Resnik Unrequited Love

Unrequited love is like a bee sting. While you are enjoying your time, in the midst of nature, channeling through the flowers and plants, seeing the beauty circling around you. Although, nature doesn’t have a mutual connection with you. Nature contains bees which can "hurt" you. A bee sting is simple and petite yet it's nature's way of expressing how it feels about you which is how you may enjoy or love nature but it doesn't act the same. The delineation of nature not caring for you shows the representation on how love doesn't care (Grim013). In Resnik’s poem, Tortuous Love, you can see Hassan who is heartbroken and deceived for Amir for that he didn’t reciprocate the way he did or wanted. Unrequited love is the most painful kind of love for it crushes one's heart and aspect of someone due to someone not returning the love. Loving someone may be easy but the hardest thing is not knowing that they will love you as well or at all. …show more content…
In the first sentence, we see the narrator saying, "his words hurt me" who italicized "hurt." Her italicizing “hurt’ makes the reader focus on how he, Hassan, is feeling emotionally. In Resnik's poem, she writes, "Just let go, Idiot" similarly italicizes the word "idiot" like she did with hurt. This makes the reader see Hassan picturing himself as a fool and an idiot for holding on to someone who doesn't want to reciprocate the love. Another way we see Hassan's thoughts is when Resnik italicizes the sentence, "He meant it." Her italicizing the sentence shows us that Hassan does believe that Amir is spitting the truth of how he sees