of legs’‚ ’No 10 announced today’‚ ’have you seen the latest Spielberg?’. • "Take thy face hence." (William Shakespeare‚ Macbeth V.iii) • "I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." (T. S. Eliot‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock") • "The daily press‚ the immediate media‚ is superb at synecdoche‚ at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing." (Bruce Jackson) understatement A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker
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How do we define love? What is love? How do we define it? Is love one thing or a set of many things? Are there different types of love? Is love the same for different types of relationships? Even as far back as the ancient Greeks‚ people have struggled with the nature of love. Poets have written about love perhaps as long as poets have been writing. Psychologists may lack the eloquence of poets but through empirical research‚ we can study the nature of love systematically. We can observe people
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The definition of love The poem’s speaker is an anonymous lover who contemplates the nature and definition of love. He begins by saying that his love is both “rare” and “strange” because it was “begotten by Despair / Upon Impossibility.” He goes on to claim that only despair could reveal to him “so divine a thing” as this love‚ because “Hope” could never come near it. He imagines that he “quickly might arrive” to where this love leads him‚ but finds that his soul’s inclinations are thwarted by Fate
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------------------------------------------------- Origin of Love The Bible indicates that love is from God. In fact‚ the Bible says "God is love." Love is one of the primary characteristics of God. Likewise‚ God has endowed us with the capacity for love. This capacity for love is one of the ways in which we are "created in the image of God.” Different Kinds of Love The Greek language (the language of the New Testament) uses two different words to describe and define love. The most commonly used Greek word translated "love" in the New Testament
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Dear Reader‚ If we base our idea of what true love is on fairy tales‚ we might think that finding prince charming or an enchanting princess and living happily ever after is the ultimate goal. But for most mortals‚ striving for such ideals is unrealistic‚ and may even leave us feeling unfulfilled or let down. The reality is that being and staying in love takes continual work and patience‚ even though this might not seem utterly romantic‚ in that storybook sense. Couples who have healthy relationships
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The Power of Love “Love makes you blind‚ because you’re not supposed to see‚ you’re supposed to feel.” It makes one do things that are inexplicable and odd. “The Chaser” by John collier is a story about a young man who is madly in love with a woman. Sadly‚ she doesn’t share those feelings with him‚ driving him to desperately drug her with a love potion‚ blind to the side effects. The author displays the power of love and how it blinds its victims up to the point where their actions become questionable
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Ryan Shivers A Greater Love… Love is the strongest feeling in the world‚ this feeling of extreme care and admiration is capable of making people look over all the bad and intolerable things of this world. Love is capable of making people do stuff without any control over their physical being. When one loves another‚ the feelings can become so strong that these two might feel like they are destined to be together forever and that nothing could ever break them apart. Love is a feeling that everyone
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Micah Horner Senior Year Experience Book Report February 27‚ 2012 Crazy Love When I first read that I had to do a book report for this class I just thought of it as another piece of homework to write in my daily agenda. However‚ I had heard of this book many times and after reading it‚ am so glad I did. I realize now that yes‚ I do have to write a report‚ which is indeed homework‚ but the lessons I learned from the book mean so much more than that. Where at first I may have found it hard
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The word agape can be defined as the unconditional love of God or Christ for humankind. This was the first word that came to mind once I read the poem. It reminded me of going to church on Sundays; I go faithfully and wonder sometimes why God did for not only me but everyone here on earth. If that is not agape love‚ I don’t know what is! We are currently in a sin cursed world‚ where every time you turn around someone is doing some kind of evil. However‚ regardless of the harshness of the sin that
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Perspectives on Love Love and relationships are controversial topics in which people encounter on a daily basis. They are also topics that are viewed by many different people‚ from different perspectives. Three authors write on the topic of love; Katherine Anne Porter in “Marriage is Belonging”‚ June Callwood in “Forget Prince Charming” and Robertson Davies in “The Pleasures of Love”. Porter argues that both partners must surrender their freedom and social life in order to obtain a steady relationship
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