Love has existed in many forms throughout time. There is no better example than in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this tale, when love is most apparent, the most crucial events occur to develop this "tragedy."

Firstly, the lustful romance of Mercutio and Benvolio, Romeo’s comrades have never been in true love, their ideas of love is based merely on physical attributes, whereas ‘love is skin deep’.

Mercutio, in contrast with Romeo knows not of true love, as "He jests at scars that never felt a wound." (II.ii.1) His idea of love is when he tries to "conjure" Romeo to respond. His childish, immature attitude towards love is expressed when he describes Rosaline’s features: "Her high forehead" and "quivering thigh"(II.ii.18-19). This lustful idea of romance is only emphasised when he describes Rosaline as "An open-arse and thou a poperin pear!"

Rosaline, Romeo’s initial unrequited love seemed irrelevant once Romeo had set his eyes upon Juliet. This may portray a side

Coonardoo, by Katherine Susanna Prichard replicates the forbidden love, which is portrayed in Romeo and Juliet and Titanic. In that, Hugh’s love, which began from childhood, for Coonardoo, was the direct cause of Hugh’s wife, Mollie to leave and Wytaliba station falling apart. In the time set, it was frowned upon for an Aboriginal woman to be seen with a white-man. Those who defied that rule were often subject to gossip and ridicule. Aboriginals weren’t considered on the same level as the whites and everyone knew that; Mollie: "The Abos are filthy and treacherous" (page 117).

Greeks would do anything to win the person that they loved. Similarly in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo was willing to risk everything he had, just to be with Juliet.

Similarly in Romeo and Juliet, the persona in ‘The lover not taken’ resembles qualities of Mercutio, Benvolio and even Romeo. In that, Mercutio and Benvolio had no respect for their counter-gender and that their ideas of mutual attraction and love was based merely on the physical appearance of one another; the persona in the poem "liked his hair".

All the persona wants in life is to be with the one that they love, "I just wanna be with you" which is repeated several times throughout the song for effect.

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