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Aphra Behn

"Love Armed" by Aphra Behn portrays Love as a cruel tyrant using personification and hyperbole. The poem describes Love causing pain and heartbreak, personifying Love as sitting in "Triumph" and...

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Aphra Behn

The main idea of Aphra Behn's "Love Armed" is the metaphorical depiction of love as a battle where the narrator suffers while her beloved remains unscathed. In "On Her Loving Two Equally," the...

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Aphra Behn

In "On Her Loving Two Equally," Aphra Behn portrays divided passion by expressing the speaker's conflict between two lovers. The poem explores the difficulty of choosing between Damon and Alexis,...

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Aphra Behn

She doesn't prefer either one of them to the other.  The title tells you that she loves them both "equally".  She says that Damon would never had gotten her heart if Alexis had not come...

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Aphra Behn

Both the theme of Aphra Behn's "On Her Loving Two Equally" and Charlotte Smith's "At the Close of Spring" may be expressed as the fervent passion of youth that yearns for more than one youth may...

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