Can love be reduced to a single metaphor?

Question

because it involves two terms and the connection between them, yet is love so simple as a metaphor is...?

Answer 1

Intense emotion, no I can't think of a single, metaphor, tricky.  

Love is not simply defined, only simply experienced..

Answer 2

Don't know much about that.  But I do know this that Love can reduce a highly energetic person to 'Ashes'...

P.S.  Is having a 'lot of punctuation' against the Community Guidelines???  NOW,  I am getting irritated by the New Look...THIS is Odd Behaviour...not what they've been apologising for far too long, not so long ago!!!  

Answer 3

Love can't even be reduced to a single definition, no matter how detailed or complex.

One definition of love may be reduced to a mere metaphor or even a simile, but the entire field of loves?

Never.

Answer 4

Love reduced even to the most wonderful sonnet, loses its perfume....

Love cannot be reduced into anything.  It can only enlarge, expand it all!

Answer 5

Oh, dear! You seem to be such a dreamer. Love. Love. Love. Don't fall for it. Your metaphor is 'fallacy.'  Marry for love? Only two weeks later love will have flown. People live the rest of their lives putting up with each other. Women expect a man to make them "happy ever after." A  man expects his woman to stand by him. She doesn't and she won't.

Take a care, then. Have your honeymoon for two weeks every year for ever more and you will be happy. Forget the cultural c**p. It doesn't work out. Take the s*x and dodge the arguments. Lets institute baby farms for  breeding.

Answer 6

Sure.  Love can be reduced to a gritty black cinder.

The problem with metaphors like life and love is that when your attempt reduction they die before the first cut is made.  They fall apart at the first examination.  You have to embrace and defend them or they spontaneously burn and only the ashes are left.

Answer 7

...binding are the braids of LOVE...

...thanks for asking, have a good weekend...

Answer 8

nope

Answer 9

Trying to reduce love (whether to a metaphor, or otherwise) is not wise.

Answer 10

No, since it is a fluid state-of-affairs involving people and people are amazingly complex.  Maybe Love could be effectively encompassed by a sufficiently large collection of metaphors.  But then the set that accurately depicts me and mine won't be the same collection that illustrates you and yours.

Answer 11

I love metaphors and use them to express many things as they serve to enhance my feelings.  Love is many things, and it's incredible versatility earns a place in the metaphoric guidebook. Does that make it simple ?  No, I don't think so, but it does make it free.

Answer 12

Unfortunately, nothing can be reduced to a single metaphor.  A metaphor can only explain the parts that are the same.  For example, "Like is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you are going to get".  Its true that life and boxes of chocolates share that quality, but life does not come wrapped in cellophane.  No matter what metaphor you pick, there will always be at least one part that is different.  Some metaphors are better than others because they have fewer differences, but the only thing that is exactly like love is love itself.

That doesn't mean we can't understand love.  It just means we can't explain it.

Answer 13

God is love. To love is to be like God to another person. To be loved by another person is to experience a bit of what God feels toward us. Why does it happen that we can love and be loved? Because we are made in the image of God.

Answer 14

No, I think love can simply be reduced to that one word...it's just that love isn't simply a noun, it's a verb. Love itself is an action, it moves and has a rhythm...love can be an endless amount of metaphors, I think :)