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Dictionary Lesson (Free verse) by Dovina

When I said, “I love you,” and soon realized its reciprocal, “You love me,” and its result, “We are in love,” and much later, with its contrary, “I don’t love you,” and finally its opposite, “I hate you,” and when, after a long hiatus, its many reverses blured into, “I have no feeling for you,” I realized my dictionary is a history, written ahead of fact, a compendium of devolution.

richa 21-Nov-04/2:26 PM
I believe this poem relates to philosophy in the sense that it puts forward premises which it uses to make conclusions. I do not think the poet has attempted to argue about word definitions and opposites. Rather she took for granted that the opposite of 'i love you' was 'i hate you' (because the opposite of love is hate) and zodiac opened up the debate. Had there been a word that translated 'i love you' into 'i hate you' perfectly I am sure she would have used that instead of opposite.




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