When I was One and Twenty by: A.E. Housman (RESPONSE)

DESCRIPTION:

                  Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet. Housman was one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been raked as one of the greatest scholars who ever lived. To the general public, his cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad was acknowledged for its lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside.

                When I was one-and-twenty was written by A. E. Houseman. It is about the speaker at age twenty-two that reports the truth of sage advice he received at age twenty-one about falling in love. For my response, it is according to the point of view of the wise man, where in his advices to the young man (the author) when he was one and twenty were completely useless for he was just like other people that are head-strong. And now that the young man has aged a year, and became broken-hearted, he now believed the advices that the wise man gave in the past and is facing the pain and sorrow of falling in love.

Response

When You Were One and Twenty 

by: Chelsea Enriquez

When you were one and twenty

You heard me say

“Give crowns and pounds and guineas

  But not your heart away;

  Give pearls away and rubies 

  But keep your fancy free;”

But you were one and twenty

My words have no purpose to thee

When you were one and twenty 

You heard me say again

“The heart out of the bosom

  Was never given in vain;

 ‘Tis paid with sighs a plenty 

  And sold for endless rue;”

And now you’re two and twenty 

And yeah, you believed, its true.