ANTICIPATION OF A NIGHT SHELTER
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A heart pierced by an arrow of Eros or Amour is a key symbol of love. In art, this is a theme of the Renaissance, which became a theme for St. Valentine’s Day. In ancient Greece, the Eros cult stood for a powerful force that attracts one living creature to another, and therefore all things living are born, and the human race lives on. Later on, artists and poets recognized Venus and Mars as Eros’s parents. Amour was depicted as a plump, winged boy with a bow and a quiver of arrows. Raphael illustrated Amour riding a carriage pulled by butterflies and swans in his paintings. Poets and writers often speak of Amour’s cruelty, as he permanently wounds people and forces them to commit unwise acts. Often times, Amour, as if blind, sends his arrows flying in random directions, which is why poets say that love is blind. The artist significantly softened the blows dealt to hearts by the cheerful joker by planting an arrow in a pot, much as a gardener would. My love is as a fever, longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The uncertain sickly appetite to please. (William Shakespeare) Universal symbols of love, The arrow and heart are living beings Mutually growing as one intertwined New life sprouting from the union.
