... only leads to loneliness and regret. Personally, I would pick marriage over being single 10 times out of 10. Being married triumphs over singleness, because love is an amazing feeling. A spouse will never be lonely and a spouse will always have their partner's back. Although I agree with Bacon's statements ... love itself is on another level that is comparable to no other emotion. Marriage is the opportunity to explore this feeling even deeper and to make the experience eternal. Like Herrick says in "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", "Then be not coy, but use your time, and, while ye...

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... they could care less to be with or around you, then love they do not have for you. When someone says that they just stopped loving their significant other it is not a feeling they lost, but an action they stopped taking part in. Love is by far an action and not just a feeling. Sure ... there are feelings that go along with it, but by and large love is an action. You need a relationship where both partners are willing ... should be willing to give and then give some more. This is the only way that a relationship can truly work and be a loving relationship. Also, love is forgiving and und...

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... their mate, but may cause an accident in their rush because they were eager to embrace the feeling of love from their partner. Nevertheless, sometimes the feeling we receive from love may be just illusionary. False love is quite common as many normally feel that they have reached a bond with an individual, but in ... reality the bond is only felt when they are together. If one falsely believes they are in love, then they are only distancing themselves from real love. Real love consists of a very strong emotional bond of two individuals. The bond is formed over a period of time, and is fi...

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... if it is only one sided. In the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, there are some characters who find it difficult to express their love, have hidden feelings or have their feelings fading away slowly. Richard and Clarissa are married but their marriage is more of a showoff to the public ... than actual marriage. Peter once proposed Clarissa but got rejected, while Lucrezia's love is fading away as Septimus's mental health worsen. Clarissa is well known only because of his husband who is member of Parliament in the Conservative government. ... stress disorder which has made him sui...

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... Noelle Oxenhandler's essay, "The Lost While" is an astonishingly realistic depiction of what our society has become. It portrays the unconscious monster-like attitudes we express in our everyday life. Today's society with its extreme ... ...

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... passionate emotion. That is what makes this play such a well-known and respected play. Shakespeare uses metaphors, similes and oxymorons in order to describe love with great passion. Metaphors play an important aspect in Shakespeare's description of love. Metaphors can help describe how one feels about someone or something. They also can provide the reader with a mental visual of how a given character ... the literal translation of the text; although it may assist the reader in better understanding the overall message through more expansion of the given character's emotions. Romeo ferve...

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... , and undefinable. It's the subject of endless poems and literary works. There is an enormous amount of material available out there about love, allot of it contradictory. What we all want most is Real Love "unconditional love "where people love us even when we make mistakes and when we're not doing what they want. When we can't get that "which ... we define it, it would somehow be less powerful...less impactful...less exhilarating. Maybe we like the mystery of it. But is it really that complicated? Perhaps the complications surrounding love come from all "stuff- we add on to this powerf...

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... do things they would never have done otherwise. It can make a person buy flowers or candy to express their love. It can make someone talk on the phone for hours or cancel plans with friends to be with the one they love. Love can make people feel better about themselves. Hate can also make a person do things they would not normally do. It ... a typically calm person into a rage of anger. Hate can make people scream, physically harm someone, or destroy property. Hate is an emotion that can consume a person if they let it. Love makes people feel emotions that they did not think they could ...

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... asks about each other. They never show interest in each other's personality, hobbies, dreams, plans or problems. They are not in love with each other, but they are in love with the idea of love. Take for instance, how they "fell in love" in about a half-hour after meeting each other. The only reason they are attracted to each other is because they act ... pop. His feelings for Rosaline disappeared in seconds when he met eyes with Juliet. At any time, Romeo could see another girl, and fall instantly "in love" with her. Romeo's character is not ready for love and does not know how to read...

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... . Body, eyes, smiles, and face looks are the main descriptions for a physical attraction; if the personality aspects are not known yet. Love from the first sight is considered ,as far as I am concerned, a physical attraction more than it is Love. A personality attraction involves more than physical and body figures. It is an attraction between minds. The way both sexes on each side ... someone means he or she is your partner for the rest of your life. For the marriage reason, choosing to be truly in love with a person is not something you can change your mind on. It=s true that individua...

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... endured and wanted to tell. The imagery in this poem is strong, and yet can be perceived several ways. I think if someone has felt the pain that love can cause, that maybe their perception of the poem may be different from someone who has never felt the pain that is associated with ... same is felt with his memory of his childhood "where I used to play on the green" pg.56. I thought that this line was another way of saying that "love is blind" I think maybe he was saying that he didn't notice things, like feelings and thoughts, the same as when he was an innocent child, but through exper...

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... loving someone can be easily misconstrued, when you think of the excitement of loving someone you think of just the fact of being able to love him or her. The excitement of love can be shown through evidence at key points in life, those points are: The first date, the proposal date and the day of marriage. ... day you remember the very first day you met the person, the day you fought with the person and especially the day you fell in love with them. This day is a culmination of all the past and what the future can bring; to say this day does not have excitement would be false ... . Love ...

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... a very heart-rending situation for all parties involved. Trivial things such as money and education should not be a factor in a relationship when two people really love each other. Trusting someone to give guidance during such difficult thoughts is a great benefit. Not everyone can be born with money, but education is obtainable. ... smiled and always looked so tired. When Forney told Novalee that he loved her, she in return lied to him, ""No, Forney. I don't love you. Not in the way you need to be loved. Not in that way"" (326). The reasons Novalee spurned Forney might be considered by ...

