Diane Ackerman's 'Love'

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Nevaeh Navarro

Ms. Gonzalez

English 1 Honors - P 1

22 March 2024

Love’s Passion is Gut wrenching.

When discussing topics of love, it can vary on one’s own understanding and intake, though, it is mostly hurtful in the way that we as humans view pain as love. The analysis of love comes from the way Diane Ackerman presents toxic love throughout her essay, “From Love’s Vocabulary”; NF’s song, “This Thing Called Love”; and the play, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare. Each author presented the toxicity of love in various ways, such as violence, change in self and others, and fear. Love is something that a person may not ever get entirely of, nor fully live and breathe through. A person may even feel love and hatred. Passion comes in so many other ways than love can ever describe, it saddens …show more content…
We as humans cannot stop that. So, we must feel love’s misery in it’s own existence.

Love, often glorified as this superior sensation of passion, can sometimes reveal violence beneath the surface. When it comes to this type of love, passion can run as deep as the scars of self-destruction. Ackerman examines love from her own intake and presents this idealized state of passion to harbor an intense undercurrent of violence, mirroring the destruction of one’s own doings. Ackerman states this when talking about the consequences of fighting for love, “...even murder is forgivable if it was ‘a crime of passion.’” In. 45-46. The 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Se Love is connected to violence. Where a
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