Love's Vocabulary By Diane Ackerman

Have you ever felt the feeling of butterflies in your stomach or heard the phrase “my heart skipped a beat for you”? As children, we grew up learning from our elders and experiencing new beginnings in life. Much of our knowledge has been brought upon by what we see and hear, rather of what we know. Many important decisions we make in our life has to do with what our feelings show us. Love is an important matter in our life because it motivates us in different ways. Love can be shown through emotions or even through actions. What is a valuable definition of love? A brief definition of love can be said to be a variety of different feelings or attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection to pleasure. In other words, to me love is when

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we meet the characters and how their actions led to a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet met, end up falling in love, and – since both cannot dream of living without the other – take their lives. While the play ends in a tragic death for both characters, it was their own reckless decisions; though others might believe that it was destiny that played a large role in the lovers’ downfall. However, the majority of the text evidence points to them making their own choices leading to their demise.

Emotion is a wild card in life. It almost always influences people to make bad decisions in their life, and causes harm to not only the host, but to many other people around them. In the play Romeo and Juliet, the characters Romeo, Juliet, and Tybalt are all very emotional characters which conclusively lead to all of their deaths, as well as to the deaths of many other people around them. Because of these characters newly drawn emotion, they made decisions that would have been previously considered ludicrous and idiotic. Throughout the exceptional play of Romeo and Juliet, it is ultimately proven that emotion is the enemy when it comes to decision making.

Love is a force that inspires us to feel more, do more, and sometimes sacrifice for the object of our attention. Poems, music, relationships are all written in the name of love. There are six kinds of love, according to the ancient Greeks:

The emotion of love is an incredibly complex feeling, as displayed in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

In William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” he depicts extremely self-destructive tendencies as acts of love. Shakespeare seems to consider self-destructive behaviour as a necessary part of young love while in reality the two should be separated. Romeo and Juliet show blatant disregard for their wellbeing.

“The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is a romantic tragic play about the tragic deaths of the two star crossed lovers. Romeo a Montague and Juliet a Capulet come from feuding families. Even though they are enemies of each other’s families, they still pursue the love they have for each other. “Love’s Vocabulary” by Diane Ackerman is an essay that explains the concept of love and the mystery and complexity of love. In the essay she explains that love is shown in many different ways and the vocabulary of love has not changed for thousands of years. In the texts “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare and “Love’s Vocabulary” by Diane Ackerman develops the central idea that families can interfere with love through their use of dramatic irony, cause and effect, character motivation, and a metaphor.

In the play “Romeo and Juliet”, by Shakespeare shows how love is a powerful force especially when it’s rebellious which can cause people to act without thinking. Romeo’s and Juliet’s families where complete enemies and had such a hatred to towards each other that they weren’t able to be near one another. But forbidden love between one another caused Romeo and Juliet “A pair of star-crossed lovers..”(Prologue .6), to take their lives because of their rebellious love for eachother. Romeo and Juliet did the impossible to be together even when they were miles away from each other. A love so ridiculously strong like no other that would be consider our classic idea of romantic love. With the mindset of doing anything and everything for the person they love which was represented through their language and behavior throughout the play. Romeo and Juliet felt a sense obligation towards one another with their love, so they were convinced that with their love they can conquer society especially their parents while still have the ability to preserve their love and happiness.

Love is being willing to sacrifice everything for your everything, and giving your family, friends, and life for one person. Romeo gave everything for Juliet. He risked his family, his friends, his way of living, and his life in the pursuit of his true love. Juliet risked all that was central in influencing her to be the person she is, even

In many stories, love is presented as the ultimate solution for everything. It brings happiness from despair and hope from destruction. But in reality, love tricks one’s mind to make reckless decisions. According to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, making decisions based on one’s emotions can lead to pure destruction. This is evident through the words and actions of Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence.

Romeo and Juliet is one of William Shakespeare’s most acclaimed and tragic pieces of literature. In this story of two young “star-crossed lovers”, Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight. However, they are doomed to only be able to be in love for a brief time since they will take their own lives. When Romeo thinks that Juliet is “dead”, he drinks the deadly poison he bought from an apothecary, but Juliet wakes up barely a moment after just to find him dead. She stabs herself in the heart, killing herself to be with Romeo. Of course, this isn’t all there is to this tragedy, even though Romeo and Juliet themselves are the most responsible for the outcome of the story. There are several other characters in the play and many, if not all,

Clementine von Radics writes of love, loss, and the uncertainties of the beauty of life with a stunning poetic voice and piercing bravura that speaks directly not only to the sensibility of her generation, but to anyone who has ever been young. One poem “A mouthful of forever’s”, that first burned up on Tumblr believe it or not. Have not only inspired wedding vows, paintings, but even songs among the community. This work truly speaks about the truth about love, and no I am not talking about the Pink album. The truth about love comes at 3am when you cannot sleep. And you look over to see them with a strange fascination with their lips and toes, the Morning breath, bedroom eyes on a smiling face, and even the sugar glaze. It’s the “I finally found them” feeling. Does true love exist? “I love you.” These three little words might possibly be the most powerful statement one can make to another person. In life, most yearn for the intimate affection that a certain someone can provide them. Women dream of their Prince Charming to come and sweep them off their feet, while men search for the love of their life that sets their heart on fire. But what happens when love is thrown around without a second thought? Has this four letter word become an overused cliché? Has love been replaced with lust? Is there such a thing as true love? This last question has been asked throughout history, while many have argued and debated over the final answer.

What is love? Is love a feeling that you get when you see someone? Is love a pitter-patter that you get in your chest when the person you are head over heels for walks into the room? Is love the breath being sucked out of your lungs and your heart skipping a beat or five hundred when your significant other walks into the room and looks you dead in the eye? But, love could not even be a feeling, and it could actually be a choice. Maybe people don’t actually fall in love. Maybe they choose to love someone. Yet, not just anyone. That’s a hard question to answer. But another hard question to answer is what love is. It’s easy to define what love is not. Oddly enough, Shakespeare is able to answer both of these questions in fourteen lines with iambic pentameter with a perfect rhyme scheme. It’s amazing. He does this in Sonnet 116. This was my favorite poem because it stated that love is perfect and unchanging, it doesn’t end with death, and because it is not susceptible to time itself.

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return (Moulin Rouge, scene 1). When most people think of love they think of a young couple kissing, sex, a child, or even a beloved pet. Love is according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, strong affection, warm attachment, a beloved person (436). The definition is correct, but so vague it does not mention the different types of love that exist. Most people don’t know that there are three. What are they? They are unconditional love, romantic love, and passion or lust. Great examples of love can be found throughout literature or movies, CDs and all of Shakespeare’s plays. The most famous, Romeo and Juliet, demonstrates all the different types of love although not in the

Love, a word that is uttered so often. A word that has been immersed into music and art and theatre. An emotion that can be considered one of the strongest and most powerful of them all. The way love is perceived differs from one person to the other. And the way it is written about, concludes the way an author or musician may feel about this certain emotion. Ask an author to elucidate their idea of love, and they may conceivably tell you all about heartbreak. On the other hand, you could ask another author and they will speak about it with gleaming stars in their eyes, as if they were born on this earth solely to fall in love.