\"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.\" - Alfred Lord Tennyson Everyone is a philosopher when it comes to love. Definitions are \"a dime a dozen.\" Some says, \"love is a rose, \"fragrant and beautiful, but thorny and painful\". The modern mind thinks of love in vag...

Shakespeare\'s love sonnets describe three different contexts in which love operates, as such, he depicts a multi-faceted picture of love. Love in Shakespeare\'s poems does not have a single definition, but rather, an intangible conglomeration of characteristics that, together, make up an ever power...

Love Canal Love\'s Model City The Model City (tune of Yankee Doodle) Everybody\'s come to town, They\'r building now a great big ditch, Those left we all do pity, Through dirt and rock so gritty, For we\'ll have a jolly time, They say \'twill make all very...

Body and Soul:Springboards for LoveSaint Augustine and Catherine of Siena went through distinctive spiritual journeys in order to reach and experience true love. Confessions, by Saint Augustine, and The Dialogue, by Catherine of Siena, reveal these journeys faced by both authors. To begin with, ea...

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.I love you not only for what you are,but for what I am when I am with youAs we grow older together,As we continue to change with age,There is one thing that will never change...I will always keep falling in love with you.For, you see, each day I love you ...

Shakespeare: In Love and Reality According to Jeremy Giltzer, Hollywood has "turned to history to create inspired moments of action, drama, and patriotism." It has "provided the movies with some of the most climatic moments and colorful characters imaginable," while making co...

Love, hate, and violence are all emotions that are experienced by people at one or more times during their lifetime. Othello by William Shakespeare and "What We Talk about When We Talk about Love" by Raymond Carver are stories in which love, hate and violence fulfill an important role amo...

In the political midst of controversial topics that engulf our society, I write on the most basic and yet debated topics of all time – love. Many modern writers have aimed to write about the Romantic Tradition in various ways, but to be completely honest, in doing so they have misled many lit...

The Existence of Love The existence of love is something that everyone takes for granted. We have all been reared to believe in this ephemeral concept. If we take a look at what society thinks love is, we are likely to be lost in even more ephemeral ideas and concepts. Love has become the ultimate p...

Introduction Touch has long been researched but we yet need to know more about it since its effects are of such magnitude. Touch is the most essential communication channel for babies because they sense, understand and experience it more than any other stimulation. Babies need to be touched becau...

The love of Hamlet for Ophelia Hamlet is without any reservations, one of Shakespeare's most mystifying plays. Although the play has a concise story, it is filled with many uncertainties relating to different issues behind the plot. The reader is left with many uncertainties about the true fee...

Abstraction of Love In the symposium, Plato discusses the many strong meanings of love through the conversation of characters at a symposium, or dinner party, in which the guests take turns on stating their views on love. Before the discussions begin the guests eat and afterward ...

The Art of Loving In Erich Fromm's novel, The Art of Loving, the author tackles the task of defining what exactly is meant by the word love and what it means to love someone. He begins by presenting his theories on love and how they apply to the different areas and aspects of life. He then exp...

The Look of Love What is love? Love is an expression used to show affection towards something or someone. Steven Mather says it the best in his poem Love Defined. "Although it's better than the rest, this word can never pass the test; it fails in all capacity to describe the things ...

Timeless Love The harsh nature in which loves consumes us can also contain our heart and soul for an eternity. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera confronts what is held to be the most sacred of human emotions as its primary theme and source of conflict. This emotio...

Discovering Fire "After man has mastered the winds the waves and the tides, some day he will harness for God the energies of love, and then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire" (Teilhard de Jardin...

Dickens's Use of Characters February 7, 1812, a day in history no one thought possible, a day in history where the view of literature would be changed forever, a day when an author is destined to be considered one of the greatest English novelists of the Victorian period. The day a man who...

Love In LiteratureLove has always had a place in every society and culture since the beginning of time. Love binds people, love binds lives of togetherness, or love may put someone in an overwhelming state of euphoria or break a heart in two. Its power is remarkable. It can change someone forever...

A comparative study of Sydney Carton in Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities, and Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet in Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, requires the reader to analyze various aspects that the transforming effect love can have on a personality. As we study each charac...

BlindfoldedLove is a powerful blindfold; it can make a person see things that are not there or look away from things that would pain a lover. Othello is blinded in his love for Desdemona, blind to all the consequences of a secret love, and ultimately blinded to the treachery of his friend Iago. Desd...

"Love is in the air" when Valentines Day is around the corner. But is it that true? Somehow or the other, I think that Valentines Day is just too over commercialized to be a day to celebrate love. There are just too many kill joy while going through the "process" of celebrating ...

A Love Story The low point in Erica's life became obvious to her. She had been in and out of low quality relationships since her senior year of high school. It had been three years that Erica had been out of high school. Senior year of college was approach...

Myth of Love Vs. True LoveLove between a man and a woman is one of the most cherished myths of Western culture. The "myth of love" is the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship, but true love is one marries and finds out if he or she still cares for the other person with or without...

Hamlet is without any reservations, one of Shakespeare's most mystifying plays. Although the play has a concise story, it is filled with many uncertainties relating to different issues behind the plot. The reader is left with many uncertainties about the ...

Love in William Carlos Williams' Asphodel: That Greeny FlowerAs an artist William Carlos Williams was a famous poet, regarded highly among the artistic world, but as a husband Williams was not quite as successful. Towards the end of his career, in hopes to regain better standing with his wife, Willi...