Courtly and Erotic Love

Courtly love, entailing only loving someone of the right status, was shallow but held financial stability, power and fame, erotic love was physically and aesthetically pleasing but it’s passion decayed with time. Romantic love was, and still is, the only immortal love as lovers loved the person, not their appearance or status of which either could decay. William Meader (Courtship in Shakespeare) states that recognition of courtly “love is possible only after the two …showed first 75 words of 1010 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1010 total…insinuating that he did not have the character or birthright to gain her love due to his lack of nobility. Reading cynically he could be pursuing her in order to raise his ranking in society but his lamenting to the moon seems to show that his feelings were strong and truthful as he was accepting of his rejection hence he might have sought different council than the moon. Please note this essay was marked at 61%