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Death, love, or neither?
2007-02-12 13:27:13 · 3 answers · asked by subzerofun 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Both.
2007-02-12 13:38:22 · answer #1 · answered by crocker_range_boy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the idealization of death and love is a common theme in literature, and it is often not a matter of a reference being to one or the other, but instead having a double meaning. It was at one time believed that an orgasm "spent" a days worth of life, thus cutting your life shorter by a day. Thus slang for orgasm was "to die" or in French "le petit mort"--the little death.
So there is a long tradition of death and love overlapping in poetry.
2007-02-13 00:46:20 · answer #2 · answered by JEFFREY K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It shows how love can also be death in a way. it shows how death is tied in with love and how without love there is no death, and without death there is no love. It's one of those things that are made to confuse the heart and mind.
2007-02-12 22:31:45 · answer #3 · answered by LadyDragonRider 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