Living In Sin, My Papa's Waltz, And Fire And Ice By Robert Frost

Despite the fact the world continues to change and humans adapt to new lifestyles, love still exists as a necessary factor for people to interact in their everyday lives and often dictates how their lives operate. The evolution of love can be seen through the poems Living in Sin by Adrienne Rich, My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke, and Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. Through these poems, the reader has the capability of witnessing how humans require relationships with others. Unhealthy personal bonds of love that people in present-day society have are no real connections with significant others, children who still love and desire their parents regardless of the domestic abuse that occurs, and love that becomes a destructive obsession.

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Evidently, there continues to be a lack of a bond throughout the poem. However, even when love seems to show itself even slightly, it appears to be practically nonexistent and hate exceeds any positive emotion the woman may have, “By evening she was back in love again, / though not so wholly but throughout the night / she woke sometimes to feel the daylight coming / like a relentless milkman up the stairs” (Rich, lines 23 - 26). This proves how the speaker and her lover’s bond has weakened to nihility. The author’s use of imagery allows the reader to visualize the cynical side of love as it fails to bring a couple together, and, in actuality, tears their bond apart. The woman pictures love being desirable ideas like a clean studio. She imagines the studio and nighttime being an oasis to the sempiternal heartache she feels with the man. An in-tune piano and a juicy plate of pears also causes the woman to rejoice with happiness and relief since both materialistic things allow the woman to relax. However, the reality of hate jumps out at the reader in forms of intolerable entities like dirt and

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs proves that humans require love before gaining any self-esteem for themselves. The absence of a true bond with significant others in Living in Sin shows how selfish people disregard love and suffer from loneliness and regret as a result. Children relying on their parents for a special bond despite the fact they are abused gives insight to the idea of selfless kids putting themselves in danger in order to receive love. Love growing so strong that it destroys innocent lives gives evidence to the idea of the emotion being able to make or break each individual. Love exists as a bond between two people. Without this bond, humans cannot function. This fact continues to affect society as the absence or overbearing presence of love predicts the outcome of life. All in all, having a perfectly balanced personal bond with another person will help love support life. Frost, Robert. "Fire and Ice." Literature: Craft & Voice. By Nicholas Delbanco and Alan Cheuse. Vol. 2. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010. 416. Print. Hanson, Rick. "The Evolution of Love." Psychology Today. N.p., 15 Feb. 2010. Web. 04 Apr.