Within the Poem Ars Amoris by J.V. Cunningham there is almost a progression from love to lust displayed by the speaker. The piece was taken from The Exclusions of a Rhyme: Poems and Epigrams copyrighted in 1960. It explores the idea of what must take place in order for either love or lust to occur between two people. It seems to be speaking from the writer’s point of view and denotes the actions of men when faced with the dilemma of wooing a lady. This poem is very brief and in turn gets straight to the point to describe the events which must take place in order for a woman to fall in love with him. The flipside of this is that the man’s true feelings are never revealed to us which causes a question to whether his feelings are as sincere as hers, or if he is still simply lusting over her while she has finally fallen in real love.

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