A lot of people can agree on the fact that many of O’Hara’s poems are difficult to understand, however I feel like this poem is very relatable and is fairly easy to interpret. Many of us have felt heartbreak due to a loved one, whether it was mourning a death or dealing with a breakup. O’Hara vividly describes in detail how he felt about his sorrow toward his loved one, which I am sure many feel sympathetic towards, because they have dealt with the same feelings.
The poem has 6 stanzas, one thing I thought that was interesting, was that every single stanza was a quatrain except for one stanza that only had 3 lines. However, I feel like he did that for a certain reason. The poem is grammatically correct in that it follows all the rules of the …show more content…
He opens with the stanza saying, “I’ve got to tell you how I love you always I think of it on grey mornings with death” (1-4), this is foreshadowing his mood and tone for the rest of the poem, meaning it is going to be rather sad. The first stanza seems dark and shows the sadness he is feeling. The author wrote this lyric to describe his sense of loneliness and sorrow about missing a significant other. Ohara does a very good job with creating an image in the listeners head of what exactly he is feeling. He uses similes such as “buses glow like clouds” (13-14) and “rattling my keys in the car is empty as a bicycle” (26-27) in order to put a more vivid image into the listeners mind. In lines 13-14, it came across to me as him feeling some sort of hope, like the “glow” being the light at the end of the dark time that he is going through. Furthermore, in lines 26-27 he is trying to describe to the listener that he is sitting in his car all himself feeling lonely, he is sitting there watching all the happy couples walk by as he sits there in silence, alone. As stated in part one I think that the stanza that is only three lines is trying to point out something important to the listeners. The three lines seem to be the most depressing lines in the poem, “chills me I need you and look out the window at noiseless snow” (9-11). When O’Hara did this, I think he wanted the listeners to catch on that
The poem has 6 stanzas, one thing I thought that was interesting, was that every single stanza was a quatrain except for one stanza that only had 3 lines. However, I feel like he did that for a certain reason. The poem is grammatically correct in that it follows all the rules of the …show more content…
He opens with the stanza saying, “I’ve got to tell you how I love you always I think of it on grey mornings with death” (1-4), this is foreshadowing his mood and tone for the rest of the poem, meaning it is going to be rather sad. The first stanza seems dark and shows the sadness he is feeling. The author wrote this lyric to describe his sense of loneliness and sorrow about missing a significant other. Ohara does a very good job with creating an image in the listeners head of what exactly he is feeling. He uses similes such as “buses glow like clouds” (13-14) and “rattling my keys in the car is empty as a bicycle” (26-27) in order to put a more vivid image into the listeners mind. In lines 13-14, it came across to me as him feeling some sort of hope, like the “glow” being the light at the end of the dark time that he is going through. Furthermore, in lines 26-27 he is trying to describe to the listener that he is sitting in his car all himself feeling lonely, he is sitting there watching all the happy couples walk by as he sits there in silence, alone. As stated in part one I think that the stanza that is only three lines is trying to point out something important to the listeners. The three lines seem to be the most depressing lines in the poem, “chills me I need you and look out the window at noiseless snow” (9-11). When O’Hara did this, I think he wanted the listeners to catch on that