An Explication Of Love Poem

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for something or someone and is often shared between two people. When a love is mutual, lovers find themselves compelled to communicate the love between them, for example, expressing love in a solid form such as poetry. The rhythmic flow, vivid imagery, and ability to encapsulate abstract emotions makes poetry the perfect medium for expressing romantic love. This type of poetry is so popular; it has become a separate genre called ‘Love Poems.’ Traditionally, love poems render the beloved as an ideal of perfection, placing the lover on a pedestal. John Fredrick Nims’s “Love Poem” however, beautifully contradicts this tradition by describing a love that transcends human faults. The poem is written to, and about, a woman who possesses this kind of love, and the speaker is a man thinking about the adoration that he and others feel for his beloved. The poem's images present the dominant theme that a genuine love and caring for humanity--a graceful and beautiful soul--can exist ...

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