Please help me answer the following prompt based on the readings on Plato's Symposium (the picture and website.

https://archive.org/stream/BloomLadderOfEros/Bloom%20-%20Ladder%20of%20Eros_djvu.txt

(Starting from "494 LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP" to "527 The Ladder of Love" from the website)

In Plato's Symposium, Socrates describes love and evaluates it. What does Socrates think love is? What are his account's main strengths? What does Socrates eventually overlook or get incorrect in his discussion of the fundamental basis of love?

Please respond in a lengthy paragraph responding to all the questions in the prompt. The response should demonstrate that it is based on the reading and be reflected. If possible, use a quote to make the response more engaging, and please put the quote on quotations "" so I can know where the quote was used.

[erotic] intensity for only one body, in the belief that it is petty. After this he must believe that the beauty in souls is more honorable than that in the body. So that even if someone who is decent in his soul has only a slight youthful charm, the lover must be content with it, and love and cherish him, and engender and seek such speeches as will make the young better; in order that [the lover], on his part, may be compelled to behold the beautiful in pursuits and laws, and to see that all this is akin to itself, so that he may come to believe that the beauty of the body is something trivial. And after these pursuits, he must lead [the beloved] on to the sciences, so that he [himself, the lover] may see the beauty of sciences, and in looking at the beautiful, which is now so vast, no longer be content like a lackey with the beauty in one, of a boy, of some human being, or of one practice, nor be a sorry sort of slave and petty calculator; but with a permanent turn to the vast open sea of the beautiful, behold it and give birth-in ungrudging philosophy-to many beautiful and magnificent speeches and thoughts; until, there strengthened and increased, he may discern a certain single philosophical science, which has as its object the following sort of beauty. Try to pay as close attention as you can,' she said. 'Whoever has been educated up to this point in erotics, beholding successively and correctly the beautiful things, in now going to the per- fect end of erotics shall suddenly glimpse something wonderfully beauti- ful in its nature-that very thing, Socrates, for whose sake alone all the prior labors were undertaken-something that is, first of all, always be- ing and neither coming to be nor perishing, nor increasing nor passing away; and secondly, not beautiful in one respect and ugly in another, nor at one time so, and at another time not-either with respect to the beauti- ful or the ugly-nor here beautiful and there ugly, as being beautiful to some and ugly to others; nor in turn will the beautiful be imagined by him as a kind of face or hands or anything else in which body shares, nor as any speech nor any science, and not as being somewhere in something else (for example, in an animal, or in earth, or in heaven, or in anything else), but as it is alone by itself and with itself, always being of a single form; while all other beautiful things that share in it do so in such a way that while it neither becomes anything more or less, nor is affected at all, the rest do come to be and perish. So whenever anyone begins to glimpse that beauty as he goes on up from these things through the correct prac- tice of pederasty, he must come close to touching the perfect end. For this is what it is to proceed correctly, or to be led by another, to erotics