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The Raven Is Love Analysis

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The last theme that I will be talking about that is in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem the Raven is love. According to Psychologist Elaine Hatfield people usually experience two different forms of love. The two forms being passionate love and companionate love. Passionate love is “a state of intense absorption in another. Companionate love is an “intimate non-passionate type of love that is stronger than friendship because of the element of long-term commitment” Companionate love is normally seen in long term marriages where the couples feel no love but are together because of a long term commitment. Human behavior researcher and anthropologist Helen E Fisher of Rutgers University in the States, proposed 3 stages of love: lust, attraction and attachment.
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