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In the song “love story” by Taylor swift, she resembles true love in Romeo and Juliet by telling them how strong their love for each other is by getting married. “he knelt on the ground and he pulled out a ring and said, marry me Juliet you’ll never have to be alone, i love you and that’s all i really know”. This explains how Romeo knew it was true love because they only knew each other for four days and he knew he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. the theme of this song is love vs. infatuation and has a motif of

     In contrast to these fairly pessimistic views on love, the author describes an instance in which a couple found true love. Mel tells an anecdote of an old couple that was admitted to the emergency room after a very bad car accident. The two people were wrapped up in full body casts, and as a result they could not see each other. Mel noticed that the old man was very sad, even

Love is different for each and every person. For some, it comes easy and happens early in life. For others, such as Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, it happened much later in life after two unsuccessful marriages. Janie’s grandmother, Nanny raised Janie to be attracted to financial security and physical protection instead of seeking love. Nanny continually emphasized that love was something that was bound to happen after those needs were met; even though Nanny never married. Janie formulates her ideal of love while sitting under a pear tree as a teenager; one that fulfilled her intellectually, emotionally, spiritually and physically. She was then informed that she was to have an arranged marriage to an older

Many times the love that a person is looking for is the one that a person doesn't realize.

We live in a society that has increasingly stomped on love, depicting it as cruel, superficial and full of complications. Nowadays it is easy for people to claim that they are in love, even when their actions say otherwise, and it is just as easy to claim that they are not when they really are. Real love is difficult to find and keeping it alive is even harder, especially when one must overcome their own anxieties and uncertainties. This is the main theme present in Russell Banks’ short story “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story,” as well as in “The Fireman’s Wife,” written by Richard Bausch. These narratives, although similar in some aspects, are completely different types of love stories.

Love exists in the short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro and in the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver. in Munro’s short story the plot is that of a mentally ill wife, Fiona, who falls in love with another patient while her husband still tries to hang on to their old love. Her husband eventually wants to have an affair with the wife of the man his wife is having an affair with. Their love changed because of their circumstances due to ill health. Carver’s story discusses the different definitions of love due to the type and quality of relationships; everyone has a different definition. Love also exists all over the world within different environments and cultures. The concept of love depends upon the environment in which it inhabits. Love is dependent on the life of the people in love and it also depends on their current environment. Nature and nurture are also huge factors into the development and process of love. What nature and nurture mean is whether it is due to how the person lives and acts along with their personality compared to whether it’s all in their genetics beforehand. Love is more on the nurture side instead of the nature side of human experience.

“True love is hard to find.” “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”. These words have been told to and heard from family, friends, co-workers and even words in a poem. (A.C. Bradley). These words are said to someone to comfort and express sympathy and understanding to one that is having a relationship issues. Only a lucky few have found true love the very first time love has entered the into their space, some have managed to remain married over forty years or more. Life’s dilemmas interfere with true love from entering the lives of the people that love has touched. Parents protecting their children, worrying about what other think, love not being reciprocated, fell in love too young, self-esteem too low, looking for

Hi Thao! You made some really interesting points, ones that I had not even considered prior to my reading of this article. I agree that love should not be something that you are constantly looking for, or that you look so much that you essentially begin to lose sense of what love really is. As for Elliot Katz, we both know that he has found himself in an unfortunate place of divorce. Do you think that his marriage has failed because he may of not found the right one or that he forced himself into loving his wife at the time? You stated that if you are constantly “trying to chase under the shadow of the perfect love. It will only to find you in a more tired, disappointed”. Essentially, Elliot Katz is unhappy within his marriage, and although

Aengus was finding his true love after he saw her disappear from him. In the SOng of Wandering Aengus it says,”Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hand; And walk among long dapple grass. And pluck till time and times are gone”(Aengus,line 18-22). This means that he is very old and still looking for her till time ends. People who are finding someone they love or something they love they never give up trying. To conclude, true love is a desire and always need

The stark divide between love and marriage shown right the way through cannot be comprehended fully by the twenty-first century reader: in today’s society marriage and love are mutually exclusive - you very rarely get one

“You'd be surprised who the love of your life turns out to be. After all, Adventure fell in love with lost”(Vuren). Most people believe that love is just an easy thing to find and once they find it, they can live happy for the rest of their life which is not entirely true. The Great Gatsby, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald shows that the dream of love is a very dangerous journey that can cause a lot of consequences. Restoring love into a person's heart and force them to make a decision can cause love to be dangerous.

Sharon Olds in "True Love" wonders about a true meaning of love in her uniquely written poem about a married couple. She hints that true love is about belonging to one another. That belonging or self-possession is reflected via ties of marriage. She further says that children, which are a product of marriage, only tighten marital bonds even more. The speaker starts her poem by describing two people having sex and looking at each other in a “complete friendship”. However, as much as the poem at first seems to have a positive meaning, the message appears to be quite opposite. In fact, “after making love, we look at each other in complete friendship" (2-3) sounds odd if used when describing the love between friends with benefits or a married couple. Friends with benefits contribute to unhealthy relationships that they are in, which is built on lust and only physical desire. Her poem, perhaps is an ironic portrayal of true love. A true love, if it even exists, is very difficult to preserve and can take a different turn especially within the marriage.

Marriage is a commitment of spending the rest of one’s life with someone he or she cherishes deeply. It is the joining of two people in a bond that lasts until death, but in practice is increasingly cut short by divorce/ separation. Most people claim that they want their marriage to last a lifetime, and who wouldn’t? However, over half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce. In 2010, Paul Amato published a statement on divorce in the prestigious Journal of Marriage and Family. He states, “At the end of the 20th century, 43% - 46% of marriages were predicted to end in dissolution.” In the short poem written by Washington Irving “Rip Van Winkle”, Rips relationship with his wife was horrible because of the point of view, characters, and symbolism.

“ A false love begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye pain. Where true love, begins with the eye and settles in the heart. ”-Anthony Liccione. In Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer there are many false and true love relationships. Canterbury Tales is filled with many examples of false and true love.

In Barbara Graham’s “The Future of Love”, she says long-term fairy tale romance inspires true love believers and their perspective towards love itself. Graham expresses the idea that to her, a lot of relationships fail because both partners in the relationship fall in love with an idealistic view of who the other person is. She explains that couples jump into relationships thinking their significant other was this perfect image they made him/her out to be only to come to realization that it was a figment of their imagination. Graham also defies the sappy happy endings that she says everyone believes in since heartbroken romantics oversee a lot of the incompatibilities and faults in a relationship to make it more