“ Love is the best and worst feeling you will ever have in your lifetime and the next.” This quote was written by Dessert,in which he or she explains how greatly influential love is. However, with all love comes heartbreak. This is why Dessert describes love to also be the worst feeling. When heartbreak comes it’s hard to accept and move pass. Many explain getting over heartbreak as their heart telling them one thing, but their mind is telling them another. However, sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows. In Hugo Williams’ poem, Please Come Late” he portrays how the mind and heart go back and forth on the speaker’s (referred to from here on as a female) decision to move on from their past lover. While her heart tells her to stay, her mind urges her to move on. Through Williams’ poem, readers see how the speaker struggles through heartbreak as she chooses between listening to her head or heart. The title is where the first contrast between the mind and heart is shown. By Williams calling the poem Please Come Late the readers see how the heart is represented in her wanting the person to come by the word “Please”, but also the mind’s role in the fact that she also wants them to “Come Late.” Beginning with the woman in a coffee shop, waiting for her past lover, in the first four lines …show more content…
She convinces herself that it’s time to move on, saying, “ I’d rather be on my own.” She realizes that being on her own is better than constantly being hurt by this person. As the poem continues the speaker comes to realization that her past love affair is over, saying, “I know it’s all over between us” (line 24). But,even though she feels that their relationship is over she still sits, “ reading a newspaper, not understanding a word” (lines 26-27). She doesn’t understand anything that she is reading because she feels overwhelmed with the thoughts and heartaches of her
The poem explains her hardships. Reading poetry is different from reading prose because you really have to dig deeper and study harder. A poem is not always straight forward like many other writings. You have to use context clues and understand imagery, tone, and sense. Summarizing a poem becomes difficult if you do not re-read several times. I learned that figurative language and lifestyle really tells a great story. Language especially helps you understand what is going on between the lines. Overall, family is always there at the end of the day. Sometimes situations get tough, but there is always a light at the end of the
Throughout the poem, the speaker is trying to alleviate the “Bitch” from within by persuading herself that the man no longer poses a threat, but as the memories come rushing back to her, it becomes more challenging. She starts reminiscing about her past relationship in lines 19-27. The dog is no...
Williams uses dry and subtle words such as “car”, “coffee”, or even plain “water” to create this powerful and foreboding poem which is interpreted pessimistically after getting past the tedious words. Its implicit meaning can be hard to grasp because it is deeply embedded into the poem and also implies the opposite of what we are taught as humans; we grow up with plans, goals, desires too, and Williams opens the reader’s eyes to explain the pointlessness of it all. Williams writes this poem knowing he will contradict everything people learn to do starting from a young age. In spite of this, it may inspire readers to stop worrying about the small things and focus on the grand scheme, maybe get them “wanting to love beyond this meat and bone,” despite its adverse meaning (21). Ultimately, the author subduedly goes against the ideal rules of life and allows the reader to interpret it however they want- either explicitly understand that it is normal for humans to want thing, not want things, and be wanted, or implicitly understand that there is no point in investing in our desires, for when we die, our goals- both the finished and unfinished- will not matter in the
This poem simply explains Lorena’s true feelings towards the situation. How by her taking action she becomes free of the being under the control and mistreatment of her husband.
The poem starts out with the daughter 's visit to her father and demand for money; an old memory is haunting the daughter. feeding off her anger. The daughter calls the father "a ghost [who] stood in [her] dreams," indicating that he is dead and she is now reliving an unpleasant childhood memory as she stands in front of his
The poem's speaker mistreated,gloomy and being isolated. She is a person who loss and assimilation if not loose your self. “That this
She is saying that whatever is about to come is already hopeless. It’s almost like she’s giving up before it even begins. She is comparing this third event to the other two events that have happened in her life. She claims to be immortal, however she mentions heaven and hell in the second stanza saying “Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.” Immortal means that you don’t believe in heaven or hell so she is somewhat contradicting herself here. She’s comparing heaven and hell to her life on earth stating that parting ways is really all she knows. Due to her not knowing of anything or anybody that has stuck along for a long enough in her life without disappointing her, she is saying that the heartbreak she is experiencing is the worst that it can get for her and she doesn’t need to experience anything worse in hell. As hell is supposed to be even
As the tone changes the perspective of the reader changes as well. There is no clear way to determine whether the speaker is responding to her situation with the appropriate amount of madness or is actually going mad and escaping into her own mind. Plath’s poem shows how a woman 's happiness was defined by her relationship to a man, which is enough to infuriate or drive any woman insane. The speaker struggles to continue her very existence because of her lost love. It is true that the speaker is very emotional and feels things very deeply, but that is not enough to prove that she had lost her mind. By the end of the poem the speaker seems to realize that she is wasting her time waiting on a man. She would rather have a present love that is completely unfathomable than a real love that is not around. The repetition in this poem makes the reader believe this loss is actually causing the speaker to lose her mind, but through changing tones that mirror the emotions anyone would go through in a situation of loss like this the speaker’s response is completely
the poem is that all she wants is some happiness and to be able to
When reading the title, we often associate a love song as something jaunty, pleasureable, and celebrating, or its other extreme, regretting, nostalgic, and full of pity for the singer’s troubles in love. With Williams the singer, the main idea revolves around the concept of an incomplete union in first person point of view, which makes the reading more personal as the reader is using I instead you or he. From this concept stem the ideas that this poem is about hopelessness or happiness, communal sex or masturbation. Delving into history, literary techniques, association with the author, and own opinion of it, there is easily more to it than meets the eye.
The narrator shows she has lost hope of his return in all three quatrains. In the first quatrain, she says “They took my lover’s tallness off to war, / Left me lamenting” (Brooks 2-3) which is her saying she is left there mourning after her husband left and “Now I cannot guess / What can I use an empty heart-cup for.” (3-4). She is saying that now that he is gone her heart is useless because it is empty and by using the metaphor comparing her heart to a cup, it uses imagery to make it easier for the reader to picture an empty heart. Then, she starts off
After being hurt the person should bounce bad slowly or quickly, coming back is the good part. The author said," Then you can write your name / Claiming me... Until the sun shines," (14-20). These quotes are from the last stanza in the poem. I feel that this shows the coming back part of the persevering and finding real love. The last part of the quote is the best part of the poem, it makes the poem complete and it is amazing.
She only allows her to see her worth in having a clean home and a satisfied man. She never once tells the girl to follow her dreams or even talk about what they are. The mother only keeps on instructing her on even the simplest things like smiling : “...this is how you smile to someone you don 't like too much;this is how you smile at someone you don 't like at all;this is how you smile to someone you like completely...” this poem is filled with the phrases “this is how”. “ don’t do this”, and “ be sure to..” the speaker does not even give the girl a chance to speak her mind or form her own thoughts. The young girl was only able to get one sentence out the whole poem : “...but what if the baker won 't let me feel the bread?”
The poem is set out like an appeal, a cry for help. The title itself,