Love Poems

The poems about love seem to be the stereotype of poems. Usually clichéd and over the top, filled with metaphors and sometimes seem old (either time period or writer).  I think some of the poems we read fit this stereotype while others don’t. The Shakespeare poem started us off well with the metaphor of “the star to every wandering bark.” It was probably the hardest poem to read just because of its old style however it was still one of the more interesting poems. The next poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband is the kind of cliché, lovey-dovey kind of poem I think of when I hear ‘love poem.’ It has the metaphors, it seems obsessive and says the love will last forever. This type of poem reminds me of a young girl’s first boyfriend.

In Creve Coeur, Missouri

From the reading, How to Write about Poems, the poem, In Creve Coeur, Missouri by Rosanna Warren, gained my interest. It combines imagery with the story telling of a split second in time. The line breaks in the poem work very well. An example of this is in the fifth stanza, second line which reads, “Tell us that she will stand / again, quarrel and misbehave.” This line break allows Warren to rhyme hand with stand and still continue with her explanation. A final aspect of the poem I enjoyed was the ending. As I was reading I thought that the girl would end up living. The twist in the end of the picture winning a prize but the little girl not making it both brings closure to the poem but also keeps the sad theme that came out. One aspect of the poem I didn’t understand was the rhyme scheme. In the beginning of the poem it seemed to have an ABBA pattern but that isn’t the case.