romantic themes
Tales of courtship
Romantic themes are the recurring ideas, motifs, and emotional currents associated with romantic love in storytelling and art.
These include courtship, passion, longing, heartbreak, forbidden love, and the tension between desire and obstacle.
In film and literature, works with romantic themes center on relationships and emotional connection: The movie has strong romantic themes but isn't a pure romance.
The phrase often appears in content descriptions and reviews.
- rosesThorny flowering shrubs
- candlelit dinnerEvening meal lit by wax flames
- passionIntense emotional drive
- intimacyEmotional closeness between people
- stolen glancesCovert fleeting observations
courtship · forbidden love · devotion · desire · affection · love at first sight · unrequited love · broken heart · chivalry · platonic love · star-crossed lovers · eros · serenade · soulmates · infatuation · courtly love · Victorian novels · fairy tale ending
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
- romance fictionlove stories, love story, enemies to lovers, happily ever after, friends to lovers
- French RomanticismVictor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Balzac, emotional expression
- literary themesheroism, hero's journey, ennui, social realism, morals
- melodramavillain, heroine, hero, damsel in distress, happy ending
- Romantic PoetryWordsworth, Keats, William Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge