love's dog Flashcards
language
“what I love about love”- paradox, showing the narrarator’s conflict she has with the meaning of love, showing the importance of it in the world
“what I love about love, is it’s eat me/drink me “
-allusion to “alice and wonderland” where alice consumes different foods and drinks, saying “eat me” or “drink me”, showing that love can change you fundemantally
“petting zoo” connations of innocence and excitment, implying that love makes someone happy and free
structure
anaphora of ‘what I love about love” and “what I hate about love” speaker’s fixation on the topic, showing the extent of the power love has on a person
cylical structure sturcture ends with “what I hate about love”- showing that love isn’t clear or binary but is something out of our understanding and thus should be listened to
form
constant use of rhyming couplets, shows the antithesis between love and hatred, aditionally showing the perplexing nature of love
context
post-modernism, showing the unconventional nature of love’s dog being impacted by this movement, showing a more critical thought towards love rather than a “pure” one
the great reccesion in the 2000s, when the poem was wrote, a period of austerity and economic decline, themes of pessimism are shown throughout
Third wave feminism, in love’s dog her interdependence shows the humanity and power that females can have throughout society, this movement showed the world that females shouldn’t obey to steriotypes. love’s dog iscontransting to the steriotype that women should simply love and not think about the meaning of it
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