The first poem we read is called "A Red, Red Rose." This poem is about young love. The rush of an inexperienced person's love for another is so great and so strong that they truly believe their love will last until the end of time. The speaker in the poem says that he will love her "Till a’ the seas gang dry And the rocks melt wi’ the sun." The speaker is inexperienced with love because we discovered that this is his first love. The speaker refers to his love as a rose "newly sprung in June." June is in the summer and summer means that you're a young adult. You're just beginning to feel what love is like. This could be just a summer love that doesn't last. According to the speaker, the love is like a rose. But that rose will eventually die. Although he says he will love her until the end, the speaker is going to leave her. They can not be together since the speaker is leaving. He lost his love.
In the second poem we read, "Sonnet 30," is about unrequited love. The narrator and his love are opposites. He is fire and she is ice. Although his love for her is so great, she does not love him back. The more he loves her the more she doesn't love him. Even though he is the fire and she is the ice he can not melt her meaning he can not get her to love him back. The poem is one big complaint about how she doesn't love him. But in the end decides he is still going to love her because he says that the power of love can make you go crazy and do crazy things.
In the short story, "The Lady, or the Tiger," the love in this story is torn apart by a "semi-barbaric King" who loves his daughter so much that he doesn't want to share her. The princess and her lover were happily in love until the King discovered it. He immediately put him on "trial" where he had to choose between two doors; one with a ferocious tiger behind it, the other with a suitable new wife for whoever was to pick between the two doors. The princess had discovered what was behind each door and she despised the girl behind one of the doors. The princess had a choice to make to tell the love of her life which door to pick. She had already lost him. Whether it was to the lady or the tiger. He was already dead to her.
Each of these literary pieces are very realistic. In life, you don't always get a happy ending to your love story. You could loose your love in different ways. One could also fall so deeply in love it could make them do or think crazy things. These things could realistically happen to anyone. Anyone could have to leave their first love behind but still have hope that they will be together forever. Anyone could love someone so greatly but not have the other person love them back. Anyone could have their love torn apart from to make you feel as if they are dead. In life, no one will get their perfect love story just like each of these characters.