Love's Vocabulary By Diane Ackerman Analysis

“One’s taste in love will have a lot to do with one’s culture, upbringing, generation, religion, era, gender, and so on. Although we sometimes think of it as the ultimate oneness, love isn’t monotone of uniform.”, explained Diane Ackerman, author of Love’s Vocabulary. Love is an existence in every culture and religion, they all may not be represented in the same way but love is always present. An aspect of love is its’ ability to vary the way in which it is expressed, the way it makes you feel and how it appears. The way love is expressed can take many different forms. “In fact, in some European and South American countries, even murder is forgivable if it was “a crime of passion.” Ackerman explained. These felonies are committed in the name of love, in the eyes of some a crime is not passionate, it is evil or immoral. “Love also has many fashions, some bizarre and (to our taste) shocking, others more familiar, but all are part of a phantasmagoria we know.” Ackerman explains that love is different to …show more content…
For some people love makes them feel like they have butterflies in their stomach, but that may not always be the case, some people feel pain when they are in love. Akerman says, “It feels like hunger pains, we use the same word, pang. Perhaps this is why Cupid is depicted with a quiver of arrows, because at some times love feels like being pierced in the chest. It is a wholesome violence.” In the text Ms. Ackerman compares parting with a loved one to a the pain of an elevator falling in your chest. “Remember the feeling of an elevator falling on your chest when you say good-bye to loved one? Parting is more than just a sweet sorrow, it pulls you apart when you are glued together.” Love is so powerful it can cause pain and or joy. Pain is inflicted when you leave someone you love you feel detachment and remorse, but when you are with that person you feel a beaming ray of happiness shine right on