Abbie-Harmon-Introduction
Better to have loved and lust, than never to have loved at all
Everyone has felt the deep
heartfelt feeling of loving somebody, whether it be your mother, father,
sister, brother, friend, family member, religious figure, or significant other.
There undoubtedly has been someone who impacted your life in such a way which
made you feel something deeper than you have ever felt before. We all know this
feeling and understand it, generally speaking, as something which is special
and you are not able to feel for just anybody. It takes time for love to take
place and cannot be forced in order to happen. On the other hand, as we go
through life we are introduced to the obsessive, raw, physically involving
feeling of lust. This is usually introduced to the average Joe by their first
significant other or in some cases with someone who they are not romantically
involved with at all. While love is time consuming and involves a deep
connection, lust is quick, easy and involves no commitment longer than a few
moments in time. These two notions are entirely different entities which carry
differing meanings to many different people. However, within today’s society,
our culture has an incredibly bad habit of mixing these two feelings up, or
masking one with the other.
The pieces of work which I have pulled together for this
exhibit exemplify the boundaries of love and lust and what they mean and have
meant to different people at different times throughout history. Throughout the
body of poetry there are a multitude of love poems, but as I have read through
many of them I noticed that there was talk of many ideals which commonly are
linked with lust rather than love. These two values definitely overlap being
that most people commonly believe with true love comes lust for that same
person. The most natural animalistic traits of having sex, only in order to
procreate, has transformed into something much more when mixed with human
emotion. A common theme throughout the past of wanting the benefits of lust,
without the damnation of eternal love has played into our modern day perception
on how we view the embodiment of love. Though typically we think of lust as a
lesser form of love, through these pieces of writing we see that the emotion of
lust may be just as strong, if not sometimes stronger than the emotion of love.
There are poems which only encounter a true sense of love, ones which seem to
only exemplify lust, and a few instances of how the two ideals work in unison.
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