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In today's blog I want to talk about the differences in love and lust. I think that throughout the poems we read you can see the authors talking about both love and lust however to me they are two very different things. First I feel that love is a deep emotional connection that you have with someone while lust is just a description of a physical connection a person may have with someone. I feel that in a healthy relationship there has to be a balance among the two and the relationship cannot be more reliant on one. The poem that really stood out to me as describing lust was "The Apple". The line that really makes me lean more towards lust is "I console myself with a rosy apple, Whose sent is like the myrrh of your nose and your lips..." This line to me has no emotional connection to the woman and is describing how a man physically feels and sees a woman. He makes no attempts so show any sort of emotional connection to the woman who he is talking about and then goes on to talk even more about her physicality. However in the poem "My Companion, I am going to make a vers that is refined", I feel that the author is describing to the readers  what love really is. In the second section we read, "whoever does not learn it deep in his heart.". I feel that this is directly related to the feeling of love. To me love is a deep emotional connection that one does not develop over night but over many months and even years. It is a feeling that is so deep that it can not go away over night either and once a person is in love they may never fall out of it. I think that also brings up an interesting point about love. To me many people go around saying that they love something or someone yet I question how many of these people are speaking the truth. I know that someone may feel that they love someone but to me love is such a deep connection with someone or something that once you have fallen in love, you can never really fall out of it. I see love and lust as two very different feelings that cannot be looked upon as similar. In my eyes the are as different as two things can be and although you can have love with lust I do not think people with lust always have love.