Kayla
Ericca R.
Richard
“Be merciful and Send for Me” -Ghalib
The prospect of love doesn’t always have a happy ending. With prospect, comes the slight chance that the other party may not feel the same about you. The is called being rejected. Sometimes, overcoming of rejection is painful. The poem shows how rejection can in fact affect an individual, and how love doesn’t conquer all. If one party isn’t in reciprocation of your feelings towards them; there is a possibility where one could be left with a broken heart. The speaker in Ghalib’s poem “Be merciful and Send for Me” states, ” I just can’t lay my hands on poison…I couldn’t swallow it. ” This broken hearted man does not want to accept the fact that the woman whom he loves has chosen someone else. Therefore has rejected him, and the prospect of loving him. However, he is contempt with keeping his love alive for her and hopes she will send for him, and rekindle their “love” . This causes him to deny the option of poison and continue to wait for her. He does not want to move on with his life. He believes that eventually she will realize that they belong together. Through this short poem, that author is showing the beginning stages of rejection. The antagonist of this poem seems to be in phase one, denial. Through this poem, the author shows how denial alone, can be more detrimental that the entire process of rejection. It creates hope, that otherwise isn’t there.
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JMERLE // Oct 24th 2015 at 1:29 pm
Kayla, Ericca, Richard,
You make some good observations, but please take note of the following:
You speak rather generally for the first few sentences. Avoid doing this, and get to your topic sentence right away. Your specific topic sentence seems to be the fifth sentence (“I one party isn’t in reciprocation . . .”) as it is the most specific sentence. Your quotation is okay, I think, but you could choose another that would be easier to analyze (one that would give you more specific words to discuss ). As it is, you become rather general during this last section of your paragraph, as well.
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