And I almost let all of this slide. Cause I love Eugene Onegin and novels written in verse are always a hit for me. But then the book ended, without really ending. The romance threads intertwined throughout this book don't get tied into a decent knot at the end, rather a really loose one that left me wishing that there's fanfiction out there that's gonna tighten it up. But that part, I just couldn't let go of. Just two days? Really? No decent conclusion?

This is the story of Tatiana and Eugene, who first fell in love as teenagers.... first love, the heart is a pitter pattering the butterflies are fluttering, and you can’t seem to wipe that silly grin off your face.... but as in the case of most first love Tatiana and Eugene did not last.... then years later a chance encounter and the sparks are rekindled.... but life is complicated and love is messy, even in Paris... These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of a range of Love and Relationships poems. Each of the poems are widely studied, with some being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies:

Et c'est ici que les rimes s'arrêteront, car la maladie m'empêche de réfléchir sur une trop longue période. Merci pour votre compréhension.)The pain's not worse after ten years. It doesn't necessarily increase with time. It's not an investment, you know, regret. Lost love doesn't have to be a tragedy." 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. The sudden surges, sharp bends, and screeching stops of Line 14 are notoriously vicious. It’s hard to stand up or chat or read. But it does have an upside: it takes you from your

Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and substantial; (including hyperlink to a reading of the poem) Word play is another technique used to generate humour. The speaker refers to his weariness at having to talk about his failed relationship: “I’m one of your talking wounded”, a pun on the phrase ‘walking wounded’ (used in the context of war), which he then rhymes with”maroonded”, a partly nonsense word used to maintain the rhyme scheme. This brings a fun and inventive tone to the poem. The final stanza repeats “I’m in Paris with…” four times, and offers both comical and sensual references to the speaker’s enthusiasm for the person he is with. Here, in this poem, the speaker seems cynical, possibly drunk and probably full of self pity. The internal rhyme of ‘earful’ with ‘tearful’ seems a bit colloquially crass and forced as if the speaker is drunk or feeling very sorry for themselves.( maudlin) Is the speaker therefore using ‘Paris’ as a metaphor for love or lost love too ? We have to wait and see how this voice untangles his tale..and of course there is no guarantee the speaker is male..we never know the identities or genders of either the I or the you…this makes the poem open to all sorts of possible sexual intimacies..Individually, these resources are worth more than double the price of the bundle, meaning that you can make a considerable saving!

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: But I am in Paris with you.’The anticlimax is deliberately flat in tone. The romance of Paris and the intimacy of the second person pronoun ‘you’ is bathetic due to the qualification of the preposition ‘ But’. This is a compromise and compromising relationship. There is no romantic idealism or excitement here…