{"id":214,"date":"2023-02-18T03:33:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T03:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/?p=214"},"modified":"2023-02-18T03:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T03:33:04","slug":"a-kiss-goodbye-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/2023\/02\/18\/a-kiss-goodbye-for-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kiss Goodbye for Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon first reading Agnes Craif McLehose\u2019s \u201cAe Fond Kiss,\u201d I interpreted the parting of the lovers as the two being forced to separate as a result of death. However, after reading the sections of Mary Wollstonecraft\u2019s <em>A Vindication of the Rights of Men<\/em>, I realized another possible interpretation of the poem. At one point Wollstonecraft describes how many parents were often very controlling of their children\u2019s lives, especially when it came to marriage (126). \u00a0Wollstonecraft wrote, \u201cGirls are sacrificed to family convenience, or else marry to settle themselves in a superior rank, and coquet, without restraint, with the fine gentleman whom I have already described,\u201d (126). This section made me wonder if the separation of the lovers in \u201cAe Fond Kiss\u201d could be a result of one being forced to marry another by parents or society.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that I noticed was that all twenty-four lines of \u201cAe Fond Kiss\u201d end with some type of punctuation. As a result of this added punctuation at the end of each line, the poem is slowed down. For example McLehose wrote, \u201cFare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest! \/ Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest!\u201d (17-18). Not only are there exclamation points at the end of each line, but each also has a comma and the broken up \u201cFare-thee-weel.\u201d When I think of a goodbye between lovers who are being forced to marry someone else, it\u2019s not a quick process, it\u2019s long and emotional. McLehose\u2019s decision to include the punctuation helps convey that long, drawn out goodbye because they force the reader to stop and slow down while reading. Another element that McLehose incorporates into \u201cAe Fond Kiss\u201d is an aabb rhyme scheme. This is a very simple rhyme scheme and allows the reader to focus on the rest of the poem and pay attention to things like the punctuation that help the poem stand out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon first reading Agnes Craif McLehose\u2019s \u201cAe Fond Kiss,\u201d I interpreted the parting of the lovers as the two being forced to separate as a result of death. However, after reading the sections of Mary Wollstonecraft\u2019s A Vindication of the Rights of Men, I realized another possible interpretation of the poem. At one point Wollstonecraft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/2023\/02\/18\/a-kiss-goodbye-for-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Kiss Goodbye for Love<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}