Wherefore art thou?
I think love is pretty well summed up in (ironically) William Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet (I just got the DVD today lol). Romeo says:
“O brawling love! O loving hate! O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead! Bright smoke! Cold fire! Sick health!”
It just goes to show the double edged sword that is love itself. The phrase “brawling love” sets it up; love can be fighting or caring (bad and good).
From then on; it tries to show how love is a “misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms” by comparing complete opposites. “heavy lightness”, “bright smoke”, “cold fire”, “feather of lead” and so on and so on! Shows the two total opposite sides of terrible emotions and passionate bonding that make up love as we know it.
But then again; we already knew Shakespeare was a genius, right?
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Or it could show the shallow side of the jumble of worthless senses and images coupled with chemical and neural impulses that we have called love. Romeo thinks he hurts and grieves, in reality he's only generating those emotions to appear normal. Compare this with what he does when he loses Juliet, and you'll see that this is a shallow attempt at trying to look deep by forlornly morning "lost love". Scarily like bad emo poetry really.
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