Platonic love is a kind of love in which there is the union of the two true minds but the separation of the bodies. In this kind of love physical union is never possible. This love may be traced in Andrew Marvell's poems, "The Defination of love".
By means of various analogies and arguments, the poet shows the rarity of the love existing between himself and his beloved. There is no possibility of any physical union between them. He says that because of jealousy fate never allows him to be united with his beloved.
So fate has placed these two lover as far from each other as the North pole and the South pole are.
Thus Platonic love is considered as pure love between the lover and his beloved.
