Penmanship is an art that is slowly dying at the hands of technology. It’s truly unfortunate that generations and to come don’t and won’t realize the immense importance of the art of writing by hand. This phenomenon runs parallel to the proliferation of computers in the home, classroom , and everyday lives of people. It is all too common for a senior in high school to not know how to write in cursive, or be confused by the thought of comprising sentences in a manner that inspires the feelings embedded in the message without having to read the message itself. The art of penmanship is to not just draw shapes and lines that form letters that form words to be interpreted once read, but to let corresponding passion manifest in the style in which …show more content…
There’s also a satisfaction in appreciating the beauty of, not only the message contained in a love letter, but the construction of it as well. Whether it’s intended or subconscious, the style in which a love letter is written speaks to the author’s mood while composing it. Long, whimsical strokes of his pen come together to form words that are meant to invoke the same feelings in the recipient that floods the author’s own body. Perhaps the way he writes his words, leaning slightly to the right, is reminiscent of the way he leans in to kiss the cheek of his lover. His tendency to exaggerate the loops of the L in love reminds his lover of the way he throws his arms around her in a playful, loving embrace. The same letter composed on a computer may get the same message across, but lacks the personal appeal of its handwritten counterpart. I’ll go as far as to say that typography lacks the mere ability to be completely personalized, much less saturated with the kind of sentiment that the handwritten letter can’t help but …show more content…
No longer will lovers look forward to the excitement of receiving a letter in the mail, opening the envelope, likely having been sealed with a kiss, and gazing upon a beautiful masterpiece created solely for them by the hands of someone dear. A love letter will be typed into a program, edited to perfection by computer software, pasted into an email, and sent with a click of a mouse, thus, losing any magic that the original thought may have contained. Eyes will no longer trace loving loops of inked whimsy, but rather jump from letter to letter, from word to word, as if a program is being loaded into a human processing center to be computed then filed away. I love you will be sung in the robotic, monotone voice of Arial Black rather than with the inflected beauty and harmony of words written by hand. The magic of a composed “I love you” should never be reduced to the pecking away at a keyboard or the click of a mouse, but be expressed in a manner befitting of its infinite depth, a heart feeling it, a head thinking it, and a hand bestowing it to a medium worthy of the message and in a style reflective of what that message
Now letter-Writing is, to me, the most agreeable Amusement: and Writing to you the most entertaining and Agreeable of all Letter-Writing. John Adams
Kutcher claims “ We haven’t lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it, in doing so, acquainted art forms are taking on new importance.The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It’s personal and deliberate and means more than e-mail or text ever will.’’(96)Handwriting is different and unique for each individual. You can look at the letter and judge how much effort a person put into writing it. The mistakes they make show how we as humans are not perfect. and in an intimate relationship writing to your signficant other in a sense you are giving them apart of yourself.It shows feeling, sensitivity and thoughtfulness.Your thoughts and feelings written on paper that they can go back and review it at any time they wish. It has much more meaning versus a text that may have taken just a few seconds. The meaning behind handwriting and letters are by far much deeper. It takes a few effortless seconds to glide ones fingers across a screen and send a text.The effort put into a text does not compare to the time thought out in physical form. Thus the connection is simply not as
The indigenous Japanese culture, arts and literature have flourished in the Heian period of Japan. One can tell that exchanging short poems and messages between each other was the most prominent device of communication for both men and women at the time. Composing and exchanging love poems and messages were mostly us...
Love has many definitions and can be interpreted in many different ways. William Maxwell demonstrates this in his story “Love”. Maxwell opens up his story with a positive outlook on “Love” by saying, “Miss Vera Brown, she wrote on the blackboard, letter by letter in flawlessly oval palmer method. Our teacher for fifth grade. The name might as well have been graven in stone” (1). By the end of the story, the students “love” for their teachers no longer has a positive meaning, because of a turn in events that leads to a tragic ending. One could claim that throughout the story, Maxwell uses short descriptive sentences with added details that foreshadow the tragic ending.
For us, the way we show our love is by talking and communicating. We like talking with others as other likes to talk to us. It’s natural that we have to show our love. The slow media in the past is unable for people to communicate in a efficient way. Now with its advanced development, the way we showing our love have changed from letter to text-based conversations to real-time conversation.
... influential on a person’s life may be the reason why it is so widely used as that subject or theme of every kind of art. Romance, which is the emotional attachment between to people who love each other, is a common way that artist can visually demonstrate love in their artwork. Although the materials and colors have a lot to do with the visual aspect of demonstrating love in art work, the aspect of love that art work shows as well as the history behind the piece its self can cause the artwork to not only be about love, but also about the romance in love. Many would agree that LOVE and The Kiss both demonstrate love, however, The Kiss is more romantic out of the two.
On the other side, “Love Poem” is very different from the previous poem. This seven stanza poem is based on a man describing the imperfections of his lover. In this, the speaker uses stylistic devices, such as alliteration and personification to impact more on reader, for example as the speaker shows “your lipstick ginning on our coat,”(17) ...
Relationships between two people can have a strong bond and through poetry can have an everlasting life. The relationship can be between a mother and a child, a man and a woman, or of one person reaching out to their love. No matter what kind of relationship there is, the bond between the two people is shown through literary devices to enhance the romantic impression upon the reader. Through Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham,” Ben Jonson’s “To Celia,” and William Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” relationships are viewed as a powerful bond, an everlasting love, and even a romantic hymn.
The art of writing letters has existed as long as human existence. People may not have always written on paper with pens to each other but maybe on stones with carvings. As long as people have lived, communication has occurred. It has evolved over the years to emails and then texting. The significance of writing a personal letter will never top sending a quick text however. Writing a letter holds more significance and personal gratitude then a text message ever will. Writing styles vary more and people can gather more of a sense what person feels when they write to another person rather than reading something in the same text on a screen. Over the years technology has become simpler and people have gotten lazier which makes it more convenient for people to send a text rather than people taking the time to sit down and write a heartfelt letter. In the book Pride and Prejudice letter writing takes place all throughout the book. The characters all show different styles and
Authors use poetry to creatively present attitudes and opinions. “A Man’s Requirements,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” are two poems with distinct attitudes about love that contain different literary approaches. In both of the poems, love is addressed from a different perspective, producing the difference in expectation and presentation, but both suggest the women are subservient in the relationships.
“Letters were a great comfort. And the mail was indispensable. We couldn’t have won the war without it. It was terribly important as a motivator of the troops. Mail call, whenever it happened it was a delight,” Paul Fussel commented about mail during World War II. Love letters had a large impact on soldiers and their loved ones; they also affected their attitudes and performances, and the letter content was similar in almost all letters home. Receiving a letter was one of the best things a person could get whether you were in the war or you were home while a loved one was at war.
Love is not simple or easy. The kind of love that will last over time and overcome each obstacle it brings is actually a fair amount of work. In the film Valentine’s Day there are all different kinds of love and some of them thrive while others fail by the end of the day. All these different relationships present an opportunity to analyze how different aspects of communication help people find love and make it last.
“Magic of Love” by Helen Ferries is a greeting card that relies on clichés. On the other hand, “Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims written in 1947 is a poetry that transfigures and expresses an emotion through an original use of language.
It seems that over the years, true love has been expressed less and less. We are bombarded with holiday cards filled with someone else’s words, and are practically forced to send our love in an email. How often do we actually sit down and write out our feelings to the one we love? “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” however, is the quintessential love letter. Anne Bradstreet shares her feelings for her husband in such a loving way that could make anyone’s heart melt.