Cranford Review 2021

What is Love?
(TWICE – What is Love?)
What is Love?
What makes someone feel things?
That makes you fly like a dove
And make you feel like a king?
What is Love?
What makes you realises these emotions?
With a sensation of being beloved,
Like you drank cursed potions.
What is Love?
A question I ask myself every day,
Wondering if I’m enough.
I say this in May,
The day we met.
What is Love?
Something I feel whenever I see you, my crush,
With your hand around my hand like a glove,
That makes me blush.
What is Love?
Something I saw at first sight,
That made Earth throw adoration, like a shove
While the stars shone bright.
What is Love?
Something that I don’t want to believe in anymore,
You made me feel unloved,
That made me run out the door.
What is Love?
A once in a lifetime....
Alisha Pereira Habibo (year 7)
My
poem ‘What is Love?’ is based on a song
that I’ve listened to for many years. I
decided to use this song because we want to know
what is love and why we feel emotions for people we
like. I also thought why not use it near Valentine’s day
since some of us are alone, and some of us are with
someone.
A technique I’ve used are some sentences like ‘The
day we met’ and ‘A once in a lifetime’ to add emotions.
A once in a lifetime is to show that we all fall in love
really hard and that it will always feel like a once in
a lifetime because we never know if we will feel like
this anymore.
If you notice, in the beginning of each stanza I use
repetition of ‘What is Love?’ because each stanza
shows the days going by of my character wondering
what love is.
Another technique is that I’ve used some similes in
stanzas 1-5. I’ve decided to use the similes in stanza 1
‘like a dove’ and ‘like a king’ because doves are very
majestic birds that we use in weddings so a dove can
represent a very loving and beautiful bird flying around
with those flower bunches to show you are so in love.
‘Like a king’ is used to show that they are the most
important rule in life, and this character (the person
they like) feels ‘like a king’ in their life.
The simile in stanza 2 ‘like you drank cursed potions’
is meant to show that the character isn’t used to the
feeling, and it feels like they must’ve drunk something
wrong. I put potions because it is multiple feelings they
are feeling, so they might have drunk multiple potions.
The potions are cursed because when you look at love,
at first it is scary but then you realise it is very good.
In stanza 4, I put ‘with your hand around my hand,
like a glove’ because their hands fit perfectly with
their crush, and since they are holding hands a glove
description fits perfectly and mainly because when I
imagined this scene, I imagine the person they love to
have large hands so when they hold hands it’s like a
glove.
Finally, in stanza 5, I put the simile ‘that made Earth
throw adoration, like a shove’ because it’s like Earth
giving the character advice to make a move for it.
The rhyme scheme I’ve used is, ABAB, CDCD, EFEF,
GHGH, IJIJ, KLKL.
In my last stanza, I especially want people to be
sympathising with the character because it shows
rejection because sometimes love isn’t our path at the
moment.
Overall, I want to show the reader that all these
emotions have a meaning.
Alisha Pereira Habibo (year 7)
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