We call love all which is related to a man and a woman, as well as the love of our parents, our brothers, our relatives. We can love a country, a flag, a music. Such as self-esteem, we also love our own ideas and opinions. Anyway, love is a word impossible to define. We cannot find and define particularly each kind of love.
Classical philosophers refer to proper love, to the existing between a man and a woman, which their goal in common is the formation of a family.
Biologically speaking it is proved that falling in love is physiologically similar to mental illness. The reasons romantic love fades may be found in the way our brains respond to the surge and pulse of dopamine that accompanies passions and gets us high. Dopamine creates intense energy, exhilaration, which is why, when we are in love, we can stay up all night, climb a mountain faster, and push the limits of our skills.
Although it is a topic that opens a wide range of possibilities and opinions, the truest think in the history of love it is that it is a basic and eternal force, a sentiment sustained since the begging of the human race till nowadays. Love does not resign to the moral values, it can start a fight or it can put a fire out.
In literature love have also followed a clear trajectory. The reflection of the sentiments in a poem, a prose, a novel, a paint, an sculpture, a song, allow us to understand the evolution and the colors of love throughout the history of man.
Two examples of two different kinds of love in the classic literature are Romeo and Juliet and Penelope and Ulysses.
In Rome and Juliet, Shakespeare said: “love of young people is in the eyes”. The author tries to reflect the freshness and innocence of love flowing in young people, without hypocrisy. Actually, the real weight of the love story of Romeo and Juliet is the forbidden love. In the novel, there are disputes between two families, Capulets and Montagues, and even thought, they decide to be faithful to their hearts. Of course, this suffering arrives to the reader.
In the other hand, The Odyssey, Homer describes the unfinished love between Penelope and Ulysses, separated each other by a period of twenty years. In addition to the love that unite them in the length of time, Ulysses needs intelligence to avoid the temptations during the absence of love, during the Trojan war.
In both cases, love as a eternal feeling persisted. Moreover, these two works that were spoken to different audiences, eventually achieve the aim of describing love as an anguishing feeling.
After this loooooong reflection, I want to get closer to the final conclusion:
This feeling will conquer all the places in the universe because it always fly away as a bird breaking the calm of the sky. That’s why love makes us bold, bright and take risks we wouldn’t normally take.
Please friends, pray attention in our literature classes!!! Poets, romantics, writers, musicians, philosophers and all kind of artists that sometimes you would like to destroy, they have been doing the labor of understanding the strange language of our hearts and they have been traducing the nature of our souls.
Let's listen to a classic love song.....
(LOVE ME TENDER - Elvis Presley) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y-bd3aDMGA
