What is Love?? (lectures from May 1st and 3rd, 2018)

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(Here's some jams for this write up!)

These two fishbowls are obviously very important to me, and hopefully will be to anyone who has ever, or will ever experience love in their lifetime. This lecture hit me hard personally, as I had just gone through a break up, but love is still the heartbeat of life, whether you can see it or not.

During our lecture, we highlighted different kinds of love: Familial and romantic, both being very intimate types of love, and departed, and deep attachment, which are pure and nascent.

What is true love? What defines it? What destroys it?
True love is when a person can truly gain a full understanding of another person, or people. It is a constructive love, as we try to better ourselves for it, as well as better each other in it, in a positive way. It is about two people together as one unit. Once it is about just one or the other, or even nobody, not the whole, and crumbles and it is destroyed.

How does love relate to poetry?
Some of the greatest poetry strives to remind us that love cannot be defined as or compared to one single emotion, as it is a vivid range of feelings. Love is made up of innumerable, and even contradicting emotions. Poetry requires a strong mastery of language, as well as many of these emotions, and is the prime outlet for expressing and enlarging our humanity. What better tool to express love than poetry?!

"LOVE IT!!!!!!!" (Professor J. Mignano-Brady all semester long)

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