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I'm analyzing this poem for my lit class.

Thought I'd share it with you.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.​
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anathelia said:
I'm analyzing this poem for my lit class.

Thought I'd share it with you.
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That's an old favorite... but I've always preferred this one:
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
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It says "I see that you are not perfection... that is WHY I love you."

It says that this is not a simple case of being blinded by emotion into thinking somebody is perfect, but rather knowing they are not and loving them for their faults.
 
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USF Sam said:


That's an old favorite... but I've always preferred this one:



It says "I see that you are not perfection... that is WHY I love you."

It says that this is not a simple case of being blinded by emotion into thinking somebody is perfect, but rather knowing they are not and loving them for their faults.
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What's it called? I have to choose poems out of my lit book. If it's there, I like that one instead of the second one I chose.
 
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[[Constitution of Anastasia]]


My personal mantra:
I am a strong, driven, intelligent woman and I can do whatever I set my mind to.



Universal Rule:
I deserve to be loved as much as anyone else. I am just as good of a person as anyone else. I deserve to be treated with respect, just like anyone else. Anyone who does not do so or tries to make me feel otherwise does not deserve to be in my life.​


The Rules as They Apply to Me:
  • Rule #1: I will not apologize for things I did not do.
  • Rule #2: I will take what other people say with a grain of salt, and only truly take the advice of people who have my best interests at heart and whom I trust
  • Rule #3: I will respect people and expect to be respected in return. People who do not respect me or let me think for myself are not worth my time talking or listening to.
  • Rule #4: I will not let people talk down to me. If they do so, I will politely, yet sternly, alert them that they are acting inappropriately and ask them to respect me.
  • Rule #5: I am a person with a heart and my own thoughts and feelings. I am not any person's means to an end. I will love myself and not let any person love me who does not deserve to do so.


The Rules as They Apply to Everyone Else:
  • Rule #1: Do not make me feel guilty for things I do not deserve to feel guilty for.
  • Rule #2: Do not tell me what to do. I appreciate your advice, and I will listen to what you have to say. But in the end, I am my own person and I will make the choice that I feel is right for me and my daughter.
  • Rule #3: The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Treat me with respect, I am my own person with my own feelings and convictions, and since I respect you and yours, you must respect me and mine.
  • Rule #4: Again, respect me. I am a strong person and you will not speak to me as if you have more power over me than I do over myself.
  • Rule #5: You do not own me and you are not entitled to anything. Earn my respect, and earn my love.

This will be an ever changing list. As things start to work out for me or I attain a goal, I will add a new one and remove the old. As I come across quotes I appreciate, I will add them to the list at the bottom. This is a promise to myself to do whatever necessary to start being happier with my life.

  • Goal: I want to lose at least fifty pounds.
  • Steps: I will go to the gym when I have the time (at least three days a week.). I will walk the neighborhood everyday. I will cut out almost all fast food and soda (one glass or can of soda every day and fast food/restaurants only on the weekends and special occasions.).

  • Goal: To hate the way I look less.
  • Steps: Learn from Megan how to apply make-up. Buy better make up. Haircut and color. Take a shower and do my hair every day. Dress like I care.

  • Goal: To move out.
  • Steps: Stop spending money. Get a job.

  • Goal: to get a job
  • Steps: Apply for at least one job everyday.

  • Goal:To stop hating life so much
  • Steps:To attain this goal, I intend to find the bright side of every sucky situation. I will stop getting bogged down in the future and the past. I will stop letting people treat me however they want. If someone can't respect me then they don't deserve to have me in their life. I deserve to have good things happen to me just as much as the next person. Yes, I've made mistakes, but so has everyone. That doesn't make me any less deserving of love or success or friends than anyone else.

  • Goal: To love myself.
  • Steps: Ask those closest to me to make a list of all the things they like about me. Draw comparisons, take them to heart, and appreciate those same things about myself. Just because a personality trait may have negative side effects does NOT make it a bad trait to have.

I get up every morning and I can't stand the person looking back at me in the mirror. In spirit, in personality, in looks, in everything. I want to learn to appreciate myself again. I want to get the respect I deserve. I want to be loved and feel like it's an amazing gift that I DESERVE and not fight tooth and nail against every good thing that tries to happen to me or come my way. I want to be happy. I know what I want out of life and I'm going to start fighting to get it. It's the least I can do for myself, given how long I've put up with both my crap and everyone else's crap.


QUOTES:
  • "I am a strong, driven, intelligent woman and I can do whatever I set my mind to."
  • "Everyone makes mistakes. It is how you rectify them that defines character."
  • "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
  • "There's more to living than being alive."
  • "This above all: to thine own self be true."
 
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You go sweetheart. A journey begins with a step, you took it. I wish you the best of luck to reach every goal you set yourself and if you need someone to talk to, I am here whenever you need me.

*hugs* honey.

You are a magnificent, strong, caring and beautiful woman. You deserve all the love, care and respect in the world.

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Got a place. Moving in on the 9th of March.

New:

  • Goal: To make peace with my past
  • Steps: Talk it out. Be open minded. Remember that my past defines who I am today and remember that I am special. If those things hadn't happened, I wouldn't be me.
 
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No one could have said it better...

Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us - I can live only wholly with you or not at all - Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits - Yes, unhappily it must be so - You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never - Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. And yet my life in V is now a wretched life - Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men - At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection? My angel, I have just been told that the mailcoach goes every day - therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once - Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together - Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
ever thine
ever mine
ever ours
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I miss you, Nicholas Benjamin.

I'm sorry I keep pushing. It's because I'm afraid of needing.
Needing you makes me vulnerable, and being that vulnerable in this frame of mind is about the scariest thing in the world.

I push, but really, I need to draw you closer. To make you see just how desperately I need you.

You hold me together, you calm me down, sometimes you even manage to bring me back to that center I tend to believe doesn't exist.

I know you promise you won't walk away. But if you were ever planning on it..now would be the worst time. My life is chaotic turmoil. I don't know up from down and right from wrong. I need you here to sort me out. I can't do it without you.

Just remember my love for you is undying. I know I swing. And I know it hurts sometimes. But that truth is why I push. I test you. And for three years, not once have you ever wavered. Deep down inside, I don't forget that. Things just aren't quite right at times.

Less than two.
Always and Forever.
 
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