Variations On The Word Love Flashcards
What is the rhyme scheme? why is this significant?
: Significant because to shows us that just like how this poem doesn’t have any structure, love does not follow any rules. There is no cheat sheet or guidebook for love.
When you read her sentences as well, some of them are choppy. It is not necessarily pleasing to listen to. It can be considered chaotic and messy which is one of her views of love. It is not clean cut and perfect.
Choose “two comparisons” that Atwood makes about love and analyze them.
The author writes about different kinds of love and talks about how love is used to make money and is not shown truthfully in today’s world. She wants people to understand real love better, instead of the fake and commercial love we often see.
How do we know
it isn’t what goes on at the cool
debaucheries of slugs under damp
pieces of cardboard? As for the weed-
seedlings nosing their tough snouts up
among the lettuces, they shout it.
(13~18) If we are willing to use the word love to describe all of the other mundane things, why can’t we say that the activities of slugs and the weeds sprouting is also another version of love? She seems to have a little attitude here because she is frustrated with people!
⭐️ Wink Wink Nudge Nudge
[At first stanza, she was quite angry at people. The tone is sour. WHY?]
She is SASSSY WITH SOCIETY. We are overusing it. It’s not special anymore. Because we just use it for everything, she didn’t like that.
- TOWARDS SOCIETY for overusing the love.
Theme
Love is entirely subjective. It’s different for every single person. It’s hard for one word to explain what everyone goes through in terms of love. It’s almost wrong for us to say one word in a lot of different situations when talking with family, friends, or in relationships.
Theme
Love is impossible to define; it is chaotic and unpredictable.
Who’s the author of Variations On The Word Love?
Margaret Atwood
