Poetry is a beautiful way of
expressing all different types of emotions. My favorite types of poems are
poems that express love. Love is a very strong emotion and many people struggle
to show the emotion of love. I choose two very powerful poems about love. The
first poem I chose is called “First Love” by Jennifer Franklin. The next poem I
chose was called “Old Photographs” by Gabeba Baderoon. These two poems describe
love in two different aspects. I choose the song “Photograph” by Ed Sheeran
because I think it clearly connects to the theme of both of these songs.
The poem “First Love” by Jennifer
Franklin is an emotional poem. It has the theme of love and being lost. In the
first stanza, you can tell the author feels empty without her first lover. She
states “The boy beside me is not you but he is familiar in all”(Lines 1-3).
This first stanza shows that the author is comparing her lover to the first one
she had. I think this line is relatable to readers because many people tend to
do that as well. She also talks about how everyone leaves her at the end. “And
every surrogate? Afflicted by my kindness they leave me with my music” (Lines
9-13). The author shows that every time somebody leaves her, she copes with the
loss by listening to music. The reader can also relate to this because we
always based the music that we listen to to the emotions we are feeling at that
moment. A couple of words to describe this poem would definitely be broken,
lost, hurt, and powerful.
The next poem I choose was “Old
Photographs” by Gabeba Baderoon. The theme in this poem is remembering the past
and love. The author of this poem is looking at old pictures of an old lover
and reminiscing the memory they had together. In the first stanza, the author
says “On my desk is a photograph of you taken by the women who loved you then”
(Lines 1-2). In these lines, you can comprehend that the author is broken and
she misses her old lover. This makes the reader feel bad for the author and
gives a sense of loss to the reader. She also interprets the photos that she
talks about in her poem. She talks about one particular photo. “Of all your old
photographs, I wanted this one for its becoming. I think you were starting to
turn your head a little, your eyes looking slightly to the side. Was this the
beginning of leaving” (Lines 13-18). In these lines, the author is thinking about
if her old lover was beginning to want to leave her. In these lines you can
tell that the author is broken and she wonders if that was the moment that
everything started to go wrong. This makes the reader feel bad for the author
and makes the audience feel the pain she felt when she looked at the
photograph. Some words to describe this poem is sorrow, pain, and brokenness.
In the Ed Sheeran song named
“Photograph”, he talks about how memories are kept in photographs. The theme in
this song is love and remembrance. The tone of this song is loving. In this
song, a lot of personification is used because Ed gives them characteristics
and a more human feel. “We keep this love in a photograph”(Line 5). He is
saying that as long as they have the photograph, then they will see the love
that is captured within the photograph. In the song, Ed says that in good and
bad times, love can make you feel happy. That’s why he keeps the photograph
with him all the time. “So you can keep me inside the pocket of your ripped jeans”(Lines
10-11). He is telling his lover to always keep the picture with them so they
can always remember the emotion within the picture. Some words to describe this
song is loving, calm, and remembrance.
The poems and the song are
connected because they all talk about an aspect of love. In “Photograph” and
the poem “Old Photograph” the two authors give the photos life and emotion.
They feel a certain type of emotion when they look at their different pictures.
Ed Sheeran keeps his photographs to keep his lover closer and Gabeba Baderoon
looks at her photographs and feels the emotion of brokeness and love. In the
poem “First Love”, Jennifer Franklin talks about being left alone with her
music after she has felt the emotion of being abandoned. This also related to
the Ed Sheeran song because in his song he talks about how if the lover leaves
him its ok because only words bleed. In both instances, they have something
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