Poetry Analysis

When I was one and twenty

1. The poem is a lyric that expresses the thoughts of the charaters.
2. The narrator in the poem is the main character, the one who receives the advice.
3. The subject of the poem is love. The man who gives the advice argues about the way of love, saying that you should give everything that is material to a woman, but never your heart.
4. The poem has a formal structure, because the story in the stanzas continue.
5. The is no setting in this poem.
6. The imagery in the poem is with the figures of speech. There are the verses: " but not your heart away, but keep your fancy free " There is also a big part of a stanza that is a metaphor: "'The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;'Tis paid with sighs a plentyAnd sold for endless rue"
7. The poem has a indirect meaning, because there are many metaphors.
8. The sound contribute to understand that love may be a fancy thing, but behind that there is a potential danger, le flow of the poem, masking the true meaning.
9. The poem has a very direct language, no double-meanings or connotations.
10. There is no referal to another writing in this poem.
11. The poem talks about ways not to get yourself broken hearted. Thought it may sound like a cold relationship, some people prefer that than seeing themselves demolished at the end of the union.
12. There is no distance with historical or cultural, except with the loe advice. I can't say I can relate to the situation, because I have never been brokn hearted. I can't comprehend the hurt you may feel and why you can't let your heart go.
13. The moral of the poem is that you should not give your heart to the ;person you love, for a broken heart will be the result at the end, so you have to be based on materialism instead.