What is Love? Essays -- Literary Analysis, Donne, Loves Alchemy

I fuck you. No opposite sequence of words has so much source these words have the power to strengthen a bond, weaken a relationship, ruin a experience or bring two people together. The conception of spang is discombobulate and we have struggled to understand it for centuries, everything between the Greek goddess Aphrodite and todays romanticist comedies have attempted to compreh remnant and explain it. The theme of love is favourite in Donnes early poetry. His understanding of love from the perspective of a protestant preacher reveals much approximately the anti-Christian sentiments and of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. A close analysis of Donnes poem, Loves alchemy and of the film When Harry Met Sally reveals the strength behind Donnes musical theme that sex is the end goal in relationships and that true love is physical. In the first two lines of Loves Alchemy Donne sets up his aggress on platonic love when he compares it to the unsuccess ful results of alchemy. The words plentifuler digged loves mine (1) creates the association between platonic love and alchemy. The mine re leaves both the physical mine in which we find base metals, and second the spiritual mine in which we find love. For Donne, the idea of platonic love is as worthless as the metals pulled from the mine and much like the alchemist cannot overthrow it into gold, the Platonist will never turn his idea into true love. The metaphor of foresight implies a direction inward, mainly into ones instinct. The centric contentment (2) of the next line reinforces the idea of inner digging the center of the soul is where Platonists believe love to be. Another interpretation of the mine demonstrates how digging deep is necessary for love since alchemy never produces gold, the on... ...this way could represent how this plan of love plagues society and that it is an enemy we must unite against. The speaker to a fault warns against the inevitable loss of these qualities should platonic love be pursued for this baseless bubbles shadow deport? (14) The use of the word pay likens the pursuit of platonic love to crime in which the guilty soul must pay a fine. The image of the bubble on the other hand represents fragility and transparency which means that these are characteristics of platonic love. The concept of platonic love as fragile and transparent is also present in When Harry Met Sally. Initially when Harry tells his friend about his platonic relationship with Sally, his friend is unconvinced. This reaction is justified because near the end of the film, the platonic relationship dissipates and they have sex which eventually leads to marriage.