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Analysis and comments on To Be In Love by Gwendolyn Brooks

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
Comment 3 of 6, added on August 24th, 2005 at 6:12 AM.

They are beautiful!!

Sajeh from Iran
Comment 2 of 6, added on April 26th, 2005 at 2:00 PM.

This poem is great. it expresses some of the fellings that I have felt in
love. It really spoke to me.

toni from United States
Comment 1 of 6, added on April 26th, 2005 at 9:54 AM.

i really like this poem but you should put what poetic devices it uses.
thank you
mindi

mindi from United States



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Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks
Poem: To Be In Love
Added: Feb 27 2003
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