What is love? This is a common question pondered internally but one that can never actually be answered. Webster’s new world dictionary defines love as “a deep and tender feeling of fondness and devotion or a strong liking.” This essay will prove what mannerisms of love Sappo, Eliot, and Ovid are exerting through their writing. Though they wrote of love, each used love in different contexts. There are many types of love but these authors wrote about or with emotional, spiritual, and steadfast love.
Sappo writes with an emotional love. Her work is based upon women with whom she lived for a time period of her tutelage. She forms strong emotional bonds with these women. The way she feels about them leaving her is expressed through out her heart wrenching poetry. This selection from one of her poems gives the idea of how she feels about one of her students leaving. “But it breaks my spirit: underneath my breast all the heart is shaken” (Sappo 338). With this she expresses and evident emotional reaction. It is breaking Sappo’s heart for this particular young woman to leave her. One can almost visualize Sappo’s face and thoughts of her being ripped from her grasp. Another example of her forward feelings is as follows “The sh
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This story gives a Romeo and Juliet type scenario. He tells of it being a sad moment when they can’t even reach to kiss each other goodnight “…give good-night kisses That never reached the other…” (697). “When I am pinned and wriggling on a wall” (Eliot 2788). “In the room women come and go talking of Michelangelo” (2787). But yet love being “a finder”(697) gave both even in death the ability to be together With their ashes that “rest in a common urn”(699). The aspect of his getting older means he won’t like live so mush soon. Sappo put a lot of emotion in her poetry because she truly loved these women. Eliot’s portrayal of Prufrock initially could make you think that he is tired of life “though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in on a platter” (2789) but as you read deeper in to the meaning of this story you come to understand that Prufrock is afraid to die hi loves life so much. It pains him to know that other people could care less about how exquisite life is. Sappo wrote with an emotional love with her feelings. Then Ovid throws the two lovers into a hopeless situation that would lead them to be separated forever. Then Eliot writes “ I grow old…I grow old…I shall war the bottom of my pants rolled” He is saying instead that he will enjoy life in other ways even if he does get older. Prufrock is so spiritually in love with life it almost literally hurts him to think about it.
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