Love and Lust in Play-By-Play, Sex without Love, and Junior Year Abroad Lust is an incredibly strong feeling that can prove to be almost uncontrollable, leading it to commonly be mistaken for love. Due to the relative closeness of these emotions, both are often confused, and even when one is in love he or she does not recognize it. Many think that love just comes knocking on one's door and one will know when it does, but they don't realize that for love to occur a relationship has must be worked out. Love is described by some as fireworks, tingles, and butterflies in the stomach; but it is lust that can cause these things to happen, and it is these that mark only the beginning of a relationship. After a while, these feelings die out, and this is when the honeymoon period is over; it is from this point on that the relationship will either end or get stronger and eventually lead to true love. Lust is the main idea behind the poem "Play-By-Play" by Joan Murray. The tale being told is of older women well past their sixties admiring much younger men playing softball from up on a terrace over-looking the field. The women are gawking at the flex of a batter's hips before his missed swing, the wide-spread stride of a man picked off his base, the intensity on the new man's face as he waits on deck and fans the air. (Murray 837) The poem goes on to tell of the women, who "...haven't put aside desire/ but sit at ease and in pleasure,/ watching the young men" (Murray 837). This work obviously shows how the women lust after the attractive young men, and clearly are not in love; any one of these men could have been replaced with another attractive man and would have m... ... middle of paper ... ...ediately, and she would have realized the mistake she had made. In this poem the main character is lustful of both the new man she has met in Paris as well as the man she left behind her homeland, although she was under the false perception that it was love. The often confused words 'love' and 'lust' are becoming used interchangeably more and more every day. Indeed, many definitions are being loosened up and many words are used improperly. When people use the words 'love' and 'lust', they should be more careful which word it is that they mean to say. WORKS CITED Meyer, Michael, ed. Thinking and Writing About Literature. Second Edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001. o Joan Murray, "Play-By-Play". Meyer. 837-838. o Sharon Olds, "Sex Without Love". Meyer. 838. Barbara Rebecca, "Junior Year Abroad". Meyer. 839.
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One of the themes of this poem is love in association with sex. Through the authors careful use of word choice an erotic tone is carried throughout the poem. Through this and the violent actions the reader is able to recognize the women is going through am unfamiliar sexual experience- what sex is when not accompanied by love. “Did I know you? No kiss/ no tenderness–more like killing, death-grip/ holding to life, genitals, like violent hands clasped tight.” One may instantly read this line and think of a forced sexual act on the males part. However, ...
Fate, for better or worse, interrupts everyone’s daily life, whether he/she chooses to acknowledge it or not. Thinking about fate conjures up different feelings for different people; some people believe strongly in it, some people think of fate as ridiculous, and some do not care one way or the other. However, in many instances, such as in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, far too many coincidences occur to be strictly coincidental. Fate creates a powerful effect throughout the entire play, starting in the prologue, continuing as Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love, and tragically ending in the lovers’ deaths.
In the first scenario with Apollo and Daphne, the touching of the tree showed how powerful lust is as an emotion. Because of Callisto’s stunning appearances, Jove raped her—lust is not an emotion that can be ignored and can cause much negativity. Despite Cinyras being Myrrha’s father, she still pined for him and lust caused her much pain that controlled her life. Lastly, Tereus’ lust for Philomela showed how destructive the emotion could make an individual feel. This emotion can cause many different scenarios for each person and it can make people act in horrible, negative ways. It is important to understand that lust is a very vital desire that humans naturally feel in all times during
When someone lusts after another, they are looking for sex. With love, you don't need to have sex with someone in order to feel that strong connection to them. There are many kinds of love. Friendly love, family love, sexual love, etc. However, there is only one kind of lust.
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Love is the forceful attraction between two people blossomed from desire and intimacy. Lust is a physical manifestation of what many would call love, but in reality this feeling can bend the will of any man and woman alike. Lust is power, it is passion, and it motivates. One thing love and lust have in common: they have the ability to kill. Thus tragedy strikes a wary, yet inevitable, sentiment every person experiences at least once in their lifetime.
