Thursday, March 14, 2013

what is the theme of this poem?You were my first...

The funny little Romantic lyric is addressed to the moon but it can be read as making some serious points nevertheless.  It is a love poem, written in a typical and cliched eulogistic rhetoric with a tone of romantic effusion and exaggeration.


The poem is a classic example of visually charged pattern poetry where the placement of the lines create a visual image in a calligraphic way that harmonizes with the major theme of the poem. The alignment of the lines here typographically evokes the image of a half-moon in its perfect slice-shape.


The poem in terms of expressing a love of moon and ending on the word 'luna' may be read as an expression of lunacy or a kind of madness, supposed to be caused by the moon.

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