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Love and Death

“Crazy, how it feels tonight. Crazy, how you make it all alright, love. Crush me, with the things you do. I’ll do for you, anything, too.” “Crush” by Dave Matthews. The opening lyrics to Crush describe the good parts of love and relationships. Love is obviously one of the best parts of life. In “Sonnet XXX”, written by Edna St. Vincent Millay, she speaks of love in comparison to other things we need in life, like food or shelter. She holds love at the same level as these, if not above. The short story, “A Rose for Emily”, written by William Faulkner, tells of a woman, Emily, who is in search of that same requisite of life: love. To compare a detailed short story to a right to the point sonnet may seem difficult. The two pieces of literary work are very similar because they both contain examples of what a person would do for love and they also share the element of death from lack of love.
According to the sonnet, love may be more important than food, wa...

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