Kincaid, Emily Witt, And Ovid Use Love?

Ever since the beginning of time, love has played an enormous role among humans. Everyone feels a need to love and to be loved. Some attempt to fill this yearning with activities and possessions that will not satisfy – with activities in which they should not participate and possessions they should not own. In Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker encounters an emotion some would call love but fits better under the designation of lust for a woman. In contrast, the speaker of Robert Herrick’s poem, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” urges virgins to marry, to make a lasting commitment in which love plays a

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love Is Not All” both attempt to define love, by telling what love is and what it is not. Shakespeare’s sonnet praises love and speaks of love in its most ideal form, while Millay’s poem begins by giving the impression that the speaker feels that love is not all, but during the unfolding of the poem we find the ironic truth that love is all. Shakespeare, on the other hand, depicts love as perfect and necessary from the beginning to the end of his poem. Although these two authors have taken two completely different approaches, both have worked to show the importance of love and to define it. However, Shakespeare is most confident of his definition of love, while Millay seems

Written in 1983, Kincaid narrates the thoughts and moral beliefs of the time by her mother. In Girl, Kincaid uses repetition of the term “slut” to emphasize that her mother did not want her to develop a bad moral reputation (Kincaid 118-119). Later in the narration though are her mother’s thoughts on abortion, “this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child” (Kincaid 119). It shows that while the mother instructed her in moral principles, she also understood that things happen to a young woman. The practical nature of this instruction seems to indicate more modern thought while still living in a society of traditions. Another hint of the time period is the mention of divorce and how to live after it, “this is how you love a man…and if they don’t work out, don’t feel bad about giving up” (Kincaid 119). This could indicate that divorce is an accepted practice in the more modern society that Jamaica Kincaid wrote Girl in.

What is love? How is love express? Where can I find it? All in all, it is obvious to distinguish that love is the essential emotion of human every time and everywhere. Some people may confuse about that, however, it is an arduous job to describe it due to the diversity. Some people believe love likes delicate and charming roses, which makes you stand and appreciate for the admiration. Some people approximates the bright light of the lighthouse, which illuminates the backing way of the sailing people. Some people confirm love equals

Love is the strongest four letter word know to man. It can be sharper than a sword and more effective than a grenade. On the other hand, love can a sustaining effect even ooze

Love is a force that inspires us to feel more, do more, and sometimes sacrifice for the object of our attention. Poems, music, relationships are all written in the name of love. There are six kinds of love, according to the ancient Greeks:

It blazes with passion, burning everything that'll stand in its path, only to burn quickly or to die down slowly.

Love is said to be one of the most desired things in life. People long for it, search for it, and crave it. It can come in the form of partners, friends, or just simply family. To some, love is something of a necessity in life, where some would rather turn a cold shoulder to it. Love can be the mixture of passion, need, lust, loyalty, and blood. Love can be extraordinary and breathtaking. Love being held so high can also be dangerous. Love can drive people to numerous mad things with it dangerously so full of craze and passion.

Love can do many things. It can be both harmful and beneficial. Love can scar, and love can inspire. Love can torment, and love can encourage. Love can irritate, and love can comfort. The unseen force of love can go even further than that, though. Love can

Love is seen as a simple concept to grasp upon, but in real life, human nature tends to overcomplicate it. The social, cultural and historical contexts of a specific time period or social system influences the way people implement their ideas, values and attitudes towards love. The complexities of love can be seen through the language forms and features of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’, to which explores the romantic vision of love through her abandonment of the Petrarchan form. Likewise, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby explores love being non-existent due to the novel’s society being driven by the materialism of “achieving their American Dream.”

In Anne Bradstreet’s poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, the word “love” seems to be a recurring word. The word love has countless definitions, making it hard to define because of its abstract meaning. As the term occurs throughout the poem, the term appears to gain a new meaning. As Bradstreet reveals her definition of the word “love” throughout this poem, it comes to a conclusion that Bradstreet does not know the true meaning of love.

Have your ever thought of how challenging love can be? Love can be addressed in multiple ways. It is a strong emotion that people grew up around from a young age. As stated in the essay, Love’s Vocabulary, “What is my goddaughter to think when she hears her mother say; “I love Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream”; “I really loved my high school boyfriend”; “ Don’t you just love this sweater?” “I’d love to go the lake for a week this summer”; “Mommy loves you.”

With the initial read, Jamaica Kincaid’s essay, “Girl”, appears deceptively simple. Yet repeat readings show that under the surface, it is filled with cultural implications. Kincaid mines her memories and experiences of growing up in post-colonial Antigua in the 1960’s, to speak to outdated expectations. Her writing shows the influence of living on an island populated by people of African descent, living in a culture influenced by British rule (SparkNotes Editor). Relying on her past experiences, Kincaid inserts themes of domesticity and purity into a conversation between a mother and her daughter to highlight how a woman’s appearance and behavior determines her acceptance and value within a

The following three authors Kate Chopin, Wislawa Szymborska, and William Shakespeare have written stories about love. All three love stories are very different from one another, yet all have the same theme. Everyone has heard the term love will make you do stupid things but does it really? For some people love is ridiculous and for others live to give and receive love. Love is beautiful thought in the following stories the authors express how some people settle for love, others do not believe in love, and some people will kill for love.

Jamaica Kincaid and Audre Lorde are both Caribbean born writers, which gives them similarities in their poems and in their lifestyles. These two woman of the same culture are known to be closely bonded with their mothers, even if there is a love/hate type of relationship between them. In an interview with Kay Bonetti, the founder and directory of American Audio Prose Library (AAPL), when asked about her writings and her mother’s influence in one of her stories, Jamaica Kincaid states: “I was writing this story and I had a lot of information about my family and their history, and I used it in this way. My mother used to tell me a lot of things about herself. It’s perhaps one of the ways in which I became a writer.” A few lines later she speaks on how certain plots and settings are more subconscious than consciously picked and chose. In “Girl”, which is a dialogue between a daughter and mother who is providing guidance about becoming a lady to her teenage daughter in a list-like form the tone that it is written in gives me the feeling that she [the writer] is going through memories she had experienced. The mom speaks on all topics ranging from washing clothes, to getting rid of a child before it becomes a child and being allowed to feel the bakers’ bread. The reason it feels as if it’s a trip down memory lanes is the reoccurring underlined theme of becoming and/or being a sluttish