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Remedia Amoris (also known as Love's Remedy or The Cure for Love; c. 2 AD) is an 814-line poem in Latin by Roman poet Ovid.In this companion poem to The Art of Love, Ovid offers advice and strategies to avoid being hurt by love feelings, or to fall out of love, with a stoic overtone.
Catullus 85 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus for his lover Lesbia. Its declaration of conflicting feelings, "I hate and I love", is renowned for its drama, force and brevity. [ 1 ] The meter of the poem is the elegiac couplet .
Sentimentality originally indicated the reliance on feelings as a guide to truth, but in current usage the term commonly connotes a reliance on shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason. [1] Sentimentalism in philosophy is a view in meta-ethics according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.
As the poem ends, the trance caused by the nightingale is broken and the narrator is left wondering if it was a real vision or just a dream. [24] The poem's reliance on the process of sleeping is common to Keats's poems, and "Ode to a Nightingale" shares many of the same themes as Keats' Sleep and Poetry and Eve of St. Agnes. This further ...
In the poem, the speaker recalls, while walking on a "quiet street," a love affair that he had with a much younger woman. Although he knew he would risk being hurt if he initiated a relationship, he did so anyway, and ultimately faced heartache after the relationship ended.
The meaning of this word, perhaps from the Oscan language, is disputed; it is usually translated "little man" (since Calvus was quite short in stature), but some suspect that it may also have had an obscene meaning. [64] Finally, in poem 96, Catullus writes a consolation to Calvus on the death of a certain Quintilia, who is thought to have been ...
"There's a Certain Slant of Light" is the first composition in Alice Parker's "Heavenly Hurt: Songs of Love and Loss", seven songs for mixed chorus with cello and piano. Commissioned by Da Camera Singers of Amherst , MA, Sheila L. Heffernon, conductor; first performances May 29-31, 2013 in Charlemont , Amherst and Northhampton , MA.
Lovesickness refers to an affliction that can produce negative feelings when deeply in love, during the absence of a loved one or when love is unrequited.. The term "lovesickness" is rarely used in modern medicine and psychology, though new research is emerging on the impact of heartbreak on the body and mind.