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- In the final stanza, Marvell delivers two definitions of the speaker’s love: it is both “the conjunction of the mind” and the “opposition of the stars.” This two-part definition encapsulates the divided nature of their love.
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Structure and Form. ‘The Definition of Love’ by Andrew Marvell has the same stanza form that is used in the poems, ‘Mourning’ and ‘The Mower to the Glow-worms’. Each line of the poem is octosyllabic and it constitutes an iambic tetrameter. The alternate lines of the poem rhyme altogether.
Andrew Marvell's "The Definition of Love" suggests that the greatest love is an impossible one. The poem's speaker and a beloved can't be together, but by going on loving each other in spite of distance and hopelessness, they achieve a love the speaker imagines in terms of mathematical perfection.
The Definition of Love. Play Audio. By Andrew Marvell. Share. My love is of a birth as rare. As ’tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair. Upon Impossibility. Magnanimous Despair alone. Could show me so divine a thing. Where feeble Hope could ne’er have flown, But vainly flapp’d its tinsel wing. And yet I quickly might arrive.
The poem then sets up a series of extended images to explore this: In stanzas 5 and 6, the image is of the two lovers as two poles, on which “Love’s whole world” turns. They are never able...
Aug 1, 2016 · What does ‘The Definition of Love’ mean, and what is Marvell saying about love? Marvell likens the course of love to geometric lines, arguing that ‘oblique’ lines (i.e. lines which slant, or are not parallel) often meet, just as imperfect lovers will often find their match; but lines which are truly ‘parallel’ will never meet (since ...
The Definition of Love. Andrew Marvell. 1621 –. 1678. My Love is of a birth as rare. As ’tis for object strange and high: It was begotten by despair. Upon Impossibility. Magnanimous Despair alone.
The poem comprises eight quatrains, that is stanzas of four lines each. The rhyme scheme is regular ABAB pattern, replicated in each stanza. The metrical rhythm is iambic tetrameters, that is...
