THE LOOK.....

Sara Teasdale composed a poem entitled “The Look”. The poem is personified by a woman for she is naming boy’s names like Stephon, Robin and Colin. The first stanza states that Stephon had kissed her during spring while Robin kissed her in the fall. But, it was only Colin who never looked at her and kissed her. On the second stanza, she stated that Stephon’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play and it was only Colin’s eyes that haunts her night and day.

For me, the poem emphasizes that the word “kiss” in the poem represents the act of doing so but in the poem, it is not stated that the woman also loved them as so as the men mentioned. The kiss may represent some kind of a feeling but why Colin do only looked at the woman and not kissed her. After quite some time, the kiss of Stephon was lost in jest as well as Robin’s kiss but Colin’s stare remained. If we are to find another example, gifts may be a very good one. A person may be very happy when he or she receives a newly bought gift and sometimes, disappointed when he or she receives a handmade gift. If we would really look closely, a newly bought gift was just to empress the person and not merely for the sake of wanting the person to be happy. On the other hand, the handmade gift was made just for the person and with love. Just like the kiss, Stephon and Robin may only feel infatuation and not love and Colin, indeed, has a deeper meaning with his stare. The woman in the poem may not understand why Colin did not kiss her and instead, only looked at her. In the poem, I admired Colin for he did not take advantage of the girl and just kept his love in silence and in respect to the woman. Colin only gave a look but as what we can see, the simplest things are those which have deeper meaning and that look left something very important to the woman.