While I love the idea of Keats’ poem “Bright Star”, I am not sure if I completely agree. I don’t know anyone who at first thought would say that they would not want a love as constant and burning as a star like what Keats mentions in his poem. However, I believe that the best part about being in a relationship is the way that it is always changing as the years go on. I would not want my love for a boyfriend or even husband to just stay at one place all of our lives. I want to have little fights so we can make up and be even more in love than before, or go through trials and come out stronger than before. If everything was perfect all the time and there was no passion life would be boring. I want to be in love with the same person for the rest of my life, but I want us to grow and mature and constantly love each other more every day. I think I would rather be like a flame that just keeps getting brighter and more powerful the more time and care is put into it.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Bright Stars, Brighter Flame
-Susan Berner
P.S. I commented on Anna (Nightingale)
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When you put love in context like that it makes Eldorado seem less perfect then what its made out to be. If love and relationships are built and grown upon struggling together through life then the question in Eldorado is not "What is Love?", its "Where is Love?"
ReplyDeleteBut Eldorado WASN'T perfect! That's why Candide left, there was something missing. No one wants to have a boring life. . . Everyone loves drama, in fact some people literally can't live without it.
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While I'm not sure its drama we crave so much as deeper meaning, I think you are both right about the imperfection of Eldorado as a, "Utopia." I think what was missing was passion and desire because those who lived there believed they had everything they needed already.
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