 Romance/Love: April 23, 2008 Issue [#2337] |
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This is Joy , your guest editor.
Plato said:
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
Mark Twain said:
"After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."
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This week we are going to take a look at falling in love.
How do humans feel and act when they first fall in love? Demented, obsessed, maniacal, and with sighs, serenades, and compulsive efforts to go after the other person as their actions border on stalking or something close to it, right? Even serious and steadfast people feel the same palpitations, same vibrancy, same mix of joy and pain; although, they may try to hide their feelings.
According to a New York Times article, published on May 31, 2005, which quotes a scientific article from The Journal of Neurophysiology, researchers have agreed that romantic love is a biological urge different from lust or other hormonal events. The article says: "Now for the first time, neuroscientists have produced brain scan images of this fevered activity, before it settles into the wine and roses phase of romance or the joint holiday card routines of long-term commitment."
With the findings outlined in this article, we the writers have been legitimized. This research puts the poets and romance writers on that throne of truth they have been deserving for centuries. The point is: no matter how wildly a man or a woman acts when they court another person, falling in love and being in love is a legitimate need.
So many variations exist to the ways people feel love's first attraction. The common belief used to be that people fell in love because they sensed a subconscious fit to the other person's psychological blueprint, but then sometimes, opposites attracted, too.
Falling in Love has been around since mankind was created. Here is the beginning of a love poem from the ancient Egyptians sometime during 2000-1100 BC.
Your love has penetrated all within me
Like honey plunged into water,
Like an odor which penetrates spices...
From "Ancient History Sourcebook"
To the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was the best-known goddess, the goddess of love, and according to the Iliad, Helene's falling in love with Paris started a string of dramatic events and a major war.
In Shakespeare's As You Like It, Rosalind wants to find a lover but does not want to lose her self and act crazily; however, when she enters the Forest of Arden, she discovers the love poems Orlando has hung on the trees. She loses self-control as she reads them one by one.
For writers, one way to capture the lunatic behavior in characters who fall in love is to look for the emotion and the unsaid, hidden meaning in each person. Some characters are as they are; others are not the same inside compared to the way they appear on the outside. Yet, all people are impressed by their families, by their backgrounds, and by their successes and wounds in life. Still, their behavior may change in varying degrees when they fall in love. They may become reserved, stay away from other people, and make concessions for their beloved's behavior. Consequently, focusing on the characters' traits while writing a love story is the key to success.
A writer writing about fictional characters falling in love needs to keep in mind his or her readers constantly, because he needs to trigger the readers' emotions so they can empathize with the characters and can follow them through the act of falling in love. Anything true in life is also true in a work of fiction or poetry, and writing the falling in love scenes with realism determines the success of a love story.
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Thank you for taking the time to write to this newsletter, 
Lauriemariepea
hi, joy--
thank you for this week's newsletter!
i respect poets for their ability to pinpoint and illuminate that singular thread of emotion we others have trouble even defining. love is complicated!
you've chosen lovely examples to highlight this 'love' thang.
Thank you,Lauriemariepea
Yes, love is complicated, but I am glad you liked the examples. 
Sweet Musings
This was a very good newsletter highlighting different types of love poems. I have never thought about the difference point of view makes when writing poetry. Great job, Joy.
Thank you, Sweet Musings .
Yes, point of view is important and there are many different types of love poems as there are different kinds of love.
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