Brief of the week

Brief: This week’s brief will be focusing on what it means to love and how it means something different to each individual. Ranging from unconditional love to romantic love and what love meant throughout centuries of humankind. During this week we will research into various texts, quotations, artists, poets, writers, music and art all to do with love as this week falls on Valentine’s Day.

Love – Noun

1. A strong feeling of affection.

2. A great interest and pleasure in something

Example quotations:

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde

“Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old- fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you.” – Neil Gaiman

The following quotation I chose is from a collection of short children's stories from Oscar Wilde, and I chose a quote from this story because yes it's about love but it teaches more of a lesson. That love should never be based on how many gifts you get someone, or how much money you spend, love should never be a materialistic thing.

"Be happy," cried the nightingale, "be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for love is wiser than philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and as honey, and his breath is like frankincense."- The nightingale and the rose. - Oscar Wilde

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