1. By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox Alyssa Rivera
Friendship After Love
By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Alyssa Rivera

2. Friendship After Love By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
After the Disaster By Abigail Deutsch
New York City, 2001
One night, not long after the disaster,
as our train was passing Astor,
the car door opened with a shudder
and a girl came flying down the aisle,
hair that looked to be all feathers
and a half-moon smile
making open air of our small car.
The crowd ignored her or they muttered
“Hey, excuse me” as they passed her
when the train had paused at Rector.
The specter crowed “Excuse me,” swiftly
turned, and ran back up the corridor,
then stopped for me.
We dove under the river.
She took my head between her fingers,
squeezing till the birds began to stir.
And then from out my eyes and ears
a flock came forth — I couldn’t think or hear
or breathe or see within that feather-world
so silently I thanked her.
Such things were common after the disaster.
Friendship After Love By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
After the fierce midsummer all ablaze
    Has burned itself to ashes, and expires
    In the intensity of its own fires,
There come the mellow, mild, St. Martin days
Crowned with the calm of peace, but sad with haze.
    So after Love has led us, till he tires
    Of his own throes, and torments, and desires,
Comes large-eyed friendship: with a restful gaze,
He beckons us to follow, and across
    Cool verdant vales we wander free from care.
    Is it a touch of frost lies in the air?
Why are we haunted with a sense of loss?
We do not wish the pain back, or the heat;
And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete.

3. Biographical information
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Biographical information
She once saw a women crying and it made her so depressed causing her to write the poem solitude
Married Robert Wilcox, 1884
They had one child, a son, who died shortly after birth
Her husband Robert died in 1916
They promised that when one of them died they would return and communicate with the other
After thirty years of marriage. She was overcome with grief when she did not hear anything from Robert hi

4. Wilcox uses a single stanza and 14 lines for this poem .
Structure of the poem
Wilcox uses a single stanza and 14 lines for this poem .
She has a definite rhyme scheme; lines are grouped into 5 rhyming pairs.
This rhyme scheme creates a lyric quality to the poem that moves the reader slower to the end of the poem.
Friendship After Love By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
After the fierce midsummer all ablaze
    Has burned itself to ashes, and expires
    In the intensity of its own fires,
There come the mellow, mild, St. Martin days
Crowned with the calm of peace, but sad with haze.
    So after Love has led us, till he tires
    Of his own throes, and torments, and desires,
Comes large-eyed friendship: with a restful gaze,
He beckons us to follow, and across
    Cool verdant vales we wander free from care.
    Is it a touch of frost lies in the air?
Why are we haunted with a sense of loss?
We do not wish the pain back, or the heat;
And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete.

5. speaker of the poem
The speaker of the poem seems to be a women going through a heartbreak.
She is heartbroken and filled with grief.
It seems as if the speaker starts to overcome this heart break by the end of the poem.
Friendship After Love By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
After the fierce midsummer all ablaze
    Has burned itself to ashes, and expires
    In the intensity of its own fires,
There come the mellow, mild, St. Martin days
Crowned with the calm of peace, but sad with haze.
    So after Love has led us, till he tires
    Of his own throes, and torments, and desires,
Comes large-eyed friendship: with a restful gaze,
He beckons us to follow, and across
    Cool verdant vales we wander free from care.
    Is it a touch of frost lies in the air?
Why are we haunted with a sense of loss?
We do not wish the pain back, or the heat;
And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete.

6. End Rhyme – end of every line rhymes throughout the entire poem.
Friendship After Love By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
After the fierce midsummer all ablaze A
    Has burned itself to ashes, and expires B
    In the intensity of its own fires, B
There come the mellow, mild, St. Martin days A
Crowned with the calm of peace, but sad with haze. A
    So after Love has led us, till he tires B
    Of his own throes, and torments, and desires, B
Comes large-eyed friendship: with a restful gaze, A
He beckons us to follow, and across C
    Cool verdant vales we wander free from care. D
    Is it a touch of frost lies in the air? D
Why are we haunted with a sense of loss? C
We do not wish the pain back, or the heat; E
And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete. E
Literary elements
End Rhyme – end of every line rhymes throughout the entire poem.
This rhyme scheme creates a sonnet and a couplet
she rhymes every 1st and 4th lines and 2nd and 3rd

7. End Rhyme – end of every line rhymes throughout the entire poem.
Friendship After Love By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
After the fierce midsummer all ablaze A
    Has burned itself to ashes, and expires B
    In the intensity of its own fires, B
There come the mellow, mild, St. Martin days A
Crowned with the calm of peace, but sad with haze. A
    So after Love has led us, till he tires B
    Of his own throes, and torments, and desires, B
Comes large-eyed friendship: with a restful gaze, B
He beckons us to follow, and across C
    Cool verdant vales we wander free from care. D
    Is it a touch of frost lies in the air? D
Why are we haunted with a sense of loss? C
We do not wish the pain back, or the heat; E
And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete. E
Literary elements
End Rhyme – end of every line rhymes throughout the entire poem.
Personification – Wilcox uses personification to show how she feels about something.
Sensory detail – Wilcox uses sensory detail to interest the reader and to help the reader understand how she is feeling.

8. Imagery
“After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Has burned itself to ashes, and expires In the intensity of its own fires”
Connection might be how she feels because of her heart break.
“There come the mellow, mild St. Martian days Crowned with the calm of peace, but sad with haze”
Connection might be when she starts to over come this heart break but she is still sad about the subject.

9. Literal Meaning & Figurative Meaning
The literal meaning and figurative meaning are about the same it’s a women overcoming a heart break leading to friendship. In the beginning the women explains how her past relationship was burned to ashes as in its no more. She starts to put herself back together but still filled with grief. Then there comes friendship which leaves her asking why she still feels the sense of loss. They both do not want each other back but her days are still incomplete.

10. Authors Purpose The authors purpose is to show people that sometimes its hard to become friends after a relationship.

11. Theme Even though she feels incomplete she doesn’t want the days back.

12. Websites used http://www. poetryoutloud. org/poem/180626 https://en