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But You Didn't by Merrill Glass and My Mistress by William Shakespeare
Both poets are writing about their lovers but wrote them for different
reasons. Shakespeare wrote the poem for other poets of his time, to
make fun of the comparisons they used in their poems, which he thought
was "false compare" which "belied" the ladies being described.
Merrill Glass wrote her poem to help her to get over the death of her
lover. She writes as if she is talking to him but at the end she says
"And there are so many things
I wanted to tell you when you
Returned from Vietnam…
But you didn't,"
The words in each poem show that they were written in different
centuries. Shakespeare uses "hath" which is how have would have been
written in the seventeenth century while Glass refers to "Vietnam,"
meaning the Vietnam war, which means that the poem must have been
written in the last thirty years.
Both poets use conversational words. For example Glass uses the word
"You" as if she was talking to her boyfriend directly. "Remember the
time you lent me your car and I dented it?"
In the final couplet Shakespeare says " And yet, by heaven," as if he
was talking to the other poets.
The poets use different structures because they were written for
different reasons. Merrill Glass is writing as she is thinking because
she uses enjambment where one line runs into another, as if she is
trying to work things out by writing the poem. The verses are quite
unstructured. The first verse has four lines; the second has five, the
third six and the fourth seven lines. She used this structure because
as I said before she is writing as she is thinkin...
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... the poem "But You Didn't", I felt the girl was
always doing things to the boy, and that he never retaliated. I guess
it was because he loved her and I suspected that the girl did not
realise this until it was too late. Although I feel the boy should
have shown his true feelings towards the girl and told her that he did
indeed love her. I never expected the poem to end in the way it did;
it shocked me because it was abrupt and final. This ending saddened me
and it took me a minute to two to realise that he had died.
If I had to pick a favourite poem, I would choose " But You Didn't",
by Merrill Glass as she made one have feeling for her work by talking
through her emotions in this way. She certainly got a reaction from
me, because she expressed emotion and feeling and it takes a lot of
guts and confidence to do this.
This poem reflects on how when you lose someone you truly care about it affects you mentally. When we lose someone who we're really close to, we tend to hold a grudge and start questioning our love for the world. We lose ourselves when we
the poem is that all she wants is some happiness and to be able to
This line was very unexpected and this line makes the poem what it is. The poem transition from a love poem to a darker more painful story. The tone of the poem also shifts to a more eerie tone. Another thing about the third stanza is that at this moment in the poem, I can connect the poem to the Greek mythological story of Persephone and Hades. The allusion sets up the rest of the poem and gives the poem a lot more meaning.
She is talking about a man that does not do anything for her, but always wants her to take
In romantic words, the poet expresses how much she does think of love. She state it clear that she will not trade love for peace in times of anguish.
to the powerful imagery she weaves throughout the first half of the poem. In addition, Olds
I have elected to analyze seven poems spoken by a child to its parent. Despite a wide variety of sentiments, all share one theme: the deep and complicated love between child and parent.
In the fair city of Verona, two rival families, the Montagues and Capulets were involved in a nasty family feud that goes back years before any of the members were born. Even the townspeople were involved in the dispute, because the families were always fighting in the streets and causing disturbances. They disrupted the streets of Verona and even Prince Escalus tried to break up the fighting. They were given a warning, by him that another public fight would result in death. While this was occurring, Romeo, (a Montague) the main character, was getting over his last love, Rosaline, and was very upset. Juliet of the Capulet household had just been introduced to a wealthy young man, Paris, whom her parents wished her to marry. Yet she did not love him. Romeo goes to a party in an effort to forget about Rosaline. At this party he met Juliet, and immediately fell in love with her. He later finds out that she is a Capulet, the rival family of the Montagues. He decides that he loves her anyway and they confess their love for each other during the very famous "balcony scene" in which they agreed to secretly marry the next day. Friar Lawrence agreed to marry them in an effort to end the feuding between the families. Unfortunately, the fighting gets worse and Mercutio (Montague) a good friend of Romeo ends up in a fight with Tybalt (Capulet), Juliet's cousin. Tybalt killed Mercutio, which caused Romeo to kill Tybalt in an angry rage. For this, Romeo is banished from Verona. At the same time, the Capulet's were planning Juliet's marriage to Paris. Juliet didn't want to marry this man so she arranges with Friar Lawrence to fake her own death with a sleeping potion that would make everyone think that she was dead. Friar Lawrence promised to send word to Romeo to meet her when the potion wears off and to rescue her to Mantua, where Romeo was currently staying. There they would live happily ever after. Unfortunately, Romeo didn't receive the message on time and upon hearing of her "death" went to Juliet's tomb where he drinks poison and dies. When Juliet's potion wears off, she wakes to find her lover's dead corpse. She then proceeds to stab herself with Romeo's dagger. The two families find the bodies and with their shared sorrow, finally make peace with each other.
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goes on to 'so', and dedicates the last part of the poem to tell her
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