The Poem: The Bridegroom

The poem then transitions to the post-marriage life of the couple in stanza two. In lines eight through ten, the speaker states that she is too shy around her husband. Not only does she not smile, but also she does not answer her husband when he calls her. This shows that the speaker's life took a great emotional transition, as she is overly shy and feels uncomfortable around him. However, around the middle of the second stanza, the speaker transitions into another stage of

The poem is about a girl who wants to go downtown and march for freedom but his mother would not let her because she fears her daughter will get hurt. The mother sends the girl to church thinking she will be safe there. Then the church is bombed and the girl was one of the victims

This poem was about very religious. In this poem she talks about her admiration of

In stanza 12, she tells us that he has “bit her pretty red heart in two.” Next, she states that he died when she was ten, and when she was twenty years old, she attempted suicide - “…I tried to die, to get back back back to you.” In stanza 13 is where she starts talking about her husband. She says that instead of dying, her friends “stuck her together with glue,” and since she could not die to get back to her father, she would marry someone who was similar.

Good evening. I would like to begin by welcoming each and every one of you to this joyous and stressful occasion.

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen - I am the groom's father, Ken, and I have the great privilege of being best man. I have recently found out there are two reasons why J W asked me to do this job. 1) To make him look younger and slimmer in the photos. 2) Because he didn't want to burden any of his friends with the terrible prospect of having to give this speech.

Most of the poem is sweet, but also tells them to hurry and enjoy life right now before they run out of time. Also that their bodies are energized now and later on they won’t be able to do what they would do when they were younger. In comparison to “To His Coy Mistress” the author tells them to get married also because they have something that time will sooner, or later take away and that would be sad that they didn’t get to enjoy it just because they wanted to

The poem begins by telling the story of the man riding down a road when he sees a light in the distance. He sees a girl standing

The poem seems to be narrative.  It conveys not only a story about his daughter, but a story of life, and paints distinctive images in the reader’s mind.

Described as utopian in nature, the Chinese culture is often in pursuit for the perfect individual, a harmonious and structured society where the citizens as a whole create the ideal culture. In a collection of short stories entitled The Bridegroom, author Ha Jin documents this aspect of reality in homeland China. Primarily for the purposes of instruction and satirical verse, Ha Jin, shows how people are trying to find themselves in a society that focuses on the ‘whole’ of the country rather than the individual. He is able to interconnect this theme of individualism through four major stories in the book while presenting ‘Chineseness’ or satire of fictional verse as a way to focus on the changes throughout China

The poem is introduced with a man mourning over his recently dead wife, Lenore. He is in his home grieving. The man appears to be in a lonely and sad but seems to be comforted by reading his folktale. As the poem proceeds, the reader is not really sure whether the man is seeing things, or being visited by his wife Lenore in another

Look at the sky, How the sun shines for you. What a shame That our world is dying. Aren't the trees beautiful? Very gloomy is the fact that we kill

I interpreted this poem as a very sad one. A love unrequited by the pursued. In the first two lines the poem tells you to forget about the love you share and hear a tale of this. Not to literally forget, but possibly put aside. The man is a winter breeze, cold and rough and sort of roams the land. The woman is a window flower, shut off from the outside. This sets up the separation.

This poem is a monolog and the poet is alone narrating the whole story as the speaker. The poem is about a man diagnosed with OCD who falls in love with a woman. The influence of this incident in the speaker’s life soon becomes evident as he says “The first time I saw her... Everything in my head went quiet. All the ticks, all the constantly refreshing images just disappeared.” Eventually, however, the woman starts ignoring what she used to love about the speaker’s behavior: “Some mornings I’d start kissing her goodbye but she’d just leave cause I was just making her late for work…” In the end, the woman decides that the speaker is “taking up too much of her time.” She leaves and starts “sleeping at her mother’s place”. The climax of the story

The poem deals with maniacal passions faced by a man who feels he is spurned by the woman he loves, he is also terrified of loneliness and isolation and it appears that she is the only ray of happiness in his life