Perhaps the problem is that whereas love poems are focused and self-defining (see Jon Stallworthy's The Penguin Book of Love Poetry, for example), in novels about love something else is always going on - war, work, illness, child-rearing, death - and the presence of those other themes clouds the issue of what the book is "about".
As the men tell their stories, which quickly veer off the dance floor and into love, child rearing and death, the dance slips into metaphoric renderings of each man's inner life.
Death rears in affront at the text of the cantata, its translation produced on cards by the weary Harlequin.
Henry was a tobacconist, and Anna, who had been married to Henry's brother before his death, reared six children; Edward was the youngest.
Death rears its ugly head in many of the stories – from the inevitable wasting away of a teenage anorexic, a woman suddenly struck down by a fatal heart defect in a moment of shock, a child killed in the dark by a reckless driver, and a woman who sees the ghost of her dead father at Waterloo.
Although queen lifespan was very short, several queens managed to produce workers, which after the queens' death reared male and female sexuals from the queens' brood and thus guaranteed the continuation of the new colony.
Cuomo also led the charge to keep the death penalty from rearing its ugly head back into our criminal code after it was struck down by the Court of Appeals in 2004 -- despite the support for this ultimate form of racism by a majority of New Yorkers, who have since caught up with Andrew's vision on the issue.
I said, 'It's really important that he run.' " Mrs. Edwards — whose decision to push her husband to run for president in spite of her illness provoked an intense discussion across the country about illness, ambition, child-rearing and death — said her husband's candidacy was not only about his needs and desires.
Helmet to helmet tackles have resulted in players having concussions, paralysis and in rear instances death.
WINTER LOVE The Curtain by Hayden Carruth Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing We can hear it always.
Moreover, each family was backed up and reared in a separate tank to avoid the high death risk due to disease and management in the communal rearing population.
