"The Telephone"
The tone of this poem is just a little bit hopeful. From the first stanza "when I was as far as I could walk from here today" it sounds like the speaker is leaving, but then they find a flower. The flower gives the speaker an excuse to go back to where he came from, because he says he heard "someone said come". This is exactly what the speaker wanted because they didn't want to leave in the first place.
"Love in Brooklyn"
Fielding- I can't find this poem
"The Flea"
Most people kill bugs. They are pests, but the tone in this poem suggests something else. The speaker is envious of the flea because it has done something that he wants to do. He wants to join his life (his blood) with the woman's. Most of us would think nothing of killing a flea, but the speaker of this poem feels that it is three sins, not only killing the bug, but him and the woman too.
Romantic
15 years ago
1 comment:
Elise,
Congrats on being the first, and right now, only person to finish this assignment. Okay, revisit the poems. Both these man want something and I'd argue there is something devious in their tone. Try and figure it out.
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