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Mairead Small Staid, ‘ In Defense of a Long Engagement’. A love poem for the texting generation?ġ0.

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Duffy’s poem seeks out new ways to express the sincerity of love, explored, fittingly enough, in a new sort of ‘sonnet’ (14 lines and ending in a sort-of couplet, though written in irregular free verse). As many people have pointed out, when we say ‘I love you’ we are always, in effect, uttering a quotation. First published in 2005, ‘Syntax’ is about trying to find new and original ways to say ‘I love you’. Donaghy has often been called a modern metaphysical poet, the heir to John Donne and Andrew Marvell, and this tender poem, ideal for celebrating an engagement, shows plenty of, in the poem’s own words, ‘wantonness and wit’.Īt fourteen lines, this poem is a ‘sonnet’ of sorts – though its rhyme scheme and metre are unique to Duffy’s poem. The late, great Michael Donaghy (1954-2004) offers a sonnet (a blend of the English and Italian sonnet form) which plays on the double meaning of the word ‘present’ (both ‘here-and-now’ and ‘gift’), rejecting the former in favour of the latter. This wonderfully direct and touching poem by the contemporary American poet Lawrence Raab (born 1946) begins with a couple married before going back to that crucial moment in their courtship when he phoned her and she answered, knowing her life would be changed forever when she did so. This is one of the finest very short love poems in the language, and a firm favourite with many readers.

And dreams are delicate and vulnerable – hence ‘Tread softly’. But I’m only a poor man, and obviously the idea of making the sky into a blanket is silly and out of the question, so all I have of any worth are my dreams. If I were a god, I could take the heavenly sky and make a blanket out of it for you. The gist of this poem, one of Yeats’s most popular poems, is straightforward: if I were a rich man, I’d give you the world and all its treasures.

#Post haste one word or two full

In this case, the only way to get better value is to carry on paying the premiums for the full term of the policy.Tread softly because you tread on my dreams … Even then, however, the surrender value may not reflect the real worth of the policy. The fact that the second-hand market in with-profits policies can be profitable to all three parties is testimony to just how poor early surrender values can be.īut some policies may have a surrender value that is sufficiently high to rule out a second-hand value. what the insurance company will pay you for it - has to be sufficiently low for any offered second-hand value to benefit you, to give the ultimate buyer a decent return and to give a living to the go-between firm handling the sale. Moreover, only some with-profits policies are worth selling on. 'Unit-linked' policies (where the value directly follows the performance of the underlying investments), which yours is, don't have a resale value.

For a start, this market is comprised of 'with-profits'-type policies.

Unfortunately, not all policies have a resale value. It is quite likely to take 10 days or so to reach its new destination.Īs you rightly say, selling an unwanted endowment policy will often produce more money than cashing it in ('surrendering' it) with the insurance company. But whenever you forward a letter (and even if you do it within 24 hours) it won't get priority. In practice, the 24-hour rule is not enforced. Under something called the inland letter post scheme, you are allowed to forward a letter free of charge within 24 hours of receiving it. More to the point, the Post Office confirms that your experience is likely to be fairly typical. Why so long? Could I claim for my extra costs against the Post Office?Ī claim would almost certainly not succeed. Coincidentally, the second cheque arrived at the new address on the same day as the first cheque, two weeks after the latter had been forwarded. Eventually I put a stop on the cheque (for a fee) and wrote out a replacement. The Liturgy of the Word is to be celebrated in such a way as to favor meditation, and so any kind of haste such as hinders recollection is clearly to be. They said that forwarded mail had no priority and could take around 10 days. When the letter had failed to arrived after a week, I contacted my local post office. My daughter's former flatmates forwarded a letter with a cheque enclosed to her new address.