English Literature - Poem 3 - In Paris With You (James Fenton)

Poem 3 - In Paris With You (James Fenton)

Background information about author James Fenton:

• he is fasinated by different cultures
• his more personal poems of love and regret hover between irony and romance
• poet adds war conetations into the love poem (for example, 'I'm a hostage' = writer feels trapped, he cannot get out of his position, inescapable)

Paris = related with love and romance

It is a romantic poem about a loving relationship including war conetations

Themes of the poem:

• saver the moment
• It is all about the present therefore enjoy the present
• Being together is more important

Quotes:

'Don't' = it is a repeated, negative compound = he is a very…