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This document summarizes a poem titled "This Was Once a Love Poem" by Jane Hirshfield. It discusses the poem's themes of falling out of love and loss. While the words are not too difficult, some lines are particularly powerful. The poet effectively uses imagery to convey feelings of loss. Poetic devices like imagery, metaphors, and personification intensify the emotions and help the reader understand the author's perspective. The poem is organized into stanzas without rhyme, but flows smoothly. It expresses the heartache of losing one's purpose in life. An appropriate publication for this poem would be a magazine about love and heartbreak, to show readers they are not alone in their feelings.

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English 2 V18 - 4844

This document summarizes a poem titled "This Was Once a Love Poem" by Jane Hirshfield. It discusses the poem's themes of falling out of love and loss. While the words are not too difficult, some lines are particularly powerful. The poet effectively uses imagery to convey feelings of loss. Poetic devices like imagery, metaphors, and personification intensify the emotions and help the reader understand the author's perspective. The poem is organized into stanzas without rhyme, but flows smoothly. It expresses the heartache of losing one's purpose in life. An appropriate publication for this poem would be a magazine about love and heartbreak, to show readers they are not alone in their feelings.

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Experiencing Poetry Graphic Organizer

Characteristic Selected Poem Title: This Was Once a Love Poem by Jane Hirshfield, 1953

Initial Response:
What does this poem seem to be about?

This poem seems to be about falling out of love.

Words: Were the words in this poem difficult or easy to understand?


Was there any word or phrase that was powerful to you?

The words in this poem were not too difficult, but also not too easy. The third and sixth
stanza in this poem I felt was powerful.

Images:
Did the poet create strong images?
What could you see, hear, smell, taste, or feel?

The poet did create strong images in their work. I could feel the loss of love and see all of the
images described in their work.

Figurative Language:
What poetic devices were used in this poem?
What did these poetic devices do for the poem?
Did these devices help create imagery or communicate the author's feelings?

The poetic devices used in this poem are imagery, metaphors, and personification. The poetic
devices enhance the poem's meaning. They intensify the emotions that the writer feels and helps
the reader understand how they felt. They do in fact help create the imagery and communicate
the way the author was feeling.

Emotion:
What emotion was the author trying to express?

The author was trying to express the feeling of being lost, the heart-ache they felt and the hope
for a possible restoration of finding their purpose.
Structure:
How is the poem organized (lines, stanzas, etc.)?
What is unique or interesting about the structure of the poem?
Does the poem rhyme?

The poem is organized into stanzas. The unique structure of this poem is that the author did not
have to make it rhyme to sound good. The poem does not rhyme but flows together smoothly.

Meaning:
What is the poem saying about life or love?
Do you agree or disagree with this message? Explain.
Are there any other reasonable ways to interpret this poem?

The poem says how people fall out of love and flips their life around. I do agree with the message.
I do believe that there are other reasonable ways to interpret this poem, but for the most part the
interpretations will be similar

Publication:

What kind of magazine or other publication would be the best place for this type of
poem?

I think that the “love stinks” magazine is the perfect magazine for this
poem. Putting this poem in the “Love Stinks” magazine will let people
know they are not alone in their sadness or bitterness. It will tell them
that other people know exactly what they are going through. I believe it
will let the heartbroken reader know that it is not the end for them, and
that there IS a light at the end of the tunnel. Tomorrow is a brand new,
beautiful day, and a fresh start for healing.
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