The_Anthology_of_Unconditional_Love,_in_Which_One_Can_Not_Stop_Loving_One

The Anthology of Unconditional Love, In which one can not stop loving one “Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.” - Wayne Dyer Table of Contents I. Jean Robert Burns was a Scottish poet who was born in 1759 and passed away in 1796. He was one of the most well known poets in the country II. True or False Caius Valerius Catullus was a Roman poet born in 84 BC. In the years that he was alive he had written 116 poems ranging on multiple topics. He eventually passed away in 54 BC. III. Tomorrow Lope de Vega a Spanish poet and playwright, from Madrid, Spain who has written multiple types of sonnets, novels, and poems. This poet born in 1562, passed away at 72years of age in 1635. IV. I Think I’ll Go Home and Lie Very Still ( 1300- 1100 BC) An Ancient Egyptian had written this poem, are un aware of whom. It is known that the poem was written in hieroglyphs, and was found on papyri, bits of smoothed limestone, and ancient pottery. V. I Went Along the Broad Road Chou people wrote a group of poems and combined them into a large poem category, which was published in multiple place with multiple names but the one from Norton Anthology is called “Classic of Poetry” the poems range from the 1000-600 BC. VI. I Have Fallen into Unconsciousness Mewland Jalauddine Rumi was an Afghanistan poet in the 1200s. He was influenced by his peers. Rumi wrote poems as he traveled and encountered with people. VII. 33 This poem was written as part of an erotic verse which was written by the sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso. He was born in India in 1683 but then passed away in 1703 in China, at the age of 23. Introduction *** “Unconditional Love / Talking bout the stuff that don’t wear off/ It don’t fade/ It’ll last for all these crazy days/ These crazy nights/ Whether you wrong or you right/ I’m a still love you/ Still feel you/ No matter what/ You will always be in my heart/ With unconditional love.” This is a song that a lyrical artist called Tupac once sang for us about unconditional love. You can hear different varieties of people works on what unconditional love to them means. Dating all the way back to BC when ancient times were happening, poetry and stories were being told and written on stones and walls. Words might have not been written but symbols. In this anthology the reader will find that there is various ways that different cultures and time frames feel towards unconditional love. Since being from different time frames and countries, A Scottish poet once wrote “I see her in the dewy flowers, / I see her sweet and fair: / I hear her in the tuneful; birds. / I hear her charm in the air: / There’s not a bonnie flower that springs/ by fountain, shaw, or green; / There’s not a bonnie bird that sings, / But minds me o’ my Jean.” These lyrics are found in Jean. Having to do with how no matter what time of they year he is always thinking of Jean, and that there are different things that reminds him of her. This poem was written in the time frame of the mid to late 1700’s. As for how a Roman poet wrote about how unconditional love is not having to be the same feeling back, “I can never think again/ Well of you: I try in vain. / But… be false… do what you will --/ Lesbia! I must love you still.” Relating to the fact that no matter what her feelings are back he will always love her and that he will not fight back for her, but will continue to have an unconditional love towards her. This is extremely important to anyone who is trying to understand about unconditional love, one does not need to love back to have a feeling or thought of unconditional love. That there is various ways that one can show or express the love. Knowing that unconditional love is not just a form shown to someone but it can also be expressions on how one feels towards someone. It is expressed in this poem Tomorrow written by Lope De Vega, whom was a Spanish poet in the late 1500s to early 1600s. In his poem he did refer to his “guardian angel” which could be known as the one whom he loves unconditionally. I think I’ll Go Home and Lie Very Still is one in which is shows about how unconditional love has hurt. It also shows that there are different approaches based on different cultures and societies about how one will call it unconditional love, and continue to keep the upbeat in some culture while others will mourn. This also shows that some make up excuses to try to cover up their true feelings, for instance, “feigning terminal illness” is one in which this Egyptian poet wrote. There is a theory that is known that based upon the culture that the poem is coming from. The following poem is Chinese, and it is relating about how a long road has been traveled to get to the location and point of where this person is at the moment in time. This relates to unconditional love because a long road can lead to unconditional love, between two people. There is also an ability to have a short road in which one is unconditionally in love with another, whom may not have the same feelings