1) Overall Themes
'Dove's Necklace' discusses many ideas of love. Immediate love, love with eyes, trepidation between lovers, and the different classes of love. I enjoyed the topic that was discussed incorporating the importance of eyes into love. The first section of the reading defines eyes as the volume that love can travel through between lovers, which I agree with. The idea has to do with smiling with your eyes. Eyes hold all of our emotions, and they are usually by passed when considering this. People concentrate on the mouth more to recognize emotions, whereas the eyes are the best at depicting how we feel. Eyes are mentioned later in the reading in the passage on tears. When someone is in love with a lover, friend or family member they are vulnerable to tears. Tears show the love people have for one another. When people are in love they their emotions and tears are way more vulnerable.
Another idea that really caught my attention was how men fall in love with fantasies or images or women. The reading only mentioned men doing this, but I think it also happens with women. The reading had an interesting story where the man fell in love with his dream maiden. A very odd story and tales like these make people think of stalkers. When someone falls in love with the image of someone not the reality, it usually develops in a unhealthy matter.
Both of these ideas relate back to the entire theme of intense and immediate love. That it is unpredictable and unstable no matter how healthy or unhealthy it may be to that individual. It is interesting to see all these concepts written down on paper, trying to define love in a couple paragraphs is a little intense.
2)
The poetry by Ibm Hazm seems almost obsessive. The themes from 'Doves Necklace' are incorporated strongly into the poetry, but the artist takes it further. Love is immediate and intensely passionate. Poem A incorporates passion for love, that his love has now boundaries. Intense and unlimited love. As the poems consecutively increase the themes become more and more intense. Poem C incorporates the idea of men being in love with fantasies. How people become obsessed with the image they hold dear for love, be it true or not.
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