Over the course of this semester I have read many pieces of literature, and the theme "love" has constantly come up. Inspiring writers both men and women have had their share of expressing their passionate feelings of love throughout history through poetry. Many writers are inspired by experiencing feelings of lust, passion, heartbreak, and lovesick. In Catullus's poems, he expresses his feelings with pure honesty and does not sugarcoat them, in which the book mentions that he "...conveys intense and often conflicting emotions" (940). Although I personally find his poems to be difficult to understand, I enjoy reading them. I am able to come up with theories behind his writings. In his writings, a woman named Lesbia keeps coming up. A relationship
