Love

Demodocus sings about the love story during the war in Book 8 line 300 to 410. The song is about illicit affair between Ares, the god of war, the son of Zeus and Hera, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, the daughter of Zeus and Dione. And Hephaestus husband of Aphrodite tries to stop their adultery. The main theme here is that comparing with Odysseus his own experiences. Homer connected this story to Odysseus himself. First of all, Ares and Aphrodite meet secretly in Hephaestus’s…

cultural and social issues. However, I will specifically be addressing the significant issue of overly romanticised love and how it has been represented in literary and contemporary texts. I strongly believe, texts overly romanticise love and subsequently lead audiences to have unrealistic expectations and views in relationships. Overly romanced love is referred to as the type of love that is often constructed and depicted by text makers as being unrealistic and extreme expressions of feelings…

tell people you Love them? Love is the only word that I cannot understand. I see couples and families say to each other, “I Love You!” It makes me question what their definition of love is because they use the word so often that I feel like love is not as special as it should be. In the dictionary love means that you have a passionate affection for another person, deep affection for a parent, child or friend, or have sexual passion or desire. There are several ways to define love. As I was…

Romantic love is seen in which someone is in search for a heroic figure that is passionate and adventurous which is an Escape from normal life to an extraordinary, passionate fulfilled life. Romantic love involves…

What is love? It pervades human history and our cultures, yet defining it can be difficult as the word love is used in a myriad of fashions. Love is used as a universal moniker for kindness and compassion, or to denote seemingly differing levels of feelings toward something or someone; “I love you mom.” or “I love that reality show.” Merriam-Webster defines Love as “a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties.” Consequently this broad definition means love does not…

Kindling Love She despised him. He was a lying, back-stabbing, rat who deserved his heart to be smashed into a thousand pebbles. He had been manipulating her friend, Kelsey, for nearly three years and she knew every evil detail of his snake like existence. She was disgusted with his slightest inhalation and sluggish movements. Then her friend, the one whom had her heart broken numerous times by this naive and demonic boy, invited him to come home with the two girls. Kelsey was starred-eyed at…

The most evident theme of this poem is unrequited love. Brooks uses simple diction to communicate the natural elements of love, "To touch things with a lighter hand." This quote expresses that one who experiences the joys of love is so lost in their love that they do not have a firm grasp of reality. "In yourself you stretch," those who encounter love become more of themselves. They get to know parts of themselves that were unknown before, they gain characteristics from their lover and add it…

The word “love ”appears one hundred and thirty-one times in the one hundred and forty-eight pages of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel Herland. On almost every page, descriptions of familial intimacy and compassion are presented, in theory, in metaphor, and in daily practice. However, the male protagonists discovering Gilman’s utopia are adamant that real love is absent from Herland, one remarking that “[the women] hadn 't even the faintest idea of love--sex-love, that is.” (Gilman 91) The three…

Love is a neurological state created by the brain not just an emotion. The part of the brain that love is centered works like it would if someone was on drugs. One could still consider love as an emotion. Every feeling that can be felt by someone like anger, happiness etc. are felt when someone tells themselves that they love or are in love with someone. All of which triggers a part of the brain. People describe love in many different ways. “Philosophers and poets have pondered the nature of…

Four Loves In C.S. Lewis’ book, Four Loves, he writes on the topic of love and outlines four different categories or types of love including: Affection, Friendship, Eros, and Charity. Throughout his book, Lewis explores each type of love and explains how each type is important. Love is often perceived as a beautiful, but confusing concept that people struggle to talk about. However, after reading this book, I have gained a new understanding on what it means to love and how I love the most.…