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Francisco de Quevedo/Sonnet 478

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

Diotima's Ideas on the Fairness of Love

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

Does Romeo Really Love Juliet?

the little black book" - for good; they dont keep copies on the laptop or stashed somewhere else ("Recognizing the Signs"). They g...

The Wife of Bath and the Love Poems of Sappho and Catullus

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

Love According to Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love

It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...

Robert Browning and Aphra Behn's Poems

enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...

Bard's Personality as Reflected in His Plays

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

Ancient Poems and Love Songs of Egypt and China Compared on Love and Sex Attitudes

war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...

Shakespeare in Love Film and the Ideals of Courtly Love

harmed, though he will herald her with poetry if he is an artistic sort. These are fairly simple definitions, but they help to set...

Love in Andrew Marvell's 'The Definition of Love' and in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's 'Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought'

survive, the most poignant works were his love sonnets. Surrey was considered to be quite the ladies man, even though he was marr...

Collective Unconscious and Family Constellations

generation ancestors behaved as well. He classifies most relationships between family members as "the orders of love," and indicat...

Ethical Obligations of Humankind

repetition, thus forming a habit. In other words, the virtuous man will take pleasure in acting good because it is an expression o...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

Symposium of Plato and the Concept of Objectified Love

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

Chapter 2 of The Transformation of Man by Rosemary Haughton

it threatens what they each have come to see as the status quo of their lives. However, as this new experience begins to give each...

Love and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...

Contemporary Society and Love

become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...

Comparative Analysis of Sonnet 23 and Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...

Social Perspective Changes on Sex and Erotic Love

anxiety of aloneness, but the wish to conquer or be conquered, by vanity, by the wish to hurt or even to destroy, as much as it ca...

Three Short Stories and the Nature of Love

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

'Canzoniere' by Petrarch

"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...

An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

Romanticism, Modernism, and Victorian Literature

throughout the novel. This is adventure and romance and in essence offers up a very tense story that is filled with emotions, fear...

Love's Power in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

Love and Marriage in Yvain by Chretien de Troyes

In five pages the ways in which the protagonist develops an appreciation of love's value are discussed. There is 1 source listed ...

Truth and Love in Love in the Time of Cholera

Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera is evaluated for thematic elements of love and truth. The protagonist Florentino is the focus...

Love's Infinity in D'Aragona's Dialogue and Plato's Symposium

In five pages this paper compares the views expressed by these authors regarding women's role and the infinite nature of love. Fi...

Love That Does Not Last in the Films of Woody Allen

no matter how precious we may believe ours to actually be. Some of Allens films are more consistently filled with the idea of l...

Human Love versus Godly Love in 'Prometheus Bound' and 'Hippolytus'

In an essay consisting of five pages the role of love is compared and contrasted in these two works. There is one other source ci...

The Differences Between Art for Life's Sake and for Art's Sake

In seven pages this essay considers differences between art simply for the sake of art and as a representation of life and discuss...