Demeter, On My First Son, On My First Daughter and Romeo and Juliet all show feelings of love between parents and children. I will explore the relationships in each of these literary pieces. I will also examine the relationships between Juliet and the Nurse and Juliet and her parents in Romeo and Juliet. “Demeter” is a poem about the story of Demeter. “Demeter was the goddess of the harvest and Persephone was the goddess of spring. Hades, the lord of the underworld, kidnapped Persephone. Hades fell in love with Persephone and asked Zeus to help him kidnap her so that she could become his bride. The harvests began to wither and humans could no longer grow crops. However Zeus told Hermes to bring Persephone back and make sure she did not eat food from the Underworld. Hermes went to get Persephone but before she left, Hades convinced her to eat 6 pomegranates. seeds. Hermes made a compromise and said that Persephone must remain in the Underworld as Hades' wife for six months. That is why there are seasons In autumn and winter, Persephone descends to the Underworld and Demeter returns and Demeter rejoices ) 'On my First Sonne' is the elegy or lament that Ben Jonson wrote after the death of his son Benjamin. Jonson was away from his home in London when he received letters from his wife telling him that her son had died of the plague. His son was seven years old. Ben Jonson shows the pain caused by his son's premature death at the age of seven. The first two lines, “My sin was too much hope for thee, beloved boy,” shows that Jonson is blaming himself for loving Benjamin. Throughout the poem Ben Jonson uses many religious references, for example "son of my right hand", ... in the center of the card ... he is told to marry. From these four literary pieces, this shows that no matter how you lose someone you love, the suffering cannot be cured. Both "On My First Sonne" and "On my First Daughter" emphasize the unbearable feelings of losing a loved one (her son and daughter). In “Demeter,” the only way she can cure the suffering is when she can see her daughter. However this is only healed for six months, until Persephone returns to the underworld. In "Romeo and Juliet", Juliet is the one who suffers as the only part of her family that loves her is the Nurse and the Nurse is not even part of the family although Juliet sees the Nurse in the story as her true mother. . These texts show that relationships between parents and children are very important and can cause great suffering. It is how you deal with the situation after suffering that is very important.