The Suitor A suitor is a man who is courting a woman. Once you figure that important part out this unstructured poem unravels itself line by line. The speaker in this poem is a women who is being set up for marriage with a man she has never met or seen in her life. As the poem goes on you can see how her feelings develop for this man. The first line of the poem …showed first 75 words of 675 total…

…showed last 75 words of 675 total…into the relationship and see how it goes in the long run. It is ironic though that this gentleman is timid because he did choose this woman to marry. Now why would he choose someone he wouldn’t be comfortable around? Well we really will never know. What we do know is the woman is happy with her life and was able to express this in 11 lines. That is something special within itself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**