Poem

  My Gift To You

  by Lonely Shadow

I live through my dark existence

only to bask in your beauty

your eyes that shine like sapphires

your smile that brightens even my sad existence

I envy the wind that runs through your hair

that touches your lips

I long to touch you

to hold you in my arms but I cannot

for your heart belongs to another

so, I can only love you from afar

your friendship means more to me

than anything this world provides

but like an angel you touched my heart

in a way that I've never felt before

cause I've never known what love is until this day

I know that we are only friends

but my heart wishes it to be more

so I will still hope and dream

that one day I can feel your lips pressed to mine

to hold you in my arms and say, "I love you"

About  The Poetry “My Gift To You”

            Love can not be forced by everyone. Sometimes we do not love someone who love us very much. We regard he or she as a friend only, But he or She wish it to be more. Based on this statement The poetry “My Gift To You” was made. This made by lonely shadow as the Author for her friend. Actually her friend prefer that she to be a friend only than a girlfriend. It means he like friendship best. Even though she behaves  that they love each other. And the interesting one is She feel like usual thing that felt by everyone who fall in love. For example worried, Envy, confused, miss, Etc. This because He give a special way that She never felt before. It's hard to define what love is, according to Lonely Shadow in her beautiful poetry.

Figurative Language

            A poetry will a good poetry if it has many figurative languages. This makes the reader encourage to look for the deep meaning in it. And observe the quality of that poetry. Like the other author, lonely shadow improves her poetry with figurative language too. There are Personification, Metaphor, Hyperbole, and the last one is Anthropomorphism. We will discuss about this to be clear.

û  Personification is showing or thinking an object, quality, etc as a person. The sentence at the third lines included personification “ Your Eyes That Shine like sapphires “ This sentence show that Sapphires like human eyes especially girl eyes. 

û  Anthropomorphism is the giving of human attributes to abstract conceptions, especially in reference to divinity; example, the imaging of a god in the familiar shape of a human being in visual arts, in the mind, etc.  in this poetry appear in the sentence “ I envy the wind that runs trough your hair “ for this part we have to Focus at the word “Wind that runs” the wind is not runs, but it blow. Run is done by Person. So, the wind is considered as person.

û  Hyperbole is a deliberate overstatement not intended to be taken literally; it is used as a means of emphasizing truth of a statement. In the poem this appear in the sentence “your friendship means more to me than anything this world provides” and the second  “but like an Angel you touched my heart” The last at the forth lines “your smile that brightens even my sad existence.

Sound Pattern In Poetry

v  Rhyme

Rhyme is the repetition of similar sound in the two or more words. There are three point of rhyme.

1.      Alliteration is the repetition of initial sound in two or more word but the words have to be close to another one.

Lines 7   :  To touch

Lines 12 :  Means More

Lines 14 : An angel

2.      Assonance is the repetition of vowel sound within words in a nearby word, But the surrounding consonants are different.

Lines 5  : through your

Lines 12: Anything this

Lines 14: Never felt

Lines 15: Until This

Lines 18: Will Still

3.      End Rhyme is the repetition of the ending sound in two or more lines

In the poem “ My Gift To you “ There is no an end Rhyme.

 WHAT THING IS LOVE

      by Robert Pinsky

What thing is love? for sure love is a thing.

It is a prick, it is a sting, 

It is a pretty, pretty thing;

It is a fire, it is a coal,

Whose flame creeps in at every hole;

And as my wit doth best devise,

Love's dwelling is in ladies' eyes,

From whence do glance love's piercing darts,

That make such holes into our hearts;

And all the world herein accord,

Love is a great and mighty lord;

And when he list to mount so high,

With Venus he in heaven doth lie,

And evermore hath been a god,

Since Mars and she played even and odd.

About The poetry “What Thing Is Love”

Everyone has different meaning about love. Some say love is a pretty thing. But some say it is a Prick. Love gave by mighty lord to everyone. Did you ever have a question What is love exactly? According to Pinsky this Question encourage him to make a good poetry. He created it by observe the fact of valentine day. Why Should be there valentine day? Why many people celebrate valentine day?  Is love day really important to us? How important is It? In this Poetry Robert Pinsky said that love need accord between the lover. Love from whence do glance love's piercing darts. Loves can dwell in ladies eyes. This really romantic poetry. 

Figurative Language

As we know The definition of Figurative language was explained above. So in this case we are going to discuss about it in the poem “What thing is love”.

Ø  Hyperbole

We can find in many lines of this poem about hyperbole. Such as:

Lines Four  : it is a Fire it is a coal

Lines Nine  : That make such holes into our hearts

Lines twelve: And when he list to mount so high

 Sound Pattern In Poetry

            Sound Pattern in Help us to understand the poem. So, let’s discuss about it.

a.       Alliteration

Lines 2  : it is

Lines 3  : it is

Lines 4  : it is

Lines 6  : And as

Lines 7  ; is in

b.      Assonance

Lines 3  : pretty Thing

c.       end Rhyme

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