What is love? According to the Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy, love is defined the strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties attraction based on sexual desire, affection, and tenderness felt by lovers affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests. Love has many meanings but the root meaning of love is the strong care or affection that one possess for another. As time progresses, the sentimental value that which love holds has been all but completely diminished. In the following literary works, three poets convey the deterioration in meaning and significance of love.
Since the beginning of time up to the present day, love is one of the strongest emotions in which a person could possess and exhibit …show more content…
However, in the present, a more subordinate standard has been attributed to the way in which love is expressed. Over the course of time, its overall meaning has been completely and utterly eradicated due to the lack of sincerity. As a result, the expression of affection has been reduced to merely physical activity as the world increasingly defers from love’s founding ideology. Sexuality acts as a catalyst to this distorted interpretation creating a pleasure-gratifying illusion integrated into modern society.
The purpose of the poet of each piece is to portray their own perspective which is vital in understanding their definition of love. In William Blake’s “A Sick Rose “, the explicit nature of sexuality is illustrated through the tone, euphemism, tragedy and lascivious diction to develop a plot that leads to the demise of the rose. The elocutionist foreshadows the preeminent death of the rose that comes at the hands of the worm. Within the poem a false sense of love in which the worm possess for the rose is unearthed, the …show more content…
The way that is has been interpreted is flawed and does not contain any quality nor substance. In the words of Henry Fairlie, “Love is involvement as well as continuance, but Lust will get involved. This is one of the forms in which we may see it today. If people now engage in indiscriminate and short-lived relationships more than in the past. It is not really for some exquisite sexual pleasure that is thus gained, but because they refuse to become involved and to meet the demands that love makes.” The world today has lost the true meaning of love evident in the way in which love is exhibited is solely related to that of a physical affection. The newly flawed and imperfect definition and interpretation of love are exhibited within Edna ST. Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed” is a truly perfect example of how the word love is interpreted by various people and how it is exhibited in our modern society. “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain under my head till morning.” (Millay Line 1-3) Countless individuals have conjugated amongst one another and have developed an apocryphal discernment of love, which has been based upon a physical affection rather than an emotional connection. Society has deemed love as being nothing more than an affection that one can only express through a physically gratifying experience.
Since the beginning of time up to the present day, love is one of the strongest emotions in which a person could possess and exhibit …show more content…
However, in the present, a more subordinate standard has been attributed to the way in which love is expressed. Over the course of time, its overall meaning has been completely and utterly eradicated due to the lack of sincerity. As a result, the expression of affection has been reduced to merely physical activity as the world increasingly defers from love’s founding ideology. Sexuality acts as a catalyst to this distorted interpretation creating a pleasure-gratifying illusion integrated into modern society.
The purpose of the poet of each piece is to portray their own perspective which is vital in understanding their definition of love. In William Blake’s “A Sick Rose “, the explicit nature of sexuality is illustrated through the tone, euphemism, tragedy and lascivious diction to develop a plot that leads to the demise of the rose. The elocutionist foreshadows the preeminent death of the rose that comes at the hands of the worm. Within the poem a false sense of love in which the worm possess for the rose is unearthed, the …show more content…
The way that is has been interpreted is flawed and does not contain any quality nor substance. In the words of Henry Fairlie, “Love is involvement as well as continuance, but Lust will get involved. This is one of the forms in which we may see it today. If people now engage in indiscriminate and short-lived relationships more than in the past. It is not really for some exquisite sexual pleasure that is thus gained, but because they refuse to become involved and to meet the demands that love makes.” The world today has lost the true meaning of love evident in the way in which love is exhibited is solely related to that of a physical affection. The newly flawed and imperfect definition and interpretation of love are exhibited within Edna ST. Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed” is a truly perfect example of how the word love is interpreted by various people and how it is exhibited in our modern society. “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain under my head till morning.” (Millay Line 1-3) Countless individuals have conjugated amongst one another and have developed an apocryphal discernment of love, which has been based upon a physical affection rather than an emotional connection. Society has deemed love as being nothing more than an affection that one can only express through a physically gratifying experience.