Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time Periods

Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) et al.

The theme around these poems is how poets expressed their ideas of love as well as the type of language used to convey said love through poetry; it also indirectly highlights how society may perceive love based on how those poets' values may have aligned with/against society during their era. All the poems revolve around a discussion of love through the language they used to describe their feelings of love as well as the images they paint through said language (whether it be expressed through older iterations of the English language or through more modern forms of the language, hence the year differences among each poet selected). (Summary by Amr Ahmed)

Genre(s): Anthologies, Ballads

Language: English

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 They Flee From Me Thomas Wyatt Etext Amr Ahmed
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Play 02 Whoso List to Hunt, I know where is an Hind Thomas Wyatt Etext Amr Ahmed
00:01:01 en
Play 03 The Heart And Service Thomas Wyatt Etext Amr Ahmed
00:01:16 en
Play 04 Farewell Love and All Thy Laws For Ever Thomas Wyatt Etext Amr Ahmed
00:01:02 en
Play 05 My Lute Awake Thomas Wyatt Etext Amr Ahmed
00:01:56 en
Play 06 The Long Love that in my Thought doth Harbour Thomas Wyatt Etext Amr Ahmed
00:01:05 en
Play 07 MAG Carl Sandburg Etext Amr Ahmed
00:01:04 en
Play 08 Dream Girl Carl Sandburg Etext Amr Ahmed
00:01:05 en
Play 09 To A Stranger Walt Whitman Etext Amr Ahmed
00:01:12 en
Play 10 When I Heard At the Close of the Day Walt Whitman Etext Amr Ahmed
00:01:46 en
Play 11 Once I Pass’d Through A Populous City Walt Whitman Etext Amr Ahmed
00:00:58 en
Play 12 As If a Phantom Caress’d Me Walt Whitman Etext Amr Ahmed
00:00:41 en
Play 13 Fast Anchor’d, Eternal, O Love! Walt Whitman Etext Amr Ahmed
00:00:44 en