As John Keats said, “Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” The beauty of poetry is that everyone can have their own interpretation. The poem Girl Crush by Liz Rose and Lori McKenna has had two main interpretations from the audience. An envious girl who has lost her man to another girl describes her feelings so others who have been through the same thing can relate. The authors develops a resentful tone and a theme of jealousy through the diction and use of repetition. The diction found in the poem Girl Crush has a double effect on the reader. At first she uses “girl crush”, and “heart rush” to describe her feelings towards a girl, which makes the reader think she is referring to a girl lover. Then she continues with using other phrases such as, “I wanna taste her lips, yeah, ‘cause they taste like you” (5) and “…maybe then you’d want me just as much” (8). At this point in the poem the reader can realize it is not about a girl lover but an obsession of wanting to be like the girl that her loved man is with. Also, the phrase “Yeah, ‘cause maybe then you’d love me just as much” (8) helps set a tone of resent the speaker has toward the man because she wishes she could be like the girl he is with. …show more content…
For example, “I want” is continuously repeated, which emphasizes her jealousy, because jealousy is wanting something you can’t have. “I wanna taste her lips…” (5), “I wanna drown myself…” (6), “I want her long blonde hair…” (7). Repetition is also used to create the resentful tone towards the guy. She uses “you” to point out that she only feels this way because of the one person she loves but cannot get. Examples of this are “… yeah, ‘cause they taste like you” (5), “yeah, ‘cause maybe then you’d love me just as much” (8) and “…the way that she’s pullin’ you