In my section of the anthology I chose two poems that I had known and loved since my middle school years, 10 Things I Hate About You from the 1999 movie, and Annabel Lee by Edger Allan Poe. Rounding out my set of three was a newer find of mine, A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns. I chose the first two poems for the lasting impact that they have had on my life as a young adult, and the last because of how it affected me towards the end of my young adult years. Fitting in the larger theme of love, each of these poems respectively are charged with enough emotion to make them borderline melodramatic, which is why I selected them to represent love poetry in this young adult anthology. What is interesting about my set is that only one is actually marketed towards young adults. What makes the 10 Things I Hate About You poem so impactful is is captured the emotion and hormone changed reality that is middle school and high school. This is the most simplistic of the …show more content…
At this point I had been exposed and schooled over what constituted “good and correct” poetry and had limited myself to old works to try and seem more grown up. What I liked about this poem is that it still had the beautiful longing tone that I had enjoyed in Annabel Lee, praising beauty and everlasting love, which is something any young adult desires to feel. This poem fit inside the guidelines of proper poetry and still did not bore me, which is why I liked it so much. Repetition reassures the reader of the speakers devotion, and promises a happy future. The imagery is so beautiful and pastoral, and lends to the imagination of running across perfect fields with the person you had a crush on. It is also quite lyrical and reads as if is full of life instead of just words on a page. This poem is nice because it is a guilt free way to enjoy classic poetry, while still appealing emotionally to young adult
This essay is anchored on the goal of looking closer and scrutinizing the said poem. It is divided into subheadings for the discussion of the analysis of each of the poem’s stanzas.
The poem is a combination of beauty and poignancy. It is a discovery in a trajectory path of rise and fall of human values and modernity. She is a sole traveler, a traveler apart in a literary romp afresh, tracing the thinning line of time and action.
The speaker’s rocky encounter with her ex-lover is captured through personification, diction, and tone. Overall, the poem recaps the inner conflicts that the speak endures while speaking to her ex-lover. She ponders through stages of the past and present. Memories of how they were together and the present and how she feels about him. Never once did she broadcast her emotions towards him, demonstrating the strong facade on the outside, but the crumbling structure on the inside.
The poem is gentle and nostalgic. It seeks not only to recreate the scene for the reader, but
She gets to the point and proves that in our current world we tend to say more than we should, when just a couple of words can do the same. In her writing, it is evident that the little sentences and words are what make the poem overall that perfect dream she wishes she were part of.
Anne Stevenson created a tragically beautiful scene by comparing a home to a relationship. Her use of metaphors and tone is striking to the sense of emotion, however that emotion fades easily when the poem is picked apart for what it really is. The reader is
The poem opened up with a fairy tale line and right off the bat you had the idea that it was going to be about the narrator sharing his love. Not to mention, it was a poem of rhyming to help make the reader feel a type of way. This poem was written after the death of his beloved wife, Virginia Clemm (the woman who married him at the age of thirteen) so it is most likely based off of her and the love that he had for her. Love is the main theme in the poem and the love that Annabel Lee and the narrator shared starting in their childhood. In the poem, Poe demonstrates that even after Annabel’s death that their love was too strong to be destroyed by the angels or demons. Just about everything that he sees reminds him of Annabel, the stars, moon and he lies by her tomb at night by the sea. Loving her wasn’t complicated at all for him, even when he was known to struggle with relationships throughout his whole life. Even though she is dead, he makes us believe that he can still see her bright eyes and that they will soon meet again in the future. The one line that caught my eye the most about their love is this, “But our love it was stronger by far than the love of those who were older than we—“ (Poe). Their love was said to be so strong that even the older and wiser people couldn’t understand the strength of their love. The main purpose of this poem was to show all of the outsiders that there was nothing that could ever come in-between their love, no matter if she was dead or alive. Their souls will forever be united until the day that they will meet
10 Things I Hate About You takes William Shakespeare’s classic play, The Taming of the Shrew and manages to make it relevant to a modern audience. The story remains the same with the younger sister, Bianca, not allowed to have a relationship until her older sister, Kat, does. They did maintain several original scenes and even used several direct quotes from the original play. The writers have eliminated some of Bianca’s suitors and changed the way Kat is tamed to appeal to a modern audience. Shakespeare would have agreed with the casting of the movie. This movie may turn Shakespeare’s work into a teen comedy but it maintains many of the elements that made the play such a hit.
Edgar Allan Poe's life can be summed up in just a few words: death, love, loss, sorrow, and mystery. What better way to express this than through a poem? Poe did exactly this in "Annabel Lee," made famous by its smooth flow and rhyme. The poem details a relationship between two young lovers. Annabel Lee, is killed by the envious high angels of heaven in order to destroy the love between herself and the narrator. However, this setback was evidently minor because their love still existed, and even thoug...
His poetry is written in a natural language that speaks to and demonstrates common human emotions; called forth by readers' experiences in nature. He explains how nature has never betrayed his heart, and that is why he has lived a life full of joy. Therefore, he wishes her sister to indulge in the nature and be a part of it. That way, she will be able to enjoy and understand life and conquer the displeasure of living in a cruel human society.
Relationships between two people can have a strong bond and through poetry can have an everlasting life. The relationship can be between a mother and a child, a man and a woman, or of one person reaching out to their love. No matter what kind of relationship there is, the bond between the two people is shown through literary devices to enhance the romantic impression upon the reader. Through Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham,” Ben Jonson’s “To Celia,” and William Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” relationships are viewed as a powerful bond, an everlasting love, and even a romantic hymn.
In the film Ten Things I Hate About You (1999), there are two sisters, Kat and Bianca, who begin as polar opposites. However, as the film continues, the sisters begin to change, and begin to become more and more alike. At the end of the film, they have much more in common and are very different than they were at the beginning of the film. This is most evident by comparing the first couple scenes that we see each girl and the last couple scenes that we see each girl. Kat and Bianca become more alike as the film progresses, and this is shown through many film aspects including the cinematography, mise-en-scene, and the editing of the film.
Authors use poetry to creatively present attitudes and opinions. “A Man’s Requirements,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” are two poems with distinct attitudes about love that contain different literary approaches. In both of the poems, love is addressed from a different perspective, producing the difference in expectation and presentation, but both suggest the women are subservient in the relationships.
The strange thing is that Edgar Allan Poe really did die the same year that he wrote this poem. Some say that he knew he was going to die so he wrote this so people would know his love for his wife. It also doesn't help that Poe leaves us with one last haunting phrase, “the sounding sea,” which makes us think of the booming roar of the ocean, suddenly terrifying and cold. In conclusion a kingdom near the sea lived Annabel Lee who love the speaker. Annabel dies and the speaker is reminded of her by everything. He lies by her tomb which is near the sea. The use of form emphasize the meaning of the poem. It would be another boring poem if it didn't have the literaly elements. One needs to analyze the poem for their self to understand it. The poem is not hard to understand if you are interested. This poem would be a 8 out of 10 for myself.
Love by definition is “an intense feeling of deep affection” (Webster’s Dictionary). In “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns, the use of imagery, similes, metaphors, and even hyperboles (extreme exaggeration) conveys this message to the readers. Burns, a Scottish decadent, uses his countries dialect and an upbeat iambic meter to show his happiness for his newfound love. Although some critics of “A Red, Red Rose” prefer to believe that Burns wrote the poem on his deathbed, the reference to the newness and giddiness he feels send a message of endless possibilities for his love. Several examples throughout the poem will support the theory, that Burns is not dying, but actually just starting to live a new and exciting life.