The Classical Types Of Love - 1374 Words

Love is a special emotion that most individuals strives for. Part of a human’s nature is to love and long for another individual. This feeling has existed since the beginning and will continue to exist until the end. The term â€Å"love,† however, is very broad. To understand more easily what the term means, the Ancient Greeks came up with three terms to symbolize the three main types of love. The three classical types of love are very important to understand, as they will continue to exist until the world ends. The selected poems read reflect three classical types of love. One type of love that is present in the selected poems is agape love. Agape love is an unconditional love that is all about sacrifice. Agape love in the highest†¦show more content†¦The speaker in this poem shows the highest form of agape love by offering the sacrifice of his life to defend his country, to which he honors all. Another type of love that is important within the selected poems is storge love. Storge love is a type of love between family and friends. Two examples of this kind of love are what parents naturally feel for their children or the love that friends feel for each other. This kind of love also contains commitment and sacrifice. Storge love is portrayed heavily in Shakespeare’s â€Å"Sonnet 116.† In the poem, Shakespeare explains that love is not just an object or something that can be played with, but rather it is a commitment one makes to one they love. He also says that love never alters or withers through a relationship’s ups and downs. Shakespeare writes, Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: Oh, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. (ll. 1-8) Shakespeare uses a metaphor in line seven as he uses a star as an object to follow. He uses the star to suggest that love is a guide, and that lovers can look to. Shakespeare makes it very clear that storge love is very passionate, serious, and not to be taken lightly. As written in this poem, storge love is unconditional