An enduring question posed of the human experience concerns the nature of love. Love has been pondered with regards to the ways in which a person’s biology may influence these feelings, as well as the ways in which the sentimental component is experienced by the individual(s) on the level of feeling, and expression. Love is an experience that both influences, and is influenced by cultural texts. There are certain inwardly directed feelings of love that are experienced exclusively by the persons involved, and can only be understood on an individually subjective basis. However, what allows us insight into what we mean when we talk about love can be understood through the ways this feeling is sublated into the social comportment of individuals, and canonized in textual discourse. The current work analyzes love as a product of autocommunication through a Peircean lens, and the ways in which Peirce’s notion of the semiotic self has been adopted by Maragaret Archer. Additionally, the work analyzes romantic love as an esthetic experience as conceptualized by John Dewey, and prose concerning love as a form of ekphrastic writing. As a means to this end, this work analyzes Dante Allegheri’s La Vita Nuova and J.M. Coetzee’s 2023 novella The Pole in an attempt to demonstrate translation of the plane of experience.