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[a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line. It is one of Sappho's most famous poems, describing her love for a young woman. Fragment 31 has been the subject of numerous translations and adaptations from ancient times to the present day.
CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.
"My Platonic Sweetheart" is a short dream narrative written by American writer Mark Twain. It was originally titled "The Lost Sweetheart" and written during July and August 1898. It was originally titled "The Lost Sweetheart" and written during July and August 1898.
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Platonic relationships, they add, “can provide and accomplish all of the same things in terms of networks of support that romantic and sexual relationships can. I think we just culturally don ...
Her poems, frequently occasional, typically celebrate the refined pleasures of platonic love. [ citation needed ] Jeremy Taylor in 1659 dedicated to her his Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship , and Cowley , Henry Vaughan the Silurist, the Earl of Roscommon and the Earl of Cork and Orrery all celebrated her talent.
Unsure of what "platonic soulmate" means? We break it down and explain how it's different from both a regular friendship and a romantic soulmate.
The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. [1] But in the opinion of Lord Byron sonnets were “the most puling, petrifying, stupidly platonic compositions”, [ 2 ] at least as a vehicle for love poetry, and he wrote ...