Homosexuality In The Ocean

Following his opinions on society’s perception of homosexuality Ocean explains how his feeling came about. He first addresses his loved ones, fans, and supporters thanking them for keeping his secret safe. Then Ocean explains how he spent the past summers with a good friend of his often sharing the same bed as him and there friendship grew intimate but not sexual. The Ocean opens up with “By the time I realized I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless. There was no escaping, no negotiating with the feeling. No choice. It was my first love,” (Ocean, 2). Ocean is realizing here that he can no longer deny this odd feeling he had for his friend he can not help but admit he has fallen in love. Then Frank explains how he remembers listening

Ocean was involved with a man who had a girlfriend plus this man according to Frank would deny any feelings he had for Ocean. The music Frank listened to before was “in a language I did not yet speak” the reason being was that they were composed by artist who were certain of their sexuality. Frank clarifies that writing music is his own method of finding a language that he can relate to. He ends his story with “Now imagine being thrown from a cliff. No, I wasn’t on a cliff.” (Ocean, 2). The similarity of his emotions to being on an cliff could be the comparison to show how love can make us feel free, drifting in the air yet being at such a high altitude can make us feel helpless and plummeting from such a height is the harshest pain. The use of pathos in this story is very effective due to the fact that he is showing how even though he and his partner shared many moments in a moment of privacy and confession his friend was still too afraid to admit to the feelings he might have had for Frank. Frank Ocean uses analogies and true feelings to show that even the strongest emotion love could not break the man’s fear of how he would be seen by not only his girlfriend but also society around