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30 Beautiful Love Poems

  SUBSCRIBE SIGN IN 30 Beautiful Love Poems Begging to Be Shared We're all heart eyes for these romantic verses. By Elena Nicolaou  Jan 11, 2021 "I love you" writing and pink typewriter.NISERINGETTY IMAGES Turn on the radio at any given moment, and chances are you'll hear a love song. In the pages of poetry books, a fixation on love is just as prevalent. We humans love love—and poets have spent centuries coming up with ways to express all of its forms in movies, literature, and beyond. If you're in search of a love poem for the special person in your life (your husband, or wife, perhaps), your only challenge is volume. There are simply so many excellent options, from famous romantic poems you've likely heard before (think: the work of e.e. cummings) and beautiful modern options you may not have (like "Poem to First Love" by Matthew Yeager). And, since Valentine's Day is around the corner, and coming up with the right words to fill a card or coupl

Innale’ to ‘The Great Indian Kitchen': How couple photos are used in Malayalam films.

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  ☰ Cinema ‘Innale’ to ‘The Great Indian Kitchen': How couple photos are used in Malayalam films S Harikrishnan explores the relationship between photography and cinema in Malayalam movies especially with respect to wedding and couple photographs and how they are used to add layers to the story. S Harikrishnan Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 12:04             Scene from 'The Great Indian Kitchen' Between cinema and photography, Roland Barthes famously chose “Photography  in opposition  to the Cinema, from which [he] nonetheless failed to separate it”. To Barthes, this was to do with the  temporal distinction  between photography and cinema. With the former, a spectator has control over time and circumstance, while in film, this power is ceded to the author. Two years after Barthes’  Camera Lucida  was published, Agnès Varda made  Ulysse  (1983), a documentary where she retraced a photograph she took three decades ago, in search to find its meaning—a  punctum,  as Barthes would ha