Love's+Deity

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 * Love's Deity**
 * This picture is the "old lover's ghost". When I read this poem I inferred that when he was talking about his old lover's ghost he was referring to a wife he had that had past away making him a widow and he is writing the poem out of the sorrow he has. In the poem he writes about god and god's will and it may be because his wife has gone onto the afterlife. He also mentions that she died before the god of love was born which means that perhaps she died young and he believes that it was unfair and that the gods did not have mercy on his love because the god of love was not born yet.

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 * As one may see, this is just a square of red. But to many people the color red can be insinuated with love, lust, anger, rage and much more. In the poem he mentions that rage and lust are all outcomes of the god of love. This red shows that although from one view it could be lust which makes people happy is could also be rage. The softness of the blotches in the picture could be the up tone to lust yet it could also be someone's temper and rage.
 * This poem had a lot to do with the belief of god or gods such as the god of love which the author says did not have mercy on his lover. A word that had a rather large impact on me was atheist, because in such a god believing poem for him to say that he "murmured atheist" changes the perspective of his writing thus making us wonder what his true values were towards love, the gods and fate were what he really believed or what he did not.

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Two Hyperlinks: This poem was about a person who had lost whom they loved, and the many things that love can make you do as well as the emotions one can feel when your lustful or in love. He talks about many of the emotions he feels towards god or gods and he also what emotions he feels about love. He talks about how he demands to rebel and that he would think to stoop to an atheist level. At points in the poem he feels as if the love is equivalent to the plague and yet he misses his lover and can still feel the ghost of them in his living life almost as if god was punishing him for something with a tease of his lover. At points he thinks of giving up on love and wanting to be released from love's clutches and move on yet he knows he never could. Just when he thinks he is out of love something happens to pull him back in.

In the end of each stanza he ends with the words "loves not me" then "loves me" then "loves not me" which goes back and fourth leaving the reader to wonder about his true emotions and at the end he changes his tone to a command and says "love me" as if he can no longer take rejection because he has so much fallen into love. When I first read this poem I thought he was describing his love for god and that the old lover's ghost could have been god and that when he mentioned atheist he was no longer a believe making god a past and dead lover. But when I reread it I noticed that although god could make you raged it could not make you lustful and he could not write to god. Also because although god died in his mind god did not die all around him, he had to think that all the rage and emotion he was feeling were coming from somewhere and he even blames the god of love for his misfortune which tells us that god did not die at all in his mind or in his environment in reality of his mind, god was more alive then ever making him feel the way he does and love the way he did.

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