Love's Dog Flashcards
“What I love about love is its diagnosis
What I hate about love is its prognosis”
Hadfield uses the alternating past and future tense nouns “diagnosis” and “prognosis” to suggest that love evolves through time and they’re will always be fear and uncertainty between those in love.
“What I love about love is its truth serum
What I hate about love is its shrinking potion”
Hadfield uses the metaphorical phrase “shrinking potion” to emphasise that love can belittle and change people. It also implies that the effects of love are very complex and unconventional, those effects being symbolised as the components of Hadfield’s “potion” metaphor.
“What I love about love is its petting zoo
What I love about love is its zookeeper-you”
Hadfield uses the nouns “petting zoo” and “zookeeper” to symbolise the different perspectives that one can have concerning love and suggesting that love is subjective and can be viewed differently by different people.
“What I love about love is its pirate
What I hate about love is its sick parrot”
Hadfield uses the noun “pirate” to highlight the adventurous side of love and how thrilling it can be. However, Hadfield invokes her sense of negativity about the downsides of emotional attachment while one is in love through “sick parrot”, suggesting that one fears the loss of love.