Adrienne Rich’s “Twenty-One Love Poems,” which explore the nature of lesbian love, differ strikingly from classic love poems written by a man to a woman, such as Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and Thomas Campion’s “There Is a Garden in Her Face.” Rich’s poems focus on the “us” aspect of love, the concept of two strong, yet imperfect women facing all oppositions together, while the love poems written by men are far more reverent, almost worshipful of their subjects. The lesbian poems have a sense of love being “real”, a connection based on far more than physical attraction, whereas the men’s poems focus on an idealized view of the woman: beautiful, pure, distant. The women in Marvell and Campion’s poems are lovely façades, storybook figures without any real depth or imperfections. Perhaps the lesbian love poems could be seen as less eloquent, or less flawlessly romantic, but the romance in them is found in the genuine nature of the love. Rich is doubtlessly writing about experiences she has had, real people she has loved, whereas Marvell and Campion could ostensibly be writing about any beautiful, but otheriwse characterless, woman that they’ve seen.
While looking at love poems online, I viewed comments that asked, what is the difference between love and lust? Love is when you are patient, kind, and putting who you love first before your own self. Lust is a selfishness, disrespect, and having a lack of self control. Teens are usually caught up in lust, due to the fact that they are growing physically and emotionally. Some teens are just not ready to commit and make decisions,
Love of affection is the emotional outburst between two beings that is not forever. Affection can be compared a lot to lust. Lust is a type of passion that can overwhelm an individual very quickly, but as quickly as it comes, it could fade away. Lust in less provocative terms is like having a crush on someone. Unless this type of love is reciprocated, it can never grow. There is only one way for this love to go. It will decrease over time because people love and hope to be loved in return. Without this, they will have no reason to continue feeling affection for this person and their feelings will wither away.
Faith is to be firmly attached to something or someone by love. A faithful person truly loves and commits to their partner. Lust is the opposite of faith. It is sexual craving and obsessive desire. Lust promotes the like that “this is all there is”. Lust blinds people and prevents them from seeing true love and commitment.
The pursuit of love and pleasure is well documented in Indian literature and theoretical texts, its sensual and powerful nature weaving its way into the history of Indian culture. Kama, as this pursuit is so called, is all encompassing of pleasures of both carnal and more educated stature, such as the pursuit of enjoyment in drama and musical endeavors. In the literature based on the more literal sense of “love between two people” there are two distinct types of this affection: that of the carnal desire that all people possess, no matter their strength of ascetic beliefs, and the sacred love that is felt between husband and wife. The stark contrast and pull between these two types of love is felt throughout the Indian prose on Kama and is even extended into the realm of the gods, who are not above their own sexual hunger. In examining the two it is important to take into account the religious aspect that sexual consummation has because of its relationship to divine love. This paper will scrutinize both the love and lust discussed in Indian literature and will argue that ultimately though the carnal love is important to both divine and mundane life, the spiritual love is ultimately the most revered form of love that a man and woman can possess.
WWII was one of the wars that had the most devastating effects on peoples live in Europe. During five years citizens of the different countries suffered from this brutal war to which they were condemned by their government. Two of the most affected home fronts during this war, were Britain, and Germany. Women, children were the most affected, and by many they were the moral support for their brigades, while men wre fighting in the front line. When war broke out in September 1939, the British government expected that the effects on life in Britain would be very serious. Throughout the 1930s there had been many predictions about the effects that bombing would have on cities.
Love is something that is most commonly misunderstood today. We often confuse lust for love. Love is a variation of diverse emotional and mental states, characteristically powerful and positively experienced that ranges from interactive affection to simple pleasure. There are various acts of love shown by and to different people. For example, the love of a mother for her children differs from the love of two significant others, which varies from the love people have for food or inanimate objects.