The Impact of Love

Speaking of changes, one issue that never seems to remain static in life is emotions. More specifically, when it comes to love, the interesting part is that people whether or not in a relationship live through the same situation and experience it so differently it seems as if they were never connected at first place.

I got more interested in defining love about a year ago, when I was catching up with my good Irish friend Jane, that was pursuing her dissertation at the time on the Psychology of Love. Her research focused on studying couples that had just decided to get married. Emotion is an incredible factor in decision making, let alone marriage.

The innovative and creative spirit of this project motivated my own research on the topic, and my attention was fully captured by the triangular theory of love. To be honest, my first impression was that this theory was going to be all about love triangles, but on the contrary it describes the different combinations of love levels you can have in a relationship. Commitment, Intimacy and Passion are key to love but do not necessarily coexist.

These three elements, along with my Greek mythology background, inspired me to write a poem trilogy that embodies the notion of the triangular theory of love and its three pillars of in the form of a love triangle between Apollo and two of his nine muses; Melpomene the muse of tragedy and Thalia the muse of music, song and dance: