Another Jane Austen Poem

I Love You Jane Austen

I love you, again, Jane Austen
its true
I just can't seem to get my mind off of you.
I know that if you were alive today we would be friends
but sometimes I think this unhealthy obsession needs to end.
But I don't care what others may say,
I'll continue to read your books everyday.
I want to be Emma, I want to be Anne,
I want to be Elizabeth, I am such a huge fan!
Your words are inspiring,
your characters are true.
Your novels are enlightening,
You're just super duper cool.
I'm jealous of your genius,
and I can only aspire to be,
half as good a writer
I can only wish, hopefully.
I'm pissed that you died,
because you were just getting started,
the best was yet to come,
but then you departed.
Your memory will live on
until the world ends,
your words will inspire
because they just do, and they can!
Jane, Jane, Jane,
these words are not enough to express
how unhealthily lovely I find you!!

England Here I Come! (And Jane Austen Too)

Whenever I hear the name of Jane Austen my heart skips a beat. The world stops, and my mind is overwhelmed with the thought of Austen and her novels, the nineteenth century, Regency, Mr. Darcy, Captain Wentworth, Elizabeth Bennet, Mansfield Park, the list goes on and on. I can never get enough of Jane Austen’s novels. They are timeless, they are classics, and they express the deepest and most true effusions of human emotion and the human condition. Her novels are universal. Her characters are untouchable. She has written the greatest love stories the world has ever read. Jane Austen is pop culture. We all want to be Elizabeth Bennet. Her life is a fairy tale and Mr. Darcy is the man that every woman wants. But Pride and Prejudice is more than that. It is a story of wit and true human emotions. Elizabeth Bennet isn’t perfect and neither is Mr. Darcy. But they recognize their faults. They come to the realization that they love one another. They see past their prejudices and overcome their pride. Society cannot control their love, and their love for one another transcends the hierarchy of society and societal norms. Their love is a meeting of the minds. A special connection where there is a complete understanding of one another. This is the love that Jane Austen left for us. It is her legacy.I am going to England in one month, and I will be fast on the trail of Jane Austen and her world. I am out to discover who Jane Austen was, and who she has become in today’s world. Her novels have led me on the discovery of a life time.