Love isn't what it used to be, is it?

John Dryden uses descriptive words and his own style of poem writing to showcase the theme that love is sometimes meaningless. First, he uses the title and the first line of the poem to express his love for Iris. Later, he begins to describe Alice's personality, saying that neither of them believed the other.

John further wanted to communicate how agitated and stressed someone can be while in a relationship. We can know through the title that John loves Iris and misses her. In his Fair Iris I love and hourly I die, John Dryden said:” For I am as false and as fickle as she: We neither believe what either can say.” (Dryden 3-4) John Dryden says this to tell readers they both do not trust the other to be true and becauseof this neither makes the other right in their suspicions. Milton wanted to communicate this in order to say there is no truth in their love.

He first wrote about the reasons for his death, saying, "Not for the lips, not for the eyes that droop down." (Dryden line 1) John Dryden wrote this to prove his deep love for Iris. John Dryden also expressed his sigh for love in the sentence "No couple can find love legend". John Dryden has always used negative language to explain that love cannot always be eternal.Finally, John Dryden, against the background of love or marriage at that time, emphatically proves that love can last as long as it is in love.

When we see line 10-11, he said:”The legend of love no couple can find So easy to part, or so equally join'd”, John Dryden argues that a couple can break up without love. Through the title of this article, he wants to tell us that for the sake of the people he loves, he has to give up what he wants and pay some price for each other. John Dryden did this in order to give us a deep understanding of what he meant by writing this article and what he wanted to express.

In this society, these couples think their love is loving, but it is not. Their relationships are virtually non-existent. They don't look for love. If it was love, they wouldseek it, but they didn't.

-B. Lit Group Six