Unconditional Love in Contemporary Love Poetry

Each era of the contemporary love poet introduces brand new thoughts and ideas, or at least, expresses some previous or earlier ones in a way that is unique to his or her writing style for contemporary love poetry, as well as for his or her era. 

Contemporary love poetry, as a collective whole, includes the full gamut of possible poetic expression of love, including both its positive and negative aspects. It also portrays the vast scope of understanding of spiritual love, as opposed to natural love. The love of the divine invariably finds a vast range of expression in contemporary love poetry throughout different eras, including the present. The same is true with respect to poetic expression of the love of man.

Contemporary love poets frequently express many kinds of love in their poetic writing, but not necessarily unconditional love, as such. Generally, expressions of the love of man appears to be more conditional than unconditional, or in other words dependent, at least to some extent, upon different levels of judgment by fellow man in conjunction with his or her understanding of good and evil. This in turn, makes poetic expression of love in general, conditional upon being socially acceptable, or approved of by others in its era or later.

The true Christian contemporary love poet expresses unconditional love in his or her contemporary love poetry.

What is unconditional love?

Unconditional love is the way that God loves man. In other words, He loves mankind regardless of his or her individual or collective sin, because in His divine plan for mankind, He has provided a provision that allows for forgiveness.

Many contemporary love poets may not understand the true significance of unconditional love fully, or even be able to express it appropriately in their contemporary love poetry. References to unconditional Christian love in contemporary love poetry are interpreted by critics and readers in every era, as being more conditional than unconditional, or as having imposed conditions of some kind. This depends a great deal on their individual and collective  perception of unconditional love in conjunction with social norms, values and personal and other preferences of the specific era.

In other words, contemporary love poets, critics and other readers, may or may not comprehend, express or interpret unconditional love on exactly the same level. Even when the contemporary love poet succeeds in expressing unconditional love, the perception of others may impose their individual or collective conditions upon it, in their interpretation of it.

Any expression of love is still better than none when it comes to writing contemporary love poetry, or interpreting it, regardless of its era. Thus, the contemporary love poet's efforts to express love on any level should be respected and appreciated by others.

One of the unique aspects of the topic of love has to do with the reality that it invariably encourages further development, as it is open to ongoing interpretation by other contemporary love poets, as well as contemporary love poetry critics and readers alike.

The same is true with the more specific topic of unconditional love. Unless someone chooses to place conditions upon it, it is just that, unconditional. Thus, the contemporary love poet is encouraged to write on, just as contemporary love poetry critics and other readers are encouraged to critique or read on, unconditionally in each era.