It has the power to take control of our actions and the power to leave us feeling helpless. If you are to ask someone what exactly is love, I guarantee not one person will be able to give a concrete definition, yet many people claim to have been or are currently in love. It can cause us to be happier than we ever thought possible and bring us immense sorrow. Love has been experienced, studied, and written about through time. Egyptian poets wrote many poems on love and especially the love of a beautiful woman. .
Women were often the source of words strung together in stunning arrangement that expresses desire. Many poems are about a man's love for a woman. Although this is common genre even in today's society, there are many more types of love. There is the love of a man from a woman, love of one's self, love of music, and love of God. Egyptian love poems are almost always about a man's love for a woman. .
There are two main types of love poetry written by Egyptian poets. The first is a positive love poem. It often includes imageries of infatuation, seduction, and invitation. It follows along the thought pattern of carpe diem. Seizing the opportunity when it is before you. You may never get another chance like this again so you should make the best of it. Positive love poems follow a pattern of exaggerated claims of women's physical characteristics. We notice this plainly in "Love Songs." .
Sweet are those lips, which chatter.
(but never a word too much),.
And the line of the long neck lovely, dropping.
(since song's notes slide that way).
To young breasts firm in the bouncing light.
Which shimmers that blueshadowed sidefall of hair. (46).
Once love has arrived, there are overstated claims about the greatness of it and how wonderful life is now. It's as if a hole that was missing in someone's life has now been filled by love. .
The second type of love poem is a negative love poem. These too often follow a similar pattern.
