Arabic Poetry

While reading this weeks assigned readings "The Dove's Necklace" the themese relating to love were all descrpiptive and used great evidence to support these themes. The themes/ideas that most interested me were 1. Supporting your lover always and 2. How one changes to please their lover. When the story opened it first started talking of how when you love someone you will believe them even when they are lying, agrees with him even though he is wrong, testifies on his behalf for all that may be unjust, and supporting whatever line of arguement he may adopt. I read through this and completely agreed after seeing examples like this happen everyday, but I could only describe it in one way- Love can make you do thing. The force that love hold over people can turn them into a liar to protect there lover (real life example, lying on the stand in court in favor of your lover), builds a trust that may not be as strong as you may believe (believing lies), and taking on arguements that are not your own to protect your loved one. These beliefs are things that people are expected to do when they are in love, marriage signifies people at this stage doing all they can to protect and please there lover which in turn looks bad on them. There was a long very versatile paragraph of how people change to become what there lover is looking for some of the examples from the readings are the scowler relaxed her frown, the sloucher smartened up and the stinker transformed himself into a elegant dandy. These are all examples of how people change who they are to become who there lover wants them to be. Love has a way of taking over people, it is very powerful and always something that is very hard to get under control. Love is a beautiful thing if it is used in the right way.