Paul Laurence Dunbar's book "A Negro Love Song" contains a poem the author wrote to convey his feelings of love. For instance, the author uses the phrase "Seen my lady home last night, Jump back, honey jump back" to convey his feelings for his lady. The presence of his woman in his immediate area makes him feel incredibly happy. He instructs her to take a step back so they can collide. This poem's author's writing makes it abundantly obvious that the main character is in love. The character desires to encounter her lady immediately due to the power of love; the woman needs to jump back so that they can meet. What is written by the author of this poem clearly indicates that the character is in love. The power of love makes the character feel like meeting her lady fast; the woman needs to jump back so that they may meet.
Love is a great thing that everyone treasures just as illustrated in this part of the poem. The feeling is so overwhelming, and that is why the author expresses the character in the poem telling her lady to come back. Based on anyone's opinion, one will identify a feeling of joy, the feeling is emotionality driven, and we can identify that from words of the character. It is like the character feels a splash of real emotions that even himself finds joy in seeing her lady.
In another line, we identify the character say "A' my heart was beat's so When I reached my lady's do,' Dat I couldn't ba' to go." The author captures this line as what is said by the character (Caroline 71). The character has seen her lady; the romantic love feelings make his heart to start beating. The character does not understand where these feelings are from all over at once. However, it is clear that it is due to the influence of the love feelings he has for the lady. The beating of the heart is not something he can control because it is all about the body that controls these feelings.
The line helps us make sense of the text by giving us an idea in what the character is undergoing. It enables us to understand the relation between the character and her lady. The character imagines what will happen when he reaches her lady (Braxton, Joanne & Lauri 2015). He is so overjoyed, and one can tell, maybe when they finally come in contact might hug each other in great joy as everyone gives back blossoms of smiles. The author uses this line to enable his reader to make an imaginary thought about the character and her lady.
One can understand how happy the two characters are in the text because it is stated how the character’s heart beat when he finally got his eyes on her lady. The author finally uses another line "love me, honey, love me right? Love me well as I love you? An' she answered, "Cose I do." The character finally has a chance to express his love for her lady. He requests her to love her right which the woman responds that yes she does. The author may have used this line to illustrate further how the lady felt for the character. The woman indicates this by telling the character that yes she does.
In conclusion, one can use words from a story or a book to make sense of the text. Having a deeper thought over some words in a book can be so helpful because they enable one to expound on their reasoning how they view a story. Like for instance, in this poem, few words written by the author can help a reader to understand the song without reading the whole poem. One can gain a sense of the text and be in a position to raise their ideas on what they know about writing.
Work Cited
Braxton, Joanne, and Lauri Ramey. "Paul Laurence Dunbar." The Cambridge Companion to American Poets (2015): 136.
Gebhard, Caroline. "Inventing a “Negro Literature”: Race, Dialect, and Gender in the Early Work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson." Bloom’s Modern Critical Views (2009): 71.
