Shiedrick C.

Bacolod 03/13/2020

11 - STEM B

Output 4.3: Writing a Concept by Explication

Objective: To write a concept by explication.

Love and Friendship

by Emily Brontë

Love is like the wild rose-briar,

Friendship like the holly-tree—

The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms

But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,

Its summer blossoms scent the air;

Yet wait till winter comes again

And who will call the wild-briar fair?

Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now

And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,

That when December blights thy brow

He still may leave thy garland green.

Love and Friendship by Emily Brontë is a three-stanza poem that functions as a compare/contrast piece
between “love and friendship”. Brontë explore both topic by portraying each of them as a different type
of plant, and she explores how both plants react in different situations. Like those plants, she seems to
argue, romance and friendship have different reactions as the seasons change, so much that only one
will prevail when things become as harsh and unforgiving as the cold of “winter”. The one that survives,
friendship, is emphasized as the greater of the two concepts.

In the first stanza of ‘Love and Friendship’, Brontë reminds us that when we fall in love, in that first flush
of excitement when we first meet someone and fall for them, we neglect our friends, but friendship,
unlike love, will not desert us.

Brontë develops this analogy in the poem’s middle stanza. Love, like roses, is sweet in the spring and
summer when it’s fresh; but when it fades, in the autumn and winter months, friendship, like holly
(which, as we know from its use at Christmas, does not wilt and wither in the winter), continues to
bloom. The poem’s final stanza entreats us to view friendship as more valuable to us than love, and to
look after our friends and cherish them, so that when ‘winter’ comes (i.e. when our loves fail us or when
our beauty fades and we grow old) we still have our friends.
Shiedrick C. Bacolod 03/13/2020

11 - STEM B

Output 4.3: Writing a Concept by Clarification

Objective: To write a concept by clarification.

FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is a devoted relation between two people in which both of them have true feeling of
affection, respect, care and love to each other without any demands and misunderstanding. Generally
friendship occurs between two people having same tastes, feelings and sentiments. It is considered that
friendship has no any limitations of age, sex, position, religion and creed but sometimes it is seen that
economic disparity or other differentiation damages the friendship. Thus it can be said that true and real
friendship is possible between two like-minded and uniform status people having feeling of affection to
each other.

There are many friends in the world who always remains together at the time of prosperity but only
true, sincere and faithful friends who never let us to be alone in our bad times, time of hardship and
trouble. Our bad times make us realize about our good and bad friends. Everyone has attraction towards
the money by nature but true friends never make us feel bad when we become in need of money or
other support. However, sometimes lending or borrowing of money from friends keeps friendship in
great risk. Friendship may be affected anytime by others or own so we need to make a balance in this
relationship.

Sometimes friendship gets broken due to the ego and matter of self-respect. True friendship needs
proper understanding, satisfaction, helping nature trust. True friend never exploits but tends to
motivate each other to do right things in life. But sometimes the meaning of friendship becomes
changed totally due to some fake and fraud friends who always use another one in wrong ways. Some
people have tendency to unite as soon as possible but they also tend to terminate their friendship as
soon as their interests become fulfilled. It is difficult to say something bad about the friendship but it is
true that any careless person gets cheated in friendship. Now a day, it is very hard to find true friends in
the crowd of bad and good people but if someone has true friend, no other than him is lucky and
precious in the world.

True friendship can be between human and human and human and animals. There is no any doubt that
best friends help in our difficulties and bad times of the life. Friends always try to save us in our dangers
as well as provide timely advice. True friends are like best assets of our life as they share our sorrow,
sooth our pain and make us feel happy.