Platonic love

about the types of emotions that might be evoked by the loss of a loved one during war (Feldman, Kevin, Vaughan, and Kinsella 719). Amy Lowell used her poetry to paint a vivid picture in the minds of her readers that expressed a woman’s heart felt love for her long awaited…

classes together and were part of different social groups, but somehow he was always on my mind. A never wavering, never faltering image that accompanied my cyclist’s circuit. That’s it! Romance. For me to be happy, I must be loved in more ways than platonic. My pursuit of him was in no way a reflection of the notorious Discovery Channel documentaries of…

Alcibiades’ speech can be understood as a confession of deep love of a young admirer for an esteemed Greek philosopher in the form of several accountable praises. The reasons of this love have been dispersed throughout the speech, giving us glimpses of the consistent perception he held of Socrates. The continuity in this monologue serves as a connection between their varying audiences which is the foundation for this essay. This writing deals with organizing and categorising the different causes…

people. The whole story is a symbol of having your heart broken, wishing to replace your heart and to forget bad memories. Her first love was Jacob, and she was very in love with him. ‘Jacob was as solid and golden as a tilled field, and our love was going to last forever, which at our age meant six months.’’ The story uses flashbacks; to each person she fell in love with, as you can see in the quote above. ‘’ When Jacob left, I felt my heart shat¬ter like a shotgun pellet, shards lodging in…

“time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough”-EE Cummings Love is a subject that people strive for. It’s a main point in poetry, music, movies, books, even advertisements. Each individual person has their own idea of what love they want in their lives, but can they put it into words? Written is a series of interviews based on love. The persons interviewed for this project were a generation apart. The four persons interviewed were…

course of true love never did run smooth’ this is as a result of love complications in the midsummer night’s dream by Shakespeare. Different interpretations of love are aimed at showing what being in love could lead to when you think you are in love and yet you are not. This expresses how easily emotions can be confused and be changed as a result of power expressed in different kinds of love. The essay tries to explain what problems and troubles that one can get into as a result of love. The…

share one thing in common, love. Sometimes in stories, the love is simply romantic, but there are countless other examples throughout literature where the love is purely platonic. In life, there are all types of love, parental love, the love of family and friendship, and even more unpleasant types of love, such as unrequited love. One of the most famous love stories being Romeo and Juliet, a story written by William Shakespeare that incorporates not only the romantic love shared between Romeo…

their lives in order”. You may experience depression, fear, anger or guilt. Also in chapter 11 we discussed about loneliness and solitude. Loneliness in the book meaning someone who “is generally triggered by certain life events—the death of someone we love, the decision of another person to leave us (or we them), a move to a new city, a long stay in the hospital, or a major life decision. Solitude meaning “we make decisions for ourselves, to discover who we are, and renew ourselves”. While it…

Romantic Love is Subjective Love is a broadly defined term and hence it is imprecise because subjective love is purely an emotional condition. The meaning of ‘I love you’ is so personal because love is extremely of the mind and as a feeling, is incredibly subjective. However, it can manifest itself in ways that are objective. According to Plato,‘Vulgar Eros’ or earthly love is nothing but mere material attraction towards a beautiful body for physical pleasure and reproduction. Love could be…

A lecture, love, in love’s philosophy.” - John Donne, Lecture upon the Shadow For the exceptionally intricate John Donne (1572-1631), love played a crucial role in his life, and ultimately became the basis of his poetry in all different aspects and forms. In essence, life had become love for him: the love for women, his wife and God. Either physical, emotional or religious, Donne’s poetry includes the omnipresence of romance, passion and worship provide a unique scope to love in every angle…