldoon
- #28
After the LunchWendy Cope
The Love Poem by Carol Ann Duffy
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Carol Ann DuffyAbout
Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘The Love Poem’ is a poem about writing love poetry! It is in effect saying that finding the words is extraordinarily difficult, but the poets of the past have expressed what they have to say with such skill and beauty that they stand for modern generations. She has therefore crea...
The Love Poem Annotated
Till love exhausts itself, longs
for the sleep of words -
my mistress' eyes -
to lie on a white sheet, at rest
in the language -
let me count the ways -
or shrink to a phrase like an epitaph -
come live
with me -
or fall from its own high cloud as syllables
in a pool of verse -
one hour with thee.
Till love gives in and speaks
in the whisper of art -
dear heart,
how like you this? -
love's lips pursed to quotation marks
kissing a line -
look in thy heart
and write -
love's light fading, darkening,
black as ink on a page -
there is a garden
in her face.
Till love is all in the mind -
O my America!
my new-found land -
or all in the pen
in the writer's hand -
behold, thou art fair -
not there, except in a poem,
known by heart like a prayer,
both near and far,
near and far -
the desire of the moth
for the star.
The Love Poem Q&A
what is a epitah
It is a short dedication to someone who has died. If you follow the blue highlighted link it will take you to a page that explains.