Fortunately, "When I was one-and-twenty" of A.E Housman is constituted by such factors. It is hard for any reader to catch the writer's purpose and them if they read it once or twice. I cannot agree more that the more we read this poem the more interest it brings to us.

At the first time reading, "When I was one-and-twenty" left us no special impression but the burning curiosity for its repeated title. Such very good burning curiosity inspired us to read it more carefully and patiently. Finally, we happily enjoyed the poem's theme and meaning as well as the poet's talented skills of using internal figurative language and musical devices.

What a wonderful chance to be assigned this poem! Coincidentally, most of us are twenty-one years old. That's why we are very interested in reading and commenting this poem. Perhaps, some one may not per

This poem simply consists of the wise man's advice and the I-speaker internal conflict to such advice. The repeated title opens the 1st stanza attractively. Seemingly, we consider ourselves as the I-speaker because we are now "one-and-twenty". It's very interesting to find the similarity between the writer and the readers. Really do we want to know what happens to the I-speaker when he was "one-and-twenty". Nothing unexpecting happens like the wise man's advice. It is rather a surprise to us when Housman uses the images of money "crowns", "pounds", "guineas" in his poem. The practical symbolic words used in the poem makes us unexpectedly interested just because this is our first time to the correlation of the practical and the poetic.

Shortly speaking, after reading the poem carefully, our hearts have filled with impressive emotions and we study a good lesson.

The above-mentioned thing is our agreement on understanding the poem. But as the first beginning sentence of this comment everyone has their own appreciation and understanding of the poem. The strongly excited discussion happens to our group that we really appreciate and spend more time satisfying ourselves in understanding the sentence "But keep your fancy free". As defined, the word "fancy" has the meaning of "imagination, illusion or delusion". How can a young man keep his fancy free without the permission of falling in love while he is at the age of dreaming, dropping with emotions, etc.

It's ob

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