Dora Franco

The speaker in the poem is speaking about the love of her life. Where he says that out of the three girlfriends that he previously had, he had never seen a girlfriend like her lover. He therefore praises his lover because of her beauty and uniqueness as compared to other girls (Yevtushenko & James, 6). In addition, the speaker shows how beautiful the girl is, through telling her that out of the three girls, he has never seen one who very beautiful, and the Indian girl who is also very different from the rest. The speaker generally gives a confession of his past life before falling in love with Dora Franco. He also tries to show her how he was not happy with the other ladies, saying that he did not kiss them well as he had done to Dora. This consequently shows how the speaker is trying to communicate to Dora differently, in order to tell her how much he really loves her.

The poem is trying to develop a relationship which had only taken place within the shortest time possible, spanning for a period of three days. The relationship between Dora and the speaker had only lasted for three days, a period within which their relationship had not developed fully (Yevtushenko & James, 14). They two love birds fell in love within the shortest time ever, and within no time, they were already in a cold war. This cold war was attributed by the speakers move to dive in on the first night that the two met. The relationship therefore matured for the very shortest time, thus making the speaker and Dora to do things which they were not supposed to be doing before their relationship matured. In addition, the speaker had not known Dora all his life, and it was therefore the first time they were meeting.

Due to anxiety, when Dora walked into the stage, the speaker could not see the stalking that she was wearing, but she could only the beauty of her lover to be. On the other hand, the poem tries to create irony in the poem, whereby he compares the night that the two lovebirds had as a war which was taking place in the room. In addition, there was a cold war waging inside the speakers heart, simply because he was enjoying life, and had been caught on camera doing naughty things with a foreign girl (Yevtushenko & James, 22). They were in Russia, and Russia is a country which does not entertain any forms of nonsense, whereby if you are caught doing nasty things with a lady of a foreign country, then this means that you could be both castrated and beheaded very early in the morning.

According to my point of view, I think we are supposed to take the positive message from the poem which is, we should be hasty in making decisions, and we should also learn to do the writing thing at the right time. The speaker fell in love with Dora even before knowing her, a thing which later led to a cold war, after the two were caught on camera hugging, a thing which was an abomination in Russia. Moreover, the speaker new very well that doing certain actions was going against the laws of the country, but he decided to do them. This consequently explains why the speaker landed into trouble, since he was not doing the right thing at the right time.

Work Cited

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, & James Bachman. Dora Franco: The Bear and the Humming Bird. (n.d)