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  • Essay / Essay on the Value of Love - 1810

    The value I have chosen for this task is love. There are two definitions of love. Generally, love can be defined as admiring or liking something very much. Love can be shown toward family, friends, religion, animals, and inanimate objects. In this context, love has no boundaries. People can like whatever they want. The second definition is that love is a feeling of affection towards different genders. Love is not a choice but it happens naturally. When people are in love, they always want to be together and when they are not, they will always think about being together because they will feel that without their partner, their life is incomplete. They will always depend on each other. When it comes to true love, it's all about commitment. When people are in love, they will know that their partner has their back, no matter what circumstances they find themselves in. According to the ancient Greeks, love has many different names for its different forms. Some of them are passion, virtue, affection, desire and general affection. However, regardless of how love is defined, they all share one common characteristic: commitment. In this task, I chose two poems called The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe and The Nymph's Reply to The Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh. In the poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe, he tells readers about a young shepherd who confesses his feelings to the girl he admires the most. At the beginning of the poem, the shepherd asks the girl to come and live with him and be his love forever. He says that if she accepts his proposal, he promises to give her everything and make her happy by doing fun activities together. He promises that they will enjoy the valleys, the groves, the hills...... middle of paper......that the rejection comes directly from his thoughts. She doesn't need anyone to tell her to think realistically and not be fooled by the shepherd's promises. She believes that the shepherd's love is a way of luring people into a world of temporary pleasure. Although the shepherd bravely confessed his feelings, she does not budge with the shepherd's bold action. However, at the end of the poem she states that she can only be moved if youth can last forever and joys never expire. She can only change her mind if the shepherd's promises are truly true, as if there is no reason to worry if she accepts his love. In this case it is clearly stated in stanza 6, line 21 "But could youth last and love breed again", line 22 "There were no joys nor date nor age", line 23 "Then these delights my mind could move" and Line 24 "To live with you and be your love’.