Love is...

Function – poet

Abstract notion – Love

Love is amazing

Love is scaring

One day you meet a person

And next you start to develop feelings.

Suddenly he is your everything

You feel vulnerable and exposed

But then he there, showing the way

Making everything seems great

And then suddenly it is okay

Love is great

Love is horrible

One day you are happy

The next day you are not

A fiery feeling fills you up

Make your thoughts go all wrong

But then he is there, loving and caring

Makes the day seem great

And then everything is okay

Love is red

Love is green

It appears like the seasons

With its changing colors

In the spring it is warm and growing

In the fall it can become cold and slowing.

It’s something we give

And it’s something we take

But in the end it is worth it all.

Reflection:

The poem describes some of the different feelings that follow with love, how you fall in love, how it feels to be jealous, and how it is to lose a love and it also shows how it is all worth it even though you get hurt sometimes.  This poem does not have a lot of rhymes, but follows a structure of nine verses in each stanza. If I had chosen the function of a novelist the story of the poem would be different in the sense that it would first of all not be restricted to a structures as small as the poem and the story would therefore have a lot more detail. The story would have characters that you would probably know the name of, and the story would have some concrete descriptions of how it feels for the character(s) to fall in love, to be jealous and to go through a break-up. Also a novelist would not use metaphors as a poet does, because they have a lot more space to express their thoughts.