1. love Song
By Dorothy Parker

2. Love song My own dear love, he is strong and bold
And he cares not what comes after
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold,
And his eyes are lit with laughter
He is jubilant as a flag unfurled-
Oh, a girl, she’d not forget him.
My own dear love, he is all my world-
And I wish I’d never met him.
My love, he’s mad, and my love he’s fleet,
And a wild young wood-thing bore him!
The ways are fair to his roaming feet,
As the fragrance of acacia.
My own dear love, he is all my dreams,-
And I wish he were in Asia.
My love runs by like a day in June,
And he makes no friends of sorrows.
He’ll tread his galloping rigadoon
In the pathway of the morrows.
He’ll live his days where the sunbeams start,
Nor could storm or wind uproot him.
My own dear love, he is all my heart,-
And I wish somebody’d shoot him.

3. Life of Dorothy parker
Born on August 22, 1893 in Long Branch, NJ. Her mother died when she was five years old and, she hated her father and step mother which caused her childhood to be miserable. Her writing career started when she worked as an editorial assistant for Vogue Magazine. By her thirties, she’d already written a few short stories and poems. Dorothy was also working as a critic at the time. She was divorced three times. When she married her first husband, she was making about $5,000 a week for their films. When her third husband died from a drug overdose, she suffered with depression and later died by a heart attack. In her lifetimes she’s won two Oscars for Best Writing Original Story and Best Writing Original Screenplay.

4. Poetic and Literary elements
My own dear love, he is strong and bold A
And he cares not what comes after B
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, A
And his eyes are lit with laughter B
He is jubilant as a flag unfurled C
Oh, a girl, she’d not forget him D
My own dear love, he is all my world, E
And I wish I’d never met him D
End Rhyme: The end rhyme is used throughout the poem to show it’s a lyric poem, which expressed the thoughts and emotions of the speaker.
Simile: The simile in this poem is used to show how the boy can put anyone in a good mood by just talking to him.
Imagery: The imagery is used in the poem to get a picture of what the boy she’s in love with is like and how she and everyone else feels about him.
Repetition: The repetition of this poem is “My own dear love” which the speaker wants you to have an understanding of who she’s telling her feelings about.

5. Imagery “As the fragrance of acacia” “He is all my dreams”
“And the skies are sunlit for him”
“His eyes are lit with laughter”

6. Poem structure and speaker
The form/structure of this poem is lyric. Throughout this whole poem, the speaker is expressing the feelings she has for this boy which makes it a lyric poem.
The speaker of this poem is a girl who is too in love with this boy who doesn’t feel the same back. The speaker uses similes, metaphors and, alliteration to show how much she loves him but wishes she wasn’t.

7. The meaning of this poem is…
I believe that this poem shows the jealousy that the woman has of her lover. She loves him like crazy but he is too perfect and she tends to feel like he is way better than her. Also, she does not speak of the love that he has for her, therefore meaning that he either might not like her back or she is writing in the perspective that he believes in caring for himself above others and her.
The author’s purpose and meaning is the perception versus the realities of love. For line six, “Oh, a girl, she’d not forget him” means that a girl who really gets to know the boy and he’ll lead her on and even if he cuts her off, she’ll still be attached to him and won’t be able to get over him. In line 19 and 20, “He’ll tread his galloping rigadoon in the pathway of the morrows” meaning that everywhere he goes, he’ll be remembered and won’t be able to get out of people’s thoughts. It also addresses the stereotypes about love and women. Women can feel trapped by and intolerant of their lovers.
The overall meaning of this poem is that life is not fair and, things happen even if you don’t want it to. For an example, the speaker is madly in love with the boy that she wishes didn’t but, she can’t help it.

8. Documentation www.imdb.com http://www.poetryoutloud.org/