Love has many different meanings to different people. For a four-year-old, love is marrying her daddy when she grows up. For an elementary school kid, love is what he or she feels for his or her best friend, who also serves as a boyfriend or girlfriend. To a fifteen-year-old boy, love is what he should feel for his girlfriend of the moment; only because she says she loves him. But as we get older and "wiser," love becomes more and more confusing. Along with poets and philosophers, people have been trying to answer that age-old question for centuries: What is love? One definition of love in The Merriam-Webster dictionary is "attraction based on sexual desire" (439). Some people believe that love and sex are one in the same. If two people are in love, they should be having sex. And, on the flipside, if two people are having sex, they must be in love. However, this assumption is obviously not always true. Whether it is right or not to have sex without love is irrelevant; the fact is it happens. Just because a person is sexually attracted to another person and has the desire to have sex with that person does not necessarily suggest that this person is in love. He or she could very well be experiencing a feeling of lust. Yes, love can be very sexual when a person is really in love. The speaker in Denise Levertov's "Love Poem" explains her love as the flash of golden daylight in the body's midnight, warmth of the fall noonday between the sheets in the dark. This passage obviously alludes to sex, but sex is not completely necessary when there is love. The speaker in Sharon Olds" "Sex without Love" asks, "How do they do it, the ones who make love / without love?" (1-2). Love is deeper and more meaningful than just physical or sexual attraction. Love is a feeling--an emotion. Love is also defined in the dictionary as "strong affection," "warm attachment"and"unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for others" (439).
What is Love? Love is affection. Love is sacrifice. Love is compromise. Love is faith. Love is believable and unbelievable. Love is destiny. Love is strength. Love is trust. Love is a desire with lust. Love is the world. Yeah, exactly what is love? Love is all about showing...
One might ask, "How is love expressed? Are there certain categories in which love falls? How do different people react to love?" Love is expressed through a variety of mediums. ... If everyone understood their love language, people would learn how to better love others. ...
Throughout history Love has been a topic of conversation. Plato's Symposium provides us with many different views and theories about Love. ... After describing history of Love, he proposes that each person is half of a complete love relationship, a whole. ... It is perfectly accepted having males seek Love with females; if no Love is found having males interacting with the females, so that by the mutual embraces of man and woman they might breed, and the race might continue. Or, equally so, if a man came to a man to seek Love; if Love is not found they might be satisfied and go about th...
Love is the desire for the soul. ... Confused from what love really is, they immediately attract on each other. ... Lastly, they liked the idea of love itself, rather than loving the person. ... Lastly, Romeo and Juliet loved the idea of "being in love"" instead of truly loving the actual person. ... It is clear that the type of "love"" that Romeo and Juliet are experiencing is nothing but lust and an illusion of what appears to be love. ...
"Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds, expresses her emotions against loveless sex as a hurtful and cold act. ... Sex with love leads to babys that are wanted. On the other hand sex without love can lead to unwanted babies that get given away. ... The figurative meaning of cardio could be love because the heart is a symbol of love. ... When referring to Sex Without Love, the topic of religion can be brought into the discussion. ...
Since many people fall into and out of love it is difficult to define what love actually is. ... He compares young people to being apprentices of love. ... I believe in most of what Rilke has to say about love. ... Rilke says that we need to learn how to love. ... How does one learn love without mistaking false love as truth? ...
Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on how love is presented through in Shakespeare's: Romeo and Juliet and how love is presented through a series of sonnets (18, 130 and 134). ... Throughout the play there is a constant theme of love and fate. ... 'Alas that love, whose view is muffled still. ... This also shows how ' first love' isn't always 'true love'. We can compare this type of love to that in Sonnet 130. ...
It is not love that affirms the bond of man's unity, but it is man's unity and his bonding which integrate love into man. ... Because of love, some of mankind's greatest histories have been recognized as infamous, but also some of mankind's greatest histories have also been recognized, all of them influenced by Love. Was it not the power of love which allowed the Israelites to unify against the Egyptians? Was it not the power of love which brought forth Helen from Sparta and the destruction of Troy? Was it not the power of love which made Buddha an enlightened sage? ...
This is a location of Love Canal. ... So what is the lesson of Love Canal? ... The Love Canal neighborhood is in the southeast section of the La Salle area of Niagara Falls, New York. ... Unusually heavy rain and snowfalls in 1975 and 1976 provided high ground-water levels in the Love Canal area. ... In 1978, the Department of Health learned that Love Canal chemicals had surfaced at the site. ...
This is true romantic love. ... Friendship love is one of greater complexity even than of romantic love. ... Love is not merely a need. ... I thought, "But is it love?" ... Is this the love I dream about? ...