Life is a journey that is made easier and more enjoyable with the right companion. A companion is someone with whom one can share life's sorrows and the simple joys. It is commonly said that love makes like beautiful. That is because love gifts us with sweet memories that last an entire lifetime. Even when destiny separates people from their loved ones, love continues to exist in the form of memories. The perfect companion loves unconditionally. Therefore, true love is eternal. “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound, “Stop All The Clocks, Cut Off The Telephone” by W.H. Auden, and “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion are just some of many examples where the speakers talk about their everlasting love for someone.
In the poem “Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone,” by W.H. Auden, the speaker feels like it is the end of the world after losing a loved one. The speaker gives the reader a feeling of death in an audible sound that is dark, hollow, and echoing. He tries to show the reader how he lost an important person in his life that the loss must have had an affect on other people that knew him as well. The speaker has a serious yet a very tone. There is no shift in tone, showing that the speaker attitude is solid, confident, and unchanging, which may mean that the man who dies has been in the speaker’s life for a long time. In line 1-4, the speaker says, “ Stop all the clocks… let the mourners come.” Through this the speaker is trying to tell us how nothing else in the world matters and time might as well stand still after this tragedy.
The song “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion provokes a sense of togetherness and understanding between lovers who are far apart. They feel each other in dreams. The second stanza of the song shows the power of love and how just the touch can make it last for a lifetime. It shows us that love is eternal and it is embedded within us, we encounter it in our daily life and will continue to do so till we live. This song brings out the true meaning and strength of love. “Near, far, wherever you are, I believe that the heart does go on.” Through this line, Dion tells us that even though fate does not bring them together they promise to go on living life by using their love as an inspiration.
In the romantic poem “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound, Ezra talks about how her relationship with her husband went from being together all the time to being far apart after they got married. Even then she believes her love to be so strong that the day he comes back to her she will be willing to walk miles just to be together with him again. Ezra Pound shows the listeners in the first stanza how her childhood was when her husband and she used to play together. In lines 15-18, “At sixteen you departed… sorrowful noise overhead” Ezra is expressing how the good
memories she has of them being together are only leading to sorrow now because it reminds her that he is not with her anymore. This poem shows how love is eternal and everlasting even if two people involved are not physically together.
True love is always unconditional. These three pieces of work prove this to be true. All the speakers in the 3 poems are still faithful to the people they love despite the difficulties in their relationship. The unconditional aspects of love make relationships different between people. Whether a person is there physically or not, if two people are in love they always have a special place in their heart for their significant other.
It's beautiful! :O
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