Love as Obsession

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…pedestal of sorts. In neither case is he equal to the object of his love. He is, however, looking to love to shelter and define him, whether it be in soothing sunshine or a feverish fury. He is encompassed and totally soaked with subjective rendering of his objective desire. There is a weakness and folly in all excessive and misplaced affection which is not redeemed by the touches of nobler sentiments in these sonnets (Hallam, 1837).