Inspirational Literary Works

 I've had the pleasure of reading and analyzing quite a few of Giovanni's wonderful poems, so I just chose a few of them to share, picking the ones that were very touching to me.






 Now this poem was hands down my favorite!!! I'm a bit of a romantic, so this poem just naturally spoke to me. "Resignation" is about Nikki's undying, deep, and intense love for someone. According to her, loving that person is only natural; it's like a habit because she picked it up one day, and now it is just stuck on her. She simply cannot imagine a life without loving the person. The poem's theme is that loving someone is simply the nature of human beings, as we look for it, live for it, and depend on it:" I love you because it is the natural order of things." She also wrote " I love you because it’s been so good for so long that if I didn’t love you, I’d have to be born again." This hyperbole, or exaggeration, was used to emphasize how truly and deeply in love she is with this being. It makes her feel as though she cannot live a life not loving them, which goes back to the poem's central message: humans depend on as well as live for love.


 




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