Love poetry assessment of three poems

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Please use examples from the poems to support your answer

1.  How does the speaker in “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” change and develop over the course of the poem? Give specific examples from the poem to support your assertion. This question must be answered in a paragraph of at least six complete, grammatically correct sentences.

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2.  Compare and contrast William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love is not all.” How are the two poems similar? How are they different? Additionally, explain how each poem uses symbolism to develop its theme. Give specific examples to from each poem support your assertion. This question must be answered in a paragraph of at least eight complete, grammatically correct sentences.


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Love poems outline
1. River merchant’s wife
a. Love story from wife’s point of view
b. First sighting
c. Marriage
d. Finally in love
e. Husband leaves for work
2. Shakespeare/Millay
a. Similarities
i. Describes what love isn’t
b. Differences
i. Items used in how love is described
ii. Opinion on love
c. Symbolism
i. Millay uses it to describe how love cannot provide the necessities, but may still
be chosen
ii. Shakespeare describes it was a fixed mark like a lighthouse. It is something that
will endure if taken care of.


1. Throughout the poem, the speaker’s tone seems to change from an unsure child to a loving and
caring woman. It is essentially the love story between the speaker and her husband but told
from her point of view. She begins from when she was a young child and first saw him while
sitting in her yard. Her husband was a carefree child playing in the streets. She then goes on to
being 14 and their marriage and how she felt early on. The speaker was shy and unsure of how
to act around her new husband. A year later was when the sp...


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