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Nae Lux Posted 14 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Poetry by: Christina Rossetti

Can Someone Please help me I need help finding the Poetry/literary terms found in the poem No, Thank You, John by: Christina Rossetti What type of Poem is this and theme/meaning of the poem.Thank you Emotion: smile

“No, Thank You, John”



I never said I loved you, John:
Why will you tease me day by day,
And wax a weariness to think upon
With always “do” and “pray”?

You know I never loved you John;
No fault of mine made me your toast:
Why will you haunt me with a face as wan
As shows an hour-old ghost?

I dare say Meg or Moll would take
Pity upon you, if you’d ask:
And pray don’t remain single for my sake
Who can’t perform that task.

I have no heart?—Perhaps I have not;
But then you’re mad to take offense
That I don’t give you what I haven’t got:
Use your own common sense.

Let bygones be bygones:
Don’t call me false, who owed not to be true:
I’d rather answer “No” to fifty Johns
Than answer “Yes” to you.

Let’s mar our pleasant days no more,
Song-birds of passage, days of youth:
Catch at today, forget the days before:
I’ll wink at your untruth.

Let us strike hands as hearty friends;
No more, no less; and friendship’s good:
Only don’t keep ulterior ends,
And points not understood

In open treaty. Rise above
Quibbles and shuffling off and on:
Here’s friendship for you if you like; but love,—
No, thank you, John.
  

Top answer

The poem is about a conflicting love relationship. The author uses catharsis, consonance and a rhythm and rhyming device, to convey her theme. The poem expresses her true feelings towards a friend who wishes to have a deeper relationship with her although she does not have similar feelings towards him.

  • The poem is about a conflicting love relationship.
  • The author uses catharsis, consonance and a rhythm and rhyming device, to convey her theme.
  • The poem expresses her true feelings towards a friend who wishes to have a deeper relationship with her although she does not have similar feelings towards him.
  • '"No, Thank You, John"' is a poem about "John", who wishes to have a deeper love relationship with Christina.
  • What she is expressing is that she only wishes to be friends with him nothing more, nothing less.
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The poem is about a conflicting love relationship. The author uses catharsis, consonance and a rhythm and rhyming device, to convey her theme. The poem expresses her true feelings towards a friend who wishes to have a deeper relationship with her although she does not have similar feelings towards him. '"No, Thank You, John"' is a poem about "John", who wishes to have a deeper love relationship wi
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Thank you Emotion: smile You helped alot

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