Law Like Love

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"Law Like Love" is a poem by W. H. Auden that explores the elusive, subjective, and often contradictory nature of law through a series of vivid metaphors and voices.

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instanceOf poem
author W. H. Auden NERFINISHED
compares law to love
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
explores contradictory nature of law
elusive nature of law
firstPublicationLanguage English
form free verse
genre lyric poetry
language English
literaryDevice irony
metaphor
multiple voices
personification
literaryMovement Modernism
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
meter irregular meter
narrativePerspective multiple perspectives
subject law
love
theme ambiguity
authority
interpretation
justice
nature of law
social order
subjectivity
tone contemplative
wry
uses vivid imagery

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