POEM ANALYSIS
FUTURE LOVE
By Ainur Rabiyatul
Then , the red rose was about sincerity,
Now it’s about greed,
It was about love,
Now it’s about desires,
It was about feelings,
Now it’s about the needs.
It used to be,
“How much will you love me?”,
But nowadays,
It’s “how much can you give me?”.
How lovely it was,
Everything so genuine,
Loving right from the heart,
Just craving for one’s love.
MEANING
(play 'Future Love' video)
First stanza:
Back in the days, loving someone was about sincerity without any intentions but now everyone uses love to get what they want and need.
Second stanza :
How different it was back then when people used to question only about love but now they only count on how much a person can provide for them.
Third stanza :
Love was real then and everything was because the feeling of wanting to be loved. Now, everything is the other way around.
ANALYSIS
SUBJECT MATTER
This poem tells us how love will be in the future as people change toward the modern society that leads to materialistic thinking. This poem defines love in the future differently from how it was in the past as lovers see wealth as the only thing that they could give to loved or to be loved.
THEME
Love in the future
Materialistic thinking among lovers
Sincerity in love
EMOTION(MOOD)
The poem mood could be described as romantic as it tells readers about love. However, the tone is quite gloomy as love in this poem is portrayed in a bad perspective which is materialistic way where there is no sincerity in it.
CRAFTMANSHIP
STRUCTURE
The poem is written in 3 stanzas which the first stanzas consist 6 lines. The second and the third stanzas both have 4 line each.
LANGUAGE
The language used in this poem is indirect as the word used has double meaning in it that require readers to think the meaning behind the word or line that the poet tried to deliver.
IMAGERY
- Visual imagery
Visual imagery is used in the first stanza that requires readers to visualized how love will be in the future and compare it to the love in past.
Then, the red rose was about sincerity,
Now it’s about greed,
It was about love,
Now it’s about desires,
It was about feelings,
Now it’s about the needs.
- Personification
The poet personified love as a red rose that filled with sincerity in the past.
“Then, the red rose was about sincerity,”
MOVEMENT
The poem is a slow-paced poem as the tone is quite melancholic and sad as it tells about love that is no longer beautiful.
SOUNDS
Assonance
Repetition of the vowel ‘ee’ in the last line of the first stanza.
It was about feelings,
Now it’s about the needs.
