My theme for this forward is love and its battles, I used a poem called “Advising a Teenage Daughter” by Isobella Thrilling and two songs, including “ Perfect Two” by Auburn and “Fifteen” by Taylor Swift. The poem demonstrates love as well as war and reveals what many girls do to attract the attention of the one they love. Perfect Two is a song about a girl who isn't complete without her man and how they feel perfect for each other. Finally, Fifteen talks about how she thinks she has everything sorted, then he breaks her heart and it makes her believe there is more to life. In the poem "Advice to a Teenage Daughter" the poet develops the extended metaphor of a war game, she does this using smells, lipsticks and other visual cosmetics. They all develop the idea of ​​love as if it were a war. Lipsticks are described as "brave ranks", standing like soldiers at attention or rifles lined up ready for battle. Bringing war into a poem about love is very relevant because love is not easy and it can be like war. “Contemplate the miniature armies of little pots filled with flower-scented dynamite. » This position represents the perfume on the girls' stand, we are led to believe that it is explosive, that is to say that it will attract the attention of the boys. This idea of ​​wargaming develops further as you read the poem "the dreaded tweezers" and "stick on the stars". The “dreaded tweezers” are considered boot camp, it's painful, but once it's done, it's worth it and can pay off. So far, it shows that the girl is trying her best and will experience pain to win the "battle" through cosmetics. The mother then says "be careful, my dear", because she fears that after all the hard work she has done, he might harm her. "Conquest may seem easy... middle of paper ....... These lines from the song sum up the fact that when you're fifteen your heart breaks and you look back and wish you wouldn't never I fell into the trap and that boys don't want to say everything, sometimes you have to put yourself first and think about what you want in life These songs also relate to the poem because this song is like a. war and she had to fight to be heartbroken In conclusion, these poems are very relevant to my theme of love and its battles The poem and the songs I used all connect in different ways. The poem is about how she loves the boy so much and is doing her best, Perfect Two is about how they are perfect together and the last song of fifteen is about how her heart is broken The poem and songs I used. sum up the journey through love, you try hard then you understand them and it's perfect but then your heart breaks.