Love letter

A love letter is a document that is addressed to a person to express love or affection for this.

Here, the love letter expresses much more than a profane message. In him is the pain in the face of non- cooperation being, of non- being-together - ability or the difficulty to articulate the love differently, clearly. Is far more difficult is the attempt to confess his love, but to be caught doing in fear zunichtezumachen with any formulation of this endeavor. Then there is the fear that love will not be reciprocated.

History

In the literature, love letters appear forward to in Ovid. Larger distribution they received but only with the romance, what have contributed to the acceleration of the post, the greater spread of literacy and especially the advent of the novels.

Already in the late Middle Ages, Versliebesbriefe enjoyed (usually in couplet verse ) very popular. They are handed down to us in various manuscript collections, where they are inserted between texts of various kinds. In rare cases it is authentic correspondence, but rather literature. They are classified by some researchers of the genre of courtly love speeches, with whom they have much in common.

Despite their important cultural significance love letters are usually addressed to only one person and often understandable only for this. They are most by indiscretion or by publication at the prominent personalities who have agreed generally the publication or are already dead, known several people. However, there are also love letters, written by ghostwriters and represent a subtle cheating in some way, because ( is a literary example of this, for example, Cyrano de Bergerac) capabilities only pretend.

In the 18th century love letters were de rigueur, they were standardized and there was this templates.

Modern forms of love letters are SMS, chats and e-mails, which are freely available on the WWW templates used. Also love letter love letter agencies and digital generators offer their services to formulate for strangers love prose. All these funds meant that love letters to write got a new lease; the development of foreign formulations imperiled while the individual " honest" access to this form of publication or the genre.

The Germanistic research traditionally focused on love letters from writers; at TU Braunschweig and the University of Zurich there are projects which supplement be investigating letter documents from persons of public social life as well as in a broader framework love letters and other written messages of love of the 20th century.

Example

Paul Celan wrote on February 9, 1970 to his mistress Ilana Shmueli: