Love Should Grow Up Like An Wild Iris

Since the beginning of human existence love has earned a meaning of pure bliss and wild passion between two people that cannot be broken. Through out time the meaning of love has had its slight shifts but for the most part, maintains a positive value. In the poem “Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields,” the author, Susan Griffin expresses that this long lost concept of love is often concealed by the madness of everyday life and reality. In the poem, Griffin uses many literary elements to help convey the importance of true love. The usage of imagery, symbolism, and other literary techniques really help communicate Griffins’ meaning

Love exists in the short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro and in the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver. in Munro’s short story the plot is that of a mentally ill wife, Fiona, who falls in love with another patient while her husband still tries to hang on to their old love. Her husband eventually wants to have an affair with the wife of the man his wife is having an affair with. Their love changed because of their circumstances due to ill health. Carver’s story discusses the different definitions of love due to the type and quality of relationships; everyone has a different definition. Love also exists all over the world within different environments and cultures. The concept of love depends upon the environment in which it inhabits. Love is dependent on the life of the people in love and it also depends on their current environment. Nature and nurture are also huge factors into the development and process of love. What nature and nurture mean is whether it is due to how the person lives and acts along with their personality compared to whether it’s all in their genetics beforehand. Love is more on the nurture side instead of the nature side of human experience.

Love can be whatever one makes it out to be. From basic science to a complex philosophical or mystical idea. A person’s own unique experiences with love make it a concept that is so widely perceived and interpreted. Throughout her piece, Selections from Love 2.0 Barbara Fredrickson tries to broaden her audience’s understanding to a new idea of love. Overall, she claims that love is a biological need. The claim that longevity and quality of life might have lots to do with not only ‘clean air and nutritious food’ but also ‘your supply of love’ are accurate to a certain extent. A constant supply of love is needed for a better quality of life but it is not necessarily needed to live a long life. If the claim is taken to be true, then a weak supply of love would result in a person just existing and not living life to their fullest or connecting to other human beings; therefore, they would be incomplete without it.

Love is either a fickle crime or an ever-changing satisfaction of desire. For some, it can ruin even the brightest minds, while for others, there is never doubt that it is worth living for. Children grow up with fairy tales and anecdotes of wild love stories, enthusiastic over the prospect of love. Yet has anyone considered the negatives of those dreams?

“True love is hard to find.” “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”. These words have been told to and heard from family, friends, co-workers and even words in a poem. (A.C. Bradley). These words are said to someone to comfort and express sympathy and understanding to one that is having a relationship issues. Only a lucky few have found true love the very first time love has entered the into their space, some have managed to remain married over forty years or more. Life’s dilemmas interfere with true love from entering the lives of the people that love has touched. Parents protecting their children, worrying about what other think, love not being reciprocated, fell in love too young, self-esteem too low, looking for

William Wordsworth’s poem titled “Surprised by Joy” and William Blake’s poem, “The Sick Rose” employs a range of poetic techniques to highlight the pain that love can create. On the other hand, John Clare’s poem titled “First Love” and Robert Burns’s poem, “A Red, Red Rose” contrastingly explore the theme of love as a positive to be celebrated.

Love has a voice that speaks to everyone differently. For some people it is a gentle whisper, but for others it is a scream, yearning to be noticed. Love is a common theme in literature, discussed in many works. Love is a very broad term, that can be defined in many different ways. Love has many characteristics, with many individual interpretations. In this essay, I will be talking about three poems: Robert Graves’ Symptoms of Love, Bob McKenty’s Adam’s Song, and Muriel Stuart’s In the Orchard. Each of these poems demonstrates their own meaning of love, and each author interprets love in their own different ways.

Love is one of the most influential entities on Earth. Love convinces people to perform many tasks they otherwise would not have even considered performing. Some people yearn for love so deeply that love can turn people into inhumane, bitter, creatures with no mercy or compassion toward others. Other people may think that the feeling of love will last for a while and then dissipate over the time the couple spends together until the relationship becomes dull and unhealthy. These toxic relationships can be found everywhere and can greatly lower the quality of one’s life; by introducing poor decisions and hatred into their life.

