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Comparisons of Love

In the great Gatsby, love seems to be all over the place. Everyone in the book seems to be at different stages of love and types of love. Gatsby is shown as having an obsessive love, were all he does is think about Daisy, and he wants to relive the past. Daisy is shown as having a superficial love and materialistic love, were it seems that she isn’t in love with him but is in love with what he has and what he owns. “I’ve never seen so many shirts” As for Tom, he seems to have a forced upon love as he appeals to society’s expectations even though he isn’t truly in love. I think that the only person in the novel who has a true love is Gatsby, as all he ever can do is think of Daisy and is just deeply madly in love with her. In the poem The sun rising it is very much similar to the Love Gatsby has for Daisy. In this poem, we seem that he adores her and thinks everything of her as does Gatsby. It talks of how their love will last forever, and this is also were Gatsby is misguided as there love does not last forever and that his living in the past cannot regenerate for the now as she does not love him back. In The Anniversary it shows how that they have been going together for a year and that their “Love hath no decay”. This is the problem with Gatsby as he thinks the same way and that no matter who she is with or how long they have been apart love is still there.

I believe that these two poems and the novel all use Hyperbole as they are great exaggerations of love. In the sun rising he says that sun rules and that they must do what they say. But by the end he states that sun should do what he says. As for the Aniversary it is also has the ruling quality with statements such as “second year of their rein” and that their love makes them kings “here upon earth we’re Kings” Also in Gatsby there is a power and ruling quality to it were Gatsby believes that they can do what they like because of his wealth, and that they can go anywhere and do anything.

In Donnes the sun rising, it refers to the universe and space, and that really as vast as the universe is there love is just as big if not bigger. He says that his partner is so beautiful that her eyes would blind the sun, and also when they are in the room together it is like the centre of the universe. That everything revolves around it. His enemy is the sun as it is this that defines there day and how long they can be with each other. Also as much as the sun blinds him he will not close his eyes else he will not see his love. He goes onto say that nothing in the world is as good as her. For Gatsby this is similar as he would give his all to be with her, and if that means wealth to buy her then he thought so be it.

In the anniversary, the rhythmic structure is in rhyming couplets to show there love, as in two people. It talks of time, and that there love lasts longer than time as it over comes nature. And that if one of them dies there love will still live on. As for daisy she does not see this as she is drawn to materialism not love. What a bitch.