The feeling that the Swedish rock band is referring to in the opening verse of the song (shown above) is love. Love is that incredible phenomenon that have existed since the beginning of time. Even though this is the case, even though love have existed before any of us were born, there isn’t a definite definition of the word. If you ask a hefty group of people to define the word love, you’d most likely receive a different answer out of each of them. Today, I will showcase an example of this, using a love song from today’s time and love sonnets from the Renaissance.
Let’s go back in time to the year 1557 when Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “Whoso list to hunt” was published. In this poem, Wyatt – who was also a skilled musician and soldier – seemingly …show more content…
That how I believe Shakespeare viewed loved. To substantiate that statement even more, in the final lines of sonnet 130, Shakespeare admits that the love he has for his lady is rare:
“And yet, by Heaven, I think my love as rare…”
Out of the four definitions of love we looked at today, I believe Shakespeare’s definition is the most equitable comparison to how loved is viewed today. Despite that, the two representations are still differential.
Now that you’ve seen how love was viewed during the Renaissance Era, it’s time to see how the perspective of love in that time, compares to how love is viewed nowadays. Since love songs can be dubbed the modern day version of love sonnets, I will use a very famous one as a comparison stick.
In the year 2001, music legend Michael Jackson (1958 – 2009) released a song titled “You Rock My World.” This song was featured on the album Invincible and it was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2012. This song was a good example of how love is represented today. Which of the four men mentioned above, does this song relate to most? Let’s take a look.
In the opening verse of Michael’s critically-acclaimed song, he starts by saying how impactful his dearest is in his …show more content…
“I cannot explain the things I feel for you
But girl, you know it's true
Stay with me, fulfill my dreams
And I'll be all you'll need”
To compare to Shakespeare’s sonnet about love, there was a line in Jackson’s song where he also called his love rare.
“The rarest love who'd think I'd find someone like you to call mine”
Based on the words of Michael Jackson in “You Rock My World,” it seems as if he’s saying as long as you and your loved one is happy together, then true love will be reached. That’s yet another definition for love that further proves my claim, which said that there is no definite definition for the word love.
If I had to come up with a perspective of love based on all the definitions we saw today, it would be something like this: The lady who you choose to be your love does not have to be perfect, nor does the life the two of you are living. As long as you and your lover are happy together, then paradise and peace will be achieved.
Love might be undefinable, however, we all know it’s a force that could be the solutions to a lot of the world’s
Let’s go back in time to the year 1557 when Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “Whoso list to hunt” was published. In this poem, Wyatt – who was also a skilled musician and soldier – seemingly …show more content…
That how I believe Shakespeare viewed loved. To substantiate that statement even more, in the final lines of sonnet 130, Shakespeare admits that the love he has for his lady is rare:
“And yet, by Heaven, I think my love as rare…”
Out of the four definitions of love we looked at today, I believe Shakespeare’s definition is the most equitable comparison to how loved is viewed today. Despite that, the two representations are still differential.
Now that you’ve seen how love was viewed during the Renaissance Era, it’s time to see how the perspective of love in that time, compares to how love is viewed nowadays. Since love songs can be dubbed the modern day version of love sonnets, I will use a very famous one as a comparison stick.
In the year 2001, music legend Michael Jackson (1958 – 2009) released a song titled “You Rock My World.” This song was featured on the album Invincible and it was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2012. This song was a good example of how love is represented today. Which of the four men mentioned above, does this song relate to most? Let’s take a look.
In the opening verse of Michael’s critically-acclaimed song, he starts by saying how impactful his dearest is in his …show more content…
“I cannot explain the things I feel for you
But girl, you know it's true
Stay with me, fulfill my dreams
And I'll be all you'll need”
To compare to Shakespeare’s sonnet about love, there was a line in Jackson’s song where he also called his love rare.
“The rarest love who'd think I'd find someone like you to call mine”
Based on the words of Michael Jackson in “You Rock My World,” it seems as if he’s saying as long as you and your loved one is happy together, then true love will be reached. That’s yet another definition for love that further proves my claim, which said that there is no definite definition for the word love.
If I had to come up with a perspective of love based on all the definitions we saw today, it would be something like this: The lady who you choose to be your love does not have to be perfect, nor does the life the two of you are living. As long as you and your lover are happy together, then paradise and peace will be achieved.
Love might be undefinable, however, we all know it’s a force that could be the solutions to a lot of the world’s