back. “I have got out of my own control, I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my utter unconsciousness how joyful I am with myself!” Never allow someone else to over take your ability to care and love for someone but yourself. Make yourself happy and then allow the unconditional love come in. In this poem it shows that one can only allow so much love to be passed by until there is no more ability to do so unconditionally. The poem written by the Sixth Dalai Lama is a strong one, “My love was lost through theft-/ Time to consult the cards. / for that passionate girl/ roams round within dreams.” This sums it all up into a short and simple way of understanding what unconditional love is. One who can love no matter what the problem, through the goods and the bad, being awake and asleep; in general being able to feel unconditional love. Based upon these poems they poets get their feelings of unconditional love about different things, some being true love, and some relating to an object or feelings. All of these poems do lead to the known statement that unconditional love is a love that is not only shown amongst two people. But a love that one could always have for one other, without them knowing. These seven different poems ranging from different cultures and age range show this. No two people have the same feeling towards unconditional love. As one might love unconditionally to show that they care, while one might have an undivided love that is only expressed through thought, and how one might reflect how another might look or remind them of a specific object or structure. I. Jean Robert Burns Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, For there the bonnie lassie lives. The lassie I lo’e best: There wild woods grow, and rivers row, And monie a hill between; But day and night may fancy’s flight Is ever wi’ my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair: I hear her in the tunefu’ birds. I hear her charm in the air: There’s not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain, shaw, or green; There’s not a bonnie bird that sings, But minds me o’ my Jean. **** II. True or False Caius Valerius Catullus None could every say that she, Lesbia! Was so loved by me. Never all the world around Faith so true as mind was found. If no longer it endures (Would it did!) the fault is yours. I can never think again Well of you: I try in vain. But… be false… do what you will – Lesbia! I must love you still **** III. Tomorrow Lope de Vega LORD, what am I, that with unceasing care Thou did’st seek after me, that Thou did’st wait Wet with unhealthy dews before my gate, And pass the gloomy nights of winter there' Oh, stranger delusion, that I did not geed They blest approach, and oh, to heaven how lost If my ingratitude’s unkindly frost Has chilled the bleeding wounds upon Thy feet. How oft my guardian angel gently cried, “Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How He persists to knock and wait for thee!” And oh, how often to that Voice f sorrow, “Tomorrow we will open,” I replied, And when the morrow came I answered still “Tomorrow.” I think I’ll Go Home and Lie Very Still Ancient Egyptian Poetry I think I’ll go home and lie very still, Feigning terminal illness. Then the neighbors will all troop over to stare, My love, perhaps, among them. How she’ll smile while the specialist Snarl in their teeth!- She perfectly knows well what ails me. **** IV. I think I’ll go home and Lie Very Still Ancient Egyptian Poetry I think I’ll go home and lie very still, feigning terminal illness. Then the neighbors will all troop over to stare, My love, perhaps, among them. How she’ll smile while the specialists Snarl in their teeth!- She perfectly knows well what ails me. V. I Went Along the Broad Road Chou people I went along the broad road and took you by the sleeve --- do not hate me, never spurn old friends. I went along the broad road, and took you by the hand --- do not spurn me, never spurn a love. VI. I have fallen into unconsciousness Mewland Jaladuddin Rumi I have got out of my own control; I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my outer unconsciousness how joyful I am with myself! The darling sewed up my eyes so that I might no see other than him, so that suddenly I opened my eyes on his face. My soul fought with me saying, “Do not pain me”. I said, “Take your divorce.” She said, “Grant it”; I granted it. When my mother saw on my cheek the brand of your love she cut my umbilical cord on that, the moment I was born. If I traveled to heave and read the Tablet of the Unseen, O you who are my soul’s salvation, without you how I am ruined! When you cast aside the veil the dead became alive the light of your face reminded me of the Covenant of Alast. When I became lost, O soul, through love of the kind of the peris, hidden I said to the Tabriz of Shams-e Din, “O body, what are you'” Body said, “Earth”; Soul said, “I am distraught like the wind.” **** VII. 33 The Sixth Dalai Lama My love was lost through theft- Time to consult the cards. For that passionate girl Roams round within dreams.