Essays on Types of Love

After someone peruses Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink”, they may deduce that love is a critical necessity for survival while the speaker uses contradiction, through breaks in rhythm, in developing her concept of love. Looking in between the lines of this poem, the reader can explore if love is a foundational pillar for survival in life or if love is an overrated emotion. The contradicting attitude the speaker portrays through imagery can indeed lead to ...

Texts are cultural snapshots representing their era - they reflect and develop the values, ideas and attitudes of their context. Two texts, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s (EBB) suite of Petrarchan form sonnet’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s modernist novel “The Great Gatsby” explore the transformative nature of love and also the desire of an individual for a transcendental love. Both authors draw on their own interpretations of love and infuse the context of their time ...

Family dynamics are interesting to evaluate, especially trying to evaluate the dynamics between my own family members. Our ethnicity is Hispanic, we are of the Mexican-American race; however, our traditions and expectations following mainly along what we would be considered to be heavily “American. ” It is interesting to ponder over our traditions and lifestyles, as we do follow many of the Mexican family values and beliefs, while we also believe in American beliefs and follow those ...

The Lady with the Dog is one of Anton Chekhov's most recognized and surely one of his most appreciated stories. It displays Chekhov's writing style quite well as he is a subtle author who is great at integrating intensity throughout his stories. He brings to life the characters feelings without using too many words to describe them which makes the story even more captivating to the reader. The main theme of this short story is marriage, fidelity and true love. Gurov, a known womanizer, is ...

Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Great Gatsby are two novels that illustrate very different levels of class and privilege. Zora Neale Hurston’s work Their Eyes Were Watching God, which follows an impoverished African-American woman’s coming of age, is greatly contrasted with the wealthy lifestyles depicted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work The Great Gatsby. Through their differences both authors embrace themes of love and passion as they relate to the minds of both men and women with little ...

Valentine's Day a celebration of love is all about love, caring and affection, that truly reunite with the real meaning of this day. Whatever might be your status whether in relationship, dating or single we are smitten with the idea of showering those closet with little extra love this valentine's day. Before loving others you got to love yourself as the saying goes and what can be a better idea than gifting yourself a new dress. Though valentine day is just a date to celebrate the feast of ...

The article defines about the wrong concepts of true love which a human can think and which leads him to the false love. According to Islam and spirituality all the true love belongs to Allah only and the path which make us his beloved one. Presently many people though that the attraction for the opposite gender is love or believe in “Love in first sight “thing. But this very attraction is false Love and lust, the true love only aroused from Nikkah which is the right way to be loved and to ...

The valentine day is the day when people share their love, affection, and celebrate with their loved ones. One of the best ways you can show appreciation, love, and affection to your husband or boyfriend is by buying him one of these Valentines Day gifts for him. Whatever you want to do to enjoy your valentine with your other half, it is essential to make sure that it will remain in his memory forever. And if that is what you want to accomplish, then you have come to the right page. We have ...

Phaedrus started the speech by explaining that Love is one of the most ancient gods, bringing people goods and guidances. Phaedrus explained that, people will be more guilt or proud in front of their lovers, and they don’t want their lovers to capture the moment that they did something shameful, as a result, shame and humiliation are able to guide people to act well. He then proposed a system that a city or an army are formed by lovers, which can hold each other back form shameful works. Here ...

As You Like It shows many different ways about love and jealousy. The main thing about love shows the love of Rosalind and Orlando, and other characters in the play are either in or out of love. This shows the people in the play the opportunity to show their love or lose it. They show their different views about the different types of love shown not only by the characters, but also in life. They also show how they don't care for each other like they should because most of the people in these ...

Something I can't describe. Something I can't deny. Don't need no alibis. You got to give me something real. Something that I like to feel. You got to give me 'Love' is a word for many distinguishable meanings. It is also the word for hope and happiness. it is probably the most misunderstood word than any other in the world. It drives the population of this globe as everyone chases this feeling which seems above all. Every person has found a new meaning for love which explains their selfish ...

There are already different ways of reading you in my own skin: by verses, by ink and by kisses. That's why, when I miss you, I gently stroke my wrist and suddenly something awakens in me: a reminder that it costs less to get up with my hands, which already accumulate scratches since I touched yours in the streets of this sad city. Defender of my own space as I was, and used to how I wanted to share company but not the bed, now dreaming of you takes me to heaven, and sleep without you broken ...

This book is written by one of my favourite instagram writer/poet, “Arslan_writes” and I got this book because of him (I don’t usually read books like this). But as I started reading, I started to love this book more and more, because of the depth of spiritual knowledge it contains. This isn’t the kind of book you’d read over a weekend but the kind of book you’d read slowly, trying to soak in all the spiritual depth it contains. Disciples of Ishq seeks to define love as the basis of life, and ...

Humans are primal, social creatures. Looking for love has never been easy throughout human existence, and the birth of online dating out of twenty-first century technological advancements is no exception. This essay explores the new phenomenon of online dating though mobile online applications (apps), and its effects on society, the changes in prenotions of love and companionship over time. Following the launch of the first online dating site in 1995, to the invention of modern networking ...