Love is often perceived as romantic, the love and lust two shares with each other, but there are many dimensions to love. Love is also dejected, patient and jubilant. These type of loves were explored through the heartfelt poem ‘The Power of the Dog’ which explores unconditional love as being dejected, questioning the reader if they would ‘risk their heart for a dog to tear’. Rudyard Kipling ultimately questions his audience ‘why do we choose to do things that are only going to hurt us in the end’. Similar concepts were also explored through Shaun Welling’s short film, ‘If I Could Bark’, which explores the patient love of a dog and his owner. Jubilant love was explored through the highly loved novel Marley and Me, written by John Grogan, shows
Kipling’s ideas and perspective were represented through his skillful language techniques. The poet has used allegory to express his hidden meaning and as a way to connect with his audience. Rudyard Kipling is most known for his writing being so good as he writes about his own life experiences and uses this as a way of teaching/ informing others. Metaphor was used to make the audience feel sympathy, this was shown through ‘and the vet’s unspoken prescription runs, to the lethal chambers or loaded guns’. In the line ‘love unflinching that cannot lie’ was an effective use of hyperbole, Kipling clearly not wanting the reader to take this line literally but rather an exaggeration of love being a powerful feeling. Kipling never did own a dog and rather wrote this poem about losing his daughter and son. This is a poem which a wide range of people are able to connect and relate to, whether it be because they have lost a pet or because they own a pet which they truly love. Because of Kipling’s effective use of literary techniques, he was able to successfully able to convey his ideas and perspectives through his poem ‘The Power of the
But Marley’s love and loyalty played through in the end. Marley was there every single step of the way with the family, teaching the family that unconditional love can be jubilant and come in many different ways, not just love between each other. The literary devices that John Grogan used effectively played with the emotion of his readers, helping them to truly imagine themselves in this position. An effective example is Grogan's use of similes, “His hairballs rolled across the floor like tumbleweeds on a windblown day”, to describe the action of Marly’s fur. The use of metaphor helps vividly describe the dog particular in “His rib cage was the size of a small beer keg”, which helps the reader to imagine the size of Marley. The most effective technique of point of view was cleverly displayed throughout John Grogan's novel ‘Marley and Me’. Grogan wrote in both first and third person depending on what he was wishing to archive and which circumstances. Through the author's ideas, perspectives and language techniques he was successfully able to teach many that a dog can bring a family closer together and that unconditional love can, in fact, be
As we are born, we develop natural instincts that we evolve and grow over time. One of these instincts is love. Love can be full of sunshines and butterflies, but with love also comes pain and sacrifice. The book Salvage the Bones contains at least five big examples of loves as pain or sacrifice. Throughout the book, we will see examples of this theme of love as sacrifice and pain through different situations. I am going to walk through these situations. For instance, Death during childbirth, giving up a lifestyle due to teen pregnancy, sacrificing a close relationship, illness and flood.
In Song of Solomon, through many different types of love, Ruth's incestuous love, Milkman and Hagar's romantic love, and Guitar's love for his race, Toni Morrison demonstrates not only the readiness with which love will turn into a devastating and destructive force, but also the immediacy with which it will do so. Morrison tackles the amorphous and resilient human emotion of love not to glorify the joyous feelings it can effect but to warn readers of love's volatile nature. Simultaneously, however, she gives the reader a clear sense of what love is not. Morrison explicitly states that true love is not destructive. In essence, she illustrates that if "love" is destructive, it is most likely, a mutation of love, something impure, because love is all that is pure and true.
The Lais of Marie de France is a compilation of short stories that delineate situations where love is just. Love is presented as a complex emotion and is portrayed as positive, while at other times, it is portrayed as negative. The author varies on whether or not love is favorable as is expressed by the outcomes of the characters in the story, such as lovers dying or being banished from the city. To demonstrate, the author weaves stories that exhibit binaries of love. Two distinct types of love are described: selfish and selfless. Love is selfish when a person leaves their current partner for another due to covetous reasons. Contrarily, selfless love occurs when a lover leaves to be in a superior relationship. The stark contrast between the types of love can be analyzed to derive a universal truth about love.
Love is said to be one of the most desired things in life. People long for it, search for it, and crave it. It can come in the form of partners, friends, or just simply family. To some, love is something of a necessity in life, where some would rather turn a cold shoulder to it. Love can be the mixture of passion, need, lust, loyalty, and blood. Love can be extraordinary and breathtaking. Love being held so high can also be dangerous. Love can drive people to numerous mad things with it dangerously so full of craze and passion.
