Platonic love

given some formal schooling and discovered a love for poetry. As writers do, Clare using his background and what he was familiar with developed his skill and went on to publish multiple volumes of poetry (Poetry Foundation, 2016). First Love by John Clare was written during the Romantic era, the late 1800’s, which primarily focused on emotions and nature (McAlpine, 2011). Clare 's theme in First Love is exactly what the title emphasizes; Love. Love is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary…

alone ever having a successful career. He must have an overwhelming love for the effects of drug use, to potentially destroy his…

pure and simple man to a powerful and demanding man. Lower class Esteban has a pure love for his fiancée. He loves Rosa at his first sight, and he wants to be a wealthy man before marrying his fiancée. Esteban grows up in a poor condition family. His birth “had simply been a regrettable accident in the life of Dona Ester, who was destined to marry someone of her own class, but she had fallen hopelessly in love with that good-for-nothing immigrant, a first-generation…

The book I chose to read for the second quarter is called “One Came Home”. This book was written by Amy Timberlake. I was excited to read this book because it is a mystery book and I love reading mysteries. This book is about a girl named Georgie Burkhardt whose sister recently ran away with a group of pigeoneers. A couple days later, her sister’s body is returned by the sheriff, but Georgie refuses to believe that she is dead. Georgie feels that it is her fault that her sister, Agatha,…

throughout the course of the novel. For example, Miles, at first, doubts whether Alaska, his mesmerizing and outgoing neighbor truly cares for him as a friend. Alaska always hangs out with miles, and eventually they fall in love with each other; however, Miles fails to realize this as true love later in the novel (129). When he starts hanging out with his roommate and his roommate’s friends, Miles doubts whether they truly like him. However, in the beginning of the novel, Miles doubts his newly…

to recreate the past. Gatsby’s unrelenting love for Daisy consumes his every thought, while Lieutenant Cross’ daydreaming about his sweetheart lead to his men’s demise in the jungles of Vietnam. While reflecting on the past can be productive, to dwell upon it or try to recreate it is detrimental to personal progress. Gatsby and Lieutenant Cross both exhibit a fixation on the past which inhibits their ability to live fully in the present. Jay Gatsby’s love for Daisy never extinguished after the…

Dog explore the theme of love The author of Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy, utilises the idea of fragility and delicacy in order to express the multiple connotations and symbols of love. Valentine continuously makes use of references to love to display the gentleness and tenderness within romantic motif’s/conventions. Carol Ann Duffy refers to the figurative onion being peeled “like the careful undressing of love”, emphasising the compassionate and affectionate nature of love portrayed by the…

Some books are make you tear up, some make you bawl, some cause no emotion. The book Night Road sends even a calloused reader on a road of twisting curves that come to halting stop. The novel starts with a young fourteen year old, Lexi, who has been through seven foster homes in five years. Recently, she said goodbye to her mom who finally died of a heroine overdose. When Lexi’s caseworker tells her she has another family for her, it is different this time. Immediately as Lexi hears the word…

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth” (William W. Purkey). According to Purkey people should live life how they want, and live life the way it make them happy. Morrie Schwartz would agree with what Purkey said to living life on what makes the person happy. In the memoir of Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie teaches others how to live life through accepting regrets, loving others, and to…

When Tea Cake died, Janie felt the most heartache she ever had experienced. The love of her life had been killed right in front of her and she was the one to blame. When comparing all her relationships, the love that she shared with Tea Cake was the one that was believed to be the one to last eternity. And it did. When she had frighteningly pulled the trigger with the one ounce of power she had…