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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.
In Christianity the practical definition of love is summarized by Thomas Aquinas, who defined love as "to will the good of another," or to desire for another to succeed. [12] This is an explanation of the Christian need to love others, including their enemies.
End rhyme (aka tail rhyme): a rhyme occurring in the terminating word or syllable of one line in a poem with that of another line, as opposed to internal rhyme. End-stopping line; Enjambment: incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.
Deep and Inspirational Love Quotes. 74. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." — The Fault in Our Stars. 75. "Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide."
Variations on the Word Love is a poem about love by Margaret Atwood, who is regarded as one of Canada's greatest living writers. [1] The poem appears in True Stories ( Oxford University Press , 1981), her 9th poem collection, [ 2 ] which is dedicated to Carolyn Forche . [ 3 ]
Shelley uses the sentence I can give not what men call love which shows that he himself is not averse to the use of the word love but because it has been misused often by men everywhere to describe ordinary and worldly feelings, he will not use this word for Jane. The metrical feet used in the poem are a mixture of anapests and iambs. The first ...
In the poet's own words, the poem is based on a direct real-life experience. But it is not clear whether the poet as the protagonist was the visitor to the fisherman's daughter. [2] The poem is an expression of the poet's loneliness as a youth, as Mahapatra had a disturbed childhood. [3]
The ghazal [a] is a form of amatory poem or ode, [1] originating in Arabic poetry. [2] Ghazals often deal with topics of spiritual and romantic love and may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation from the beloved and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. [2] [3]