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    comes to love, each person seems to have a differing opinion and definition on what constitutes genuine love. Two of these interpretations come from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 14” and the song “Superficial Love” by Ruth Berhe. To serve as a bit of a refresher, within the sonnet, Browning focuses on how love can never dwindle when it does not rely on temporal reasons to stay alive. As for the song, Berhe states her desire to have something that is more than just a superficial love with her

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    Love is Like a Roller Coaster Riding a roller coaster has its ups and downs. In comparison, loving someone has some of the same characteristics. When in love with someone, one might feel a wide range of emotions, such as anger, calmness, anxiety, tenderness, jealousy, or even despair. A roller coaster can be much compared to love, in that when you first get on the ride, you may feel many of the same emotions. For example, when someone first falls in love with someone there’s this anxiety of knowing

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    universally acknowledged that the memories of a first love linger throughout a lifetime because they are so powerful and equally unforgettable. As a result of the experiences of a first love, breaking up can be one of the most devastating feelings in the world. In Jane Austen's last book titled Persuasion, Anne and Captain Wentworth enact a classic tale of first love. What is unique about Anne and Captain Wentworth is that they did not fall out of love initially or even 8 years later. After eight years

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    McKay had the exposure and opportunity to make trips to different part of the world hence different moods in the context of his poems. The aim of this essay is to make the comparison between the Flower of Love and Jasmines poems written under the Harlem of Shadows collection during the Harlem Renaissance period. In doing the comparison, the poem will making an analysis of the context or setting that influenced the message in the poems, and the classification of the poems and how the title of the poems

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    Victorian Era whereas the two Shakespearean Sonnets were written in the Elizabethan Era. The styles of the poems differ in accordance to the difference of the time in which they were written. Pre-Romantic Era poems moved away from the idealistic concept of love towards a more realistic consideration of it, taking into account the social

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    are trying to convey emotions and have an impact on their intended audience. The song, “Battlefield” by Lea Michele is more poetic and artistic than the poem, “I Could Fall in Love” by Grace Hays, because of the use of similes, extended metaphor, and end rhyme. Both the song, “Battlefield” and the poem, “I Could Fall in Love,” have the same theme throughout the writing. The theme of both pieces is frustration in a relationship and how it is having an impact on the

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    Niffenegger explore the ways the pursuit of an ideal love shapes human relationships? The pursuit of an ideal and perfect love and the way that this endeavor shapes human relationships is a defining connection between the characters of The Notebook and The Time Traveler’s Wife, written respectively by Nicholas Sparks and Audrey Niffenegger. The suggestion of, not only desire for an ideal love but also a deep-seated need for this kind of love is something that becomes very familiar to the reader

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    Shakespeare stated, “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” In all three of the myths I use love was shown in one way or another. Pandora’s Box, The Blinding of Truth, and The Mirror Myth were similar because when they were in a bad situation, they had love and trust in their hearts, but there was different kinds of love. In the myth Pandora’s Box a woman named Hermes gave Pandora a box, and told her not to open it. She opens it out of curiosity when her husband Epimetheus is asleep. A multitude

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    Comparison of Authority Figures in Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare in Love Stoppard’s satirical movie, Shakespeare in Love, is a play on Shakespeare’s tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet. Stoppard places Shakespeare himself into a relationship with Viola De Lesseps, that resembles the relationship between Romeo and Juliet. Stoppard incorporates countless parallels into the film from Shakespeare’s love story, including the character development of major authority figures. The prince and the queen

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    Love in both The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is presented in a twisted manner in each book; it focuses intently around the theme of money and obsession, creating relationships of dependence rather than love. The definition of love itself is ambiguous - to some it means unconditional support, faith and commitment whereas to others, it is simply stability within everyday life. Both texts seem to take elements of these definitions but demonstrate them in ways that

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