Based On True Love Analysis

Society has ingrained in our minds different concepts of love that have gone through extensive development and evolution throughout history. The idea of true love has always been a widely debated topic with opposition and debate on both sides of the spectrum. Some people are skeptical of such a phenomenon while others like hopeless romantics embrace and accept the ideology as reality. Whereas, the rest of society share conflicting opinions about the complicated and diverse subject. Until recent years, romantic relationships based on love has been barely existent and completely unheard of. In the past, true love was an unknown concept and marriage was based on a number of reasons such as a common interest, the desire to preserve humankind, and …show more content…
Love and vulnerability complement and coexist with each other. For true love to exist, there must be a union between two people who are compliant and willing to be vulnerable with one another. To be in a real relationship, being genuine and putting the emotional wall down is extremely necessary. In the poem, the speaker begins by describing love as an unexplored territory; a place that he has never traveled before or ventured off to. He has never been in love before or experienced anything even remotely comparable to what he has encountered, but regardless he considers where he is going as far better than anywhere he has ever traveled. To him, she is an unexplored territory that he has not discovered completely. The speaker even says a paradoxical statement, “your eyes have their silence” (line 2) in reference to how his lover is so mysterious. This line is in conjunction with the idea that the eyes are the windows of the soul. The eyes never lie and show one’s sentiments and state of mind without words. This should also be the case for his lover as well, but he cannot decipher her. Her eyes are …show more content…
In the second stanza of the poem, the speaker uses imagery and figurative language to show how much his lover affects him. Her influence is not manipulative or deliberate, since she is not even aware of how she affects him. Regardless, he cannot help but be enthralled by her. She has an immense amount of power over him. Just by her “slightest look” (5), the speaker will unclose. Her glance makes him open up his closed heart from the world like a fist that clenches when the fingers are closed. As well as that the speaker compares himself to his lover. He comments that she is always open, whereas he is more closed off and has his guard up. He doesn’t always share with others his deepest emotions and entire self, but she makes him vulnerable. When she opens herself slowly “petal by petal”, she appears more beautiful when she opens up herself personality wise. In addition, the speaker compares himself to a flower. By comparing himself to a flower, he purposely emphasizes how much she impacts him since flowers are beautiful in appearance and extremely fragile to the slightest interference and conflict. He continues by discussing