“There is a thin line between love and hate.” This is a phrase used by many to represent the constant battle between love and hate. With the song “The Ballad of Love and Hate,” the Avett Brothers convey the differences and battles between love and hate. At the beginning of the song, love is away and is now coming home to hate. Hate is mad at her for being gone but will not admit it, and decides to get drunk. Hate manages to get to the door to see love and apologizes to her. Love asks why he is sorry and all he says is “I’m yours and that’s it forever” (Brothers 1). Neil Hilborn, with his poem “OCD”, states that he meets a girl that loves every aspect of his OCD, and she helps him lessen some of his “tics.” More towards the end of the poem he states how she starts to get annoyed by the “tics” of his OCD. He expresses how she said this was a mistake, but he does not understand when he was “better” because of her. At the end of the poem, Hilborn states how he leaves his lights on and the door unlocked for her when it is something that truly bothers him. Using the rhetorical appeal of pathos, the Avett Brothers and Neil Hilborn both show love against hate.
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The pieces use imagery to help the listener see the picture that the artist is trying to convey. The Avett Brothers wrote, “Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door. Weary head hung down, eyes to the floor” (Brothers 1); to show how hate is miserable without love and realizes he misses and needs her in his life. In “OCD” Hilborn uses the repetition of “How she blows out candles—blows out candles…” (Hilborn 1); to show how he loved her and loved all of the little things she did. Like “OCD,” “The Ballad of Love and Hate” uses repetition towards the end to emphasize that hate comes back to love forever. These pieces both use excellent literary elements to convey pathos to the