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Love Has Many Definitions Essay

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What is love? Webster defines love as “a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties <maternal love for a child> (2): attraction based on sexual desire: affection and tenderness felt by lovers (3): affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests <love for his old schoolmates>.” Love comes in many forms. Unconditional love, the love of a mother for her child, romantic love, the love for your partner and passion or lust, a more sexual emotion towards a person. Love, although clearly defined gets interpreted by each person differently, it plays on human emotion and on human beings themselves.

Unconditional love defined as love with no conditions and without limits. Love of this stature, the most …show more content…

Unconditional love, like hope feeds the soul and nourishes the heart.

Romantic love, although not clearly defined, usually implies an expression of one's love, or one's deep emotional desires to connect with another person. (en.wikipedia.org) Romantic love more complex in nature tolls with the human heart. This love deals more closely with human emotions than physical desire. This love connects our hearts and gives us the freedom to express our internal emotions. Oscar Wilde once said, “Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.” (brainyquote.com) In saying this, he fully understood and stated the very complex truth of romantic love. Romantic love tends to revolve around emotional desire. We as human beings, men and women, perceive this love as we choose. As we interpret these intense emotional desires we form ideas and conclusions in an instant. Throughout the ages men have put the idea of romantic love on paper. When Romeo said, “With love’s light wings did I o'erperch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out, and what love can do, that dares love attempt. Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.” Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet (2.2 66-69) I feel he speaks the pure essence of romance. Romance gives man the power to conquer all, to feel like an invincible army, an indestructible force and yet gentle and loving as man’s best friend. Romeo to

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