Love provides the underlying impetus and thematic content in many works of literature, especially poetry. In its various forms and expressions, love is the driving force of life, the magnetism uniting mother to child, lover to lover, friend to friend. However, love is not always portrayed as a liber...

Love Is What You Make of It The short story, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymond Carver and the poem, "Cinderella," by Anne Sexton both show that love is not just pure and simple. Love can be evil, painful, and complex. In these two pieces of literature we...