Loves Vocabulary By Diane Ackerman Summary

“Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims is an excellent of example of an author using many types of literary terms to emphasize his theme of a love that is imperfect yet filled with acceptance. In, this poem Nims uses assonance, metaphor, and imagery to support his theme of “Imperfect, yet realistic love”.

In this global era of evolving civilization, it is increasingly difficult to ignore the fascinating fact about love. Love is a feeling of intimacy, warmth, and attachment. Love is inevitable and it plays a vital role in human life as Janie uses her experience with the pear tree to compare each of her relationships, but it is not until Tea Cake that she finds “a bee to her bloom.” (106).

Love is not always an easy adventure to take part in. As a result, thousands of poems and sonnets have been written about love bonds that are either praised and happily blessed or love bonds that undergo struggle and pain to cling on to their forbidden love. Gwendolyn Brooks sonnet "A Lovely Love," explores the emotions and thoughts between two lovers who are striving for their natural human right to love while delicately revealing society 's crime in vilifying a couples right to love. Gwendolyn Brooks uses several examples of imagery and metaphors to convey a dark and hopeless mood that emphasizes the hardships that the two lovers must endure to prevail their love that society has condemned.

When an individual thinks of love the first thing that comes to mind is a person. A person whom they care and have strong and constant affection towards. In the 21st century, there seems to be a fading of true “love”. Loving someone is not a feeling, it is a choice. A choice to care for someone through the good and the bad as illustrated by Meinke in “The Cranes”. Unfortunately, individuals live in an era where traditional values of love and honor are being replaced with their own dreams so much that divorce is now a common word. Peter Meinke’s use of symbols in “The Cranes” gives the impression of being a simple love story of an old couple bird watching while reminiscing about their life together, but in reality reveals the darker components

Laura Kipnis’s “Against Love”, and Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” ,brings up the issue of what is the definition of love and is love what we think it is. Love has changed in comparison to what it once was, and we now loosely use the term, but what does it truly mean, and why do we buy in to it. Kipnis’s essay develops the idea that this “mature love” is when someone can love and be loved, and she takes the position that this does not happen. Although Kipnis believes mature love is neither a realistic expectation nor a good thing to have, I claim that the idea of mature love is not bogus, because even though it is rare to find, and may even take a few tries, I believe it is possible for people to have this mature love. Unlike Kipnis too, I believe mature love can take on different forms, and doesn’t have to just be so black and white like Kipnis explains it as.

In the essay, Love’s Vocabulary by Diane Ackerman in lines 60-62 Ackerman uses an analogy as a way of figurative language to show love isn't uniform or monotone. As Ackerman is explaining how love can be shown in different ways she states, “ love is not monotone or uniform. Like a batik pattern and brightness may vary.” This phrase demonstrates that Ackerman is using an analogy to show love comes in different ways and colors. The author shows us a usage of a simile in the beginning, but then justifies and explains the simile giving out the message that love can be emotional and can cause different emotions.

Diane Ackerman’s purpose for writing her essay “Love’s Vocabulary” is to inform the reader not to underestimate love since love is the great intangible and cannot be defined, but can be felt. The neutral and positive connotation of words such as “monotone” and “delirium” suggest Ackerman’s passionate tone about how love cannot be the same constant emotion that is felt everyday, but a powerful feeling that has many meanings since love is an emotion that is older than humanity itself. Ackerman’s use of figurative language, particularly metaphor and personification, reveal that Ackerman is trying to inform the reader that love is to intangible to be defined in a single word that is often used, which can also connect to her irritating attitude

In the essay “Love’s vocabulary” by Diane Ackerman, the lines 60-62 use the figurative language of an analogy to compare a batik to love to support the idea that love is not monotone or uniform. In lines 60-62 Ackerman writes “like a baik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.” The author uses this simile followed by an analogy to emphasize that much like a batik, love is created by a vast array of emotions in which a batik uses colors, all create a beautiful piece. The author writes another piece of figurative language, “Love commands a vast army of moods.” This quote uses personification to illustrate that love is not one emotion, but is many emotions clustered into one word. Connecting back

In the essay, “Love’s Vocabulary,” Diane Ackerman communicates the idea through figurative language, that love is an emotion that is seen universally, but no one can explain what it is. For instance, the analogy about music conveys Ackerman’s idea as it suggests that every person from different time periods and locations recognize love just as they recognize music, but they cannot comprehend its meaning.

Diane Ackerman’s purpose for writing her essay “Love’s Vocabulary” is to persuade the readers that love is an unique emotion that we use in such an unorganized manner. This is demonstrated through the connotations of words such as “sloppy”, and “delirium”. The connotative meaning of the word sloppy as used in line 41 indicates that people use the word love to describe how they feel in many different occasions that the word has lost its meaning and the value it makes someone feel when said to them. Furthermore, the connotative meaning of the word delirium as used in line 38 suggests to the reader that love is an exciting and passionate emotion that has be seen and shown throughout history. Her use of figurative language, particularly metaphors

Diane Ackerman’s purpose for writing her essay “Love’s Vocabulary” is to inform the readers that love is a unique emotion that we use in such an unorganized manner. This is demonstrated through the mystifying connotation of the word “phenomenon” and the appalling connotation of the word “sloppy”, which suggest her irritated tone about the meaningless and perplexing way we use the word “love” to express a distinctive and remarkable emotion. Her use of figurative language, particularly metaphors and oxymorons, reveal Ackerman’s view of love as a complex emotion which varies in the way how people convey it towards someone and how it makes one feel. This connects to her disapproving attitude about the foolish way we use the word “love”, which in

Student Name : jesica Education Level : 9th Grade Paper Type : Essay Originality detection : Works Cited : Paper : How does the author make connections her many ideas on love? Connections between the heavens, earth , and everything in between. In “loves vocabulary” Diane Ackerman is showing different types of love for an example day dream and nightmare, you have crowds cheering and beasts, fear love can be shown as a nightmare and daydream and also ancient delirium (old). To start off with is nightmares and daydreams , you have easy love and hard love. Love can be scary, frighten but can be amazing.

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

While people are often able to identify when they feel the emotion love, love itself seems to defy definition.  In her polemic “Against Love”, Laura Kipnis argues that love cannot exist as traditional expressions of love such as marriage, monogamy, and mutuality.  However, in her argument, she defines love incorrectly by equating love to expressions of love. This definition lacks a component essential to understanding the abstract concept of love: emotion. Recognizing love as emotion helps us realize that, contrary to Kipnis’ argument love by nature transcends all expressions of love. Love is subjective and exists in any and all forms. In her argument that love cannot survive as conventional expressions of love, Kipnis ignores the nature of love as emotion in favor of equating love to different expressions of love. Love is a force which exists above expressions of love; a true understanding of love can only come from an assessment of how individuals, not societies, respond to the emotion.

By the way, I have been reading Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” today, and I have read in the comments to it that according to the ancient Roman mythology, if Cupid (the god of love) shoots the golden arrows at humans’ hearts, then he causes a mutual love, and if he shoots with the lead arrows, it brings unhappy love to a person.