In Paris With You

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Et c'est ici que les rimes s'arrêteront, car la maladie m'empêche de réfléchir sur une trop longue période. Merci pour votre compréhension.) Besides that, this book taught me a lot about maturity and love. Being mature is part of growing up, as we were young we tend to believe what we wanted to. However, believing what is good and pure is important regardless of our age. Moreover, love is what makes us stronger and not weaker. Appreciate the person that loves you. It is clear that the narrator has been through the wringer. He (I assume the narrator is male, though this is not stated) seemingly is trying to reassure his partner that they are not taking advantage of him. It is in this stanza it is revealed that the narrator is in fact on the “rebound”. There is a quirky choice of words as the narrator uses the word “bound” To denote their location, but this has sexual connotations of being tied up. Once more we see the refrain about being “in Paris with you” at the end of the stanza.

The format of how this novel is written is just gorgeous. I've never seen a book written like this, it felt to me like an entire new reading experience. And I'm not surprised that it was such a success in France, the author's home country. I was excited to read this book because of the blurb and the format (a story about lost love and having second chances). Je l'avais emprunté un peu par hasard, j'avais vu quelques bons avis, et puis je m'étais rendu compte qu'il s'agissait d'un roman en vers. N'étant pas sure de l'apprécier, je l'avais donc mit un peu de côté.One way in which the poets present their ideas about the pain of love is through their use of imagery with their poems. For example, they both use metaphors about being ‘wounded’. Fenton’s line ‘I’m one of your talking wounded’ adopts a pun which relates to the expression ‘walking wounded’, used by soldiers to imply resilience. He feels as though love has previously ‘wounded’ him, if not actually finished him off. Similarly, continuing with the theme of violence, Duffy uses an extended metaphor throughout the whole poem which presents the break-up of her relationship as a gunfight in a Western movie. Lexis such as ‘trigger’, ‘silver bullets’, ‘wide of the mark’ and ‘blast me’ presents the effect of breaking up as wounding her physically. of brushing against Tatiana—the crowd was pressed tight together as everyone pushed toward the exit—

However the casual, careless voice who dismisses all the sights of Paris and draws attention to their apparently ‘sleazy’ hotel room, gradually becomes physically involved with the mysterious ‘you’ and things become more interesting. it is almost as if the early ‘you’ is really not the ‘you’ in the room but the ‘you’ in his past, still very much present in his/her mind.The apparently tatty surrounds could be a sign of their economic spending or could be teh way he sees their room as ‘sleazy’ as they know they are not in love with this companion and feel it to be sleazy…. This is the story of Tatiana and Eugene, who first fell in love as teenagers.... first love, the heart is a pitter pattering the butterflies are fluttering, and you can’t seem to wipe that silly grin off your face.... but as in the case of most first love Tatiana and Eugene did not last.... then years later a chance encounter and the sparks are rekindled.... but life is complicated and love is messy, even in Paris... The poem starts with a morose tone and imagery suggestive of a break-up. The speaker starts with the negative imperative 'don't talk to me about love' which immediately tells the reader that love is a difficult subject for the speaker. The speaker goes on to explain how they get tearful when they have had a drink, punning the phrase 'walking wounded' which is a military phrase referring to someone who is hurt but can carry on fighting, with the phrase 'talking wounded' implying that despite their broken heart and bruised feelings, the speaker will continue to look for love, or at the very least, some company. The speaker continues to develop the theme of surviving heartbreak by comparing his or her situation with that of being marooned or being a hostage. Presumably, the reference to being marooned invokes a sense of isolation and vulnerability, just as the word 'hostage' suggests that they are trapped, perhaps trapped in their feelings for an old relationship. Interestingly, the first stanza puts me in mind of a couple meeting in a bar and trying to strike up a conversation where one of the two is a little unwilling to play the game. The last line of the stanza, 'but I'm in Paris with you' suggests a contrasting set of emotions, whereby the speaker's unhappy feelings are somehow tempered by the fact that he or she is with someone special in Paris. Either way the structural purpose of the opening stanza helps to establish a point of comparative contrast with the rest of the poem as it beings to develop and challenge ideas about love and romance. And yet it was interesting for Eugene, who had hardly ever experienced this kind of feeling before, This lesson enables students to build their knowledge of the content, language, and structure of James Fenton’s modern relationships poem ‘In Paris With You.’ In particular, students learn how word play, colloquial language, rhyme, and poetic structure can influence the mood and tone of a poem.

In Paris With You is my first book in verse that I’ve perhaps ever read. I can’t recall anything else. And I’ve definitely never read anything like it at all. This is one of the most important questions you can ask of any text. When you read this poem, you notice an ‘I’ is speaking. They are a first person narrator telling their own ‘story.’ This does not necessarily mean that they are speaking the truth of course. Sometimes first person narrators are very UNRELIABLE and FALLIBLE.As we all are! In this stanza, the phrase “I’m in Paris” almost acts as a euphemism for being in ecstasy. The narrator lists the things that bring him to that state, including their partner’s eyes and mouth and “all points south” once again a euphemism, this time for their partner’s sexual organs! But this isn’t meant to be too crude, rather it is meant to be taken in a playful nature. We can see this from the line that follows, as the narrator teasingly asks “am I embarrassing you?” before tying up the poem nicely by ending on the refrain. Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and substantial; (including hyperlink to a reading of the poem) But the ending drove me nuts. It reminded me of the movie “Love Rosie”. That we-are-both-in-love-with-each-other-but-won’t-dare-to-admit-it-lest-we-get-hurt trope. One in which makes me annoyed to no end. I just can’t relate holding in such feelings and emotions like that for so long. It just feels stupid to me and I only ever come across such stupidity as a means to dramatise books/movies. But hey that’s just me.