Analysis Of Catron's Ted Talk

When people think about love, they should think about understanding, and not about it being difficult or hard. In Catron’s video regarding love, she describes it as being associated with pain and suffering. She presents the definition of smitten and shows that it can mean, grievously stricken, or very much in love. Catron shows how love can be burdensome and even stressful at times, but also infatuating towards another person. She emphasizes the comparison of love to other unseemingly characteristics throughout the rest of the Ted Talk. In the same way, she describes her first love relationship when she was younger, and how it ended with an obstacle, and although she loved him, had an unexpected result of him walking out after an argument.
When describing what love is and isn’t, Ward writes, “it is irregular/ it is difficult” (20-21). Ward repeats “it is” and creates an anaphora to show love has problems and obstacles, and do not always end the way the movies or films portray them to be. In the same way, when explaining what love is, Ward writes, “always, always/ surprising” (22-23). Throughout the poem, Ward implies what love is and what love is not, and now she describes what it always is. Ward writes how love is always unexpected and you never know what might happen. She is showing the affection between the two people. Another essential point, while writing about what happens when a relationship doesn’t go the way one thought Chua states, “His heart sinks/like a fish” (19-20). She is referring to the feeling of the male fish after the female dumped him because he wished for a relationship of adventure that he could not provide. Chua uses a simile to express how the male fishes’ heart got broken, but it is also used as a pun because they are fish. Hence, love can alter the end result of relationships by not ending how people would want it to. These factors contribute to love being seen as an unpredictable feeling, with hardships and sudden endings, but in spite, love starts off with the fondness towards another. These factors describe the
When portraying the affection between the fish, Chua writes, “His charms hook, line, and sinker” (11), which is indirectly saying how the male fish is flirting with the female fish. She used an idiom to represent the connection between the male and female fish, and how she is completely deceived by him and is charmed by him. Chua is indicating that the two fish have a love or sense of fondness for one another and that the female fish is completely infatuated with the male fish, and has fallen for him. Furthermore, as the two fish are flirting with one another, Chua states “she makes fish eyes” (8). She is using a pun to describe how the female fish winks at the male fish out of attraction, but they are already fish. On the other hand, Chopin shows the loyalty that can exist in relationships, and writes “Mrs. Baroda was greatly tempted that night to tell her husband -- who was also her friend -- of this folly that had seized her” (27-28). Chopin is describing how Mrs. Baroda was about to cheat on her husband but resisted the temptation. She is insinuating how Mrs. Baroda loves her husband, that she felt it best to not tell him about her temptation because she knew that there were some circumstances that humans had to fight