Love Is A Pain and A Treasure

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Love Is A Pain and A Treasure

• Allie D.
• Allie I.
• Block 1-4
• April 2, 2007

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Dorothy Parker

• Dorothy Parker
• Born in New Jersey on August 22, 1893
• Died in New York City on June 7, 1967

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Biography

• Revolutionized American thinking
• Worked on Vogue and Vanity Fair as editorial
• Wrote screenplays in 1930s

• Wrote Ladies of the Corridor (a play)
• Famous screenwriter for A Star is Born
• Most popular story Big Blonde

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Autumn Valentine

• In May my heart was breaking-
• Oh, wide the wound, and deep!
• And bitter it beat at waking,
• And sore it split in sleep.
• .

• And when it came November,
• I sought my heart, and sighed,
• "Poor thing, do you remember?
• "What heart was that?" it cried

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Love and Its Hardships
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Paraphrasing

• Subject- author going through a breakup
• Speaker- Dorothy Parker
• Audience- the listeners, the ones reading the
  poem
• Tone- sad in beginning, happy in end

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Analyzing

• Form- two stanzas
• Eight lines
• Every other line there is rhyme scheme
• Ex. lines 1 and 3- Breaking, waking
• Rhythm throughout poem
• Lines 2-4 have alliteration
• Ex. Line 2- Wide the Wound
• In line eight there is personification
• Ex. What heart was that? it cried
• Heart, breaking, May, November

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Responding

• Wondering what happened first
• Sad, depressed, happy at end
• Two happy people breakup
• Short, but says a lot
• Something people can relate to
• Description

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The Choice

• He'd have given me rolling lands,
• Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
• Pearls, to trickle between my hands,
• Smoldering rubies, to circle my arms.
• You- you'd only a lilting song,
• Only a melody, happy and high,
• You were sudden and swift and strong -Never a
  thought for another had I.

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The Choice (cont.)

• He'd have given me laces rare,
• Dresses that glimmered with frosty sheen,
  Shining ribbons to wrap my hair,
• Horses to draw me, as fine as a queen.
• You- you'd only to whistle low,
• Gaily I followed wherever you led.
• I took you, and I let him go-
• Somebody ought to examine my head!

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Choosing Love Over Money
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Paraphrasing

• Subject- two men love a woman, she takes poor guy
• Speaker- poet, Dorothy Parker
• Audience- the speaker (talking to herself)
• Tone- confused throughout poem

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Analyzing

• Two stanzas, with sixteen lines
• Has rhyme scheme (every other line)
• Alliteration in line seven
• Ex sudden, swift, and strong
• Personification in line six
• Ex Only a melody, happy and high,
• Hyperbole in line one
• Ex Hed have given me rolling lands.

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Responding

• First reaction-love story between girl, and two
  men
• Wondered if girl would fall in love with rich man
• Humorous with exaggerations
• Reminds me of Romeo and Juliet (love stories)
• Reminds me of Shakespeares writing (known for
  his love stories)

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Works Cited

• . PoemHunter.com. 9 April 2007. 9 April 2007
  lthttp//www.PoemHunter.com/gt.
• Kinney, Arthur . PoemHunter.com. 2002. 2 April
  2007 lthttp//www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dparker.htmgt.
• . Mima'amakim.org. 30 June 2005. 3 April 2007
  lthttp//www.mimaamakim.org/2005/06/dorothy-parker-
  cute-jewish.htmlgt.
• . Full Moon Images. 2005. 3 April 2007
  lthttp//www.fullmoonimages.co.uk/pages/ranges/hear
  ts.htmgt.