{"id":6447,"date":"2013-02-14T06:09:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T11:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2017-06-09T07:26:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T11:26:26","slug":"valentine%c2%b4s-day-topic-what-is-this-thing-we-call-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/valentine%c2%b4s-day-topic-what-is-this-thing-we-call-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u00b4s Day topic: What is this thing we call Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Buenos d\u00edas a todo el mundo!<\/p>\n<p>Hoy es San Valent\u00edn, y si est\u00e1is enamorados habr\u00e9is comprado alg\u00fan regalo bonito para vuestra persona amada. Si no lo est\u00e1is, es una buena oportunidad para compraros algo que realmente os guste, \u00bfno os parece?<\/p>\n<p>Flores, bombones, m\u00fasica, perfume, una cena rom\u00e1ntica en un restaurante especial son algunas de las cosas de las que probablemente disfrutar\u00e9is hoy. Y quiz\u00e1 os har\u00e9is un poquito inmortales al inspirar un poema, una de las formas m\u00e1s bellas de expresar el amor.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPero c\u00f3mo definir\u00edais el amor? \u00bfCre\u00e9is que pod\u00e9is dar una descripci\u00f3n exacta de ese sentimiento? Lope de Vega, uno de nuestros m\u00e1s famosos y prodigiosos poetas, lo hizo de esta manera:<\/p>\n<p>Desmayarse, atreverse, estar furioso,<br \/>\n\u00e1spero, tierno, liberal, esquivo,<br \/>\nalentado, mortal, difunto, vivo,<br \/>\nleal, traidor, cobarde y animoso;<\/p>\n<p>no hallar fuera del bien centro y reposo,<br \/>\nmostrarse alegre, triste, humilde, altivo,<br \/>\nenojado, valiente, fugitivo,<br \/>\nsatisfecho, ofendido, receloso;<\/p>\n<p>huir el rostro al claro desenga\u00f1o,<br \/>\nbeber veneno por licor suave,<br \/>\nolvidar el provecho, amar el da\u00f1o;<\/p>\n<p>creer que un cielo en un infierno cabe,<br \/>\ndar la vida y el alma a un desenga\u00f1o;<br \/>\nesto es amor, quien lo prob\u00f3 lo sabe.<\/p>\n<p>Podeis escuchar el poema en este fragmento de la pel\u00edcula &#8220;Lope&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lope de Vega: Soneto 12 \u00bfQU\u00c9 ES EL AMOR?  ...ESTO ES AMOR, QUIEN LO PROB\u00d3 LO SABE\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1ldYbsq5oXY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Good morning everybody!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today is Valentine\u00b4s Day, and if you are in love, you will have bought some nice present to your beloved one. If you are not, it is a good opportunity to buy yourself something you really like, don\u00b4t you think?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flowers, chocolates, music, perfume, a romantic dinner in a special restaurant are some of the things you will probably enjoy today. And maybe you will become a little bit immortal by inspiring a poem, one of the most beautiful ways of expressing one\u00b4s love.<br \/>\nBut how would you define love? Do you think you can give us an exact description of this feeling?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lope de Vega, one of our most famous and prodigious poets, did this way:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 <\/em><br \/>\n<em>To faint, to dare, to be enraged,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>coarse, tender, generous, elusive,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>hopeful, lethal, dead, alive,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>faithful, treacherous, coward and brave;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>to not find but in your lover peace and relief,<br \/>\n<em>to look happy, sad, haughty, woeful,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>angered, courageous, fugitive,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>satisfied, offended, mistrustful;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>to turn your face on clear deception,<br \/>\n<em>to drink poison as if it were sweet liquor,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>to forget gain, to love the pain;<\/em><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nto believe that heaven can lie in hell,<br \/>\nto give life and soul to an illusion,<br \/>\nthis is love; those who have tasted it, know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Buenos d\u00edas a todo el mundo! 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