{"id":806,"date":"2024-09-23T00:54:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T22:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editionsdupleix.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2024-10-26T23:19:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T21:19:02","slug":"sung-poetry-margaret-widdemer-when-i-was-a-young-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editionsdupleix.com\/en\/2024\/09\/23\/sung-poetry-margaret-widdemer-when-i-was-a-young-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"(Sung poetry) Margaret Widdemer, When I Was a Young Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/editionsdupleix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Margaret-Widdemer-When-I-Was-a-Young-Girl.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a9 Editions Dupleix, 2024. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Margaret Widdemer&rsquo;s poem <em>\u00ab\u00a0When I Was a Young Girl\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> from <em>The Old Road to Paradise<\/em> (1918), which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is a nostalgic reflection on youth and the romanticized notions of love and freedom. The poem&rsquo;s structure, built around a repetitive refrain, creates a musical and rhythmic quality, evoking a sense of lost time while celebrating youthful innocence. Through this refrain, Widdemer emphasizes the cyclical nature of memory, inviting the reader to revisit the joys and aspirations of a young girl whose world was filled with dreams and possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The central theme explores the contrast between the carefree nature of youth and the societal constraints placed on women. The speaker longs to escape the domestic expectations symbolized by the \u00ab\u00a0sampler\u00a0\u00bb and imagines a more liberated life running \u00ab\u00a0across the bright heather\u00a0\u00bb with the \u00ab\u00a0raggle-taggle gypsies.\u00a0\u00bb The imagery of love is also pivotal, with recurring references to \u00ab\u00a0love in the arbor\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0love in the sky,\u00a0\u00bb symbolizing a natural and pure form of affection tied to youth. Yet, the speaker also acknowledges the fantasies she had of a romantic lover, a \u00ab\u00a0tall cavalier,\u00a0\u00bb only to find that real love came in a more modest and sincere form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Widdemer\u2019s poem reflects the perspective of a woman looking back at her younger self, blending joy with a tinge of melancholy as the passage of time brings a shift from idealization to acceptance. 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