The numerous titles, forms and definitions of God depict how powerful he is, making it an important motive to search for God since he is the caretaker of the human soul. The metaphorical usages of nature seen in the writings “The Dark nIght of the Soul”, “Ode 314” and “Sou’s Beloved” are distinct and similar in many different ways which help portray how love is natural, necessary and beneficial.
In the poem “Ode” by Rumi, a Muslim poet, love is seen as powerful, natural, unexplainable and necessary through its usage of natural metaphors. The first couple lines describe how those who don’t experience love haven’t experienced love “pulling them like a river,” (Ode, Rumi). That being said, love is so powerful you can’t even control it. The next couple of lines also describe these people as those who “don’t drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in sunset like supper,” (Ode, Rumi). The metaphors of spring water and supper is another way of saying that love is necessary to live, just as food and water. Love is also explained as being “beyond the study of theology,” (Ode, Rumi). which means love is unexplainable. Even you can’t write love down in words, it ties into the search of god through love is necessary to survive.
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Azikiri’s poem “Soul’s Beloved” love for god is seen as being on a different spectrum for “your love to him is sweeter than a taste of honeycomb’s nectar” which makes love stronger than nature itself. The phrase “servant to your Will” makes love appear to be something that you owe to god, however your love to god will be exchanged with positive outcomes. This experience of reaching god explains that you will be “strengthened and healed” and that your will will be served
Therefore, the intense, but the unthoughtful and tender love of them seemed not suppose to
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” (Martin Luther King Jr). Love is the invisible force that wakes you up in the morning and puts you back to sleep, hoping to relive the moment again, or in a simpler sense, it might be random acts of kindness among people that makes up happy, selfless communities. Or it might be a deadly trap for the weak when its powers are abused, but whatever the case, love is important for everyday customs and habits.
Second, this love is as absolutely necessary to the being of the body of Christ, as the sinews and other ligaments of a natural body are to the being of that body. Third, this love is a divine, spiritual nature free, active, strong, courageous, and permanent. This makes us nearer to resemble the virtues of our heavenly father. Fourth, it rests in the love and welfare of its beloved.
Love is essential to overcoming adversity and it is the ability to cause change in yourself and
The love is categorized as a deeming and damning affection therefore mastering the hardship of what love is or is perceived to be. Looking at the first stanza, one is able to notice that it starts off very romantically. In line 1 the poet, Cynthia Zarin, refers to her man as ‘My heart’ and ‘my dove’. ‘My heart’ indicates how much the poet’s lover means to her as a heart is sustenance for life. The poet also makes it clear that the love is pure in line 1 by referring to her lover as
Frank Tebbets once said, “A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.” Love is essential for human beings to live a fulfilled and happy life. Love or the
In this song, the singer describes a man’s love for his girlfriend as well as the difficulties and pain inherent to loving another. The song describes the pressures that humans face, and how their struggles against difficulties end in failure. Despite this, it is the efforts made against these failures that eventually add up to an individual’s worth (Mahan, 2005). The significance of this song to the album is that it attempts to deify love, and it does this by examining how man tries his best at love, just the same way in which he tries his best at being good and religious. Even though man will always lose in his efforts at devotion and pure love, he will eventually be redeemed through his constant
"Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable," -Piet Hein. In the common literature Romeo and Juliet, "My Shakespeare", and "Love's Vocabulary," they all share the same objective of attempting to define love. By using paradox, allusion and figuritive language, William Shakespeare, Kate Tempest and Diane Ackerman show how love is undefinable. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses paradox to define love.
At last but not least, the author employs negative diction, such as: “vexed” (1.1.199), “madness” (1.1.200), and “gall” (1.1.201). “Vexed” denotes annoyed, and “madness” denotes insanity. Since Romeo is referring to love in such a negative way, this shows that Romeo is pessimistic about love. In this passage, the metaphors demonstrate that love is short-lasting, depressing, and conflicting. Due to the metaphor and negative diction in this passage, the author characterizes Romeo as a person who is conflicted and frustrated by love.
His past experiences has led him to believe that love should be masked by lies that in a sense it should the truth should be a voluntary definition behind love. In Plato’s Symposium, Aristophanes’ delivers a speech about his experiences of have loved or being in love. Aristophanes’ speech captures how powerful the feeling of love, that since birth love has condition our lives involuntary and will remain so. Love to Aristophanes’ is a form of completion that a lucky couple receives once the meet each other. This completion is empowered by an enormous amount of love, intimacy, and affection that neither bonds can be separated.
No matter the strong pull of love though, Meursault escapes its grasps though his lack of empathy and basic human connections. This ideology is shared by those around Meursault: such as how Salamano lost his wife and “He hadn’t been happy with his wife, but he’d pretty much gotten used to her (1.5.44).” Meursault knows that love is only temporary and knows that love means nothing in life and cannot change anything: “That evening Marie came by to see me and asked me if I wanted to marry her. I said it didn’t make any difference to me and that we could if she wanted to (1.5.44).” He does accept that love is something tangible but understands that there is no significance to it, how it has no reason, and is not required for living.
This shows that according to the New Testament, love is something that endures all, love is everlasting. Love is not something that can be turned on like a light
This is further explored through the use of anaphora with ‘mingle’, “the fountains mingle with the river” and “in one spirit meet and mingle.”, which communicates how the speaker does believe there is a connection between how the earth and how love works. Ultimately, he is arguing that love between humans’ mimics nature in that nothing is single within nature, and therefore, the person he desires should end his solitude. Similarly, the speaker in Love’s Philosophy explores and believes in the order and divinity that exists within nature and the world around them and justifies his love as just him finding one to mingle with, as highlighted through “nothing in the world is single; / all things by a law divine / in one spirit meet and mingle.” The use of hyperbolic language of ‘all’ and ‘nothing’ with the spiritual connotations of ‘divine’ and use of enjambment in lines 6-7, all convey a tone of certainty and agitation within the voice, as he
The ones who make love without love,” meant to make the reader confront the issues involved in engaging in sex with those we don’t love. By including the phrase, “make love,” rather than a phrase such as, “have sex,” the poem forces readers to confront how people can engage in an act of love without actually feeling any love for one another. The poem further disparages love-making that doesn’t come from the heart by describing those who partake in it as, “beautiful as dancers,/gliding over each other like ice-skaters/over the ice, fingers hooked.” The symbolism induced by the
Grief is the price we pay for love. - Queen Elizabeth II Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. - Anne Roiphe Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. -