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REVIEWING love ESSAY In reviewing my essays from throughtout the semester I had to make a decision on which one was the best. While making this decision I had to look at my essays from ... about the topic. This made me think about the feeling and passion that I had when I wrote this. The essay that I chose from throughout the semester was the love essay. While reviewing my essays I saw that in my love essay I was passionate about the essay and I saw that I put more effort in it. It shows the how my inner feeling on the subject ... love. In this essay let out the feelingd that I have about l...

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... your whole world stop for that one sweet second you cant help but think you"re in love. You cant control your feelings, you cant control at what age you first feel this, it just happens unexpectedly. Love is this great feeling that consumes you in happiness. When you run into their arms and ... time and you realize that you want them to wipe your tears forever it's like you"re sharing your soul. A part of you that is sacred. Love is just letting yourself open up and feeling new feelings. Letting yourself go deep into someone else's heart and letting someone go deep into yours. Accepting ...

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... qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness. It is one of the most precious and treasured feelings in one's life. A British novelist Iris Murdoch has a quotation of love and I quote from him: "Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." When I was still a child, I was able to experience my first real ... love. My love has been with me for almost 8 years now, at my side during formal functions and school. Originally as a Christmas present when I was 6, this has been a ... and will continue to for as long as I keep it. Some people think the important thi...

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... an introduction to the chapter when Doty describes the time in his and Wally's relationship where the two of them were experiencing that first phase of love that is fiery, passionate and intense. He finds a way to connect this intensely emotional feeling with the same powerful feelings of grief. Only in grief ... can Doty return to this neighborhood and relive his and Wally's passion. When you are first in love with someone, your entire life is consumed by them. They are all you can eat, breathe or sleep. Everything you experience somehow reminds us of ... That's so cool, because Stev...

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... you begin to think that they are more important than anyone or anything. Good thoughts about this person float through your mind constantly throughout the day. Love can only be successful and fulfilled to the extreme when it goes both ways. Most people see hate as a strong word, and that it is, but they also use it ... aversion or hostility. When you hate someone, you have negative feelings and thoughts for that person. Thoughts of this person go through your mind as well, but opposite that of love thoughts. Love and hatred are both independent factors that express an opinion, a though...

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... one of the strongest and most intricate emotional states of being. A strong, loving, and true relationship should not need a title, nor legal proof of its" significance. Romantic love possesses strength greater than many other emotions. It has the ability to influence a person's decisions and change the course of people's lives. It is an emotion that two people can ... way to ensure that the feeling never dies within them. Can an emotion really die if it has the strength that love possesses? Love should be something that two people are comfortable enough with to trust that it will neve...

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... first sight they can not discern their partner's flaws.This is the reason why people say that love is blind.When people in love get to know each other they find out the differences in their personalities.This is the time when they decide if their ... relationship can survive or not.If there is a very strong fondness for each other the couple tries to overcome all the obstacles.Then in this case love can prove to be lasting feeling and people who are committed to each other can be happy for a lifetime. This is not what usually happens ... young people especially.Their lack of experience...

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... feelings he had for this person which also shows why he is so tore up with being apart from his love. In one of the lines of the poem, the author uses a metaphor by calling his lost love a "lost discoverer". When I hear this comparison, it makes it seem like he is talking about someone who went ... . The author then calls his ex-lover a pit of debris. The entire emotion of the poem is starting to lead toward she was the reason for the lost love. But from line to line in the poem, the author is fighting back and forth with whether he is complementing her or bashing her. "It is ... dock...

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... maturity is how she is spending her summer days. She feels no need to care for her children or be around her husband, who she still claims to love, she simply does as she pleases with who she pleases. Even though she is friends with Adele Ratignolle, none of Adele's motherly duties rub off on her ... and yearn for young freedom. She even has an obsession with Robert. Although it is based on real feelings she goes about it in the way of a love struck teenager. It did not strike her in the least grotesque that she should be making of Robert the object of conversation and leading her husban...

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... tone, I felt a slight sense of ecstasy after I finished the last stanza. Late Air From a magician's midnight sleeve the radio singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns. And like a fourtune-teller's their marrow-piercing guesses are whatever you believe. But on the Navy Yard aerial I find better witnesses ... for me. I am in a serious relationship, so it is easy for me to get lost in the world of romance. It is poems like this which bring me back to reality and remind me of my love affair with the earth. The simple pigeons springing around in Rittenhouse Square appear ...

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... "September" by Jennifer Michael Hecht. I feel that this poem touches the basis of what most all poets try to write about in only seven stanzas. She talks about love and death and the sorrow that goes with it, but she never actually writes any of the words its just a feeling. That is what I think is the most ... to give up and why they are so bitter. I feel this stanza helps to lead into the fourth stanza where she is describing the person she lost. Knowing the content of the fourth stanza the second one better comes to light. By the dark air getting colder and the birds leaving symbolizes...

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... that her husband is gone, Louise has the choice of independent freedom and new experiences. She no longer feels sadness due to the fact that she lost her husband; she is now concentrated on herself and what her future will be like as an independent woman. Louise's reaction to her the new of ... was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of victory" (Chopin) She is so full of pride and self-love that she is blinded to anything else until a much bigger shock shows up at her doorstep: her husband, very much alive. "Someone was opening the ... no...

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