Ariana Towns
Ms. Locano
AP-Lit
26, September 2016
"Love"
There's the wonderful love of a beautiful maid'
And the love of a staunch true man,
And the love of a baby that's unafraid--
All have existed since time began.
But the most wonderful love,, the Love of all loves,
Even greater than the love for Mother,
Is the infinite, tenderest, passionate love
Of one dead drunk for another.
Anonymous
The Greatest Love Of All
"Love" by an anonymous poet is a poem that lays out a platform for different views of love until it concludes to the ultimate one. This poem idolizes the idea that no matter the kind of love one has the greatest love is of those who can't get enough of each other. The poet provides a tone of innocence and familiarity in lines three and four, the poem says, " And the love of a baby that's unafraid-- / All have existed since time began". This shows us that true love can be compared to the innocence of an unafraid baby who is pure. It is familiar because since the beginning of time love has been known and given in different forms. The speaker in the poem finds love to be best known when one is truly connected and consumed in another. I like the way the speaker deciphers the confusing way of true love through a poem of eight lines.
No matter how one feels about the concept of love no one can deny that this poem exemplifies the beauty within the different stages of infinite love. One stage being in lines seven and eight where it states, " Is the infinite, tenderest, passionate love / Of one dead drunk for another". This doesn't mean one is completely wasted on alcohol but to be so in love that you are in love with something bigger than love because you are drunk off of the person. The speaker forces you to understand that there is nothing more powerful or sadistic than love.
The last line of this poem includes such a sharp shift, that I have to read and reread, think and rethink it every time. Why such a shift? Definitely worth thinking more about and discussing more with others.
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