In Paris With You

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The repeated “I’m in Paris with you”, and variations on it, form a refrain — i.e. the repeated lines in a poem or song. The repetition reflects the narrator’s emotional state of mind. Furthemore, I adore the main character, Tatiana. She is a clever, strong, determine, loving and caring young woman. As she grew older she realized the importance of being appreciated. Therefore, making her stronger to live the life that she lives. so it's a good thing i'm an unobservant buffoon i guess??? because i really (really, REALLY) loved the writing of this book. it was, like. my favorite part. Such a sweet satisfying story of love and loss... both Tatiana and Eugene were likable and a little quirky.... The story really transported you to Paris, you could see the sights, hear the sounds, and smell the scents of the city... a cleverly told love story... I’m not sure I could read every book in verse, but it was nice for a little change of pace... The humour and risqué subject matter shouldn’t detract in any way from the cleverness of this poem. It is more skilful and complex than it first appears.

My favorite character by a mile is Tatiana! She's raw and her personality is great in this book. However, the love interest Eugene is kind of a jerk. He's not interesting, he's just boring and rude. This book is an easy read and a fairly entertaining one. It started off so well, light, playful tone in the writing whose silliness made it hard to put this book down. But then it brings up an unexpected storyline which simply doesn't go with the tone that the book is written in. The biggest influence this storyline has on the rest of the events in the book is that it makes the characters suddenly unlikeable, it simply puts one off reading the rest. Tatiana, a fourteen-year-old at the time of Lensky's suicide, brings up the event with ease as if it's unfinished business between her and Eugene and shows no compassion for him , Eugene was there and saw it happen. Eugene on the other hand, who was seventeen when it happened, shows an unbelievable amount of coldness about it - no emotion whatsoever. The actual thing that stands between them, Eugene's initial rejection, when he was seventeen and Tatiana was fourteen, is taken as the more serious matter at hand. Tatiana takes it so seriously, forgetting that they were both teenagers when it took place and she just doesn't let it go, which makes me wonder about whether or not any maturing took place on her part in the ten years since this happened. Surprisingly, and despite his ongoing numbness (which I suppose is due to the symptoms of depression he shows quite a bit of throughout the read), Eugene is the one who's developed and matured over the years.This poem, which can be read in full here, is presented in six stanzas of varying length. It utilizes rhyme throughout the poem which helps add to the poem’s charming and humorous tone, coupled with the British colloquialisms, this is quite a witty piece. It has a nice rhythm and an almost musical feel. Given the narrator’s mental state, the feelings of anger due to the end of his former relationship, it would be easy for the poem to have a somber, morose tone. But it is full of positivity. It’s effectively a poem about the process of moving on. I was born in Paris in 1989 and though I started to read children’s books pretty early, I somehow never stopped. As a result, I’ve become a writer, reader and student of children’s literature. I’ve now been living and studying in Cambridge (UK) for seven years and have become a doctor. Well, not the type that saves people’s lives. The type that scribbles ‘PhD’ after their name and rambles on about beauty, truth and the value of (all) literature. Worth striving for, I think! More about my academic work here.

In Paris with You is recounted by a (thenarrator) whose relationship has just ended and who is now in Paris with someone else (“I’m on the rebound”). This suggests a long-term relationship has ended and the speaker is currently enjoying a less serious liaison. The narrator doesn’t want to examine the aftermath of the serious relationship: he doesn’t want to talk things over or even visit galleries or landmarks; he just wants to enjoy the moment rather than thinking of the future or the past. Structure an adult with a miniature attention span, / like everyone else, refreshing, updating, / nibbling at time like a ham baguette.” Secondly, I love the format of the book. It was written in a poem format! Hence, making it fun and fast to read. 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.Students will vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer's ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of poems, and analysing features of content, language, and structure.

I was excited to read this book because of the blurb and the format (a story about lost love and having second chances).Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
And yet, it was difficult to contradict Eugene at that moment, since on her duffle coat was a massive badge, and on that badge a baby grinned, a big white speech bubble proudly declaring in capital letters: The ‘talk’ in bed has healed the cynicism, he/she is eager to make love and to enjoy ‘Paris’ with the partner’s ‘mouth’ and other parts no doubt! The euphemistic ‘south’ with suggestions of sexual arousal and different sexual positioning shows again the shift in the tone and meaning of ‘Paris’ by the end of the poem, so when we arrive at the last line, it really means that ‘I am in Paris with you’ instead of the earlier implication of either bitter regret or that he is mentally actually in Paris with the ‘you ‘ he was previously involved with.