Analysis Of Love By Jimmy Santiago Baca

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One thing everyone in world has in common is that we all seek love. Everyone wants to be love and to know the feeling of loving someone unconditionally. Humankind, regardless of geography, gender,sexual orientation,religion,race,education or economic status all humans seek love and it is through literature that authors provide in sight,comfort,and oftentimes advice to help us cope with our humanity and our journey of seeking love.
One thing all humans have in common is that we all seek love it’s something that everyone feels at some point in their life. Some people might even say it's like a disease because it spreads to everyone. All humans dream of falling in love and would do anything for the person they love. In the poem “ I am offering you this poem “ by Jimmy Santiago Baca talks about having nothing but giving everything he can to the person he loves. In his poem he talks about how he will always be there for the person he loves and will always take care of her. In the poem he uses stanzas but at the end of every stanza he writes” I love you” ( jimmy santiago Baca 7-29)to remind the person he loves how …show more content…

This poem has many metaphors and similes one of the many examples is “keep it like a warm coat when winter comes to cover you” ( jimmy Santiago Baca lines 3-4).Throughout the poem you can see that even though he is broke he is still willing to do anything for the person he loves this relates to the human condition because we all seek this kind of love but at same time we offer this back to the person we love. One example that show how much he is willing to for the person he loves is “It's all I have to give,and all anyone needs to live,”( Jimmy santiago Baca lines 24-25). All every human every wants and needs is love we spend our whole lives seeking

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