“True love” is finding somebody who compliemnts your charachter, supports all of your endevors, and cares for you unconditionally. It should be pure and real. Love is best defined by those who are directly experiencing it, and their greatest supporters; those who truly know them. The downfall is when love becomes destroyed. It can stem from difference of opinion, beliefs, big decisions, change, or unfortunately outside beings. The departing of two who are in love can cause a great deal of pain and the loss of oneself. Artists use their music as a form of expression in this matter, and others choose to write. For example, the poems Since You Left by Hope Khamluanglat, and Heartbroken by Greg Thung; and the song I Fall Apart by Post Malone.
The poem Since You Left by Hope Khamluanglat shows the audience the after affects of being in love once the situation goes awry. The tone of this poem from the beginning gives off a morbid vibe. The author discusses how after the situation “My heart will never be the same” (Khamluanglat). The author displays the raw emotions of moving on from a loved one, and the daily pain within the beggining stages. As she expresses, “I feel so empty; all colors are dull. I can barely breath on my own. The light is gone and dark is back. Cover me in endless black…” (Since You Left). Considering this is the opening of the poem, the audience can directly feel the sense of loss within the author herself. Through her loss of love she quickly lost her sense of self belonging, along with a vast amount of sad emotions.
Another piece of poetry, Heartbroken by Greg Thung, expresses simillar feelings along the males perspective. From the opening the audience can sense that the author could possibly be considered a “hopeless romantic” when he explains, “My mind always told me to "Leave and advance,"But my heart told me that I still have a chance. So I listened to my heart and gave it a shot, It was a bad choice, now look at the misery and failure It brought.I thought I'd have a chance, so I kept holding on…” (Thung). The author gives the audience a peek at the way he is truly feeling, the fear he had of being a failure, and giving up on someone he had deep feelings for. A factor of the human condition is fearing failure, and not be accepted by our peers, which appears to be a factor in thungs case. He goes on to tell his audience, “I remember the tears I cried and I shed, But the pain feels like I bled red instead” (Heartbroken). As Professor Brady once shared, “poetry is meant to be felt, not read”, and this is an exemplar that the poet is sharing his personal experience of the way in which he felt in order to help the audience feel his own personal emotions. Any reader or listener can interpret the theme of the loss of love, the author is making his viewers feel the depth to which his heart was ripped apart.
The failure and after affects of love can be personally felt and related to with the song I Fall Apart by Post Malone. From the title alone the listeners can interpret that a factor in the artists life has been flipped,a and causes him to hit “rock bottom”. The first verse of the song the artist explains that (his signifigant other), “She told me that I'm not enough, And she left me with a broken heart. She cut too deep, now she left me scarred” (Malone). In these lyrics its automatic to see that the artist is lost, and deeply hurt by his situation. He continues to delve into his emotions towrds the relationship by explaining through the words that he was blind sided. The artist explains, “Tell me you don't want me no more, But I can't let go. Everybody told me, so. Feelin' like I sold my soul" (I Fall Apart). Along with the senses of confusion, regret, and shock the artist continues to express his sense of attachment to his past lover. He flat out explains that he has never caught a feeling this hard. These struggles are expressed for his fans and listeners to be able to connect to, and feel his own personal pain.
Each of these pieces relate in the factor that they were written to express emotion, give their audience a relatable personal experience, and to be felt or heard. The poems and the song each relate because they are all the individuals personal reactions to their loss in love. Each person expresses the pain and scarring that was left behind once their signifigant other stepped out of their life. Love works in different ways, affects each individual in a personalized way, but once its over its easy to relate to others. The failure of love most commonly ends with regret, pain, a unfortunate attachment, the loss of themselves and a wave of sadness. All of these things leave individuals wondering how they con go on without the other person they love. They lose their sense of self belonging in society, and long to have that person or even the way they made them feel back.
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