The Power Of Love Encodes Our World

Love has an intoxicating effect on humans. It has the ability to cripple the mind of an individual as they become fixated with undying passion of another individual. Although love can bring pleasure, it can also be a cruel mistress that has the ability to crush one’s soul at a moment’s notice. The negative impacts of love are clearly seen in Virgil’s Aeneid, where we see the love between Aeneas, a Trojan war hero, and Dido, Queen of Carthage, ultimately resulting in the death of Dido after Aeneas is forced to leave Carthage to fulfill his duty. This story and Virgil’s negative interpretation of love are reflected in poet Louise Gluck’s poem “The Queen of Carthage.” In her poem, she attempts to portray to her audience the suffering Dido felt after Aeneas left Carthage. She warns her audience of the dangerous and double-edged nature of love using Dido as an example. Gluck’s use of repetition of key words, parallel structure, syntax and frequent allusions of to convey the risky nature of love.

Ever since the beginning of time, love has played an enormous role among humans. Everyone feels a need to love and to be loved. Some attempt to fill this yearning with activities and possessions that will not satisfy – with activities in which they should not participate and possessions they should not own. In Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker encounters an emotion some would call love but fits better under the designation of lust for a woman. In contrast, the speaker of Robert Herrick’s poem, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” urges virgins to marry, to make a lasting commitment in which love plays a

For Ovid, love was all the more regularly saw as an unsafe, destabilizing power than a positive one. Ovid exhibits that love has power over everybody - mortals and gods alike. Nobody can maintain a strategic distance from its belongings, or oppose the threat and wretchedness to which love frequently drives us. Indeed, even The God of Death, Pluto, is moved by love. Love overpowers reason and ethical quality: a person in love may be urgently attracted to a sibling, a father, or even a bull. The transformations in Metamorphoses frequently take after from the interests or the impacts spurred on by love (Metamorphoses I, 240-285). The power of love to metamorphosize can be as quotidian as pregnancy - ladies' shapes and parts change because of being impregnated, a typical aftereffect of a love relationship - and as fabulous as inhuman transformation. Jove goes up against the shape of a bull, in his assault of Europa, keeping in mind the end goal to satisfy his desire; Apollo changes into his beloved's sister with a specific end goal to get to her. In addition, those sought after by love-mad gods likewise change themselves with an end goal to escape undesirable considerations; maybe the most well known of these transformations is the transformation of Daphne into a shrub tree when Apollo seeks after her. Love makes changes in lover and loved

One of the overarching themes that spanned over the many books we read over the semester, was the nature of love and the search for meaning. Love is an inherent aspect of humanity, and while it is an often inexplicable and complex sentiment, it is intrinsically connected with mankind's search for meaning in life. Love often leads a person in directions that they do not expect, and this is obvious in the very different applications of love in different books. However, one common idea about the relationship between love, suffering, and wisdom, can be argued for based off the ancient texts that we read. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Antigone, and The Tale of Genji, love is used as a vehicle for wisdom through suffering and loss.

Throughout history women have lived in the subjugation of men and the will of men, Ovid’s Metamorphoses stands testament to this history. Ovid set out to write and history and he did, in this history,

Plato’s Symposium discusses the ever-present, complicated, and enigmatic idea of love. Throughout the book, each speech gives diverse and sometimes contradictory ideas on the nature of love, its benefits, its origin, and the different types of love. Each speech builds on ideas that will lead to the conclusion made in Diotima’s speech.

The Ovid’s metamorphoses refer to a poem written in fifteen books mainly recounting stories from the Roman and Greek myth. Ovid was a Latin poet known to have flourished well in Rome in the late C1st BC and early C1st AD, during the reign of the Augustus the emperor. The Metamorphoses are his most celebrated works. Ovid’s other works with mythical themes are the Fasti and Heroides. In book one; Ovid establishes the theme of metamorphoses.

