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When I was One-and-Twenty (SOAPS (Purpose: To inform the reader of…
When I was One-and-Twenty
Technique
Comparison
Compares age of 21 to age of 22
Compares money and gold to love
Metaphor
He says that he pays with sighs
Talks about giving his heart away
Symbols
Heart is love
Money as an equivalent to love
SOAPS
Audience: Readers of the poem and naive men
Purpose: To inform the reader of heartache
Write about his experience
A coming of age
A warning
Subject: Love is the subject
Coming of age
Having his heart broken
Becoming wiser
Occasion: He had his heart broken
He became wiser
He experienced the pain of love
Speaker: Someone whose heart was broken
He was 21 and turned 22
Not the actual poet because he was older at the time
TONE
Pessimistic
Jokingly upbeat
MISC
Point of view
Told from 22 year-old's perspective
Told from first person point of view
Paraphrase
Ignores wise man's advice
Gets heart broken
He's twenty one
Turns twenty two and feels wiser
Stanzas
Both are eight lines
The first stanza he is 21 and the second stanza he is 22
Two stanzas