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__We Outgrow Love__//**
 * // I chose these four poems because I was interesting in the idea of inevitability and or progression in poetry

We outgrow love like other things And put it in the drawer, Till it an antique fashion shows Like costumes grandsire wore. ~//Emily Dickinson


 * __We Real Cool__**//

Seven At The Golden Shovel.// //
 * //The Pool Players.

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. //~ //Gwendolyn Brooks// **


 * //Nothing Gold Can Stay//**

Her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. ~ Robert Frost  //****__//Growth//__**
 * // Nature's first green is gold,

//** I watched the glory of her childhood change,  Half-sorrowful to find the child I knew, (Loved long ago in lily-time), Become a maid, mysterious and strange, With fair, pure eyes - dear eyes, but not the eyes I knew Of old, in the olden time!

Till on my doubting soul the ancient good Of her dear childhood in the new disguise Dawned, and I hastened to adore The glory of her waking maidenhead, And found the old tenderness within her deepening eyes, But kinder than before ~ **////Ernest Dowson

The Big Wrap Up: I chose these for poems because they are all very different, but they are all about change and growth. In the first poem the change is the on and off presents of love, in the second poem the change is the slow progression of life, the third poem shows how things start off great and end on a sadder note, and the last poem is about the growth of a little girl. All of these poems have an essence of sorrow in them, but i would not consider any of them sad, more inevitable. Although each poem is on a different subject and written by a different poet, they all have a similar melancholy voice // The poem that touches me the most is //Nothing Gold Can Stay.// Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets and i think he does an excellent job of making his whole poem a metaphor. I think that even though it makes it a little bit more challenging to get to the true meaning, it is more significant because you are forced to really think abstractly and see things in a different light. None of these poems say what they mean flat out, but that makes it all the more fun trying to de-code them. I chose the theme that i did because i did not want a theme that would come to mind as an obvious theme. I liked the idea of progression and seeing how something as broad as change could be portrayed.