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  2. Chevrefoil - Wikipedia

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    Like other lais, prominence is given to the analysis of the characters' emotions and to the contrast between the ideals of love and the needs of reality. [7] It has been speculated [by whom?] that Marie arranged her poems as they appear in MS H in order to pair a short, tragic poem with a longer one on the power of love and the importance of ...

  3. Collected Works of Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia

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    After Songs of the Spirit the poems pick up Crowley's love of adulterous sex in the name of sin with the likes of "The Honourable Adulterers", "The Five Kisses" (both in Mysteries) and Jezebel and other Tragic Poems (in fact the word "tragedy" was added to these pieces, along with their own pseudonyms "A.E.C" and "Count Vladimir Svareff", again ...

  4. Cilappatikaram - Wikipedia

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    The epic is a tragic love story of an ordinary couple, Kaṇṇaki and her husband Kōvalaṉ. [6] [7] The Cilappatikāram has more ancient roots in the Tamil bardic tradition, as Kannaki and other characters of the story are mentioned or alluded to in the Sangam literature such as in the Naṟṟiṇai and later texts such as the Kovalam Katai.

  5. Les Deux Amants - Wikipedia

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    Les Deux Amants" (Old French: "Les Deus Amanz", English: "The Two Lovers") is a Breton lai, a type of narrative poem, written by Marie de France sometime in the 12th century. The poem belongs to what is collectively known as The Lais of Marie de France. Like the other lais in the collection, "Les Deux Amants" is written in Old French, in ...

  6. Layla and Majnun - Wikipedia

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    It is a tragic story of undying love much like the later Romeo and Juliet. This type of love is known as "virgin love" because the lovers never marry or consummate their passion. Other famous virgin love stories set in Arabia are the stories of Qays and Lubna, Kuthair and Azza, Marwa and Al Majnoun Al Faransi, and Antara and Abla.

  7. Sohni Mahiwal - Wikipedia

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    Sohni Mahiwal is a tragic love story which inverts the classical motif of Hero and Leander. The heroine Sohni, unhappily married to a man she despises, swims every night across the river using an earthenware pot to keep afloat in the water, to where her beloved Mahiwal herds buffaloes.

  8. Tragedy - Wikipedia

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    Tragedy deals with affairs of the state (wars, dynastic marriages); comedy deals with love. For a work to be tragic, it need not have a tragic ending. Although Aristotle says that catharsis (purgation of emotion) should be the goal of tragedy, this is only an ideal. In conformity with the moral codes of the period, plays should not show evil ...

  9. Romantic hero - Wikipedia

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    The titular character in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [6] Andrei Bolkonsky in Leo Tolstoy's novel, War and Peace [7] Ponyboy Curtis in S.E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders [6] Edmond Dantès in Alexandre Dumas (père)'s adventure novel, The Count of Monte Cristo [8] Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen's novel, Pride and ...