Love Margaret Atwood Analysis

Atwood based love on how society portrayed it and not how she saw it. In the second stanza of the poem, Atwood describes love as something more powerful and valuable. As the poem continues, Atwood shifts into how she views the actual emotion of love. Her arrogance towards love had been bitter, however it was not towards love itself. Her emotions and attitude begins to become known when Atwood says, “Then there’s the two/of us. This word is far too short for us, it has only/four letters” (22-24). She then moves on to comparing love as a, “single vowel/ in this metallic/ silence” (32-33), meaning nothing can characterize a strong emotion towards love. To her, love is something that no one can precisely use or even show to one another. Atwood perceives love as “not enough but it will/have to do”, (35-36). She believes that the four-letter word is just there to cover up the actual feelings one will, or even Atwood would have. Her emotions towards love in the second stanza had been more on the affectionate side. She had related this part of her poem on her own
It can have a deeper meaning then the actual word itself. It can have a positive meaning to some and to others the complete opposite. The positive meanings are when one actually means what they say and not over use it. Love has a whole lot of meanings, emotions, and variations. “To fill those deep bare/ vacuums between the stars/” (26). This can be interpreted in ways of positivity to the meaning of love, being so that the vacuum is an empty space that can be filled with love from the stars. On the other hand, the negative effects on love is that, sometimes there is no meaning for most people. Love is just a four-letter word that can mean nothing. This word is just there to show some form of meaning, but never the true meaning for all. During, that phase of love, the more profound meaning will fade causing love to lose its actual