Poetry Across Time - Relationships - In Paris with You
- Created by: Sofalof
- Created on: 31-10-12 11:12
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- In Paris with You
- 'rebound'
- Had a past bad relationship with someone else
- 'the mess I've been through'
- Had a past bad relationship with someone else
- 'sodding'
- Uses slang to reject traditional landmarks-not a normal love poem
- 'I'm maroonded'
- I'm isolated. He's making it rhyme to make it funny. Proper past tense is marooned
- 'talking wounded'
- Play on 'the 'walking wounded'
- He's been harmed by someone emotionally?
- 'all points south.'
- Sexual connotations
- 'I'm in Paris with you'
- Paris could be changed to love
- Is a metaphor for love
- Cliché of romantic Paris
- Someone who has just broken up, but is going into a new relationship
- Repetitive 'in Paris with you' helps focus ideas
- Written in 1st person. Allows reader to connect. Encourages empathy and sympathy
- 'Don't talk to me of love. Let's talk of Paris'
- He doesn't want to use the word love because he's been hurt when he's been in love. He's frightened of using the word 'love'
- Lines 14-19
- Realistic view of love
- Last stanza
- Optimistic about new relationship
- 3rd stanza
- Turning point in poem as in 1st part is resentful of the past and 2nd part is about hope for the future
- Semantic field of emotional pain
- 'rebound'
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