Harmless Luxury Poem Analysis

Luxury. The kiss you give to your love. Sleeping late at night. Water fights. Childhood. The cake your mom has baked. Not only money and diamonds but “anything that feels special” is a luxury as Aerin Lauder, creative director for the Estée Lauder Companies specified. Unfortunately, many people misunderstood the actual meaning of luxury by thinking only wealthy people can own it. In contrary, wealthiness is only a small part of luxury when there is an immense variety of types of luxury such as luxury of happiness, luxury of dreaming and luxury of family that pleases people a lot better than money can possibly does.
Nikki Giovanni, one of the world’s most well-known African American poets who has been nominated for a Grammy Award points out that love is the best luxury of all by contrasting between living in a materialistic society and experiencing the real love. “Luxury to some would be having/ …show more content…
Phoebe Cary is demonstrating a story of a sorrowful girl who continously cries, yet one day she founds her rewarding luxury: “Her skies, of whom I sing, are hung/With sad clouds, dropping the saddest tears [ . . . ] Yet only asks that she may keep/The harmless luxury of dreams” According to Phoebe Cary, luxury of dreaming is the strongest luxury of all due to its ability to push people to imagine every other luxury, so materialistic luxury occupies a diminutive part of human satisfactory. Phoebe Cary uses the power of dreaming to imagine luxury of love, money and many other luxuries so that one can own any pleasure with the help of their dream world. Due to the deep thinking in poems, seeing another usage of the word “luxury” other than materialistic lifestyle is pretty expectable and common; however it also is possible to see them in advirtesements, even in materialistic ones such as Porsche’s