The poem,"Absence Makes the Heart grow Henry", written by Hannah, dives into the truth within an everyday expression. It acknowledges that love isn't always an eternal emotion. Everything has it's limits and even love grows weary with time. The poem reveals the reality of romance and the fickle emotion of the heart. The author uses allusion to compare and disclaim the original expression, figurative language such as irony, and a quatrain rhyme pattern.

The original expression being alluded is "Absence Makes the Heart grow Fonder." Hannah uses direct references to romances broken by time in her poem. By replacing the word "fonder" with the name of a love replacement, the whole point of the expression is twisted to prove itself false. In the first section of the poem, it states that "Ann was the love of Colin's life." Yet, it seems that when they actually committed to...