Love-Personification
January 18, 2008
Love is a seductive monster. She gets into your life and blinds you. You will find yourself in perilous confrontations before you even realize it is that illusive beauty that has a hold on you. Love is a wily “foe”. But she is essential to your life. She manifests herself for a reason. Love is the mother-goddes that preserves you. That tricky voice of the sirens is an integral part of living. Although she may bring pain and suffering, she also brings meaning and enjoyment. Her persuasion may superficially be seen as a way to lead you down the wrong path, but the true nature of her is to compel you to broaden your horizons and make yourself a better person. Explanation:
This was a prompted assignment in which we were supposed to use personification to make a more abstract subject more concrete. I really enjoyed it because I do not often get to use it and I was able to fully realize its power. I was also proud to be able to use a paradox, a hyperbole, and an allusion in addition to personification in order to explain love without it seeming gaudy and unrefined. I was also happy to show my ability to captivate my audience by setting up a situation and then explaining its meaning without lowering the intellectual level of the piece. Additionally, I was able to hold an intrusive argument in which I defended love as a product enfused with yin and yang.
