magic of love by helen faries

5. The Magic of Love By: Helen Farries

Helen Farries poem “The Magic of Love” talks solely about love. She uses a greeting card style, almost a cliché of all the lovely thoughts and emotions that go with love. She uses a rhyme scheme of ABCB and uses the stanzaic form. It does have quite a bit of punctuation so it’s not enjambment. This poem is quite elaborate with its explanations of how love is like a blessing and like a bright star in the night sky. It shows an allusion of love being “a blessing from heaven above.” The speaker also conveys how the feeling of love is like the warming feeling of the sun. The speaker also states that the feelings of love make difficult times easier. Thus, showing imagery by giving the impression of the speaker being in LOVE.
Magic of Love comes across as a song like, greeting card style poem, both poems have the same rhyme scheme, that is, the second and fourth line of every stanza rhyme. Magic of Love is much more detached. It speaks of love as a whole, generalized for everyone. There is no personal information in the poem, Instead it speaks of love bringing happiness and joy and comfort, of love warming your Hands, and of love lighting your way. Magic of Love portrays love as something that is perfect, that fixes everything. It is the light that guides you, it warms you, it makes your dreams come true. It is gentle and kind, and perfect. Farriesʼ poem is one that belong in a greeting card, or perhaps a love song. It makes me think of the beginning of a relationship, when everything is happy and new and you feel like you’re walking on air

The poem "magic of love" by Helen Farries expresses the powers and gifts that love can bring.Showing that it can make all your "all troubles are lighter to bear" in order to allow your heart to fuller absorb love in its entirely. Giving love the ability to completely control you or help show you what love can bestow upon you. Love is something that everyone one needs and depends on at one point in their lives. It's something that you turn to when everything is going wrong and that you can hope will somehow bring you back to life. If love is as powerful as they say why is it they its takes some people so long to open up to it can love be a threat? If so then love is powerful and has its dark and light sides and can turn from the bright lovely "sun"to the darkness of the night.

In the poem Farries uses imagery to create a scene of love bringing the audience back to a time where they once felt the same feeling and expressed the same emotions. Which are brought up in the lines "Like a star in the night,it can warm your hearts,and love lights the way" showing that even when it falls apart love is right there shinning waiting to show you the way to help warm you. While her use of personification in the lines " a wonderful gift that can give you a lift, you treasure this gift,gentle and kind,love lights the way,and comfort and bless". Which shows just how powerful and gifting love can be. It has the powers to break or make you in its many shapes and forms as well as helping to bring your spirit up from the dark. The similes used however show the characteristics of love and its many shapes and forms "Like a star in the night,and Like the sun " . Show that love is bright and bold like the stars and shine brightness into the day like the sun. Overall the poem helped bring in the spirit of Valentines in a way and helped show how powerful love is and how it can change your life if you let it.

In this poem the wonderful gift that the speaker talks about is all love gives off. Love giving off blessings and showers of happiness that shines forth. This array of happiness burns bright whether morning or night, it can only come back to you once it’s given. The answers the speaker seeks are found in much prayer. The poem uses many clichés and alliteration and assonance to gravitate towards never described is portrayed as something inevitable but unfathomable. The speaker seems like he/she wants us to know that their perceptio0n on love is grasped seemingly only from a significant experience prior to the poem. Over all I enjoyed that poem and its repetition and great imagery.

Helen Farries poem “The Magic of Love” talks solely about love. She uses a greeting card style, almost a cliché of all the lovely thoughts and emotions that go with love. She uses a rhyme scheme of ABCB and uses the stanzaic form. It does have quite a bit of punctuation so it’s not enjambment.
This poem is quite elaborate with its explanations of how love is like a blessing and like a bright star in the night sky. It shows an allusion of love being “a blessing from heaven above.” The speaker also conveys how the feeling of love is like the warming feeling of the sun. The speaker also states that the feelings of love make difficult times easier. Thus, showing imagery by giving the impression of the speaker being in LOVE.