voices in poetry
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What is love? Love is viewed with many different perspectives. It can be painful, bitter but sweet, sorrow with beauty. Robert Graves unveils love through those three poems: Symptoms of Love, A Slice of Wedding Cake, and The Wrath. Graves set stages for love in these three poems. First, people fall in love in Symptoms of Love, get marry in A Slice of wedding cake, and fall apart in The Wreath. So although Graves uses universal theme love for all three poems, he has different voices that sets different tones and moods for the readers.
In Symptoms of Love, Graves reveals the signs when men fall in love. Leanness, Jealousy, Laggard downs (Symptoms 5,6) are all the symptoms of true love (4). Love is not perfect and it not as this heavenly arch under which arch angles live in perfect harmony...