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I Love Dana Gioia

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Love is something that can be many things. Every person has a different definition of love. Some people might believe that you have to tell others that you actually love them for it to be real. Others like myself think that love can be expressed in more than just the common “I love you”. It can also be expressed by kissing, intimacy, looking out for someone, and being there for someone in a time of need. A person can show their love for others in many ways, some less obvious than the others, but nevertheless still love. For example, in the poem “Pity The Beautiful” by Dana Gioia, it talks about love but in a very different way than most interpret the idea of love. He says, at the beginning of the poem “Pity the beautiful, the dolls, …show more content…

Hr starts off by saying “We give because someone gave to us. We give because nobody gave to us” What I think he means here is that the reason someone gives or loves is because that's what someone else has done that to them, so they pass it on. In the second line I believe he is saying that we can give more than what recieved. We can treat others better than how we were treated. He speaks in a way where when he says something, he also gives you the opposite of it to better show how giving has many meanings to it, just like the word love. He says, “We have been better for it, We have been wounded by it- Giving has many faces: It is loud and quiet, Big, though small, diamond in wood-nails.” Another interesting part of the poem is when Rios says, “You gave me What you did not have, and I gave you What I had to give-together, we made Something greater from the difference.” What I think that Rios is trying to communicate to the reader is that if you have something that another person does not, and you share that with them, it’s better to have half of it with someone else than all of it by

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