The Nature of Love - Essay Example

I chose to write about “the nature of love” because of the season that we are in. When it was winter I was thinking about how sometimes love can be cold, and going through feelings which made me think of love and nature in this way – being heartbroken and feeling cold and bare like trees in winter. Then now as it’s turning into spring, I feel as if the flowers and return to green is a sign of hope and new possibilities in love. This made me think of looking at different elements like fire and wind and different seasons that show the changing experiences that we go through when we are in and out of love.

Although there is no poem entitled “Winter”, it is dealt with in the first poem, showing a transition from “frozen faith” to “growing green”.

The poem “Wind” associates wind and freedom, and doing things that society doesn’t expect you to do when you are in love, while “Fire” is a good transition to the next section “violent elements” because it talks about things like “fire” and “lightning” and “thunderclouds” which are frightening and violent but are beautiful too, like love is. Then the section “violent elements” transitions into “stormy night and the ends section with only one poem: “Evening” which talks about love dying like the day dying. I know that people will say that it is common to write about love and to compare it with nature, but I think these poems are different in that they try to avoid the usual clichés. I am very grateful to the person that inspired this anthology – even though there are many painful things to feel and say about love, it is a life-changing experience to have.