What is the realization of the persona in the poem when i was one and twenty
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the speaker says that when he was twenty-one, he did not heed the advice given to him by an older and experienced person of love. The narrator was advised against falling in love and losing his heart.
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The realization of the persona in the poem 'When I was one and twenty' is never to give one's heart away in love as it is bound to be badly broken.
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- 'When I was one and twenty' is a short yet heart rending poem by the poet A.E Housman.
- A lyrical poem of just two stanzas it states the woes of a young person of twenty two years.
- The persona asserts how his heart got broken the previous year when he was one and twenty years for not having listened to the advice of a senior person . The person had advised him not to give his heart away in love.
- The wise man had stated that it was good to give away money or wealth to someone but to give away the heart meant giving rise to endless pain.
- Thus at twenty two years the persona finally realized that the wise man had spoken the truth. It was foolish and painful to give one's heart to someone in love.
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