Experience

Experience

Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that clears up the matter.

Title: The title of this poem is very vague due to the fact that the reader does not know what it is refers to. It is interesting how she uses a general topic to introduce what the poem is about.
Paraphrase: Some men break your heart, some men drool over you and others just compliment you, some men never even look at you, and that's that.
Connotations:
"Some"- Parker has to qualify what she says to imply that men are extreme in their actions because we see that for everything she explains, she qualifies her argument.
"Break"- This word is negatively connotative word referring to how men disrigard a woman's feelings and just end a love affrair without caring; she's they are careless.
"Fawn"-
1.
to seek notice or favor by servile demeanor
servile-
slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers, characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject, yielding slavishly; truckling, extremely imitative, esp. in the arts; lacking in originality.
2.
(of a dog) to behave affectionately.
"Flatter"-Just the use of this word makes it imply that love or the strategy for a woman to fall in love with a guy is very strategic and easy (which is not true).
Attitude: The attitude of this poem is quite sincere and curt.
Shift: The shifts are after she describes what each type of man does or acts towards women.
Theme: The theme of this poem is that men are very predictable. She realizes this from personal experiance.