Eternal love

             Love has always been one of the major themes in Literature since the beginnings of times. Representing such a superb and caotic exaltation of emotions, 'love' is a concept that most writers have intended to define. In his "sonnet 116", Shakespeare states that true love is an eternal, sincere, intense and never-changing devotion felt towards another person:
             Let me not to the marriage of true minds
             Admit impediments; love is not love
             Which alters when it alteration finds,
             Or bends with the remover to remove
             That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
             It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
             [...] love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
             But bears it out even to the edge of doom. (lines 1-12)
             The same idea of an everlasting fondness is created in Pablo Neruda's poem, "Amor" :
             ...Cómo sabría amarte, mujer, cómo sabría
             amarte, amarte como nadie supo jamás!
             y más. ( lines 10-15 ).
             Regardless of times, love has inspired people's souls during their lives; for, anybody is capable of doing anything for love. However, a human soul may also react in a terrile and drastic way if it is under the mysticism of love. In Milton's original epic poem, Paradise Lost as well as in Emily Brontë's romantic novel, Wuthering Heights , the main characters experience a similar forceful passion that goes beyond this world; nevertheless, it is this strong spiritual connection that will either provoke magnificent or disastrous consequences in Adam and Eve's lives and in Heathcliff and Catherine's respectively.
             Although 'love' is not the main theme in Milton's poem, Adam- the almost perfect human being pictured in Paradise Lost- experiences the same loyal and truthful admiration for his beloved –Eve- as the one descr...

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