“Variations on the Word Love”
“Variations on the Word Love”
By Margaret Atwood
What is Love?
The word love can no longer be associated the meaning of intense feeling for another, that it once had. In her poem Margaret Atwood recognizes abuse and overuse of “love”, so much so, that it has lost its denotation. Margaret observes that “this is a word we use to plug / holes with,” meaning it has lost its powerful implication. Indeed, it’s so commonly …
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…Word Love” is as much of an apt name as any. Describing how the word can have so many different meanings but all with the same word. From cooking to plugging in blank spaces, love has removed itself from its former meaning and created a whole sort of word, with multiple deviations all-leading to the same implication. Such a word needs pedestal to rest its greatness upon, for a new world of love has arrived.
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