This unit we are studying something very hard to explain, define, or determine its source. To introduce this topic, this passage familiarizes us with the stories and articles that we will read. Many have different ideas about what Love is.
There are many different theories and experiments led out to figure out how this connection we have with others affects us so much. Some even try to argue their explanations on how it affects us. All of these plays, songs, movies, tell us a majority of things about love.
In the Introduction to Passion and Romance it states, “Loving is the way we tap into that divine, immortal world. Love becomes a way to talk about the eternal, about our innate desire to feel that there is something permanent about our selves.” I really like this. It makes me thing about how I want love to be eternal. Even Plato argued about this so many years ago. Have we gotten closer to understanding it since then? Not much. It’s still a mystery to every one of us.
My favorite way that people describe love is very poetic. Metaphors are used to compare love to something we are familiar with because there aren’t many other ways to explain it! I love how clever people get with their metaphors. Many of them just make sense to us, especially those who have experienced love. Those metaphors become truthful, and create a visual of love and not just the feeling. When I was in Jr. High I loved to collect quotes and poems about love that describe it very creatively. I want to look through some of the ones I wrote down and share them with the class.
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