In Paris With You

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The poem starts with a morose tone and imagery suggestive of a break-up. The speaker starts with the negative imperative 'don't talk to me about love' which immediately tells the reader that love is a difficult subject for the speaker. The speaker goes on to explain how they get tearful when they have had a drink, punning the phrase 'walking wounded' which is a military phrase referring to someone who is hurt but can carry on fighting, with the phrase 'talking wounded' implying that despite their broken heart and bruised feelings, the speaker will continue to look for love, or at the very least, some company. The speaker continues to develop the theme of surviving heartbreak by comparing his or her situation with that of being marooned or being a hostage. Presumably, the reference to being marooned invokes a sense of isolation and vulnerability, just as the word 'hostage' suggests that they are trapped, perhaps trapped in their feelings for an old relationship. Interestingly, the first stanza puts me in mind of a couple meeting in a bar and trying to strike up a conversation where one of the two is a little unwilling to play the game. The last line of the stanza, 'but I'm in Paris with you' suggests a contrasting set of emotions, whereby the speaker's unhappy feelings are somehow tempered by the fact that he or she is with someone special in Paris. Either way the structural purpose of the opening stanza helps to establish a point of comparative contrast with the rest of the poem as it beings to develop and challenge ideas about love and romance.

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of brushing against Tatiana—the crowd was pressed tight together as everyone pushed toward the exit— Something I particularly enjoyed: Tatiana seemed ill imagining spending a dull life that her sister Olga had adopted with her husband, Anthony. She wanted a life of wonder and marvel. And that's okay. Kids are not in the cards for everyone. She wants a different life, something non-monotonous that differs from the regular and boring kid-raising lifestyle. Life can be more than just doing the same thing everyone else does. And this book is a great representation about making new changes and celebrating the things you love without coming to a standstill and putting your life on hold.Individually, these resources are worth more than double the price of the bundle, meaning that you can make a considerable saving!

In other words, the speaker is comparing where he is now, with where he was before when he was full of trust and love! He no longer wishes to partake of Paris-or will he change his mind? And if he does change what will make him change? The other thing I do is write books – children’s books, surprisingly enough. In fact, it’s not ‘the other thing’. It’s the first thing I ever did, really – long before I heard that you could actually analyse books for a living, I wanted to write books for a living. So I started writing, and ultimately getting published – in French first, and now in English as well. My first series of children’s books in English, led by self-made superheroine Sesame Seade, is being published in 2013 by Hodder Children’s Books!

The sudden surges, sharp bends, and screeching stops of Line 14 are notoriously vicious. It’s hard to stand up or chat or read. But it does have an upside: it takes you from your Word play is other technique for humour, speaker refers to weariness at having to talk about failed relationship as 'I'm one fo your talking wounded', pun on 'walking wounded' used in war context, and rhymed with 'marooded', partly nonsense word used to maintain rhyme scheme. Fun and inventive tone. Here, in this poem, the speaker seems cynical, possibly drunk and probably full of self pity. The internal rhyme of ‘earful’ with ‘tearful’ seems a bit colloquially crass and forced as if the speaker is drunk or feeling very sorry for themselves.( maudlin) so it's a good thing i'm an unobservant buffoon i guess??? because i really (really, REALLY) loved the writing of this book. it was, like. my favorite part.If a book could articulate love perfectly, then this is it! For clarification, I don't read poetry. I don't really enjoy it. I'd rather read a book for what it is than try to dissect every line for the clues it has to offer. But this. THIS! This was so interesting yet so clever and extremely funny.

With that said, if someone enjoys reading a story in verse and they enjoy romance, I think they will probably enjoy this story. It wasn't a bad story and the characters were okay. Although, I was not very attached to them. That could again be from my disdain at reading in verse. I just never really felt a connection to any of the characters. However the casual, careless voice who dismisses all the sights of Paris and draws attention to their apparently ‘sleazy’ hotel room, gradually becomes physically involved with the mysterious ‘you’ and things become more interesting. it is almost as if the early ‘you’ is really not the ‘you’ in the room but the ‘you’ in his past, still very much present in his/her mind.The apparently tatty surrounds could be a sign of their economic spending or could be teh way he sees their room as ‘sleazy’ as they know they are not in love with this companion and feel it to be sleazy…. The format of how this novel is written is just gorgeous. I've never seen a book written like this, it felt to me like an entire new reading experience. And I'm not surprised that it was such a success in France, the author's home country. The repeated “I’m in Paris with you”, and variations on it, form a refrain — i.e. the repeated lines in a poem or song. The repetition reflects the narrator’s emotional state of mind. I really liked how the story was told in different time frames and we get to see how the characters evolved. The characters are what make or break a book for me and unfortunately, I wasn't very fond of the characters in this book. Tatiana pretends to be a preganant woman every day just so she can have a seat on the train on her way to work, her sister Olga comes off as a selfish person, and her love interest, Eugene, is basically a jerk. The only interesting character for me was Lensky, but his story wasn't handled very well.an adult with a miniature attention span, / like everyone else, refreshing, updating, / nibbling at time like a ham baguette.” The third and fourth stanzas are very interesting. The speaker asks if it is possible to miss the tour of Paris including the most famous landmarks (Notre Dame etc) and stay in the 'sleazy hotel room' instead. One reading would suggest that this is a wonderfully romantic gesture with the lovers staying in bed rather than going on a sightseeing tour. However, the word 'sleazy' bothers me as I'm not convinced that the speaker is being ironic and making a joke about staying bed for more "sleazy" purposes. The two stanzas flow into one another using enjambment to show that this thought process is taking place in the same moment. The poet establishes the setting of a 'sleazy' hotel room which contrasts nicely with what a reader would usually expect of a love poem taking place in Paris. My impression is that the poet and the speaker are trying to be purposefully ambiguous (no obvious meaning). The scene it meant to be a little bit sleazy and a little bit romantic, which befits the idea of a person throwing themselves into a new relationship when the wounds of the last one have not yet healed. These people are only just getting to know each other and 'learn' about each other and what they are. The word 'what' suggests that the speaker isn't sure what is going on and what his or her role in all this actually is. The line 'doing this and that' is an awkward phrase that refers to them having sex, but why dress it in such an awkward way? Does this imply that the speaker is a little ashamed by what's going on, or is it just a playful joke about having some naughty sex in a sleazy hotel room in Paris? It isn't clear and it isn't meant to be, after all love, passion and even brief encounters are exciting yet extremely complex and confusing experiences. You might also like: GCSE Poetry Lesson to Support Teaching On 'I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine' by Liz Lochhead