Canine tales are becoming an ever-more-popular medium for expression, says Garber: “Just as the pathos of human love and loss is most effectively retold, in modern stories, through the vehicle of the steadfastly loyal and loving dog, so the human hero has increasingly been displaced and replaced by the canine one” (44). The spotlight has been shifted from the larger-than-life human to the humble family pet and his canine brethren. Stories that feature a dog rather than a person are able to more convey a deeper sense of meaning, establishing their...
This passage marks the first of several types of love, and gives us an intuitive
Some may say love is just an emotion while others may say it is a living and breathing creature. Songs and poems have been written about love for hundreds and thousands of years. Love has been around since the beginning of time, whether someone believes in the Big Bang or Adam and Eve. Without love, there wouldn’t be a world like it is known today. But with love, comes pain with it. Both William Shakespeare and Max Martin know and knew this. Both ingenious poets wrote love songs of pain and suffering as well as blossoming, newfound love. The eccentric ideal is both writers were born centuries apart. How could both know that love and pain work hand in hand when they were born 407 years apart? Love must never change then. Love survives and stays its original self through the hundreds and thousands of years it has been thriving. Though centuries apart, William Shakespeare and Max Martin share the same view on love whether i...
Terry Kay said there was a grand romance of life between his parents. (179). Kay captures his parent’s undying love and celebrates his family in his novel To Dance With the White Dog. Kay believes that his parent’s love still carried on, even after their death. Sam and Cora Peek’s love is portrayed through the white dog that Sam saw licking up grease on his back porch. Strangely, the white dog looked just like a dog that Sam and his wife had when they first were married. Another factor that makes the occurrence of the white dog even stranger is that it did not show up at Sam’s house until after Cora died. Kay said that his parents had an undying love; he uses his novel to express his parent’s love. Kay also notes that true love does not recognize the concept of time and can possibly carry on lasting for eternity.
As any romantic will assert, love is by far the most powerful force known to human hearts and minds. This sentiment is espoused throughout history, almost to the point of cliché. Everyone has heard the optimistic statement, “love conquers all,” and The Beatles are certain, however idyllic it may be, that “all you need is love.” Humanity is convinced that love is unique within human emotion, unequalled in its power to both lift the spirit up in throws of ecstasy, and cast it down in utter despair.
Love is a beautiful thing, it always works out in the end. Everyone is always happy and no problems occur. West Side Story, a musical by Leonard Bornstein based on Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet parallels a love story of two star-crossed lovers. The play takes place in 1961 in New York City. This musical displays importance because it shows that nothing can overcome the power of love. This play is based on a love story between the main characters of Maria and Tony. Theses two are from different gangs that trouble to get along. They are from different gangs that do not get along at all. Roughly two hundred blocks make up Manhattan’s West Side, which stretches from Central Park West to the Hudson River. For the most part, the street youths
The effects of love and sacrifice on one’s life can be shown through the character of Lucie Manette in the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. The way Lucie applies warmth to her friends and family and sacrifices for them has a greater impact than anything else could possibly do. In fact, loving gestures have the power to do anything. They can brighten moods and ameliorate one’s day. Overall, Love is a powerful feeling. It can be defined in many ways, but is always an important emotion to have. Without it, humans are empty. It is a necessary part of living; with it, anything is possible.
If I able to get the opportunity to teach on this topic to someone that is single, I would put the main focus of my teaching in the meanings of love itself that introduced in the book of Song of Songs. I am so grateful that God has given me over these past 6-7 years to get involved in the teens, youth, and young adults ministries, and one of the big problems that I found that they were facing on is: The crisis of meanings. I believe this problem exists because today we live in a culture that put out the image of love as something cheap, it is all about quick physical connection, and totally the opposite of what been explained in the book. And because of this, there's no guideline for these people to hold onto that caused confusion and disorder.
Cummings theme of how strong someones love can be appeals to readers minds, because everyone wants that connection with their partner, That undying love for one another. Some people long for a love...
Love by definition is “an intense feeling of deep affection” (Webster’s Dictionary). In “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns, the use of imagery, similes, metaphors, and even hyperboles (extreme exaggeration) conveys this message to the readers. Burns, a Scottish decadent, uses his countries dialect and an upbeat iambic meter to show his happiness for his newfound love. Although some critics of “A Red, Red Rose” prefer to believe that Burns wrote the poem on his deathbed, the reference to the newness and giddiness he feels send a message of endless possibilities for his love. Several examples throughout the poem will support the theory, that Burns is not dying, but actually just starting to live a new and exciting life.
Hemingway synthesizes the theory that because of the pain that is brought about, love is not able to survive. The feeling of love is felt by both Henry and Catherine, but it is hard to realize that when pain always surrounds the couple. Hemingway’s creative mind creates a frustrating love story for the reader – one in which ends in devastation. Love is present but will not last. Human nature is to be attracted to love, but humanity may be destined for pain because of the tragedy brought about by love.