"Grammar" by Tony Hoagland uses an awe-filled tone enhanced by the symbolism of fire to show the beauty of love. Maxine walks around with a "light" coming from her head. Light is symbolic of something pure and just as fire gives off a beneficial light, Maxine is emanating a light that affects everyone around her. "We've all tried to start a fire", who hasn't tried to find love, the fire of life, in their life? Maxine is the only one able to bear the idea of her beauty, she is the only one able to have the thought of the fact that she is in love. On the other hand, everyone else has been burned by love which can be seen by the "burned hands" that everyone uses to acknowledge that Maxine has found her fire. Tony Hoagland uses the symbolism of fire as love to convey the beauty of love in his poem "Grammar".
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