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Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks
Poem: To Be In Love
Comment 6 of 6, added on March 19th, 2008 at 12:20 AM.
This poem is about how being in love is a beautiful thing; you are feeling great and soothed.
It's about how deep in love she's feeling but something is not going to well.
You see things in his perspective- what you get is what you see and you notice that he notices it too.
You are apart but still together.
It is devastating now and you can't bear to look into his eyes.
They break up (When he Shuts a door- Is not there) and she can't take it, she "cannot look into his eyes"
"And you are free with a ghastly freedom. You are the beautiful half of a golden hurt"
That makes sure that the reader knows that she just experienced a brutal break up. She feels as if what was once beautiful (love) is now harming her.
she misses him and she wants to be in denial about it, because "to declare is certain death"
Must not admit to this pain because it will be the cause of her death (may not be literal - not in my opinion)
The value of love is lost into "the commonest ash"
Now it is nothing.
Beautiful.
Melissa from Chile
Comment 5 of 6, added on February 15th, 2007 at 10:39 AM.
I have to do a project on Gwendolyn Brooks and this poem is BEAUTIFUL! I absolutly love it. To me, this poem means, that to be in love you are a nicer person. That you can see another perspective through his eyes, and you can understand what they are feeling. You change for him without changing your point of views. You know what things look like to you, but you also know what things look like to him. It means that you two do things together and have the same feelings. And when you two do things together, you get excited and you act differently. When he does something, the thing is not there any longer, it is something new. You get nervous and feel differently inside. You feel as though nothing can hold you back. Together, you are one, but apart, you are half of what you should be. You are not whole. You always remember to do something little that makes all the difference to you and him. And when something is new, you think about belonging to each other, dieing. BEAUTIFUL!
Megan from United States
Comment 4 of 6, added on March 2nd, 2006 at 4:07 PM.
I loved this absolutly beautiful poem. I'm only 11 years old and even I can fell a deep connection with it.(and for those wondering, yes I DO understand it)
marina
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This poem is about how being in love is a beautiful thing; you are feeling great and soothed.
It's about how deep in love she's feeling but something is not going to well.
You see things in his perspective- what you get is what you see and you notice that he notices it too.
You are apart but still together.
It is devastating now and you can't bear to look into his eyes.
They break up (When he Shuts a door- Is not there) and she can't take it, she "cannot look into his eyes"
"And you are free with a ghastly freedom. You are the beautiful half of a golden hurt"
That makes sure that the reader knows that she just experienced a brutal break up. She feels as if what was once beautiful (love) is now harming her.
she misses him and she wants to be in denial about it, because "to declare is certain death"
Must not admit to this pain because it will be the cause of her death (may not be literal - not in my opinion)
The value of love is lost into "the commonest ash"
Now it is nothing.
Beautiful.
Melissa from Chile