Romance/ love in ARWAV, She walks in beauty and sonnet 116

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  • Authors presentation of romance/love
    • A Room with a View
      • A battle between accepted ideas and expectations Edwardian's had against being truthful, passionate and beautiful
        • Emerson's described as "ill bred outsiders"
          • Suggests poor upbringing despite only just being introduced.
            • Mirrors how Edwardian's would form opinions quickly
              • Could link to how Forster feared people would percieve him due to his homosexuality
          • Lucy "bows nervously"
            • She likes them, not ready to show it though
              • Head vs heart
          • Beautiful not delicate
            • George kisses Lucy
              • Lucy's "view was forming"
                • "Light and beauty enveloped her"
              • Miss Bartlett "stood brown against the view"
                • A battle between accepted ideas and expectations Edwardian's had against being truthful, passionate and beautiful
                  • Emerson's described as "ill bred outsiders"
                    • Suggests poor upbringing despite only just being introduced.
                      • Mirrors how Edwardian's would form opinions quickly
                        • Could link to how Forster feared people would percieve him due to his homosexuality
                    • Lucy "bows nervously"
                      • She likes them, not ready to show it though
                        • Head vs heart
                    • Beautiful not delicate
                      • George kisses Lucy
                        • Lucy's "view was forming"
                          • "Light and beauty enveloped her"
                        • Miss Bartlett "stood brown against the view"
                      • Like Italians, "born knowing the way" as a 'chessboard'
                        • Free will
            • Like Italians, "born knowing the way" as a 'chessboard'
              • Free will
      • Sonnet 116
        • Repetition of words like 'love' reiterate that love is unchanging
          • "his highth be taken"
            • Personifies love as male
          • "But beares it out even to the edge of doome:
            • Like Mr Emerson in 'View', narrator believes love is eternal.
          • "If this be error and upon me proved, i never writ nor no man everloved
            • Rhyming couplet symbolic of the couple, they'll be together in the end.
            • Impossible for no man to ever love
            • "I never writ", he's just written this, once again reiterating his point
              • Rhyming couplet symbolic of the couple, they'll be together in the end.
              • Impossible for no man to ever love
        • "wandring barke"
          • Semantic field of adventure
            • "Compasse come"
            • Represents love as a journey
            • Similar to the journey Lucy and George take in order to overcome their barriers
        • "Compasse come"
      • She Walks in Beauty
        • "like the night"
          • She's unique, mysterious, link to dark instead of light reiterates how different she is
            • "days spent in goodness"
              • Actively good natured
                • "A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent
                  • She's a goddess
                  • Chaste love, she's idealised spiritually as well as physically
        • "All that's best of dark and bright"
          • Beauty lies within balance, mirrors modern belief that a symmetrical face is the most beautiful
            • "One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace"
              • Balance reflects her beauty, any change would spoil it.
                • Beauty lies within balance, mirrors modern belief that a symmetrical face is the most beautiful
                  • "One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace"
                    • Balance reflects her beauty, any change would spoil it.
                      • Her grace can't be defined
                        • She's unique, mysterious, link to dark instead of light reiterates how different she is
                          • "days spent in goodness"
                            • Actively good natured
                              • "A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent
                                • She's a goddess
                                • Chaste love, she's idealised spiritually as well as physically
                • Her grace can't be defined
            • Regularity of the poem reinforces idea that she's perfect

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