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Character Description: The second item I found in the studio this morning was this love poem. I love this poem because the first line of it reminds me of Frank and me. One day, after my sisters and I had just started our photography business, Frank walked through the door. He visited the studio to hire my sisters and me for a job. I accepted the job and we then worked together in the art and photography business. Frank promoted our family photography business in the art world and shared our talents with everyone. We can thank him for a lot of our success. From work, we obviously spent a lot of time together. Frank and I soon fell in love and he proposed to me the day before he left for a trip to Africa. We got engaged and were married soon after. Years later, we had two beautiful children. After we got married, I continued to run the photography studio. I find our relationship so interesting because usually people say to not work with family or friends. I worked with my sisters and then fell in love with a man through work. It seems as though the photography studio brought Frank and I together. When I read the first line of the poem, it reminds me of the first day that Frank walked into our studio. Thinking about it gives me great flashbacks about how exciting it was to be young and in love. From there, it gives me flashbacks to the development of our relationship. Reading this poem makes me so grateful that God allowed us two strangers to meet on this day. My life would be totally different if Frank didn’t walk into our studio on that wonderful day.
Editorial Commentary: This poem represents the innocence and initial sparks of Frank and Lucy’s relationship, especially in the first line as it states: “The luck of God is in two strangers meeting”. As previously explained, the first line relates to Lucy because she feels lucky that God allowed her to meet the stranger that soon became her husband. I believe that the rest of the poem supports Lucy’s feelings for Frank. When the poem states “but the gates of Hell are in the city street” can also relate to Lucy and Frank’s lives. The poem is referring to the fact that the author felt lucky to meet someone, and that this person mattered to him more than all of the terrible things going on around them. This sentence makes me think of when life is tough, but your significant other is always there to help you. This reminds me of when Frank helped support the Lorimar sisters in the art world. They were going through a very rough time when they first met Frank. The Lorimar sisters had just lost their father and had to sell their house. They didn’t have any money, so they had to start their photography business. As hard as it already was to start a business, they had people doubting them because they were women. In all that darkness, Frank promoted them in the art world and was there for Lucy and the Lorimar sisters. Frank seems like the type of person like who the author is talking about in the poem when he says that through the dark, he is still happy that he met this one person.
Citation: “Volume Information.” Poetry, vol. 9, no. 1, 1 Oct. 1916. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/20570939?refreqid=search-gateway:a0613e219….