The Romantic Age
The Romantic Age - meaning Summary
Adolescence and Romantic Delusion
Nash sketches a wry, compact portrait of a teenage girl swept up in romantic melodrama. She adopts bridal fantasies, pairs with an unsuitable boy, and insists age is no barrier to love. The speaker gently warns against arguing with such fervor and instead points to the tragic example of Romeo and Juliet
as a corrective. The poem compresses adolescent grandiosity and adult skepticism into a single admonition.
This one is entering her teens, Ripe for sentimental scenes, Has picked a gangling unripe male, Sees herself in bridal veil, Presses lips and tosses head, Declares she's not too young to wed, Informs you pertly you forget Romeo and Juliet. Do not argue, do not shout; Remind her how that one turned out.
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