Love's Vocabulary By Diane Ackerman

Acquisition of an L2 (second language), has always been an important issue in the field of linguistics, and its relationship with an L1 (First language) is what concerns Vivian Cook in the chapter called “The relationship between first and second language learning revisited”.

In her essay, Love's Vocabulary, Diane Ackerman uses analogy in order to show that love isn't monotone or uniform that people have different perspectives of love. As Diane Ackerman talks about love she claims that " love commands a vast army of moods ". In others words, love gives different emotions like; fear, anger, joy, trust, and disgust. This indicates that love gives you different feelings love isn't just being happy it has more than that. This proves that love is not a monotone or uniform. Uniform is something that is the same. When Diane Ackerman describes love she states " like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness many vary". To paraphrase, a piece of fabric with bright colors represent

…I am suddenly surround by an expanse of passions and think that human search for love must originally have been like this. So-called civilization in later ages separated sexual impulse from love

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Following Freud, Lear interprets love as the psychological manifestation of a more fundamental drive – that is, a force or impulse – which is the source of the unity of the self and of the world. Moreover, being a drive and therefore something always in motion, love does not just “hold together” our world and our self: instead, it “pushes” us toward higher, richer, and more structured levels of individuation. Alongside this process, we also develop an equally broader and richer representations of our world and its relationship to ourselves. In this regard, I also argued that in Lear’s perspective love is also the source of our values as those ideas which inspire us to strive “beyond ourselves”, toward a deepening of our individuality and our understanding of the

The true meaning of love has remained unclear throughout history. The love shared between two opposing personalities remains a bigger mystery. The idea of opposites attract stems from the bond between two substantially different personalities; although different, this personality contrast can lead to a rich and gratifying relationship. Both Larissa Tiedens and Alison Fragale, two social psychologists from Stanford University, theorized that couples adopt each other's personality traits through a process called postural mimicry. If one person shows signs of extroversion, the partner is sure to espouse the same behaviour, and vice versa.

The ideas found in Andreas Capellanus’ A Treatise on Courtly Love have made their mark on the human psyche since its inception. The treatise defines love as: “an inborn suffering proceeding from the sight and immoderate thought upon the beauty of the other sex, for which cause above all other things one wishes to embrace the other and, by common assent, in this embrace to fulfill the commandments of love...” (pg. 1). By framing love as an obsessional and insufferable experience, Capellanus renders those in the midst of worshiping a paramour from afar helpless until their lovesickness is consummated. Because men and women are programmed to enjoy the act of making love, the text attempts to contain and formalize love through a systematic explanation of the private and passionate pursuit of a

What would you imagine when hearing the words true love, many may think of the joy and happiness of two humans falling for each other in ways only they would know. An exiguous amount of people want what they see in other couples, a connection, a true love. However, with the poem “True Love” by Wislawa Szymborska, the speaker despises what she witnesses when surrounded by couples. The speaker conveys that she is having a mental argument whether or not true love is possible or even if she can obtain true love. Readers of the poem might wonder why the speaker has strong feelings with the thought of love; however, with further analysis of the diction, tone and word choice we can see her aspiration and fight for true love.

Most people spend much of their life looking for love. They look for love in many different people. Some people believe that love finds its way to where it needs to be, and some believe that love must be sought after. In Malamud’s story, “The Magic Barrel” one of his characters says “Love comes with the right person, not before” (Malamud 49). This implies that when two people find the right person, they will find love. Defining love has been one of the most difficult words to define in the English language. It has become to be used in everyday speech so freely that it has many layman definitions. For example, a child may claim to love ice cream, or a base ball player may play for the love of the game, but the dictionary defines love under

Love can be characterized in different ways. Particularly in American culture, where love is utilized to portray the passion or fascination of a wide range of things or individuals. There is no genuine characterization of the sort of adoration for things; it is outright love. Usually, when the word love comes up, a great many people connect it with sentimental love; love that is shared between couples in a relationship. However, still there are various definitions one needs to portray this kind of adoration. In an article called "What is Love," Sheryl Paul characterizes love, "Love is activity. Love is resilience… Love is giving. Love is getting… Love is perceiving that it isn't your accomplice's business to influence you to feel invigorated, satisfied, or finish." Sheryl Paul utilizes verbs to portray love and has her own particular view of what love is and ought to be that individuals can concur or can't help contradicting. There are numerous poems all through the historical backdrop of writing that have been composed about comparable subjects. Some are fundamentally the same as others are totally unique, despite the fact that they share a similar reason. Anne Bradsteet has two poems specifically that I will examine with a similar subject, sentimental love for her husband. Despite the fact that they both offer alternate points of view on the topic, they approach clarifying it in a comparative way. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick Employment” share the subject of sentimental love, and the authors approach explaining the topic in comparative courses, paying little mind to their restricting perspectives.

Then, the speaker moves on to describe a more tender and companionate love through a temporal metaphor. In comparing love to “every day's most quiet need, by sun and candle-light,” she portrays a long-term love that seems like second-nature. In contrast with the spatial love, this temporal love is rather muted, but sweet and caring. One would normally see passionate and companionate love as two separates phases, but with these imageries, the speaker insists that they can coexist, with herself as an evidence. The result is a description of love that is overarching and multidimensional in both its literal and figurative meanings.

ne of mankind’s greatest incentives for trudging through life is driven by an adamant yearning to procure love. Oftentimes, this craving stems from the romanticization of lovers in fictitious tales and from substantial embroidering of dalliances by contemporaneous cultures. In spite of that, what if the advantages of love were not only to generate amorous interactions but, rather, to hinder pernicious ramifications capable of harming human aggregations and its individuals. Perhaps, love quells an innate depravity within all humans. To clarify, a deficiency in love may prove to be envenoming, eliciting an abnormal, frenzied, and, conceivably, a deleterious response from a distraught character. Tim O'Brien accentuates this reality in his novel In the Lake of the Woods when an unanticipated and inexplicable severance between a husband and wife takes root as the foremost enigma of the narrative. Furthermore, his narration, hypothesis, and evidence chapters furnish the conception that an insufficiency in love insinuates detrimental repercussions.

What is love? As one of the most debated questions in the history of human thought, everyone—from philosophers and poets to doctors and scientists—has tried to discover the secret behind the word. Love, however, means something different depending on who is defining it, so there is not one single correct definition for it. Even so, there are ways to portray and personify love that can help explain one’s view on the subject to others, creating a wider understanding of it. Two Italian poets, Guido Guinizelli and Petrarch, try to express their version of love through their writings by using love’s relationship with the heart and the narrator.

The composition of the term love can be seen through aspects of journey. Journey, however, is just one of the many ways human used to describe love. The mapping of this conceptual metaphor is presented by Lakoff and Johnson in the book Metaphor we live by(1980)

Love is a rigorous journey, with no real rules on how to endure it. After reading many “experts’” thoughts on love, I have come to realize that it generally falls into three categories: how to find a casual relationship, how to take that relationship to a deeper level, and how to deal with a breakup. With the help of various sources of modern and ancient times, I have constructed my own guide on conquering love.