Naomi Wise

When I read the poem “Naomi Wise”, I didn’t understand anything! I understood absolutely nothing. So I read it again, and I started getting the hang of the poem. It was actually a pretty mysterious poem when you read it. Here it goes…

            The poem is about a beautiful young maid named Naomi Wise. Now everyone loved this young lady. Then one day she met a young man, named Lewis, whom she really loved and wanted to marry him. One summer night, he took her for a ride. She thought she was going to be wed, but how wrong she was. The next morning, her body was found floating down the stream. People could not prove that he killed her, but on his deathbed he admitted that he was her murderer. He probably killed her because he envied her or something like that.  

            I chose this poem because I found this poem very appealing to me. It had perfect word choice to match the mood of the poem. One example is how the author used villain instead of murderer in:

“She begged him just to spare her, the villain only laughed.”

I also chose this poem because it was pretty easy for me to derive what the poem is about because we did a poem like that in class, named “Annabel Lee.”

The theme of the poem is about a girl who over-trusted a person she doesn’t really know. So the moral is: Never trust a person whom you do not know well. In the poem, the give you the examples of the girl loving and trusting the guy, but she only met her fate of being murdered. The following is an example of that from the poem:

“She learned to love and trust him, and she believed his words.”

            The poem actually means in general that you should never trust a poem you do not know.

            The author of this poem used the following rhyme scheme through out the poem: A, B, C, B. This rhyme scheme help makes the poem more fluent to read. It also adds a ghostly effect, somehow, to the poem if you read it out loud.

Here are some of the lines I really liked from the poem:

             “They say he was heartless to the core.”             “Next day they found her body a-floating down the stream.” 

            “They say on his deathbed young Lewis did confess”    (Internal Rhyme)

           

            “Don’t listen to the story some villain’s tongue will tell.” 

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