The Paradoxical Nature of Love and Higher Being Over many centuries, the concepts of love and the discovery of “a higher being” have been mysteries to man. Both ideas have been discussed, analyzed, and disputed by various authors and philosophers. In the ancient past, love and discovery of a higher being have been thought to be primarily positive concepts, experienced only by those who are truly comfortable with their lives and situations. However, beginning in …showed first 75 words of 1224 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1224 total…both love and death (unstable world), Dylan is able to express the true desperate feelings toward his object of affection. Roethke parallels the goodness of nature along with the bad, and in the process, comes to the realization that the world is good and bad at once. Though drastically different from previous authors’ perceptions of love and higher being, both authors do an exceptional job in describing the paradoxical nature of their emotions and lives.