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