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Puppy love is an informal term for feelings of love, particularly between young people during adolescence, so-called for its resemblance to the adoring, worshipful affection that may be felt by a puppy. The term is often used in a derogatory fashion, describing emotions which are shallow and transient in comparison to other forms of love such as romantic love.

Puppy love, also commonly known as a "crush", can also describe the love or lust of a child or adolescent for an adult. For example, a student being attracted to his or her teacher could be considered puppy love. In this case, the term relates an infatuation which is not reciprocated. The term may meet with resistance from some people as patronising and belittling of genuine emotion.

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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet contrasts Romeo's "calf love" for Rosaline with his true love for Juliet.


During Elizabethan times, it was known as 'calf-love'. A prominent example can be found in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which a young man, Romeo Montague, is infatuated with a girl named Rosaline before finding true love with Juliet Capulet.[1] In the second act, Romeo is chastised by his friend Friar Laurence, who claims his new love for Juliet illuminates the shallow nature of his feelings toward Rosaline:

Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,
So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.[2]

Popular culture

Canadian-American singer Paul Anka released the single "Puppy Love" in 1960, reaching #2 in the Billboard Hot 100 and #33 in the UK singles charts. The lyrics relate the plight of a seventeen year old taunted by accusations that feelings for his/her beau are "puppy love", ending with the refrain "How can I ever tell them this is not a puppy love?"[3] The song was subsequently covered by Donny Osmond, staying at #1 in the UK for five weeks and reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972.

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Love is an intense feeling of affection related to a sense of strong loyalty or profound oneness.[] The meaning of love varies relative to context.
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Courtly love was a medieval European notion of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts in regions of present-day southern France at the end of the 11th century.
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Greek love is a relatively modern coinage (generally placed within quotation marks) intended as a reference to male bonding and intimate relations between males as practised in Ancient Greece, as well as to its application and expression in more recent times, particularly in a
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religious love can be expressed in similar terms to interpersonal love is a matter for philosophical debate. Religious 'love' might be considered a euphemistic term, more closely describing feelings of deference or acquiescence.
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Eroticism is an aesthetic focus on sexual desire, especially the feelings of anticipation of sexual activity. It is not only the state of arousal and anticipation, but also the attempt through whatever means of representation to incite those feelings.
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Platonic love in its modern popular sense is a non-sexual affectionate relationship, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise. A simple example of platonic relationships is a deep, non-sexual (i.e.
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In sociology, familial love is a type affinity or natural affection felt between members of a group bound by common ancestry or blood ties, or through friendship and care. Familial love can also be experienced through kindhearted teachers to their students too.
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Trinomial name
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(Linnaeus, 1758)

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Elizabethan Era
1558–1603
Preceded by Tudor period
Followed by Jacobean era
Monarch Queen Elizabeth I
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William Shakespeare

The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. National Portrait Gallery, London.
Born: April 1564 (exact date unknown)
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Died: 23 March 1616
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
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Romeo and Juliet
Author William Shakespeare
Country  United Kingdom
Language Unstandardised English
Genre(s) Tragedy
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Romeo Montague is the male protagonist featured in William Shakespeare's tragic play Romeo and Juliet. He is one of Shakespeare's most famous characters, and is still today perhaps the single most recognized romantic hero in literary history.
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Juliet Capulet is one of the title characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet. The story has a long history that precedes Shakespeare himself. The heroine's name was Giulietta in some earlier versions.
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Friar Laurence (or Friar Lawrence) is a character in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

Role in the play

Friar Laurence plays the part of an advisor to Romeo in the play, along with aiding in major plot developments.
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Paul Albert Anka, OC (born 30 July 1941, in Ottawa Ontario) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor of Syrian origin. He became a naturalised US citizen in 1990.[]
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B-side(s) "Let My People Go"
Released 1972
Recorded Unknown
Genre Pop
Writer(s) Paul Anka
Producer(s) Donny Osmond

Donny Osmond singles chronology

"Hey Girl"
(1971) "Puppy Love"
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Year 1960 (MCMLX
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay
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UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine, and published online at Yahoo! Music UK (formerly Dotmusic)
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In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. In its current use, it can sometime have a pejorative meaning - implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version,
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