Guinizelli And Petrarch Interpretation Of Love

Lao Tzu, one of ancient China’s greatest philosophers once said when asked to explain what love is, “[it] is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” Since the beginning of time, writers and philosophers have been trying to discover the origins of this “attack,” and many attribute different reasons for this immense feeling. In both Plato’s Symposium, and Ovid’s The Art of Love, Aristophanes and Ovid attempt to address the genesis of love by asking: what is the feeling that drives us towards another human: Is it physical attraction? Sexual desire? Experience in the field of dating? Or is this attack of the senses due to something beyond our comprehension,

Questions of love and lust have plagued the story of Romeo and Juliet, a romantic tragedy written by Shakespeare for years. However, the real question would not be whether what the two had was love, but what type of love it was. Romeo and Juliet had a short-lived relationship bursting with young passionate love, despite family quarrels disputing one another’s name. Some say love is purely a chemical reaction in the brain. Others say it is what separates us from love that shows it most, with some believing that love is life’s greatest blessing, never hurting. It is my belief that Romeo and Juliet had a passionate commitment that never hurt, though costing dearly, with obstacles that proved it stronger.

One of love’s most prominent characteristics is its ability to engulf the human mind in floods of pure emotion. In the short term, love is often associated with phrases such as hearts “skipping a beat” or “butterflies” in one’s stomach. As an act of intuition and instinct, love can have immediate physiological and psychological effects. As a result, love’s psychosomatic manifestations often lead their bewitched to direct as many efforts as possible toward winning another’s heart. With regard to this motif of physical and emotional infatuation, Shakespeare argues, being in love causes us to become inconsistent and to allow ourselves to be buffeted by the wild waves of our ever-changing desires. In the play,

Teacher and classmates, A few weeks ago, I questioned Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet wondering why, why is this literature still prominent in today's society? The foreign tongue it is written in, the seemingly basic and boring plot and the lack of action all combined being regarded as one of man’s greatest achievements didn't quite equate. However through my studies of the question, How effectively does Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet shape our notion of love, I realised. Throughout the text lies defining moments of romantic, fickle and fraternal love and the complexity of the text allows for both interpretation while maintaining relatability. However our perception of love, the strong feeling of affection, has differed immensely since 1595. Romeo and Juliet, a story over four centuries old is the foundation of love and romance throughout history.

Love is perhaps one of the most contested issues in the world. No one has a precise definition of what love really should look or feel like. Most people have resorted to use their own experiences in love to effectively derive its true meaning. Through these experiences, philosophers have argued that the definition of love varies greatly depending on whether it was given by a man or a woman. This is however not the case. As proven by the narratives of Beauvoir and Sartre, the definitions of love derived from the experiences of both men and women are quite similar. Consequentially, Beauvoir’s account of the woman in love sheds important light on Sartre’s conflicting thought about love. By first highlighting the concepts of love as stated by Beauvoir, this text seeks to establish how Beauvoir’s account of love lays a vital foundation for Sartre’s.

What is Love? Does anyone really know the meaning of the word? Does it have a different meaning to different people? In Kipnis’s essay “Love Labors”, Laura Kipnis touches on many different aspects of love. This is a touchy subject simply because love brings out many different opinions and beliefs. Kipnis argues over the fact that in order to have a good relationship and love someone people have to be able to meet certain requirements, which are mutuality, communication, and advanced intimacy.

In the Greek Era, many philosophers tried to define love, especially one that was timeless. Throughout literature, there have various perspectives on love. In The Iliad, which was during the Greek era, there was greater importance on honor than love. In The Confessions, which was written during the early Christian age, there was a great importance for love of God. In Gilead, which is a modern novel, there is great importance for love in general, especially that for family. Out of all the Socratic definitions of love in The Symposium, Diotima had the most universal definition of love, which was “the desire to possess the good forever” (206A). To possess the good forever, one must reproduce with their body or reproduce with their soul. Diotima’s idea of the desire to possess the good forever through reproduction of the body and of the soul is present in all three sections of literature including The Iliad, Confessions and Gilead.

Love is a highly debatable concept. Is it merely a confusion of the natural functions of human brains or is it a force that extends beyond human control leaving victims naked to its influence? Are people able to choose their lovers or are the functions of love the deciding factor? To find these answers look not only into the actions of people, but absorb the insight into the human psyche that literature lends the mind from within its pages.

In the poetry we studied, love is also presented as a complicated and often negative way. Shakespeare presents Claudio and Hero as a pair of conventional lovers. Through their relationship he shows the audience how women were treated by men. Shakespeare presents women as objects: “Can the world buy such a jewel”.

When confronted with “Love”, most people’s minds immediately jump to a happily married couple, or a pair of young lovers. While this is the most obvious conclusion, love extends its reaches into other aspects of relationships as well, beyond saying, “I love you,” on the way out the door. Famous playwright, William Shakespeare, was a master at capturing these many different essences of love. The two specific plays that will be examined for love themes in this paper are Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest. He did this so successfully that these works have endured the test of time, where they are enjoyed and analyzed centuries later.

The sincere love expressed in her words and the generosity with which she opens her soul, have moved through the centuries. In addition to the pleasure of her beauty, her words mobilize reflections about our own affective behavior. Although our life should be a rich adventure in search of affection, it conjures of loneliness and vindication of love, not infrequently we retreat caresses, we are ashamed of our natural inclinations, we hide our tears because the context disqualifies and condemn love because it does not conform to certain rules. We oppose the concrete to the abstract, as if abstract thinking were a weakness. And, what is usually more

Since definition of love and its representation varies person to person and in the past it has already been represented in various ways, which leads one to presume that language is insufficient to represent love. However, it is evident that the language has proved to be sufficient enough to not only analyze, dissect and explain the feelings of love from so many angles including biologically. Subversions of conventions of love is not the matter of insufficiency of language but a matter of how a poet experiences love or how a poet chooses to express those experiences.

What role does love take on in one’s life? What changes can it bring to a person and how does it affect the way they interact with others? What happens when infatuation is mistaken for love, and the mindless consequences of the impulsive behaviour affect not just the one who is in the situation, but everyone who surrounds them? What damage does it bring? The Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet revolves around the same thought, as to what happens when love overtake one’s ability to think and react to situations that comes to life or death, and how the decisions of it, unintentionally causes pain to others. The author demonstrates the consequences of loving through the, when pain and suffer causes them to end their lives to be with each

The modern concept of love owes a great deal to the Humanist tradition of the Renaissance. The humanists focused on perfection and exaltation of this life as opposed to the afterlife. In Tristan and Iseult the seeds of Renaissance love are present in the Middle Ages. To the modern eye, it is a mystery how the period of the Middle Ages produced the seeds of the diametrically opposite Renaissance. Yet it is necessary to understand this transformation if one is to fully comprehend the forces that helped produce the modern consciousness. Courtly Love is a transitional concept that emerged in the Middle Ages. It is transitional because it emerged early and acknowledges God as the creator of love,

Bitter. Sweet. Tender. Love. This subjective idea may refer to a concept, a feeling, an attitude, an emotion, one could have towards another. Throughout history, one’s perception on love may vary due to the ideology they were being indoctrinated with as well as their family background. Given that different historical periods may affect one’s perception on their idea of love, an analysis on the poems “La Belle Dame sans Merci” by John Keats, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, and “Mother in a Refugee Camp” by Chinua Achebe, will be made in order to examine and explore how poets living in different times present love in their own unique approach.