Reruns of The Oprah Winfrey Show, countless self-help books, and friends that plan to "help us out" protest to the assistance in finding true love. But the more and more we search for what we may not find, we are digging ourselves deeper into our own death. We refuse to see how bad something is until it completely destroys us. As it tears us limb from limb with its vicious hopes of affection, attraction, and adornment we can 't refrain from falling for the sacrilegious ways of love. Yet... Some of us still strive for it and question ourselves of what we did wrong because love has thrown us a curve ball we can not catch. But, no one has done anything wrong. It is love that has done the wrong with its ways of trickery and deceit. Muhamahs Ghandi 's believes that where there is this love, there is life. If this is true, the shadow of death follows quickly behind and there is no way to bring prosperity to life if this is so. For human society to prosper, affection must be removed because love is detrimental to sanity. The many mind-altering biochemicals that make up the effects of love, are the chemical that attribute to the negative emotions of life.

Laura Kipnis’ argument in “Against Love,” is that love in the modern age has an increasingly low success rate while turning into a sacrifice of and freedom. Kipnis shares that mature and secure people’s ideal form of love is “mature love,” a combination of the ability to settle down, mutually appreciate each other, and engage in love that lasts a lifetime. She states that, “For the modern lover, ‘maturity’ isn’t a depressing signal of impending decrepitude but a sterling achievement, the sine qua non of a lover’s qualifications to love and be loved,” (Kipnis, 403). People can’t wait to become mature because it means they’ll finally be able to participate in something believed to be one of the greatest events in one’s life, love. The issue with this belief is that the epitome of true love is likely to be impractical and disappointing because of people’s unrealistic expectations. Growing up we have fantasies of falling in love from imagining our future spouse to designing our wedding dress. Although people may believe love is a miraculous experience, I agree with Kipnis that love has

Though they will deny it in every way they imagine, people understand love as a fierce competition; a constant plight for seizing and protecting what one assumes his or her own by inalienable privilege. Therefore, it arrives as the invariable result of their misconstrued faith that physical matters gain priority; furthermore, those represent the sole legitimate path of life to search and defend.

"Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table." - D.H. Lawrence

Love is a very ambiguous concept. The true meaning is completely subjective in nature. To a biologist, it could mean the release of dopamine and serotonin in the brain. To a poet, such as Robert Burns, love can be described like “the melodie, / That 's sweetly play 'd in tune” (3-4). Even with love’s complex meaning, Robert Burns, Amjad Nasser, and Maya Angelou give their takes on love’s meaning in different but similar ways. The similarity running through all three poems is not one trait, but a combination of all three underlying messages. The messages in short, are that love is an unbreakable and undeniable force. A deep feeling inside that can hurt us if we do not take love for what it is. A force that can heal and comfort today’s sorrows. Overall, love brings people together with its warm, soothing embrace.

It 's easy to make a list of things that are, and are not, manifestations of Love. A billion words have been written about it. But it 's never been explained worth a damned. So this is my feeble attempt to explain, not the substance of Love, for it is an ethereal thing, lighter than a wisp of smoke, yet crushingly cruel when it is imprisoned and unable to come out and play.

Throughout the history, it has been evident that relationships are a vital part of human life. Particularly, our desire for love and the influence this has on our lives has constantly been the subject of literature. Whilst relationships have remained the same; our views on relationships have changed massively. In the poem ‘Valentine’, Carol Ann Duffy talks about the unorthodox love when she compares love to an onion. The use of strong imagery, powerful diction, distinct form and structure and various poetic devices (such as extended metaphors), enables the poet to present her unique perspective of love contrasting to the stereotypical way love is often thought about. Moreover, Duffy has used a range of verbs to highlight the apparent difference