Pub 5
Pub 5
Love can come in many ways. Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. It also means to feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone. It can come through intimacy, gratitude, kindness, etc. Another way love is showcased is through literature.
Love through the years has been in many types of literature. This ranges from poetry, short stories, and movies. However, now in literature, love is mostly referenced in music. These songs are referred to as love songs. Love songs are all different and range to how deep the artist goes in about love. This can usually be told through their lyrics.
Power Trip by J Cole is a modern-day love song. This song showcases very strong feelings for a certain individual. Music and Poetry are similar in the way they display emotion and, in the poems, To My Dear Loving Husband written by Anne Bradstreet and Funeral Blues written by W.H Auden both display feelings of love. However, the poems both do this in their own way. Bradstreet portrays love in buoyant/cheerful way while W.H Auden portrays love in a bleak/mournful manner. Even though both poems portray love in different ways it could still relate to a modern love song such as Power Trip.
The theme connecting these two poems along with the song is the theme of "everlasting love". The term "Everlasting love" portrays love as eternal/never-ending through time until death, which the emotions of this can be sad or happy due to if the lover is still alive or not. In Auden's poem, one lover is dead, and the emotions are shown by "My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong" (Auden 11-12). This is a mournful moment because one of the lovers is dead and their everlasting love is gone because the other lover isn't there to reciprocate those feelings back to them. Now the moment is bleak and dark.
The cheerful/buoyant tone by Bradstreet in the poem is from the wife to her husband. This is shown when she says, " if ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold, or all the riches that the East doth hold" (Bradstreet 3-6). These lines represent how happy the wife is with her husband and the wife happens to be the author. Also, the author values the marriage more than gold and riches. When Bradstreet says, "Then while we live, in love let’s so persever, that when we live no more, we may live ever" (Bradstreet 11-12) it proves that this was an everlasting love. That is because Bradstreet mentions persevering in their love for each other, meaning she hopes that they last forever.
The song alongside the theme of everything so far connects the poems in a cheerful and mournful way. Power Trip by J Cole connects the two poems with the lines "She got me up all night, yeah Constant drinking and love songs" and "Cause I had dreams for ya, thoughts of a ring for ya Childish shit, you know child and shit" (J Cole & Miguel). The first line relates to the Auden poem because his actions are sad making the situation look bleak. He is constantly drinking alcohol and thinking about a certain girl. The second line relates to the Bradstreet poem by referencing long lasting love (everlasting love) because even after becoming a big artist and famous, he still has feelings for this girl and wants to get married and have a kid. The purpose of these poems and song were to showcase the different types of love there are and even through different centuries everlasting love still exists when comparing older literature to modern-day.
Auden, W.H. "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone." The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable Tenth Edition edited by Alison Booth, Kelly J Mayson, 2011,pg 470-471.
Bradstreet, Anne. "To My Dear and Loving Husband." The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable Tenth Edition edited by Alison Booth, Kelly J Mayson, 2011,pg 470-471.
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