Essay on Say You Love Me

Second, striking similes are used throughout the whole poem. The speaker does not content himself with using age-old phrases or comparisons. His similes are unique and gripping. "Like old beggars under sacks," "like a man in fire or lime," and "like a devil's sick of sin," help to add vivid mental pictures to the poem. The soldier's uniforms are ripped and threadbare from all the fighting, and they are so exhausted that they bend over as they walk. The man that breathed the mustard gas is in such incredible pain that all he can do is jerk about as if he were on fire. After a while, the gas causes his face to sag until he resembles something from the horrors of hell. The speaker's similes are ones that cause the reader to stop and just think about what is being described

As ordinary individuals are navigating through life, they learn. They learn to walk, they learn to write, they learn to obtain manners, they learn to interact and they even learn to apply their talents to what they enjoy doing. No matter what, they are constantly learning something new every minute of every day - either consciously or subconsciously. So as they learn, they learn to think and feel towards their self and their peers they come across. And at one point in their lives, they come to meet that certain individual that changes their life in the brightest way yet - the one that makes them feel that intense emotion like no other. This one common emotion they think they learn, but misunderstand is love. What is love? Love is an enticing mystery to those inexperienced yet, but is a big tousle of indescribable emotions that are misunderstood but is bigger than the love and care for their own self.

Everyone loves to tell the story of their first love, and the beautiful lesson they learned through the adventure. You hear the phrase, “you’ll never forget your first” as you see a small smirk flourish across the faces of people who remember their story. Through all the experiences shared, I never would have believed the result of falling out of love. All of the novels and sweet smiles never hinted about the time I would end up crumbled down on my bedroom's floor, with two years of a person's presence surrounding a broken heart. Nobody will speak of watching your first love leave for college, knowing that they will want to move on. I went through the stages of heartbreak that left me with a cracked and bruised heart. The recovery and journey of finding acceptance and love for myself, created a book of my personal lessons.

metaphors are used to symbolize the turbulence in the house and how rapidly it spreads throughout the house. In line 4, “greasy stains spreading on the cloth”, the ‘greasy stains’ refer to schizophrenia and how it spreads through the family. In lines (4-6) “Certain doors were locked at night, feet stood for hours outside them…” this is a metaphor for paranoia. It could also show how family members would shut themselves off from the rest of the world. The use of diction sets up the tone of anger throughout the poem by using words such as: slammed, shouting, threats, cracking, broken and madhouse. (2) “It had begun with slamming doors..” the use of slamming shows how infuriated the family was and how they took their anger out of the house. (11) “...reconciliations, the sobbing that followed.” Reconciliations

Much has been said about love, but if you search the horizon, you will discover that most of the things written about love are either pithy or cynical.

Love is defined as “a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person”. Love is something that everyone has felt at one time or another in life. But nowadays people tend to use the word love so frivolously. Love is something people spend their whole lives searching for, while others fall in and out of love on a daily basis. Love is rarely defined because everyone experiences love in their own way. But in order to understand what love is, you must first understand some of the different types of love like fraternal, platonic, and romantic. These are a few types of love that help to define such a special and complicated emotion that we all need to live a complete and fulfilling life.

He felt it go through him and he swallowed hard. The mean bird had landed on Uncle's shoulder now and angry tears mixed with tears of fear fell down his face. His mama's screams were getting louder and louder. 'Help her, Uncle! Help her!' he screamed, but his voice was too low to be heard by the noising fire.

This poem included many similes that allowed the reader to have sequential images which eased the understanding of the poem. For example, " I like to imagine love can pull your essence like red thread through the cold needle of my life now without you." In this example, the simile that was used help in transcribing feelings into images by comparing essence to red thread. Additionally, the use of imagery such as "each an ego of forced air, heavy with the smells of onions, mushrooms, sage and rain.", helped in connecting the readers with poet's thoughts by using the sense of smell. Thus, the images of grief and memories installed upon us as readers allowed the theme sent from the poet to be explicitly understood.

We had a rocky past, and by rocky, I mean brutal. Somehow, there is something about you that will always be attached to me –a piece of my heart that you’ll forever hold, and that I don’t ever want back. Because when you have a connection with someone, it never really goes away.

In brief, all of the literary devices in this poem work off of each other to make this poem a whole in different ways. The strange diction is used throughout the work making the poem fun and somewhat easy to understand. The imagery is used to create the image of the horrible creature and the speaker’s depiction of it being slain. It is also used to help the reader visualize the land they are in. The rhyming is used through the poem as well, giving it an exciting and powerful tone.

It is also a term that I think is used in an improper context more than it is used in the correct context.

To me Love, is one of the hardest words I could ever try to define, as everyone has different perspectives, definitions and believes for this one word. It has also been a word that has been highly overused, and though it does have a set definition, I can't seem to fully define it. I do know however that love is not what love is portrayed as to be by the media. A trip to paris or a romantic dinner by the beach on a star-y night, does not show me love on its own, it show me money. To me love is a special feeling that is hard to describe unless one has felt it before. Love is not something that you search for but something that comes to you when you least expect it and most need it. Ideally theres a deeper emotional aspect that makes up love, one that is also displayed

Love has many different meanings to different people. For a child, love is what he or she feels for his mommy and daddy. To teenage boy, love is what he should feel for his girlfriend of the moment, only because she says she loves him. But as we get older and "wiser," love becomes more and more confusing. Along with poets and philosophers, people have been trying to answer that age-old question for centuries: What is love?

What is love? The type of love I’m describing is the one that gives you butterflies when a certain person comes to mind. Just seeing that particular person can be enough to make one smile and make your day and all the worries go away. Right now that person comes to mind. It’s neither a crush nor infatuation and many are willing to do anything for this thing that is called love. Love can hurt in the long run, and people can also be blinded by it.

Love is difficult to define, difficult to measure, and difficult to understand. Love is what great writers write about, great singers sing about, and great philosophers ponder. Love is a powerful emotion, for which there is no wrong definition, for it suits each and every person differently. Whether love is between family, friends, or lovers, it is an overwhelming emotion that can be experienced in many different ways.