Sir Thomas Wyatt's "They Flee from Me that Sometime Did Me Seek" displays love on the speaker's part, and the sacrifice he gave as a result. His love interest leaves him and his feelings are forfeited in the process. The act of love itself is what allows a person to put themselves into a relationship and they risk being hurt in effect. This is the sacrifice, the trust one person puts in another to not hurt them.
In this poem, the women originally take this chance ("they have put themselves in danger / To take bread at my hand"), but in the end it is he whose love is sacrificed when he truly falls in love ("I unkindly so am served").
Thursday, March 19, 2009
100 Years of Solitude and My BIG Question
There is much love in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude, in fact this is what holds the family together throughout the entire novel. To be continued...
Friday, February 6, 2009
How my BIG QUESTION relates to literature we have read recently
In The Stranger, Marie sacrifices herself in her love for Meursault. He does not reciprocate her feelings and is hurt by this. When she asks him to marry her, on page 41, he said, "it didn't make any difference to me and that we could if she wanted to." His lack of enthusiasm about their relationship seems that it would hurt her and although she is constantly smiling, it seems that this is a facade, masking her inner emotions.
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