Enslaving Nature of Love Exposed in Lucretius Essay -- Lucretius Essay

Enslaving Nature of live Exposed in Lucretius    In Drydens Lucretius, the loud vocalizer system argues that (1) Love is a sickness, (2) Loves sickness enslaves, and (3) all attempts to remedy Loves sickness are vain and will solely nonplus the roll in the hayr. Just as Miltons fling and Eve become enslaved to sin by disobeying God, so mankind becomes enslaved to Love when pierced with Cupids winged arrow. In Milton, there is redemption and liberty through Christ, but in Dryden, no salvation from love is possible. This song leaves mankind in a hopeless, frustrated state, unable to break barren from loves yoke.  This essay will center on the last heroic suspender All wayes they try, successeless all they prove,/To repossess the secret untoughened of lingering love.             In order to prove the first premise, this essay will dismay by examining the last line of the couplet which argues that the l overs are trying to cure the secret new. This line prompts the idea that love is a sore that needs a cure, but it also raises two questions (1) why does the speaker call love a secret sore? And (2) how does the speaker call this imagery in the rest of the poem? In the poems mythology, love is a sore left by Loves arrow (which probably alludes to Cupids handy-work) as exposit in the first line of the poem he who feels the Fiery flutter/ Of strong desire transfix his amorous heart. The secret sore can also refer to the idea that Loves wound is concealed (as an indispensable injury), and thus cannot be helped by external/physical remedies.  The speaker argues that make up sex proves unprofitable in trying to cure love Our men pull nothing from the parts they strain,/But wande... ...ess appetite.  It seems as though the speaker is trying to frustrate the lover by offering insurmountable remedies. The speaker amplifies frustration by using an eye rhyme to give over the poem. Thi s doesnt show Drydens lack of skill, but rather a way to frustrate a readers rhyme.    The last heroic couplet provides no hope and leaves completely frustrating thoughts for the lover All wayes they try, successeless all they prove,/To cure the secret sore of lingering love.  The speaker even argues that though Nature provides satisfaction for physical urges (e.g. hunger and thirst), Nature does not give Love the alike(p) satisfaction. The speaker describes a lover as a type of Sisyphus, enslaved in a vicious cycle of trying to accomplish the task (of fulfilling loves desires), only to have the problem roll back down and having to start over again.