This poem dramatizes the conflict between actually feeling love and the act of making love. In Sharon Old’s “Sex without Love” the speaker floats in the third person as more of a scientist experimenting with love. On the surface love is mirrored through the imagery of “beautiful as dancers “and “great runners” (Olds 2-3); making love, as Sutton said “favorable” (178). To continue this praise for loveless-love, Sutton points out that in lines fourteen and fifth teen: “the ones who will not / accept a false Messiah, love the / priest instead of the God.” sex without love is “holier” and more sophisticated “because their highest urges are not grounded in the physical” (178).…
“The things you won’t know can’t hurt you”. In the poem, “First Poem for You,” written by Kin Addonozio, we explore the mind of a person who is deeply in love, but seems confused about the relationship she is in with her partner. We do not know if the narrator is a woman, or a man, but the way the narrator expresses herself seems like a woman; since woman seem more intimate about relationships. The woman takes us to a world where she compares her love to her lovers’ tattoos. Even though she is scared of not being permanent in his life, she lets us know how she will continue to try, but try in “darkness.”…
Many individuals spend their lives wondering about how to experience true love. However, those who understand it know that effort and patience must be put into a relationship in order to find pure love. This message is vividly prevalent in the short stories "Two Kinds", “The Grandfather”, “The Marigolds”, and “The Osage Orange Tree”. The overarching theme in these works of growing a relationship through time and earnest attempt is developed through symbolism by the authors of these works. Indeed, the themes and symbolisms of the texts help depict the overall message portrayed by them.…
English Essay Rough Draft-The Best of Two Worsts It is believed by many that mutual love is one of the most cherished sensations known to us. But how do you know when you have truly found it? What defines love between two people in a relationship and how do you know if what you have is healthy? That seems to be a concern seldom addressed between neither Liam and Gabriella (from the short story, “Bluffing” by Gail Helgason) nor Ann and John (from the short story, “The Painted Door” by Sinclair Ross) throughout the course of their relationships.…
Poets such as Sharon Olds and Andrew Marvell view love and relationships differently. These poets reveal this through their tone and diction throughout their poems. Sharon Olds describes love and relationships as being intimate on an emotional level with a loved one. However, Andrew Marvell’s perception on love and relationships is seen as having sexual intercourse early because there is no time to be wasted on romance. The truth is that love is not always what it seems to be.…
“Love is so elusive that it can seem like the quest to find it will never end.” —Anonymous. As humans, we know it exists because our surroundings displays it, but although the journey may be gloomy, we fall into the temptation of scrutinizing every corner of the earth in search of Love until one has reached a sense of contentment of what Love is about. Whether it is forced, a deceptive or authentic Love, it is still desired to feel the idea of the reputation of Love. The yearn of affection, reassurance, or even feeling wanted is humane and drives people to explore the different emotions it may cause. Zora Neale Hurston exhibits these examples in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.…
We at some point in our lives have experienced love, whether we were loved or have loved. It is the one thing that we all, as humans, have in common. Intimacy is about being emotionally close to your partner, let him or her know how you really feel and be able to accept and share your partner's feelings. Dorian loved Sibyl when he saw her in the theater. He was perfectly wonderful, exquisite, and full of grace, and he considers, she was simply a born artist.…
Greg Rudd’s Australian play, The Birthday Dream, set in the early 1990’s, follows Mark Fenwick’s 27th birthday celebration family reunion. As his birthday progresses, many buried feelings and truths are brought to light as Mark, with the help of his family and friends, begins a journey to discovering the deeper meaning of many different themes including love, marriage, hope and the overall purpose of life. Rudd is able to explore the many angles of love and marriage through the use of Mark’s mother and father, as well as Brad, his old high school friend. Love can express itself in many forms, Greg Rudd’s, The Birthday Dream, explores two different angles of love through Mother, Father, Mark and Kylie. Throughout their lives, Mark’s Mother and Father have been living in a constant state of artificial love with the Father stating, “I was excited.…
These days, many romantic poems, movies and books tell tales of one person loving another in which those feelings are not returned. We often see ourselves within the characters of these stories, which is what makes them so appealing. In our current era, unrequited love is still a greatly utilised theme in many books, such as “Dear John.” Nicholas Sparks writes, “I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” This quote very much relates to the characters in the play, “Twelfth Night” written by William Shakespeare.…
John Frederick Nims’ “Love Poem” is a poem describing someone he loves. The first line of the poem, “My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases”, at first may be interpreted as the start of some form of insult. This line also intrigues the reader to continue and explore what Nims has to say about his “dear”. Though the poem begins by depicting some negative attributes that his love possesses, Nims doesn’t forget to describe her positive attributes, “Only with words and people and love you move at ease”. Overall the poem uses different elements of poetry to portray the idea that although his “dear” has many imperfect qualities, he loves her despite of them all.…
What is true happiness. Love. One of many comforts that human beings needs is to have someone that they can rely on to be there for them through thick and thin. In the poem, "Most Like an Arch This Marriage" by John Ciardi defines love showing commitment, trust, and respect to built a healthy and strong relationship for one another. Love is something we cannot explain because everyone has their own way of loving.…
Love is surely a treasure everybody longs for. The subject of love is discussed in countless modern day films literature, and poetry. Many times the story ends with the man getting the girl of his dreams, or the woman finding her prince charming. There is no doubt that a fairy tale ending is what most people desire. Relationships are significantly more complicated than this.…
In literature, love has always been a concept of great debate, although, what exactly is love? Pamela C. Regan, from Los Angeles University, explains that “…A person who experiences sexual desire for another individual, along with other emotional or psychological events, may characterize his or her state as one of ‘being in love…’” (Regan 139). However, does this sexual desire always breed emotion? When one thinks of love, thoughts of tenderness, kindness, and romance often arise with it.…
In the poem “Once We Were” from the book “Histories” by Charlie Samuya Veric, the poem sheds to light a couple whose tenderness which can also be considered as love in this regard was already present even at the beginning or the very start. It was a kind of tenderness or love that was eminent in a sense that it required no small gestures such as a ‘rose’ or a ‘kiss’ to prove it was there as stated in the poem in the lines “needing no white roses or such gesture as a kiss”. A white rose symbolizes purity, innocence and true love which relate to the idea of how relationships often start out and how the relationship of the said couple in the poem started out: pure and innocent. As for the lines “morning would begin to find us looking for the…
Love affects us all in very different ways, and almost like a snowflake, one interpretation of love is never like another. Love prompts some of us to act without thought. Sometimes we may think that we are in love when really, we are just looking out for our best interests. In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the theme of love is portrayed differently throughout its different characters. Shakespeare plays around with misguided love and the follies it brings about as a character is convinced that they are in the throes of passion.…