unrequited love

Unrequited love, to be succinct, is usually unreciprocated love. It is a rather dramatic term usually reserved for a situation in which the person who is doing the loving is extremely desirous of another, passionate and unrelenting, despite that love not being returned or reciprocally desired. Unrequited love can also be situational, as we often see in tragic plays or films where one character or both characters die before declaring their unbeknown love to one another. Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story are classic examples.

Unrequited love is the subject of countless novels. Emily Bronte's classic Wuthering Heights is an exquisitely painful example, as is Gabriel García Marquez's newer classic Love in the Time of Cholera. Charles Dickens favored unrequited love as a subject; Shakespeare excelled at it. Look up "unrequited love" and you'll get a reading list to last you a lifetime. It remains a favored topic of authors to this day.

Through time, unrequited love has also been the subject of countless poems, and many songs, plays and operas. From James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" and Eric Clapton's "Layla" to Phantom of the Opera. You will know it when you read or hear it.

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• REVIEW: Knight of Pleasure by Margaret Mallory

  
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• Unrequited Love

  
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  He always wanted to kiss her on her well shaped – thick lips – that would curve into the world’s most charming smile. His friends thought he was in lust. He believed it to be love. But it never happened. She left. He remained right there where he was; hoping for her return, waiting for their reunion and writhing ...
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• Shakespeare in Love

  
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  One doesnt get the idea from Shakespeares plays that he thinks of love as an ultimately fulfillable, satisying dream.  He seems to regard it as more akin to a frustrating and delusional curse. So you Shakespeare fans - gather around once again. Previously, we discussed love in Romeo and Juliet . I know some of ...
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• Genes make emotional stress ‘painful’ (re-issue)

  
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  Washington, Dec 6 (ANI): Unrequited love, a friendship going awry or a misunderstanding with a family member-all these unfortunate happenings often leave you with a lump in the throat.And now, researchers have claimed that it’s your genes that make emotional stress painful.Scientists have long known that opium-like ...
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• Todays Pattern Story (and Sale)

  
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  I have no idea whether Black Dress is looking at Blue Dress in disgust or thinly disguised longing. I think it could go either way, or possibly both. Black Dress: What *is* it about her? I cant sleep, I cant eat, I show up deliberately wearing the same dress, just so shell notice me ... [sigh] Which she never will. ...
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• Genes make emotional stress ‘painful’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 4 (ANI): Unrequited love, a friendship going awry or a misunderstanding with a family member-all these unfortunate happenings often leave you with a lump in the throat.And now, researchers have claimed that it’s your genes that make emotional stress painful.Scientists have long known that opium-like ...
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• Longing

  
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• 6 Love Lessons From Saved By The Bell

  
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• nothing much else left to say

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 165
  i could tell you i love you if i knew enough words and the way you look at me wasnt enough to make me leap from tall buildings with a single bound: this superman is a kryptonite junkie. read more
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• nothing much else left to say

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 165
  i could tell you i love you if i knew enough words and the way you look at me wasnt enough to make me leap from tall buildings with a single bound: this superman is a kryptonite junkie. read more
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