Poem Comparisons for Relationships Section

NETTLES - use of military jargon

IN PARIS WITH YOU - emotional pain

QUICKDRAW - pains of a relationship

SONNET 116 - enduring power of marriage

SISTER MAUDE - severely damaged relationship

GHAZAL - use of couplets for structure

SONNET 116 - extent love will go to, even beyond time's grasp

SONNET 43 - time vs. love

TO HIS COY MISTRESS - making the most of time

BORN YESTERDAY - rejection of traditional ideas

PRAISE SONG FOR MY MOTHER - nature

QUICKDRAW - pains of love

TO HIS COY MISTRESS - lust over love

NETTLES - emotional pain

THE MANHUNT - recovery time

HOUR - love's special (healing) effects

THE MANHUNT - things that take away love + communication

SISTER MAUDE - damaged relationship

THE FARMER'S BRIDE - hurt caused by the ending of love

BROTHERS - damaged relationship

SONNET 43 - representations of love in everyday life

THE MANHUNT - structure of using couplets

TO HIS COY MISTRESS - lust / physical desire

HOUR - nature

THE FARMER'S BRIDE - nature

SISTER MAUDE - sibling relationship damaged

NETTLES - childhood

THE MANHUNT - damaged relationship

HARMONIUM - regrets

QUICKDRAW - damaged relationship

HARMONIUM - parental praising

NETTLES - parental relationship

HOUR - nature

GHAZAL - nature

SONNET 43 - naming the things of love

PRAISE SONG FOR MY MOTHER - parental relatioship

NETTLES - problems between a father and son

BROTHERS - regrets

SONNET 43 - adoration of love

HOUR - treasuring love's worth

TO HIS COY MISTRESS - the specialness of love

IN PARIS WITH YOU - uncertain definition of love

THE MANHUNT - enduring power of love

SONNET 116 - love + time

HOUR - love + time

TO HIS COY MISTRESS - love + time

IN PARIS WITH YOU - a personal expression of love

GHAZAL - praise for a man through use of items

HOUR - love + time

SONNET 116 - love + time

SONNET 43 - love + time

BORN YESTERDAY - plans for the future

IN PARIS WITH YOU - lust and passion

THE FARMER'S BRIDE - trying to get a lady

TO HIS COY MISTRESS - trying to get a lady

QUICKDRAW - an unhappy love

SONNET 116 - battling through time

PRAISE SONG FOR MY MOTHER - nature / countryside

BROTHERS - sibling relationship

PRAISE SONG FOR MY MOTHER - familial relationship

HARMONIUM - familial relationship

NETTLES - damaged familial relationship

THE MANHUNT - damage

TO HIS COY MISTRESS - extreme emotion

SISTER MAUDE - anger

PRAISE SONG FOR MY MOTHER - parental relationship

HARMONIUM - parental relationship

BROTHERS - childhood

THE MANHUNT - care and affection + military jargon

BORN YESTERDAY - care for loved ones

TO HIS COY MISTRESS - beauty + plans for the future

HOUR - uncoventional ideas

SONNET 43 - finding happiness