Conquers All
Love is that one emotion that makes enemies into friends and friends into enemies. So many legends surround this emotion, from the goddess Athena and Helen of Troy to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Love comes in so many different levels, that it doesn't appear to be the same emotion at all.
There are many components to love. First, in order to love another they must first learn to love themselves. A person has to love who they are mentally, physically and spiritually. Second, love consists of a spiritual connection between two people. It is willingness to sacrifice yourself for the one you love. But love is not eternal it will come to an end one way or another, but the aspect that separates true love from illusion, is the way love ends. "True love" is much too powerful to be destroyed by human imperfection; it may be only destroyed by a force equal to the power of love.
Diotima believed that "Love is wanting to possess the good forever." In other words love is the desire to be immortal and the only way that we are able to obtain immortality is through reproduction. Since the act of reproduction is a form of sexual love, then sexual love is in fact a vital party of "true love". Sexual love is not eternal. This lust will soon fade, but the part of love that is immortal.
Most people never realize the true potential or value of love, nor do they learn to practice the art of love. It is usually very poorly defined. People think they are in love, but can’t explain it. There is a great deal of confusion and cross-referencing of the terms love, romance, infatuation, affection, and tenderness. Love does not come and go. It is merely a state of feeling that overcomes romance infatuation and so on.
In the poem "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns, there is many suggestions of love. Throughout the poem the speaker symbolizes his love for someone. He uses different metaphors to get his point across about how he feels about this particular person. However, what makes this poem differ from other common love poems is that it emphasizes how the author leaves but will always love the other person thus making love endless.
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