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Falling in Love

• Each section is introduced by the editor and she explains why she chose these particular poems.

• A Very Valentine by Gertrude Stein is about the giddiness people feel when they start to fall in love.

• Song by John Keats shows a man telling his lover to stop putting on airs so that they can taste the sweet apple of love together.

• I Do Not Love Thee by Caroline Norton is very sardonic. She is in denial of the love she feels, and it is obvious she truly is.
• Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe is about how Marlowe felt that love happened at first sight.

• In Love's Philosophy, Percy Shelley states that although there are many treasures in nature, none of them matter if he cannot kiss his love.

• Frank O'Hara's Having a Coke With You shows how when you are in love, all of...

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