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I Want To Die While You Love Me By Georgia Douglas Johnson

I Want To Die While You Love Me By Georgia Douglas Johnson. I Want to Die While You Love Me Georgia Douglas Johnson I WANT to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips And lights are in my hair.

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I Want To Die While You Love Me By Georgia Douglas Johnson

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  1. I Want To Die While You Love Me By Georgia Douglas Johnson

  2. I Want to Die While You Love Me Georgia Douglas Johnson I WANT to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips And lights are in my hair. I want to die while you love me, 5 And bear to that still bed, Your kisses turbulent, unspent To warm me when I’m dead. I want to die while you love me Oh, who would care to live 10 Till love has nothing more to ask And nothing more to give! I want to die while you love me And never, never see The glory of this perfect day 15 Grow dim or cease to be.

  3. I Want To Die While You Love Me. • The first stanza is about her not wanting to die while they are fighting or if there is no love in the relationship anymore. She wants to die while they are happy and full of laughter. • The second stanza is about how she doesn’t want to die before him. That when he kisses her its still like the first time. • The third stanza is about how if there is no love in the relationship there is no reason to live anymore. • Finally the last stanza talks about how she does not want to live or see the day when they do not love each other anymore.

  4. Repetition • “I WANT TO DIE WHILE YOU LOVE ME” • Georgia Johnson wrote this phrase multiple times to explain that she does not want to die if he does not love her. She is saying that if she was to die during the time that he loves her she could die happy.

  5. Figurative/ Personification • While laughter lies upon my lips , And lights are in my hair. • Your kisses turbulent, unspent To warm me when I’m dead. • Till love has nothing more to ask And nothing more to give!

  6. Tone • The tone of this poem for the most part is fearful. The reason it is fearful is because Georgia is scared that their will be a day that he will not love her anymore and she does not want to live to see that day.

  7. Georgia Douglas Johnson • When her husband died in 1925, Johnson supported her two sons by working temporary jobs until she was hired by the Department of Labor. • Throughout her career she wrote poetry alot, edited close to 100 books, wrote over 40 plays and 30 songs. One of the poems, “I Want to Die While You Love Me,” was read at her funeral. • Johnson was born in Atlanta to Laura Douglas and George Camp • She also taught herself to play the violin, which developed into a lifelong love of music. • On September 28, 1903, Johnson married Henry Lincoln Johnson, an Atlanta lawyer and prominent Republican party member. They had two sons, Henry Lincoln Johnson, Jr. and Peter Douglas Johnson.

  8. Famous Quote • The world is in your hands(; Your world is as big as you make it. - Georgia Douglas Johnson

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