Analysis Essay Sample on Green Love

The poem I choose to write contains many examples of rhetorical devices such as simile, repetition, symbolism, and others. An example of symbolism would be the use of green and red love in the poem. Of Course romantic love isn't a physical tangible thing that can have a color, but often in western media the personified version of said concept has something to do with the color red. The stark contrast between the colors red and green show antithesis because they are practically opposites. This translates to symbolism because of what the colors represent, red being idealised romantic love (see stanza three) and green being its inverse. 

Another example of rhetorical language in my poem would be the use of metaphor and simile specifically in line two stanza one “it flows through people like a stream”. The simile being “like a” and the metaphor being the entire sentence. The point of this line being the set up of the entire poem is to show that love is an inherent part of being a human being. The use of figurative language in this line compares an abstract concept to something more palpable like a stream. Using these specific pieces of figurative language can enhance the reader's understanding of what i'm trying to say and possibly have them connect to my words on a more meaningful level. 

The last piece of rhetorical language I used in my poem is repetition specifically in the use of the word “love”. There are other words for love, I myself am very fond of thesaurus.com when writing essays that I need to sound smart in so I know there are synonyms for it, but my word choice was deliberate. Often when we think of love we think of red hearts, valentines day, and heterosexual couples kissing but that is not the only kind of love. There is familial love, the love of your friends, the love of your hobbies and work, homosexual or bisexual love that may even be romantic but is demonised and sexualised because it doesn't fit into our cisgender heteronormative ideals of what society thinks red love should be. Love is a blanket term, what people think it means is up to interpretation but you need to know that not everybody love’s in the same way. My love is green, but yours may be purple, blue, cerulean, or even red but you must recognise that no matter what color love you may have, they are all equally love.