Through first person perspective, further analysis regarding the possible danger the power of love can posses is shown. Tavia was talking to her therapist Elizabeth, about the unusually quick feelings of attachment she has for a boy that she has only talked to once; Quinn, as Tavia states, “It's almost like I’m two people - one who can’t stop thinking about Benson...one who can’t stop thinking about Quinn.” (Pike.68) This quote demonstrates that the power of love takes full control of one’s thoughts. When someone like Tavia is in love, all thoughts are about the one you trust and love the most as the author illustrated this by using first person perspective to demonstrate Tavia’s inner voice at all times. When someone is able to control one’s

The ending of the war and the emergence of the urban life gave Ovid much of his inspiration. Metamorphoses reflects the innovation and experimentation of the Augustan principate, which transformed the political, social, and religious institutions during his lifetime in the city of Rome. He “became well known as a poetic spokesman for the younger, and more sexually liberated, element of society. ”For the majority of the poem, Ovid is focused on a very limited setting which is the Ancient Mediterranean

Ovid’s Metamorphoses is an exceptionally written epic poem that is broken down into fifteen books. Throughout these books, tales of woe, danger, adventure, and love are told in a way that transports readers into the rich and exciting world that Ovid has created. In book three, the tale of Narcissus is told using beautiful diction and vivid imagery. The story is ultimately about a gorgeous man, named Narcissus, who toys with the affections of others, which leaves them completely despondent.

Love, arguably the most mercurial of emotions, has long been the topic of writings and discussions. Whether it be defining or explaining how to obtain affection, authors such as Ovid and Andreas offer distinct views on the finer points of relations between a man and woman. Ovid’s The Art of Love, published in 2 AD, focuses largely on defining how a man should win the heart of a woman. The writing of this in a pre-Christian Roman Empire creates a stark contrast to that of Andreas’

However it is important to point out that didactic poems are written in dactyl hexameter and not elegiac couplets, since elegiac couplets are usually used for mournful, romantic, and erotic poetry. Why, then is Ovid writing a didactic poem an emphasizing his use of elegiac couplets? On the one hand, he is writing about topics of love and desire but its instructional presentation and structure belongs to a didactic poem. Thus, Ovid’s purpose in Ars Amatoria was meant to parody the didactic genre, especially on the subject of love. He ridicules his own work by suggesting how the “art of love” simply consists on the skill of deception and the inability to teach love.

Above all else, the current Ovid divines and follows in each of his tales of metamorphosis, is the current of passion. In so many of these tales, that passion is love. Not ordinary love, but a love that reaches such unendurable intensity that it combusts, or mutates, or drives the act of metamorphosis, that unifies each tale in Ovid’s epic, and catapults the episode into the supernatural. Sometimes the mortals tangle with Gods, sometimes mortal passion becomes mythic by sheer excess; sometimes Ovid’s subject is hopelessly besotted, tortured by doomed love, and sometimes they are the victim of violent sexual pursuit. But what is clear, is Ovid’s interest in the experience of being possessed by love, and the catastrophic consequences of such

Love makes people become selfish, but it is also makes the world greater. In this poem, the world that the speaker lives and loves is not limited in “my North, my South, my East and West / my working week and my Sunday rest” (9-10), it spreads to “My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song (11). The poem’s imagery dominates most of the third stanza giving readers an image of a peaceful world in which everything is in order. However, the last sentence of the stanza is the decisive element. This element not only destroys the inner world of the speaker, but it also sends out the message that love or life is mortal.

Love is a powerful feeling; it makes you do crazy thing. Many people spend years trying to find it, others give up thinking they’ll never find it. Love has been defined as an intensive feeling of a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone. Of course, Love doesn 't have to romantic and/or sexual. People who are ace, as in asexual, aromantic and agender, can still be in relationships that are satisfying for them without the needs of a romantic relationship. Familial love is also non-romantic-sexual. However, in this paper, we will be talking about romantic-sexual love, what it is, and why I believe it’s so important to understand and experience.