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. In the text, Ackerman expresses how a woman from Ancient Egypt placed in an automobile factory will be confused by the technology, but be able to identify love when she sees two people kissing. Afterward, she articulates “People everywhere and everywhen understand the phenomenon of love, just as they understand the appeal of music...even if
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 explains that love is not an emotion that gives birth to new feelings, but amplifies the feelings that are present. The analogy comparing a batik to love is used to explain that both a batik and love helps intensify the emotions or objects used to make them. For example, when using multiple items to make something the product is usually better than the items used, such as when a batik is made of multiple colored waxes the product is a colorful and beautiful cloth. The elated connotation of words “ingredients” and “emotions” reveals an empathetic tone by using the chosen words to convey the importance of the analogy. Overall this analogy effectively communicates the author’s claim due to the
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
Diane Ackerman's purpose for writing her essay “Love’s Vocabulary” is to inform readers that the delight of love can actually unravel other emotions irrelative to it. Such as harsh emotions that cannot be correlated into the one positive emotion of love. Love is not self-explanatory because there are many ways we perceive love rather than just its fondness. The negative connotations of words such as “pitifully” or “paltry” suggest her irritating tone because synonyms of love are unfortunately limited. This makes love vague since there are minimal synonyms that would help explain upon it. Her tone is characterized with irritation since it frustrates her that there are no other synonyms to make a clear interpretation of love. Her use of figurative
Numerous women in the world today deal with challenges understanding the importance of self-awareness and love. Janie, the protagonist, defies happiness by searching for love. Behind her defiance are a curiosity and confidence that drive her to experience the world and become conscious of her relation to it. In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Zora Neal Hurston applies symbolism to express the possibility of coexistence between love and a sense of independence. As an illustration, Zora Neale Hurston uses a simile to vividly describe the intensity of love.
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
Love is perhaps one of the most contested issues in the world. No one has a precise definition of what love really should look or feel like. Most people have resorted to use their own experiences in love to effectively derive its true meaning. Through these experiences, philosophers have argued that the definition of love varies greatly depending on whether it was given by a man or a woman. This is however not the case. As proven by the narratives of Beauvoir and Sartre, the definitions of love derived from the experiences of both men and women are quite similar. Consequentially, Beauvoir’s account of the woman in love sheds important light on Sartre’s conflicting thought about love. By first highlighting the concepts of love as stated by Beauvoir, this text seeks to establish how Beauvoir’s account of love lays a vital foundation for Sartre’s.
Love can influence society by providing different aspects of love. the author Diane Ackerman stated in her essay that love is a small word that is defined by one or more meanings. the essay stated that " love is an powerful and immense word that we take so much from." Also the essay provides how love can be changed "since all we have is one word, we talk about love in increments or unwieldy ratios." the Author also points out that love can be used in an uncontrollable way "we use the word love in such a sloppy way it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything." This means that the word love is a powerful but yet meaningless increment.
Love is one of the most confusing emotions that one can experience. It is simple yet complicated, unconditional but demanding, overused and unique. It is hard to explain what its means to feel love, to feel loved, or to be in love, however, there are aspects of love that are easily expressed. For example, ones unquestionable affection to the one they love, or the hardships and sacrifice that is endured for loved ones, and the underlying fact that once it is experienced it is not easily dismissed. The play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller describes love in just these ways, and, most of all, as the ultimate moral value that is the eternal bond that keeps people together. One can
But if we understand the evidence of the whole concept and clearly analyze the ideas, we will see that the word “Love” actually works as a different aim that about what people thinking. First, In 1984 novel by George
True love is a tricky concept positively understood by no being despite the dramatic descriptions created all around the world by millions of explorers. In his work “Sonnet 130,” William Shakespeare dives into the exaggerations of the realities of love in use of negatively placed similes, while Robert Burns in his work “A Red, Red Rose” shares a supposed story with uses of similar figurative language, which allows a greater look into the simplicities of true love. These authors’ reasonings behind their works have been widely researched for centuries. As told by the figurative language Shakespeare uses in his work “Sonnet 130” it can be inferred that he is simply making fun of the usual writings on the feelings of love, despite some of his other works that succumb to these
Everyone in the world has heard the phrase “that little thing called love.” It’s a simple word; no difficult spelling, no complex pronunciation. It’s such a basic, easy to say word. It should have a brief definition. But love is not small, It is not simple. It is not the easiest to understand love. This complexity of love is expressed when writer Pablo Neruda describes “A planet entwined with vistas and foliage, a plain, a rock, hard and unoccupied; we wanted to build a strong nest”
People and other animals have a tendency to feel love or to be in love. Animals pretty much are different from animals involving emotion they may seem as if they love their toys or the food that their owner gives them and even the owner but animals don't have a sense of understanding on what love is. People on the other hand feel as if they have a understanding of the word love but do they really have an actual meaning of what love or to feel what love is. Is love just a made up English word that no one knows about or is it an emotion that everyone can feel. I personally feel as if I know what love is. For example, I know that I love my mom and when I see my mother and father I know they love each other that's why they got married. But, as I read the passage on love in Erich Fromm's book To Have Or To Be looking from a philosopher's perspective on it has a whole different meaning on the understanding of what people may know what love truly means. In this essay I will be giving my point of view of what love is and my meaning and points from Erich Fromm's book.
In M. Scott Peck’s work, The Road Less Traveled, he says “Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words” (81). He also seeks to define love as “The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's personal growth” (81). For Peck, he recognizes that the nature of love is so mysterious that a true satisfactory definition of love has yet to be created and suspects his own definition to be inadequate. He also recognizes that love is categorically vast in that it is divided into eros, philia, agape, and others.
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.